What is the use case for AmigaOS 4.1FE and MorphOS?

[whm1974]

OK getting bored with sleeping all week due to a nasty cold if found out that AmigaOS is still around and just refuses to die and that there are also two clones of it available as well.

However the AmigaOS and it's clone MorphOS only runs on overpriced and obsolete PowerPC hardware that is manufactured in Europe.
http://www.amigaos.net/
http://www.morphos-team.net/

And there is also AROS another clone that runs on both PowerPC and x86 hardware.
http://aros.sourceforge.net/

While I can see trying AROS out since it runs on more common and widely available hardware, I really don't see the point of spending good money on PowerPC hardware that a much cheaper low end current Celeron could outperform and do more.

So what is the use case here?

 

[paperfist]

Buy an original Amiga?

 

[whm1974]

Buy an original Amiga?

And what exactly could I with it?

 

[Thebobo]

And what exactly could I with it?

For some reason there is a sizable comeback for old and some new Amiga stuff. As to an answer to your question it's the journey. Some folks love playing retro amiga games and some with their children, some folks like tinkering with the hardware just like anything it's a hobby. Mazing to see the prices that the old Amigas are going for considering.

 

[paperfist]

For some reason there is a sizable comeback for old and some new Amiga stuff. As to an answer to your question it's the journey. Some folks love playing retro amiga games and some with their children, some folks like tinkering with the hardware just like anything it's a hobby. Mazing to see the prices that the old Amigas are going for considering.

Yeah my cousin just bought one, debating on getting an accelerator board. Someone put out an update 3.9 OS

And what exactly could I with it?

Play Defender of the Crown? My bad, I thought by your post you were looking to get a Power PC Amiga.

 

[whm1974]

For some reason there is a sizable comeback for old and some new Amiga stuff. As to an answer to your question it's the journey. Some folks love playing retro amiga games and some with their children, some folks like tinkering with the hardware just like anything it's a hobby. Mazing to see the prices that the old Amigas are going for considering.

I might put AROS on my laptop to check it out, but is rather sad that Commodore had really bad management at the time who didn't know what they had.

 

[whm1974]

Yeah my cousin just bought one, debating on getting an accelerator board. Someone put out an update 3.9 OS



Play Defender of the Crown? My bad, I thought by your post you were looking to get a Power PC Amiga.

Well I'm sure shipping a PowerPC Amiga system from Europe isn't cheap at all and that isn't even factoring in import duties on top of that. I certainly will not pay north of $1000 for something that still uses DDR2 memory and only 2gigs of that.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Because it is there.

 

[whm1974]

I could try this on my Thinkpad T430.
http://vmwaros.blogspot.com/2009/12/icaros-desktop-live-is-complete.html
It is a AROS distro.

 

[whm1974]

Well the Icaros desktop live does boot on my Thinkpad T430 with the LiveDVD, next step is to configure the WiFi.

 

[TheELF]

So what is the use case here?

Having fun with a OS you grew up with and that you only experienced with a couple of MB of ram and floppy disks?
Now you can have icaros running from an ssd with tons of ram and access to all kinds of goodies.
And really, if all you do on your PC is read your emails and do you taxes icaros is plenty enough.

 

[whm1974]

Having fun with a OS you grew up with and that you only experienced with a couple of MB of ram and floppy disks?
Now you can have icaros running from an ssd with tons of ram and access to all kinds of goodies.
And really, if all you do on your PC is read your emails and do you taxes icaros is plenty enough.

After a few tries I gotten it installed and boy is it different. Now to get my WiFi going....

 

[whm1974]

So on my Thinkpad T430the WiFi doesn't work and I keep getting HDD errors. I reinstalled to a 32GB USB pen drive ans while it works better and my desktop is able to boot from it, I still can't get a Internet connection even with using Ethernet.

Well it looks like a no go on my hardware....