With WinUAE 3.3.0 officially released, the PowerPC emulation is more capable than before with support for higher resolutions among other things. While it's nowhere near as usable as a real AmigaOne system (being limited to 384MB RAM and no 3D acceleration), you can get a taste of the OS for cheap. I installed the latest version AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition (version 4.2 is currently in development) and took it for a spin.
Odyssey is the most capable browser. It's WebKit based and supports CSS and Javascript. It's painfully slow under emulation, but can display pages like Facebook, Gmail and even Youtube.
NetSurf is more lightweight, but only supports CSS, no Javascript. It's very fast under emulation. Amazingly, it's also available for AmigaOS 3.x from the 90's.
Cinnamon Writer WIP supports DocX etc.
Not a wasteland - daily uploads.
Tabbed Shell, and many, many added features not shown here
While the OS features hardware compositing and 3D acceleration on supported hardware, it can't be emulated. Still, non-3D games like Amiga Racer work fine under emulation.
Some miscellaneous tools and utilities open. It's essentially emulating an Amiga 4000 with the CyberStorm and CyberVision - pretty much the most expensive Amiga you could buy in 1997.
Still undecided on whether I'll plonk down the money for actual 4.1 capable hardware, but it's fun to play around with alternative operating systems, and especially the decendent of the OS I grew up with.
Odyssey is the most capable browser. It's WebKit based and supports CSS and Javascript. It's painfully slow under emulation, but can display pages like Facebook, Gmail and even Youtube.
NetSurf is more lightweight, but only supports CSS, no Javascript. It's very fast under emulation. Amazingly, it's also available for AmigaOS 3.x from the 90's.
Cinnamon Writer WIP supports DocX etc.
Not a wasteland - daily uploads.
Tabbed Shell, and many, many added features not shown here
While the OS features hardware compositing and 3D acceleration on supported hardware, it can't be emulated. Still, non-3D games like Amiga Racer work fine under emulation.
Some miscellaneous tools and utilities open. It's essentially emulating an Amiga 4000 with the CyberStorm and CyberVision - pretty much the most expensive Amiga you could buy in 1997.
Still undecided on whether I'll plonk down the money for actual 4.1 capable hardware, but it's fun to play around with alternative operating systems, and especially the decendent of the OS I grew up with.
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