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| | The Amiga Operating System |
 | | In 2001, Amiga, Inc. licensed the development of AmigaOS 4.0 to AmigaOne Partners, collectively Hyperion VOF and Eyetech Group Ltd. Now scheduled for commercial release in early 2005, AmigaOS 4.0 moves the Amiga Operating System to the modern Power PC chips enabling the easy use of off-the-shelf components from third party vendors. | | | Over the years the computing industry moved from proprietary hardware to pluggable components. | | | Please note, the development of future versions of the Amiga Operating System is not available for third party development or distribution. |
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http://www.amiga.com/amigaos
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| | Open Source AmigaOS? |
| | AmigaOS 5+ is the future of the Amiga, and Amiga Inc. has every right to work on this development line on their own and for financial gain - that is only fair. | | | However, versions of AmigaOS prior to the "next generation," the so-called "Classic" AmigaOS releases, are old and soon to be obsolete - apart from licencing to the developers of Amiga Emulators like Amiga Forever, how can Amiga Inc. possibly make any cash or kudos out of these releases? | | | The educational market (and I'm casting a nod here to MINIX, the OS that inspired a certain computer science student to write something called Linux) could be supplied with a cheap version of AmigaOS for classroom study (preferably bundled with a solid text book). |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/amiga/16364
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| | AmigaOS4.0 |
| | This new version of the famous OS takes all the features that made the original AmigaOS great, and updates them with the latest requirements for cross-platform 21st Century computing devices of all sorts. | | | The size and position of blocks of free memory were kept in a list, and when memory was needed the system would traverse this list until it found a block that was sufficiently large. | | | the original AmigaOS, the system used to allocate areas of unused memory to new tasks was pretty simple. |
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http://os4.hyperion-entertainment.biz
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| | Running AmigaOS on a PC: Review of AmigaOS XL - OSNews.com |
| | Of course, this is soon to change with advent of new PPC based AmigaOS 4.x compatible computers on the horizon, as well as a huge variety of AmigaDE enabled devices. | | | During the late nineties, it became apparent to the Amiga community that emulation would play an important role in the future of the platform as the original 68k processor it uses is not being developed anymore and tops at clockspeeds of just 66 Mhz. | | | However, even on such dated hardware, the efficiency and performance of AmigaOS often makes its user feel as if he or she is using a top model modern day computer. |
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http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=604
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| | AmigaOS(TM) distribution policies and PPC hardware Petition |
| | AmigaOS users will be hurt because we unnecessarily lose options, both when it comes to hardware and distributors of such. | | | AmigaOS will only be available bundled with such hardware. | | | Only technological compatibility issues should decide whether we are able to install AmigaOS on a piece of hardware, it shouldn't matter from whom we bought the hardware or if our distributor acquired a license from Amiga Inc. or not. |
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http://www.petitiononline.com/amigaos
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| | AmigaOS 3.5 |
| | When the Amiga was first introduced in 1985 it was far ahead of it's time with features such as multiple resolution high-color graphics, stereo sound, and pre-emptive multitasking that made it a great machine for multimedia applications and gaming. | | | These screen shots were taken with WinUAE, an Amiga emulator for the PC running AmigaOS 3.5. | | | They don't really do the Amiga justice as the Amiga was much more than just a Mac-like GUI. |
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http://toastytech.com/guis/amiga35.html
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| | Taking OS features for granted - RISC OS News, Software and Information |
| | The OS also has an interesting system for allowing third-party software to interpret different file formats: An individual application does not have to understand how a particular file is structured, as it instead consults a separate program called a 'datatype' that operates on the file on the application's behalf. | | | A while ago, we covered a comparison between RISC OS and AmigaOS from a 'political' angle, in terms of OS ownership and the battle of native hardware versus emulation. | | | Comparing AmigaOS and RISC OS is an interesting exercise, especially when it provides inspiration for things like scripting languages, friendly internationalisation configuration, and transparent file format handling. |
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http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact1481.html
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| | HAAGE & PARTNER Computer [ AmigaOS 3.9 ] |
| | There will also be hourly seminars on AmigaOS 3.9 and other interesting AMIGA Software and Hardware. | | | There will be a lot of dealers and manufacturers present, as well as Bill McEwen, who will share his vision of the AMIGA's future to the AMIGA fans. | | | HAAGE and PARTNER Computer [ AmigaOS 3.9 ] |
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http://www.haage-partner.de/aos39/index-e.html
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| | Review: Amiga Forever Premium Edition - OSNews.com |
