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I used Amiga with Amiga OS 3.1. I'm puzzled though, because I heard there was Amiga OS 3.5, 3.9, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2. How come now it's 3.2?
This comment explains the confusing mess of branches: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27159553
Anyone interested in a comprehensive summary of the Amiga legal spaghetti should take a look at https://sites.google.com/site/amigadocuments/ Play by play updates on their Twitter at https://mobile.twitter.com/amigadocuments
But from that summary Hyperion Entertainment does not look that great and seems like it's the reason why AmigaOS did not became open source.
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tl;dr: The Amiga was created by a company Commodore bought, then Commodore ran itself into the ground, ESCOM bought up the corpse, then ran themselves into the ground, Gateway bought up ESCOM and sold/spun off the Amiga assets into Amiga Inc, Amiga Inc licensed their OS to Hyperion. Meanwhile Cloanto has been working on AmigaOS since 1993 and Amiga Inc also licensed their OS to Cloanto. Hyperion spends more of it's t…
> Hyperion spends more of it's time shipping litigation rather than software. That's a weird comment to make on the day Hyperion ships a second significant update to AmigaOS in 3 years, while Cloanto has been sitting on its IP to sell a glorified, Windows-only UAE bundle with no improvements whatsoever. I don't have an opinion on the legal fight, but as user I can see who's actually moving things forward, and that's…
Cloanto was trying to open source it (which is probably the best thing for such base) but Hyperion blocked that effort.
Hyperion also doesn't hire any developers.
Does it require new ROMs over 3.1.4? Or do I just buy the disk images and upgrade my HDD install?
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What you are looking for is this: https://www.amigaforever.com/
Given that kstrauser specified "an easy way to launch a single Amiga app in a window on my Mac," an Amiga emulator that only runs on Windows -- however good it may otherwise be -- is probably not in fact what they're looking for. :) (Edit: I see that Cloanto does have a somewhat cryptic page for macOS, but the way I read it, Macs can only run the open source UAE that I gather Amiga Forever is built on top of. So http…
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Yes, here's the timeline to clarify: Kickstart 1.0 - 3.1: By Commodore. Actually 3.0 was "officially" last but 3.1 was ongoing work that got wrapped up well enough. I don't really remember if Commodore officially released 3.1 or if it was picked up from their corpse by someone. HAAGE & PARTNER BRANCH: AmigaOS 3.5-3.9: First post-3.1 versions from 1999-2000 (for Motorola 68020 and up rather than 68000 and up) by Haage…
3.1 was the last official Commodore release. I totally don't need 3.2, but I admit that I want it anyway just so my UAE can feel shiny and new.