[News] Show report: AAA 2003, Commodore Billboard back online | ANN.lu |
Posted on 07-Jul-2003 19:46 GMT by Jens Schönfeld | 217 comments View flat View list |
This is a show report from individual Computers about the Amiga Alpe Adria that took place in Udine, Italy this weekend, and some good news about the Commodore Billboard!
This weekend, the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 took place in Udine, Italy - another station of Amiga OS4 on tour. The show was organized by Cloanto, well-known for a lot of Amiga programs and the emulator "Amiga Forever". Jürgen Schober of Point Design had to make two OS4 presentations, because the room was totally overcrowded with more than 100 Amiga fans and journalists of daily press and computer magazines. We also had the chance to show our products in a 30-minute presentation. Best-seller of the present retailers Soft 3 and Virtual Works was the Catweasel MK3, that became the first choice accessory for many Amiga One owners because of it's high degree of integration into the hard- and software of the new Amiga.
A small Retro-computing museum right at the entrance of the showroom brought back joyful memories in the visitors. Rare items like an SX-64 in best shape, a VIC-20 rev.1, and even a C65 prototype were shown. One of the first multi-computer games (today's networking games) was shown on two
PET computers that were connected through the serial ports. The home computer pioneer Altair 8800 from 1975 was the only none-Commodore computer.
The "Video Microwave", a Pegasos-board that was built in the case of a Sharp Microwave oven, was - at best - good for a laugh. The keyboard did not work at all, and it only took a few mouseclicks to make the computer with the MorphOS operating system crash. The reason for this could not be found in the short time of the show.
Commodore Billboard back online
Our good news for the fans of Commodore nostalgia almost got lost in the excitement surrounding Amiga OS4: The Commodore Billboard is back online! The initiator of the project, Søren Ladegaard (Denmark) had to drop the project due to lack of time in January 2003, and transferred the website to individual Computers. We're now sponsoring the website that can cause a lot of traffic with it's several hundred megabytes in size. During the past half year, the new webmaster Stefan Zelazny has converted the audio and video files to mpeg and mp3, so the website can be viewed on most platforms. For example, the Realplayer is not necessary any more.
Currently, the website is available under the address www.commodorebillboard.de. The .com domain will be made available in the coming weeks.
If you're interested in a local copy of the website, you can support us in paying for the high cost of the website by ordering the CD. It will be available in august this year from all our retail partners for about 15,- EUR. The double-CD package also contains some surprises for Commodore-fans!
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Posted by mahen on 08-Jul-2003 06:54 GMT | In reply to Comment 76 (DaveP): DaveP : I fully understand your point. BUT this is not as easy as you think. As I said above, you CAN'T compare the products. Why ?
- when MOS was released, NOTHING AT ALL was usable in the OS4 camp. Only 68k modules which worked on OS 3.9. MOS was minimalistic but worked OK. People who bought it were betatesters and agreed to do that. There are always also been internal betatesters for less stable things. MOS was 100% PPC but lacking a few things (like the arexx reimplementation). MOS was already PUP, WUP, MOS, 68k compatible ;) BT1 could have the JIT emulator.
- when the BT2 were released (beg 2003), NOTHING AT ALL was usable in the OS4 camp - that is to say, PPC OS, ExegNG, unusable. Same situation. MOS was quite stable. Not fully features, but it was OK for people who didn't particularly need the extra stuff. It could become the main machine of many persons. Many extra suffs, less stable, unfinished are being betatesters internally so we don't have them yet. You can see there are several levels of testing. MOS is still 100% PPC.
- Today, OS4 is getting usable apparently on classic Amigas. 68k emus are not really ready yet but work. JIT is far from it. And has many interesting modules etc that MOS 1.3 doesn't have. MOS 1.4 will be there and have many extra stuff. Mature JIT emu. Full 3D support, etc etc. So that will be comparable. Except MOS runs on modern hardware, and that its core has been tested since 99, and is 100% PPC. OS4 is about 50% PPC. OS4 doesn't work on AmigaOne. (only exec SG with some text stuff) Many drivers missing.
- Tomorrow, OS4 will be there on classic amiga, with many extra stuffs. We DON'T KNOWN about stability, compatibility. MOS 1.x will bring even more things for Pegasos (2) G4 owners.
- Later, OS4 will be ready for A1. MOS will be even more mature. At those points, both products will be comparable and it's gonna be interesting. But when will it be ?
Maybe, in the end, both OS'es will be comparable ? Except MOS's design is much better thought and ready for the future. (you can say it's subjective, but it's obviously not). But considering the order of dev was different for OS4 and MOS, you can't say the first betatesters should have been internal, b/c MOS was already usable.
So it's 100% utter bullshit to say that : MOS is unstable, MOS shouldn't be sold etc etc. It's just not comparable. You got the most important part ready & quite stable since the beginning. Very good to have a broader testing and get more developers ready. On modern hardware. |
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