On Friday, June 17, 2005, at 10:00 AM, Richard Starr wrote:
--- You wrote:
What makes the machine an Amiga? Is it
the general design? The operating system? Personally i thought it was
the OS and the user base that made it what it was.
--- end of quote ---
Yes, truly a bunch of nuts. Do you emulate the Amiga? I have looked
at sthe
emulation and haven't had much luck with it, so my 2000 still lurks
behind my
G4, ready and able though not interfaced with my Mac system.
Is anyone using the Amiga Forever CD? In 9 or X?
I don't really need to get to those files often, but it is tough to
leave a
whole platform behind.
Rich
Many Amigans refused to believe an OS as good as Amiga OS could
actually die off. Reactions to a 10 year chain of bad corporate
decisions varied from wait, wait, wait and see (me), to vocal tirades
and worse. I bought an iMac as an "interim" machine but continued
using Amiga 3000s for our transcription business until 8 months ago.
Word is a real brute, but I've finally got it tamed. The Amiga printer
finally blew up (almost literally) forcing me to move the billing and
forms to the Mac as well. OSX is a GREAT replacement for Amiga OS.
To your questions, the only decent emulator is Amithlon which only runs
on PC. Many Amigans use it. Unfortunately Amiga Inc squashed it's use
due to licensing issues (another brilliant move - not). Haven't used
Amiga Forever but have heard it's good, just nowhere near as fast as
Amithlon. The only Amiga emulator for the Mac that I've heard of is
UAE, which is supposed to have a lot of problems. I don't believe
Amiga Forever runs on Macs.
An interesting aside is that AOS has been ported to PPC now and should
be released sometime this year, being developed by 3rd parties under
license from Amiga Inc. There is code in the OS to keep you from
running it on any PPC machine other the "official" AmigaOne. Sound
familiar? I suppose Steve still keeps track of Amiga?
I just moved my important text files over to the Mac, so they are all
available now. Networking on the Amiga was never very good and
although I have an ethernet card, I wasn't up to the grief of trying to
coax 10 year old software to work on the network.
So I got an SCSI external Zip and used CrossMAC to recognize the drive
and transferred them to the USB Zip connected to the PowerMac. If you
have broadband, it's probably easier to just email stuff to your Mac.
Other than that, there are no programs I need access to so I'm "leaving
the whole platform behind" (I have 7 Amigas (A1000x2, A3000x4 and an
A4000, all working). OSX, with memory protection and access to all the
latest toys is everything I need. If AmigaOne and AOS4 actually make
it out the door in sufficient numbers, I'd love to have one on the
network for play. AOS was the best OS in 1990 and is still a good OS.
I don't see a future in it though.
- Peter Schaff
PM: 1GHz DP/1 GB/80GBx2/10.2.8
iMac: 600MHz/768MB/40GB/10.2.8
PB: 3400C/9.1
Brother HL-1870N laser, Epson 785EPX, Epson 2450 scanner
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