| [News] Amiga on 3sat (German TV) | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 17-Apr-2004 11:38 GMT by Christian Kemp | 14 comments
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A camera team from 3sat travelled to Göteborg to visit the AmiGBG fair in early April, and prepared a report on the AmigaOne (including a version in Mini-ITX format) and Amiga OS 4.0; network access for the C64; Mac on Linux on the AmigaOne; and Amiga Forever 6.0 by Cloanto. It will be aired today (17.04.2004) at 18:30 CET. This should be interesting for anyone with a satellite dish, regardless of whether you understand German or not.
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| Posted by Anonymous Orc on 18-Apr-2004 10:11 GMT | In reply to Comment 2 (Kjetil):
Your personal requirements for AmigaOS 4.2...
+ Improve printer support
yes, that needs to be done
+ Java
would be licenced from SUN in an ideal world...though a 3rd party version would be very useful (eg the current Amiga Java project, or port of Blackdown)
+ Web browser flash
nothing to do with the OS
+ PowerPoint (.pps)
Nothing to do with the OS, could be handled by a 3rd party office program...
+ 3D acceleration supporting gfx cards.
yes, should be sorted out.
+ Improved desktop, (Async directory listing, plugging, Icons)
its already being vastly improved (this is a section of the work that hasnt been deeply examined or discussed yet. expect even more for OS 4.1 onwards
+ Extras (secured Email client, Web Browser)
nothing to do with the OS. though a secure web browser will be available
(IBrowse) and YAM and SimpleMail are improving dramatically. both of these are already far more secure than the default Windows Outlook Express! ;-)
+ Native games
+ Native programs (Gimp, Open Office)
once again, nothing to do with the OS. there;ll be plenty of native OS4.0 apps once the dev kit goes to non-betatest developers. I'd also hope that 'native programs' would support AmigaOS functionality, ie support process scripting
+ New script language to replace AREXX
there'll be ARexx - 68k though, but Python and/or PERL will easily be able to take over from what it did.
+ SMP
i hear you brother. alleluyah!
+ G5 (more power, more speed)
only useful when programs support or need the G5 specialised functions. and, hang on, isnt this Amiga/AmigaOS we're talking about? the system thats so efficient that even now people are running it on equivalent to Pentium 90's ??
+ Networking (share directory’s, name service, SAMBA, FTP, NFS, APPELTALK)
RoadShow is fantastic. SAMBA is easily supported thanks to AmigaSamba (which covers quite a few required functions), there are simple FTP programs, I'd like a similar program to WinSCP. Appletalk though? Even MacOS is ditching Appletalk ;-) |
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