MikeB said:
This video demonstrates well how differently the Amiga was in usage as a computer and capabilities during the 80s compared to a MSDOS PC. |
With all the legal issues the Amiga had and still has today, there have been enormous roadblocks advancing the platform forward after CBM bankrupted.
Background story on the OS
After years of legal disputes a German heavy weight company called Escom bought Amiga's assets, although they started selling some classic Amigas, they soon bankrupted afterwards mainly due to buying out too many companies within a too short period of time.
Then PC clone heavy weight Gateway bought Amiga's assets, they released AmigaOS 3.9 for classic Amiga computers and their Amiga division was hard at work to produce a modern Amiga after all those years. Sadly as a PC clone maker they were dependent on Microsoft's competitively interesting discounts on Windows, Microsoft ordered Gateway to stop its Amiga project or would face the end for such discounts (something any big PC clone maker enjoys), this would else cost the company many millions of dollars, so the Amiga assets were again sold to modern day Amiga Inc, which together with Hyperion and Eyetech signed a contract to develop Amiga4.0, currently Amiga Inc and Hyperion are fighting in the court for who owns what exactly...
Early beta of AmigaOS4 in action:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qSA-q1qniMY
AmigaOS4.0 was released for decade old PPC enabled classic Amigas (November 2007) and Eyetech´s former AmigaOne computers (January 2007):
AmigaOS4.1 has been announced for Q3 2008 release:
http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz:8080/amiga
