Vaguely related: approximately 20 years ago I hosted "The Amiga Alternative Audio Page". Every time I migrate my blog to a new platform -- which is often because I like to tinker with it -- I figure <i>this</i> is the time I'll finally kill that page forever. And then my web logs fill with 404s and I bring it back from the dead because I don't have the heart to kill old Amiga software.<p>So, <a href="https://honeypot.net/post/the-amiga-alternative-audio-page/" rel="nofollow">https://honeypot.net/post/the-amiga-alternative-audio-page/</a> is still a thing, but please don't ask me to update any of that software. I wouldn't know how to anymore if I wanted to.
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I learnt C programming and a lot of stuff about UN*X systems from my Amiga 500 and later on a heavily expanded 1200, thanks to a wonderful "Geek Gadgets Version 2" project. I even ran GCC on my Amiga back then. After that, in 2001, I switched entirely to GNU/Linux (RH7) and I knew quite a lot about how to use it since day one, thanks to my wondeful Amiga computer and Geek Gadgets.
OMG, I've waited for this! I was SO worried litigation from Clonato would make all the work by Thomas Richter & Co. go to waste on the finishing line. It's remarkable how litigations are still a thing with the Amiga brand. I don't understand how the profits for the winning party is expected to be greater than the lawyer costs.
The most extraordinary thing here is not only it’s being done, but it’s being done in a proprietary way.<p>The surface of the AmigaOS is tiny in comparison with any modern system. It’s surprising nobody took a free RTOS and built an Amiga API on top of it, enough to fool Amiga software into being compiled for modern hardware and run directly on real Amigas.
I don't get it, can someone explain?<p>Why would someone release of a modern version of an Amiga operating system for sale on CDROM?<p>Who would use this?