Any sane person who has used the Amiga and then has had to use lesser computers will never again be quite satisfied. Performance is only part of it, the major factor is the smoothness of the Amiga experience.

You know a true Amiga fan when they are still annoyed, disappointed and a little angry to this day that the Amiga and its amazing OS never reached the potential that many of us knew it could reach. An inspiring video Ravi. More please 👍😁

My first PC was an A500. No HDD. Ran everything from floppy and I believe it had 1MB RAM. The guy who sold it to me taught me how to dial BBSs and gave me about 500 floppies worth of warez. What a magical time.

What a beautiful OS. I just loved having such a great environment on Amiga. If we can bring that into the future would be wonderful.

The Amiga was the "rebel" of the graphics and gaming era.. there's a romantic notion there and for many people it's an epic reminder that we were there when it all began. I used to be a Commodore dealer, sold hundreds of em.. that's my legacy and I'm proud of it !! :)

Great video on the Morphos OS looking forward to seeing more. Thanks Ravi.

Still kinda sad how it all turned out. I saved up for over a year as I wanted a Amiga 1000 as a child, but I did end up getting an Amiga 500 as a massive upgrade over my C64. But then decades later in the Army I did some time in a sim centor and they had issues with the computer running it all. Well low and behold running 7 terminals, and a main map screen in high rez is a single A1000. MY practice with the Amiga saved the day. My PC at the time was a Pentium 90 and was great for games but as a terminal server it was lacking and even the 2d card of the day or early 3d accelerators were incapable of multi display and terminal users. It really was a multi tasking master.

This is a period of time where I know very little what happened to the Amiga, from around 1997 until my Amiga 1200 died in 2000 I was almost exclusively using it as a Macintosh via emulation (my 040 card made it into a very capable Quadra speed Macintosh, still useful back then for using MS Office 4, PageMaker and Photoshop), and then between 2000 and 2018 I didn't have anything to do with the Amiga scene. Interesting to see what happened!

Great overview mate, inspiring me to spend a bit more time with MorphOS again.

Really cool video. The Red versus Blue wars were/are really sad. I just got into Amiga about 3 years ago, and luckily missed all the warring factions. I bought an X5000 motherboard and 4.1, after becoming bored w/x86 and re-discovered Amiga. Then I stumbled upon MorphOS. Both are really cool. I have an X1950XTX for MorphOS and an RX590 for 4.1 on the x5000. Viva Amiga. Oh I also bought a Vampire V4, and fell in love w/the big box classics and built a 4000, AA3000+, and 4000TX! Amazing what is avaliable today with this resurgence of the scene.

Got MorphOS running on on a G5 sitting under my desk. Really impressed with how zippy it is. Just kinda a shame though. I boot it up, play around a bit, and then it's kinda like "OK, well, time to go back to something I can get real work done on", then I boot up this Arch box I'm commenting off.

Doing 3D graphics and music on my Amiga 500 was what got me my first job as a video game developer back in 1994. I love Amiga and have a kitted-out 500 on a table right next to my main workstation (still a game developer!) It makes me happy just to look at it (and use it when I can). There's never been anything else quite like it.

Thanks Ravi for this video.

MorphOS looks amazing!

Good video! I truly love the Amiga, I had the A500, 1500, 1200, 4000/040. Been praying for years, for the Amiga to resurface.

Fantastic video Ravi. I want more people to use MorphOS myself. Its much more mature than OS4 is and a lot more stable. I have an X5000 and run it on that as well as my G5 Powermac. The nice thing about the X5000 is you can ge the latests of OS4 and MorphOS side by side on the same hardware and see first hand just how great it is.

wow nice one DJ... you taught me stuff I didn't know ... see you soon at SWAG

When Future Crew released their 2nd Reality demo on PC the scene knew the days of the Amiga were counted...

great video man!!

I have an Amiga 1200 above the wardrobe. How many graphic animations I built thanks to this computer. (Good times).

you are correct about Workbench being a brilliant OS for the time. I remember just before Win95 was due to be released a friend was an official beta tester and he showed me everything Win95 could do compared to Win3.1, such as long file names, multitasking, etc, he was flabergasted when I told him the Amiga had all that for the last eight years

Great video, Ravi. It convinced me to bring out my old PPC Mac and try it out. I was watching the Twitter client on your video and saw my logo and a few tweets of mine! How funny!

