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| Posted on 18-May-2003 20:41 GMT by Jürgen Schober | 86 comments
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AmigaOS 4.0 on display across Europe.
point.design präsentiert die aktuelle AmigaOS 4.0 Version als Preview in einer Raodshow durch Europa:
Die AmigaOS 4.0 Tour findet am
07. Juni, BOF Multimedia Store, Ljubljana, Slowenien
14. Juni, Amiga Club Augsburg, Deutschland
28. Juni, BOF Shopping-Center West, Graz, Österreich
05. Juli, Amiga Alpe Adria, Udine, Italien
05. Juli, Amont Informatique, Toulouse, Frankreich
statt.
Geplant ist die Vorführung AmigaOS auf CyberStorm PPC (PPC Native Kernel!) sowie aktuelle AmigaOS 4.0 Komponenten wie Roadshow, AmigaInput, Mount-Rainer (CD/RW), etc. im neuen AmigaOS 4.0 Design.
Außerdem werden zahlreiche AmigaOne G3/G4 Computer vorgeführt werden.
Weitere Überaschungen sind in Vorbereitung.
Mehr Information unter http://www.oase.at/amigaos4ontour.html und auf unseren Partner-Web-Sites.
Wir freuen uns auf Euren Besuch!
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point.design presents the AmigaOS 4.0 on Tour roadshow accross Europe.
Several events will take place on
June, 7th, BOF Multimedia Store, Ljubljana, Slowenia
June, 14th, Amiga Club Augsburg, Germany
June, 28th, BOF, Shopping-Center West, Graz, Austria
July, 5th, Amiga Alpe Adria, Udine, Italy
July, 5th, Amont Informatique, Toulouse, France
The planing so far goes to have AmigaOS4.0 running on a CyberStorm PPC (with a native PPC kernel), as well as having current modules like Roadshow, AmigaInput, Mount-Rainer (CD/RW), etc. with the new AmigaOS4.0 design on display.
Also you will find various AmigaOne G3/G4 Machines on the show.
More surprises are on schedule.
Please visit http://www.oase.at/amigaos4ontour.html and our partner web sites for more information.
We are looking forward to see you at the show(s)!
Jürgen Schober
point.design
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| Posted by Some Farker on 20-May-2003 01:41 GMT | In reply to Comment 38 (Atheist2):
"Hi Some Farker, "
"What I meant was, you said above, the computer couldn't re-boot. Now, AOS4.0 is getting big, so it can't fit on a 1.44 meg. disk. But, if most of it was in a 16 meg flashrom, and some of it on floppy, it could be salvaged from 1 floppy disk. "
No, this is completely different from a rollback or safe mode boot. Rollback compares a full registry table of what's going on *right now* to what you're asking it to fall back on. Think of it as an onboard back up. You say "Look, on May 19th, I installed a program that lunched my display drivers. Now, I know that at the earliest, on May 12th, I had a working display driver. Please put the system back like it was then." System restore then does just that, thus saving your bacon.
Ah, you say, if your display driver is corrupted, how can you even see the screen? Safe mode. VGA-Only, no sound or video (but network if you need it). Rollback from there, reboot.
"I was refering to the installer on the Amiga and you brought up winzip. On an Amiga, you can still manually install a program, right? "
You said "You still manually install a program" - You meaning Me, and we were talking about something else entirely. I use installers on whatever platform I'm using as frequently as I can. Hand-unpacking things into one subdirectory after another is *tedious*.
"Ghz. :) "
I suspected as much. There's so many unasked and unanswered questions with respect to the setup that you've got that untangling the problem(s) even in an offhand manner is beyond the scope of this board...so let's move on. ('Sides, Linux for home use isn't my strong point.)
"Fair enough, the IT managers out there are not happy. But, where did the home user market go? Is every "home user" now so sophisticated that they must have an "IT manager" OS at their disposal? "
The home user market is still right there - and fortunately, workstation/multi-user OS's have dovetailed nicely in to it. With more people working *from* home, an OS that behaves like what they have at work or more to the point can connect directly to work is more and more important.
<reminiscense>
I remember helping a teacher carry an Apple II (not IIe, not IIc, just "Apple II") to her car - monitor, printer and all, so she could do some work over the weekend...ah Mobile computing!
</reminiscense>
"Fair enough. It isn't quite what you'd like to use at home.
Maybe I'm just one of a small group of people clamoring for a simpler way to compute. "
And that's fine. But you should understand - I've said what I've said not out of some perverse desire to see the Amiga fail, or because I hate it, or because I'm some Windows bigot who gets his jollies mocking the dead, etc. No, quite frankly I'd like to see the Amiga OS come out on top - or at least in the running. To do so it will need more than hobbyist level features.
You and I are thinking in parallel with one another: we both feel that the Amiga is great and we both wish that it would make a comeback. Yet my "comeback" is rooted a bit more firmly in what it will take to succeed (I think) than yours. And I don't say that as an insult, I say it because it simply is so.
I'd *love* to walk into CompUSA and see AOS4.0 on the shelf, with A1 boards in the hardware department... (or the bundle together). But before that happens, it's got to make an impact. Because that shelf space is going to go to the stuff that *moves* and the stuff that *moves* is the stuff that *impresses*.
"AmigaOne! Is AOS4.x the last "personal" home OS?"
Not by a long shot. A "personal home" OS is what you make of it. My mom uses Xp on the dinky little PII/300 with 128mb RAM I built for her - and it just goes and goes. Never a hiccup. (As opposed to the mess that was the Win98 install she had...P-U!) |
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