Re: Commodore Amiga

An earlier release of Amiga OS4 in action, showing draggable screens once more! (Final release now available for classic PPC equipped Amigas (A1200/A4000)

http://os4.hyperion-entertainment.biz/
http://amigakit.com/

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Science & Technology

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• commodore
• amiga
• OS4
• operating
• system
• draggable
• screens
• multi-tasking
• efficient
• microshaft
• microsoft
• micro$oft
• Computer

[scottishwildcat]

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.

[stevieu83]

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.

[blade004]

I never thought a technology as amazing as the Amiga & its OS could ever be left behind. If Atari had of bought the Amiga & not Commodore, then i think we would most likely still have the Amiga today!.

Damn you Commodore, you single handedly destroyed the Amiga.

[stevieu83]

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.

[selmerthegod]

The best I ever had was Workbench 3.1 and it was way ahead of pretty much anything else out there at the time. Oh how I miss my Amigas. Such a powerful and user friendly beasts. A pox on Commodore and Gateway and.........Oh what's the point. The Amiga is the computer equivalent of the Amur Leopard. Not extinct but fuckin' close :{(

[Hiraghm]

@scottishwildcat

I once wrote a game that took advantage of this.

Graphics resolution screen above a text resolution screen.

[DST0x0]

AMIGA OS4 Rulez !!!

[davie732]

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!

[68040E]

great GREAT video, we need more videos showing the power of amiga in style

[lissingen]

the best!!!!

[KiiiiingOfPaaain]

A few words: Simply the best os to date, no other os comes close!

[Hiraghm]

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.

[dbalexamiga]

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.