| | Also included in the box is a 'boing' decal, which makes it clear to anyone who is interested in operating systems that this computer can run AmigaOS. | | | This disk also includes the Amiga Explorer, which enables you to access files on an Amiga computer (AmigaOS 1.2-4.0, MorphOS) via a null-modem serial cable, TCP/IP or a Bluetooth serial adapter. | | | It requires about 30MB of disk space, and it installs the emulators, the AmigaOS Kickstart ROMs, the games, and an update utility, with which you can update the emulators to their latest versions. |
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http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=12948
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| | RISC OS vs. AmigaOS - RISC OS News, Software and Information |
| | AmigaOS will not be for sale in any other way (except if you have an old Amiga with a PPC accelerator card). | | | There is no and will not be any new Amiga computer. | | | The Amiga platform is the converse of this, as the AmigaOne hardware is available (with a Linux port) while users await the release of the much anticipated AmigaOS 4. |
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http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact1038.html
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| | AmigaOS Open Source - 28.10.1999 |
| | Take great care, as it may be possible that Gateway, unaware of the details, may make the decision to turn the AmigaOS source code loose, but fail to provide for the means to allow it to survive. | | | Whether this makes it a good or a bad idea is a decision that's up to the reader. | | | Before you start working on a petition, I'd like you to consider a few things first. |
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http://www.amiga-news.de/archiv/281099os.html
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| | Petition: AmigaOS distribution and POP/PPC hardware - News |
| | Of course, even though this is exactly the same hardware that the only licensed distributor is selling, AmigaOS users are not allowed to buy these boards and install AmigaOS on them, because we all know that hardware vendors who are not licensed by Amiga, Inc. are potentially shady, unsupportive and price-gouging. | | | I attached these to a reply to a message by Gary Peake (director of developer support at Amiga, Inc.) in yet another thread on the OS4 mailing list about the petition and the hardware and distribution restrictions for AmigaOS. | | | As expected, today they announced their distribution of Mai Logic's Teron CX motherboards. |
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http://amigapop.8bit.co.uk/news.html
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| | Saugus.net: AmigaOS |
| | AmigaOS combines the functionality of an OS and a window manager and is fully multitasking. | | | AmigaOS will run on 68xx, Alpha, and PowerPC based machines. | | | AmigaOS boasts a pretty good selection of games (many arcade games are in fact written on Amigas) but has limited driver support. |
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http://www.saugus.net/Computer/Terms/AmigaOS/view
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| | amiga-news.de - AmigaOS 3.9 - 01 Dec 2000 |
| | As with AmigaOS 3.5 the emergency disk also supports RTG systems and AGA 31KHz screenmodes. | | | Who is not satisfied by the operating system's online help might order a printed version (German) from HaageandPartner, which is a tipsandtricks book describing what's new in AmigaOS 3.9 in a comprehensive way. | | | Read in this initial overview which new features it offers, and come to your own conclusion whether or not this surprise was well done. |
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http://www.amiga-news.de/archiv/001201-os39-e.shtml
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| | Amiga.org - News |
| | In a worse case scenario Amiga Inc goes bey bey and Amiga OS 4 is renamed to KMOS-OS 1... | | | He knew AI was no longer responsible for AmigaOS but was talking like they were. | | | Announcements : Amiga Inc have sold the AmigaOS |
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http://www.amiga.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3936
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| | Petition: AmigaOS distribution and POP/PPC hardware - Home |
| | We, that is the hundreds (so far ;)) of signatories and the petition author, hope that you will join us and show your support for AmigaOS, for the right of AmigaOS users to choose their own hardware and their own hardware vendors, as well as for an independent and undivided POP/PPC hardware market. | | | AmigaPOP.8bit.co.uk is the official web site of the AmigaOS and POP/PPC hardware petition to Amiga Inc. | | | Petition: AmigaOS distribution and POP/PPC hardware - Home |
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http://amigapop.8bit.co.uk
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| | AmigaDEV |
| | Feelin is an object-oriented system (OOS) for the AmigaOS. | | | Support for everything related to the software found on kefren.be | | | Discussions about using other dev tools on AmigaDE |
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http://amigadev.amigaworld.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=33
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| | AROS: Amiga® Research Operating System |
| | There are still some issues that should be fixed, but Joe and Markuss Weiss are working hard on them, in order to give us a full-rockin' PPC version of AROS. | | | With AFA, the host Amiga OS is degraded to do things that MS-DOS was doing for Windows 3.11-WinMe. | | | Finally, you can download x86 FreeBSD hosted version, and lots of funny interesting software on Back2Roots FTP. |
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http://www.aros.org
