An earlier release of Amiga OS4 in action, showing draggable screens once more! (Final release now available for classic PPC equipped Amigas (A1200/A4000) os4.hyperion-entertainment.biz amigakit.com
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AMIGA OS4 Rulez !!!
I was a fan of the AMIGA but sadly mine died in 1996. Looking at this video i cant quite belive how smooth the dragging is. Its much smoother than the PC. I also cant believe at how quickly the windows open (Talk about instant!) I still think its the best!
great GREAT video, we need more videos showing the power of amiga in style
the best!!!!
A few words: Simply the best os to date, no other os comes close!
I felt vindicated using Windows at work, because every application window other people used was made full-screen, and it was like using an Amiga’s screens.
I wrote an Amiga game that used this feature. Top half of screen was graphics, bottom half was text. Couldn’t have done it on a PC.
This all seemeed pretty cool a couple of years ago (2006) roll on 2008 and this seems incredibly dated… Is OS4 really able to compete any more? To be honest I’m rapidly losing interest… Expensive hardware + limited supply + expensive OS + legal concerns everwhere = massive fail… Amiga Inc you are draining ever little bit of fun out of the platform that there ever was…
Meh.
In what way? Any program can run on its own screen, in whatever resolution, accessible at the click of a button (& draggable in any direction). That’s extremely handy, to me. Not forgetting AmigaOS did this since its first release. It was nice of the Hyperion development team to get this working on modern gfx cards, when it was said it could never be done.
There could be improvements, but this was a unique feature of AmigaOS – long before ‘virtual desktops’ came about in any shape or form.
I never really saw the point of sliding screens, they just seemed like crippled virtual workspaces. Really shouldn’t be a necessary feature with modern graphics cards.
Cool video!! I hoping to run OS4 someday…
im a commodore fan , c16 + 4 c64 amiga 500 and 1200 , cdtv the lot , but this is just processors and memory and hard disks , i can run apple mac software on my xp pc if i really want to , it all boils down to hardware , what do we need to run this , and will it play nice with the stuff we are now used to
I’ll think i will need 40 pints
Well, look at the news again. Amiga, Inc have got a lawsuit with Hyperion (the people that made OS4 a reaity) so yet again, the Amiga is doomed in the near future.
Amiga, Inc in battle with its OS developers – great move. It’s all a sad state of affairs when something so great is being trampled over with yet more legal rubbish. Ho hum. The people that buy the Amiga name seem to do everyone possible to kill it.
I’ve been watching the progress of OS4 for years ready to buy one when it’s done. Well it’s done…but as they have tied it to the hardware and the hardware isn’t available we’re all stuffed.
If they released it as a standalone product with a short hardware compatability list they would make an absolute fortune and generate income for further development. But hey, this is the Amiga – Amigans never die….but they also never held their breath.
Yes that was silly wasn’t it? People who try to over-control a property usually end up losing it.
OS4 would be nice, if it was available as a seperate purchase, and not just for AmigaOne computers, which aren’t being made. At least people have REAL Amigas and the UAE emulator to run this on. I dunno a single person with an Amiga One – and no place to buy one.
Way to go on artificially limiting your already small market share, guys.
OS4 implements memory protection for whatever chooses to use it. And this is an old video. OS4 has gone final now and the speed increase is quite dramatic, if you could believe it could get any quicker. Here’s to productivity and fun computing.
MS-DOS 1.0 was nothing more than Q-DOS (Quick & Dirty OS), an OS that Bill bought for $15,000 from Seattle Computer Systems. Q-DOS was an unlicensed CP/M-86 clone. MS-DOS 1.0 was virtually identical to CP/M-86. It wasn’t until MS-DOS 2.0 which merged features from XENIX (Microsoft UNIX) that MS-DOS became a unique OS.
Another one is the Gary Kildall CPM saga and how gates manipulated him out of what should rightfully been Gary’s success.
There have been similar tales in the computer industry. Read up on MacBASIC sometime (another incident that helped hand Gates the monopoly, though in this case Gates himself did the crime). Microsoft never got a BASIC as cool as MacBASIC for another 1½ decades or more.
Also, what Adobe did to Ares Fontworks and their awesome Chameleon Fonts technology.
Nebby6 speaks truth. The original Amiga video chips had the ability to switch modes instantly, and could set an interrupt to occur just as the monitor was about to scan a given scan line. By changing this value on the fly as the user dragged the mouse, the screens could start at any scan line, with each screen being a completely different video mode of the chipset.
If you haven’t done anything with that HD, you may be able to recover the data, even if the physical drive mechanism is broken (no longer spins up, heads frozen, whatever). There are various tricks to get a drive to spin up one more time, long enough to back up the data. Also, there are recovery services that will open the drive in a clean room and remove the platters and get the data off, but they’re expen$ive.
Yeah true, i realise this, but i just dont enjoy using Windows. Its a dead experience, and although i know its only a computer, the Amiga was the best ive come across. Sorry if i sounded a little heated.
Time has moved on, dude.
If Amiga’s were still being developed today, a Windows based system wouldnt even be worth pissing on. All computers develop over time along with the software that comes with it, but in comparison, Windows was, is and always will be behind until its completely replaced by something better in the eyes of the mass consumer.