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[Megamig]

Commodore USA is a joke!

First they put rendered sketches of a 'future Amiga' then they just go out and buy generic PC cases and sticky tape or (these days) engrave a Amiga logo on.

So what will be next? Commodore OS will become Windows 8 with a Commodore welcome screen! The sooner Commodore USA go bust the better.

Nobody is interested in their crap apart from the Commodore 64x case (which is about the only good thing that has came out of C= USA)

[cgutjahr]

Originally Posted by runequester

I know it's not popular around here, but linux kernel plus a thoroughly amiga like UI would have been a decent way to go, at some point in the past.

Define "thoroughly amiga like UI"? One of the Amiga's main problems was that it never had any uniform UI experience. You won't find any Amiga setup with less than three different GUI systems and five different ways of answering a simple yes/no requester using the keyboard (none of which none works on all yes/no requesters you're going to encounter).

You don't need to write your own OS based on a linux kernel if all you need is a global menu bar and a close button on the left side of the title bar.

[spirantho]

Thing is AmigaOS is so much more than a GUI. You can't just stick a Workbench screen on a Linux installation and expect it to behave like AmigaOS.

[smerf]

Originally Posted by spirantho

Thing is AmigaOS is so much more than a GUI. You can't just stick a Workbench screen on a Linux installation and expect it to behave like AmigaOS.

Hi,

Why not?

Cloanto's Amiga Forever did it on a Windows machine, and it behaves better than my Amiga 4000 and my A1200. It even plays CD 32 programs when I insert them in my DVD drive. I don't have to worry about degrading, pal or ntsc, cpu number etc.

Just click on the ADF and Amiga Forever does the rest, real nice.
If they can do it on Windows, I am sure they can do it on Linux. I said it 12 years ago and I will say it today, it is the best way to go, euae and Linux. The only ones who have problems with this are MAC users. Linux is way to complex for them. Who knows if they used it and got used to it, does MAC's may be out the door.

Lets see on my Ubuntu Linux 11.10 I play Amiga games with euae, play Farcry, FarCry2, Half life, Half Life II, Call of Duty, Call of Duty II, Crysis, Crysis II.

Lets see Mac users can play no life, gaycry, call of pooty, Crysis HIV,

smerf

getting older but still got it.

[commodorejohn]

Originally Posted by spirantho

Thing is AmigaOS is so much more than a GUI. You can't just stick a Workbench screen on a Linux installation and expect it to behave like AmigaOS.

This. That's what they've never understood and aren't interested in being enlightened on: the Amiga has so much more to it than just retro looks. Every other follow-up attempt gets that, from OS4 to AROS to Amithlon; CUSA don't really care at all, and are more interested in getting the most money from people's nostalgia in the shortest time possible.

(They just happen to be really, really inept at it.)

[commodorejohn]

Originally Posted by smerf

Lets see Mac users can play no life, gaycry, call of pooty, Crysis HIV,

Ooh, good one :/ Did you hire a third-grader to write that for you?

[_ThEcRoW]

Strange, as i have installed team fortress2, portal, half life2 and starcraft2 on my mac. Can you have it installed on an Amiga?

Originally Posted by smerf

Hi,

Why not?

Cloanto's Amiga Forever did it on a Windows machine, and it behaves better than my Amiga 4000 and my A1200. It even plays CD 32 programs when I insert them in my DVD drive. I don't have to worry about degrading, pal or ntsc, cpu number etc.

Just click on the ADF and Amiga Forever does the rest, real nice.
If they can do it on Windows, I am sure they can do it on Linux. I said it 12 years ago and I will say it today, it is the best way to go, euae and Linux. The only ones who have problems with this are MAC users. Linux is way to complex for them. Who knows if they used it and got used to it, does MAC's may be out the door.

Lets see on my Ubuntu Linux 11.10 I play Amiga games with euae, play Farcry, FarCry2, Half life, Half Life II, Call of Duty, Call of Duty II, Crysis, Crysis II.

Lets see Mac users can play no life, gaycry, call of pooty, Crysis HIV,

smerf

getting older but still got it.

[A1260]

That was the most butt ugly computer case i have ever seen, miss placed logos and everything.... Commodore USA is a joke!

[rewlako]

Originally Posted by _ThEcRoW

Strange, as i have installed team fortress2, portal, half life2 and starcraft2 on my mac. Can you have it installed on an Amiga?

Smerf doesn't have a clue what he's talking about. He has proven this again and again (I've been watching him). Full of hate based on misinformation and outdated info.

I thought this kind of childish, immature behavior died out in the 90's, but it seems that the saying' right: those who do not know the past are condemned to repeat it.