Why use AmigaOS 4 in 2009? - Long cut

Dan Wood shows why he is an Amiga user in 2009, he explains AmigaOS 4.1 (OS4.1 was released in 2009) and some of its features.

PS: I'm not the maker of the video. I've uploaded it with permission from Dan Wood.

This is a cut down version of the video "Why Am I An Amiga User in 2009?", from Dan's blog at http://geeks.pirillo.com/profiles/blo...

First part of the full video can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD9NPP...

(Dan (the maker of the video) apologises for some camera auto-focus issues, "the display does not look like that".)

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[thatsistheguy]

Ah man. So much faster and more efficient than Windows. Perfect for all the work I can't do on this since no one gives a shit to make shit for this.

[musarman]

Massive respect to all the hardcore Amiga folk who have kept it alive. I'm so chuffed to see a slick new OS true to its roots. Chuckling because my first HD in 1990 was 85MB, yes meg - what's that an album nowadays!

Revival - Renaisance!

[khoraski]

A lot of things are like this.

Linux OS's, for example, tend to get much better performance than Windows.

Yet, are always the third-choice for software development.

Windows is only still popular because of culture.

[turricaned]

That certainly wasn't the case with me and my friends who were Amiga users - being kids, one of the ways we liked to show off was to load, say, ProTracker, DPaint and PenPal, then start a MOD playing and flick between all three with the Left Amiga-N and Left Amiga-M keys (switch tasks) - doodling and typing with no noticeable slowdown. We were definitely doing that with our 1.3 machines back in 1991.

[techguruuk]

No it's not supposed to give Windows a run for its money...

[Gmoooba]

That 'user-friendliness', pre-emptive multitasking, and all those things concerned only a minority of Amiga owners, and only came to play when Amiga gained a cult status with OS 2.0 and later when AGA-Amigas gave last glimmer of hope to the Amiga enthusiasts before dying off. A1200 was everyone's pet, and THAT made people familiar with Workbench and it's amazing multitasking capabilities and user-friendliness. Nothing was ever the same after that era.

[Gmoooba]

THAT wasn't the "wow"-factor. The "wow"-effect game because of unseen-before GRAPHICS and other graphical capabilities, unheard-before SOUND and all audio capabilities, then the things Amiga could do - resolutions, color amount, the cool software and GAMES.

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What you are talking about was never the big issue in the average computer user's / owner's mind, and no one thought "workstation", when they thought Amiga. They thought about beautiful graphics, animation, games, memory, cpu power, sound!

[Gmoooba]

I thought this was going to be an AmigaOS 4 review instead of just "General AmigaOS review". You explain so much of the basic Amigastuff that worked already in the version 2.0, and not a lot about AmigaOS 4-specific things.

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Btw, I think the Amiga screen system beats ANY other 'multi-screen' system and all the Windows 7/MacOS gimmicks that are supposed to be 'handy'. There was nothing more handy than Amiga screens.. nowadays, we have to deal with lesser functionality, which is a shame.

[Arthure Pendragone]

by the way I meant hasnt changed.

and thats my point .. thats why we are behind - nobody cares. If you really cared we would be having the Hombre . A system with the PArisc=Itanium CPU as thats where the Amiga was going next.

This os isnt an Amiga os as are the rest of the "Amiga oses" they are all msdos shells which are 8bit just like windos.

Yes i was in the background of the development of them.

Only Amgia OS till 3.9.3 is the Real Amiga os.

So yes you can install these amiga oses for x86

[Alberto Brandolini]

and so what?

[Arthure Pendragone]

x86 was developed in 1947 by Motorola who left in 1967 has changed since its 8bit so who cares

[Arthure Pendragone]

continued..

I was the one who said lets start the PS3 and base it on the Amiga - and so it began.How, I met with said company's CEO and the CEO of Sony at the Amiga Y2k show. Said company let Sony use the architecture to develop the PS3 so hence the PS3 is an Amiga . The hombre the next Amiga was using the same cpu as the PS3 ,and the same architecture . thats right no ppc. I remember a couple of people trying to get in the our convo and where hustled away. As for the court hearings it was bs.