RiscOS has lagged and ran on alien hardware but this has been recitifed by the various rights owners stopping their squabbles and a Raspberry PI port being created.
Nobody is going to buy something which won’t run the stuff they come across every day apart from enthusiasts or developers. Is sticking to running the OS on overpriced none mainstream hardware a problem? Of course. I don’t know because I have never used it nor read anything which makes me interested enough to take a deeper look. I have no idea whether Amiga OS is a good thing or a bad thing. Like many OS’s of that era they have lagged in keeping up with things.
While alterative ways of doing things can be valid I don’t see the world rushing to the door of Amiga OS. I’ve only ever seen an Aiga beig used and have never used one myself. It’s one of those words used to dramatic effect in The Shawshank Redemption by Andy Defresne who calls the outwardly pious and convservative Warden Bob Gunten “obtuse” to much shouting and foot stamping. “Obtuse” is the kind of word you cherish and cultivate and hog to yourself for years waiting for that exact moment where there is a lull in the conversation when you can dish it out and cause maximum indignation for the least effort. I’d lay money on Thom waiting for years to find an excuse to use that word. If you really want to play with PPC Linux, you can buy a used powermac on ebay thats much faster for virtually nothing. The AmigaOS4 hardware on the other hand is underspecced overpriced PPC hardware, which can only be really used as an overpriced low performance Linux box. Same with the hardware, x86 and rpi are affordable, value for money, and the hardware can be put to many other uses if you tire of the niche OS you bought it for.
HOW TO CONFIGURE AMIGA OS 3.9 INSTALL
Buy expensive low spec hardware and an expensive niche OS just for fun, then find out you need to buy more things before you can even make use of it? No thanks, I’ll download and install some of the many free and open source niche OS that run on affordable and widely available hardware (x86, raspberry pi etc). Even today you’re expected to pay extra for a tcp stack, and all you get is a legacy ipv4 stack – not even ipv6.Ī niche OS like this is never going to make any money, it won’t make enough to cover paid developers, and the cost represents a barrier to entry which basically ensures the platform will never attract any significant number of new users.
HOW TO CONFIGURE AMIGA OS 3.9 WINDOWS
You have developers trying to nickel and dime you – windows and macos shipped with a tcp stack and a web browser, but on the amiga you had to pay for a tcp stack, pay again if you wanted a web browser, pay again if you wanted a telnet client, or if you wanted an irc client etc.
But fast forward a few years, and you have AmigaOS 4 being tied to hardware that is unobtainable, overpriced, under specced etc. Commodore were all about offering a highly competitive package – the Amiga models were affordable and highly capable relative to their competitors at the time. On the other hand, the attitude among developers on the amiga has long been about trying to cash in, and this is extremely damaging to the community and the platform as a whole. So long as you don’t approach it expecting a windows or unix clone, which it’s not – it has many of its own unique quirks. It has a reasonable UI, reasonable CLI, it’s fairly intuitive and has plenty of documentation available online. What do you mean by obtuse? I found AmigaOS and its derivatives not terribly difficult to use.
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