I used A500, A1200, turbo cards, 68030, 68040, 68060 and also PPC + 68060....and finally I got Pegasus board with Morphos (was porting some DTP app to Amiga). And feelings were mixed. On one hand everything was working really fast. Moving windows, multitasking. HDD was working faster than SSD this days (or at least I had that impression). Desktop and icons looked stunning. But on other hand there was a lack of many important things. Drivers for many peripherals were missing. Before buying any peace of HW you had to check is it supported or not. And with every update I was hoping of some really needed new SW, drivers but I was getting instead new icon packs, new desktop images and similar. I loved Amiga very much, but IMHO it should be left to rest in peace. It can't compete with todays PCs and Macs. Playing just 720p videos and having browser with glitches when you scroll simple page is just...so outdated.

More videos like this are needed. The post Commodore years for the Amiga community presents a complex and messy country. (To paraphrase Shakespeare ;) )

Back from the future!!! Oh boy :(

MorphOS is something I've been wanted to try out for a while and after watching your video I think I'll give it a closer look now. Is there any compatibility for older x86 hardware or is that AROS I'm thinking of?

My Amiga 500 was a truly wonderful machine. I also had a A1200. Sadly both sold and long gone. Still look back on all those great games.

I loved commodore and Amiga. I contributed models i made during the transition of Star Trek from plastic to 3d models in the April 1998 Amiga Format magazine. At that time the amiga was competing against Pentium 2 machines with Opengl cards for rendering and it could still compete. We used Amigas when the competition was using DEC Alpha's.

Still breaks my heart 😢

I still have my powermac G5 and I know it is compatible with morphos. I have been thinking about buying morphos. But really have no idea about using UAE. Maybe you could do a video about it.

Bought an Original Amiga 1000 not long after they went on sale, and traded it in for an Amiga 2000 not long after they became available. Had the 2 meg memory expansion card, upgraded to a Fat Agnus, and had a QVS (?) hSCSI controller and a 500 megabyte hard drive. Great stuff. But here's the sad truth. "It's dead Jim."

Hey what's the app your using to show how full your drive is that appears on the left hand side of the windows I have been looking on aminet but can't find it.

Thanks Ravi for this video. My main system is still MorphOS since back from the initial release.

The Brand name Amiga, for me still has a Magical Element.. Stick an Amiga sticker on a Bunch of Desktops, and watch them Sell-Boi....

If you wanted a re-emergence of software for the Amiga they'd do well to port Electron, despite it going against the liteweight resource philosophy of the OS. OWB could easily be used as the basis of an Electron-like container, but the developer (it seemed to me at least) pretended not to know what I was talking about.

I'm still running Directory Opus on the PC. It's absolutely the best file manager for Windows. Super powerful and massively configurable. To think its been iterating none stop since the Amiga days. Its no wonder its so slick under Windows. The sad thing is despite how great it is. You will almost never see it featured on websites or in videos covering software. Its almost like a hidden secret that mostly only the Amiga users from way back know about it because they used it back then as THE Amiga file manager of choice.

The nice thing about Amiga back in the day is that it did things that no other computer could do, it took competitors a decade or longer to really catch up. Now Amiga is just nostalgia, unless someone is going to innovate some beyond nextgen computer and gaming scifi level type of system and name it Amiga there is really no future for Amiga. Preemptive multitasking was impressive in 1984, nowadays its nothing special every OS has it.

Thanks Ravi

"tits up" is such a technical phrase, it can be applied to many situations :)

Amiga Workbench , the Original Windows.

21:02 Have you ever done a video on wayfarer and how it renders on morphOS?

nice video, would like to see a benchmark running on it :)

I was a very avid Amiga user, but in hindsight the issue was that the Amiga was designed as a game console, so there was no easy way to to modernize the architecture of the machine without a huge rewrite of AmigaOS, likely obsoleting every existing piece of software. Since Commodore was on the verge of insolvency almost continuously, they couldn't afford anything but a repackaging of the existing hardware and some minor graphics tweaks that made their way into the A4000. Those were good times though.

very nice..thanks

Does anyone know if this is compatible with a G5 iMac? I’ve only seen compatibility mentioned for G4 machines and the G5 Power Mac, never the G5 iMac.

once upon a time in a galaxy far far away a PhD exercise in writing and operating system resulted in TRIPOS written in BCPL. since BCPL is a portable programming language it was implemented on many machines. one of those machines was the Commodore Amiga.

