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RE: Sick of hearing "Still Alive" yet?

Dangerous Dave — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:47:40 GMT

To Maticus2

There is, it's called AROS (http://aros.sourceforge.net/) originally (back in 1995-6) it was going to be a reverse engineered AmigaOS 3.1. But patent problems with Amino and other "IP holders" prevented it from going all the way on that front (at least publicly, there were always rumours that they'd sorted it and just couldn't publish for fears of legal action).

Now, it's a FOSS operating system that's 100% AmigaOS compatible *at the API level*, which means that only software that "plays nice" (i.e. not demo's or games or anything that "hits the metal") will work on it.

iirc, Hyperion were expressing interest in it a few years ago (2002, ish - about when I lost contact).

Hope the info helps :D

RE: Sick of hearing "Still Alive" yet?

Major Owned — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:01:16 GMT

i wish my iMac was anthropomorphic too :P

RE: Sick of hearing "Still Alive" yet?

maticus2 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:13:29 GMT

Made me feel quite sad, and a bit frustrated.

I thinks after all the years of mess ups the only way to preserve the Amiga in a modern form is to make an open source Amiga os for the pc. That way it’s looked after by those who care about it. Blasphemous I know but survival depends on adaptability and radical ideas. More to the point it brings it to a wider audience.

RE: Sick of hearing "Still Alive" yet?

MartenReed — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:44:18 GMT

That was quite good!

Nice find :)

RE: Sick of hearing "Still Alive" yet?

allanco — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:32:31 GMT

Yet it had to be edited and converted using a mini mac G4 and he apologised for doing so:(

RE: Sick of hearing "Still Alive" yet?

johnbarry — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:54:31 GMT

Sad but still alive and still used by many nice anim well spotted.

Sick of hearing "Still Alive" yet?

Just Jon — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:14:41 GMT

Here's the Amiga twist on Still Alive. Animation by Eric Schwartz.

[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=9mg6wrYCT9Q[/url]