Comments on: ART Episode 32 – Bowling for Amiga OS

By: Dag

Dag — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:40:45 +0000

The hobbyist programming community is the main niche Amiga can occupy ! The geek OS crowd.

By: MobbyG

MobbyG — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:59:59 +0000

Yeah, I remember the EA Construction kit on the C=64 and the Apple ][e for making your own games. And I may be wrong, but wasn’t there something like that for the Atari 2600 too?

But yeah, I could see that.

By: rdhallman

rdhallman — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:23:16 +0000

One place I think the Amiga might find a niche is as an open console that you can create and distribute your own games on. 2 Decades ago, kids made their own games all the time and share and brag to their friends. This whole dynamic is gone today! XBox, Wii, PS3.. great hardware, but kids can’t touch it. So, their left to mindlessly plug away with their controllers for hours and hours.

I’d love to see kids have the option to make, not just play the games. And an Amiga as an open console could cater to that. I.e. make a BASIC like environment that is very approachable by kids, where the results can be sent down the street to his friend, or even downloaded for a cell phone version.

I think kids would get into that AGAIN!

By: meet.mrnrg

meet.mrnrg — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:39:24 +0000

Nice one… I’ll blog you chat.
Silence is a good relaxing atmosphere.
Equal time for a-z and others.
AROS
MorphOS
AmigaOS
NatAmi
MiniMig

By: agami

agami — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:21:07 +0000

Nice one Tom.
It’s both a trip down memory lane and a concise collection of ideas that I will assimilate into my ongoing research.

She certainly is different and she should never ever change that about her.

By: tom_a_sparks

tom_a_sparks — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:14:51 +0000

From: fleecy

To add such things to the Amiga would be unnacceptable to me if they were to become part of the OS of the future. If however, as has been discussed, we go down a dual path of developing a new Open Amiga operating SYStem (OASYS) firmly based upon the principles of the old OS with new ones added then I see no problem in adding a few cludges to the old codebase to parallel what will exist on the new system IF IT IS UNDERSTOOD that the OASYS codebase will completely replace the old codebase + cludges when it is ready and that new development written for it will run properly on the new system (part of the great migration plan).
http://www.basden.demon.co.uk/amiga/amiga.diffnt.html

By: tom_a_sparks

tom_a_sparks — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:11:51 +0000

amiga as a
* Portable media player
* Set-top box (HD TV like TiVo)
* Community IPTV/VOD set top box (I am looking at creating one with Natami)