This weekend at the Italien Pianeta Amiga 2003 fair AmigaOS4 is being publicly demoed running on AmigaOne hardware for the first time. You can view an actual AmigaOS4 screenshot here at the AmigaWorld.net portal. Hyperion will also attend the upcoming Benelux Amiga Show planned for the 4th and 5th of October in Rotterdam. Some videos of AmigaOS4 running on the AmigaOne from the show
have now been uploaded here and here.
In response to the revealed pictures of the pre-production AmigaOne board some days ago, Alan Redhouse has clarified some things at the AmigaWorld.net community portal.
The pictures:
http://www.soft3.net/pages/pictures_e.php
Alan’s response including a feature-list (Firewire, USB 2.0, etc) can be viewed here:
http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?item_id=859&comment_…
Looks nice! I know that AmigaOS is able to run very fast on a 50Mhz processor, and I would like to see how does it plays on a 600Mhz G3!
A assume a 6 seconds bootup process from 0. 
Sorry to sound negative but –
I lost my interest for the Amiga years ago when I met BeOS. BeOS was, in my eyes, what I dreamed what AmigaOS 4 would be like. But these days, AmigaOS has only nostalgic value for me: While BeOS at its time had things to offer that no other consumer OS offered (Win9x and MacOS 8/9 were unstable, NT4 did no proper multimedia and OS X/2k weren’t born), the big ones have catched up now. Amiga is the one who’s behind the curve now and slowly implementing things we take for granted on the other systems. I still applaud because I like diversity and like having one more choice, but I still end up buying and using MacOS X, XP and Linux. BeOS back then gave us the dream of a better system that could be one day, simple yet powerful and solid. The next generation Amiga (hopefully) will impress with speed and disappoint with no features. It doesn’t have a promise, no vision, no original concept or idea, wehre these were the things why I liked the original Amiga and BeOS back then.
Well… they have to start somewhere, and besides the Windows/Linux users may not be interested in AmigaOS at all, but is still aimed at current Amiga users. It takes time to gain interest among the developers again.
@ stew
Maybe you have forgotten the BeOS history? It took quite some time for BeOS to develop into something really special. Sadly the BeOS operating system always lacked software support, even compared to software development for old Amigas these last couple of years.
AmigaOS4 is the first very big evolutionary step AmigaOS has seen in over a decade. From what I have seen so far the OS will have many nice features for it to stand on its own feeth and appeal to many Geeks and Amiga fans.
Compared to the current OS solutions AmigaOS4 will most likely be very modular, flexible, compact and fast. It will not be the end-all OS just like BeOS never was, but there are good plans to add still missing features later on.
probably because there are literally millions and millions of people in Europe and Australasia who are former Amiga users and still remember it fondly. That’s a large potential market.
You don’t need to be an Amiga geek to buy their cool hardware. Personally, I have no intention of running AmigaOS, but I do plan to get one of the “non-Amiga-branded” AmigaOne Lite boards (or a derivative, we’ll see) for running GNU/Linux. It’ll make a powerful yet silent development box.
Like Mike suggests, check out the specs:
http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?item_id=859&comment_…
The older models were great. I will be checking these new systems when available!
i agree…I can’t see much value in another propietary platform to compete with MACs perhaps?
i agree…I can’t see much value in another propietary platform to compete with MACs perhaps?
They aren’t really supposed to compete with Macs. There’s a small niche market of Amiga users who already are looking forward to using AmigaOS4 on AmigaOne. There is also interest in using OS4 and AmigaOne in industrial context, because it has a very small footprint, is very fast and therefore very capable in the field of surveillance or monitoring processes which requires near-realtime or realtime performance. Alan Redhouse gave an example a while ago where videocamera surveillance of multiple compressed streams of video to a single monitor could be done with little hardware and a small implementation of AmigaOS4. These tasks where you don’t need all the bells and whistles of an OS like Windows or Linux, AmigaOS can scale down and reduce cost on the hardware.
Getting OS4 to boot from an 8 MB FlashROM is going to be possible, removing the need for harddrives in Kiosk systems and industrial systems.
If there is any competition, it’s probably QNX.
3 new videos of AmigaOS 4 on an AmigaOne G4 933 MHz at PIANETA AMIGA 2003
http://hagge.no-ip.org/personal/computers/amiga/
The links to the AVIs don’t work anymore.
The “gallery” has been moved to
http://www.lightelements.com/gallery
AmigaOS4 is a little step for the information technology world but it’s a very big step for any Amiga users! The 4th version is only a start point…the first jump towards the totally new OS5 will be the 4.1 version; OS5 will include new services for the customers who will be able to build (not in the way meant from Linux) an OS for all requirements.