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| | iqexpand.com |
| | Research and development of new kinds of operating systems is an active subfield of computer science. | | | Traditional commercial systems such as UNIX and Windows (including Windows NT), as well as the newer Linux, use a monolithic approach, while the trend in more modern systems is to use a microkernel (such as in AmigaOS, QNX, BeOS, Mac OS X etc). | | | AROS is a portable and free desktop operating system aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1, while improving on it in many areas. |
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http://operating_system.iqexpand.com
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| | AmigaOS |
| | The AmigaOS was also the most advanced operating system available on personal computers, offering both a sophisticated command line interface and a sophisticated graphic user interface, as well as multitasking and other capabilities traditional in the mainframe world. | | | In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Amiga became very popular for professional video, graphics, and multimedia work, as well as being a popular home gaming platform. | | | AmigaOS is an old but popular operating system that is being resurrected. |
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http://www.osdata.com/oses/amiga.htm
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| | TTEngine - TrueType font rendering engine for AmigaOS and MorphOS |
| | TTEngine has many additional functionality implemented, so it may be considered a higher level font rendering and management library on top of FreeType rasterizing engine. | | | TTEngine is an AmigaOS/MorphOS library (named ttengine.library) for rendering high quality text using TrueType fonts. | | | TTEngine - TrueType font rendering engine for AmigaOS and MorphOS |
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http://teleinfo.pb.bialystok.pl/tte
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| | Aminet - dev/misc/cppboost.lha |
| | This is an AmigaOS 4.0 native version of C++ Boost for use with the standard AmigaOS SDK. | | | Some AmigaOS specific changes were made and have been validated using Boost's regression test suite as explained below. |
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http://aminet.net/package.php?package=dev/misc/cppboost.lha
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| | Multiuser Homepage |
| | Multiuser is the continuation of the Multiuser Filesystem (muFS), and provides UNIX style security for AmigaOS - preventing people from accessing private/secret/sensitive files or deleting files they shouldn't. | | | For more information about what Multiuser can do, follow this link. | | | Please read the Readme and do NOT upload this file to Aminet until Etienne officially releases the patch. |
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http://mufs.sourceforge.net
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| | Slashdot Amiga to use Linux Kernel |
| | Re:I have never even seen an amiga but... | | | If you thought Linux Advocates were obnoxious now, wait 'til you see the new, improved Linux Amiga Advocate! | | | AmigaOS is far supirior to LINUX by The Foreman (Score:1) Saturday July 24, @03:30PM |
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http://slashdot.org/articles/99/07/09/1224209.shtml
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| | Epistula :: Modular Instant Messenger for AmigaOS |
| | Epistula is to AmigaOS what GAIM is to Linux and Windows. | | | Epistula is initially only in development for AmigaOS 4, but hopefully in not-to-distant future, will also be made available for MorphOS, AmigaOS 3.1 and AROS. | | | For people not in the know, GAIM is an instant messenger application which can handle a variety of IM protocols, for example Microsoft MSN, AOL AIM and Yahoo Messenger. |
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http://www.the-snakepit.co.uk/epistula
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| | QuakeWorld for AmigaOS and MorphOS |
| | Note: Make sure that you have set the stack size to 500000 bytes before starting the PowerUp or AmigaOS4 versions. | | | This is a port of id software's Quake World for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS, WarpOS and PowerUp. | | | QuakeWorld is a multi-player specific version of Quake, optimized for playing over the internet. |
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http://sun.hasenbraten.de/qw
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| | Application scripting: AmigaOS & KDE www.kdedevelopers.org |
| | In version 2.0 AmigaOS (then AmigaDOS) gained a very powerful scripting ability based around an implementation of the Rexx scripting language called ARexx (=Amiga+Rexx). | | | It was aimed at power users who wanted to automate and combine the functionality of their GUI applications. | | | The most important part about adding an ARexx port to an application is that it is dead easy for the programmer and everyone did it. |
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http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1423
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| | VaporWare - Home of Quality Amiga(tm) Internet Software |
| | Both a new AmigaOS and a new MorphOS version of V³ are available at the V³ Portal. | | | New version of Voyager for both AmigaOS 68k and MorphOS. | | | As with the previous releasetime, it's a full release archive, including all required modules and libraries, and with an Installer script. |
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http://www.vapor.com
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| | File Systems |
| | AmigaOS (rwF) (NOTE: This is the second afs that appears in the chart) |
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http://www.osdata.com/holistic/connect/filesys.htm
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