Did you say run it for 20 mins without time-out ??? I thought it slows down after two-hours ?

Does anyone know if MorphOS supports the direct reading of Amiga formatted Harddrives, just interested as i have several that have info on etc and not enough real Amigas to run them all in

I have an old Mac G4 laptop from work that is made for this. Not sure I want to shell out the +-£70 for it though. Great vid Ravi.

I'd love to come on with you some time and do a video about OS4 and MorphOS on negt gen Amiga hardware.

What r the specifications of the machine u r running morphos on please?

can you go online on a MorphOs machine? and use youtube or other modern websites?

I’m a completely different Amiga user, I was all about the games and still have no idea how workbench really works🙈

Can someone help me with the track at 7:30?

how I miss my amiga days. plug in and away you go.

I am waiting for a major firmware upgrade for the Sinclair ZX81.

How does it stack up against AROS?

They ought to do two things. One, create MorphOS for RISC-V architecture. Two, build a MorphOS VM for Qubes OS. I purchased a laptop from POP!OS, put QubeS OS on it, and run POP!OS, Windows, CentOS 8 and MacOS. I’m currently running Amiga Forever from Cloanto. I think this would run much faster as a VM Natively instead of interpreted. Just a thought (yeah, I know it’s not as easy as I make it sound).

If this is using UAE to run all the legacy stuff, then what’s the point? Wouldn’t it be better to run Windows for all the modern stuff and WinUAE for the legacy? If it is about the interface, then you can use Amikit...

Amiga One and Morph really need to joy and go from there.

Nice use of 3D blue there

The Metro hour? It will never catch on... /s

As of late I still support Amiga, but via legacy stuff. As in 02/03 accelerators. Why? For years this was a fantastic ride and I appreciate what it was back in the late 80s and early 90s.

The Blue Morpho! The deadliest butterfly of all...

Umm your time frame is a bit wrong. ESCOM's 1200 sales started quite a while before the 3DFX and Pentium CPUs were introduced.

Too bad I haven't seen any new support for MorphOS, because it's impressive. I believe Blender is made for Amiga OS, not sure this one?

It's a shame so much seems to rely on third party apps and user configuration. If it could be used to do modern tasks AND legacy programs out of the box, it would be awesome. I think all these things are fun to play around with though. For me, I'd just be happy with a Workbench "theme" for windows 10, and Amiga Forever ;)

My first Amiga was an Amiga 600 with 40mb hard drive. It was expensive and only a few games could start. At that time I hated him and today, with ACA 630 A604 Flicker fixer. I love him.

I want to see Amiga to come back with new HW and SW in some way. This would be "back to the future".

I love my SAM440 and AmigaOS4 NG✌️

Ahh, such a sad story. Thank you for this video. I remember well the OS4 vs MorphOS debacle. Of course I've never actually tried either because I never had the requisite hardware to run these OS's... ...one might say that with hindsight the whole PPC thing was a massive miss-step and was the final nail in AmigaOS's coffin as anything other than a retro hobby. My remaining interest is in classic systems only I'm sad to say. I'm happy for the people who get something out of the PPC-based OS's and wish every success to those still mad enough to develop and sell PPC hardware... Remember Amithlon? That was the real future of AmigaOS, no hind sight needed at all. I remember well being one of the people championing Amithlon as the future of the OS but sadly Amithlon got buried as a result of 'political pressure' and in the process the wonderful developer, Bernie Meyer, got thoroughly screwed. Why Amithlon? Well, the opportunity has long since passed but in Amithlon Amiga inc (remember that bunch of useless...) had a custom Linux kernel to act as hardware abstraction layer between OS 3.1 and cheap+powerful x86 hardware. You ended up with a dirt cheap and super-fast Draco that could run all 68k software courtesy of fast 68k emulation as well as AmigaOS software targeted to the built in, functionally identical, x86 API. The 'lack' of a classic chip set was not a problem as there was more than enough power to emulate the 'missing bits'. Indeed, such was the power of the system running on x86 hardware you also had full WarpOS support running faster with software rendering with an emulated 68k CPU than any 'native' hardware if you didn't have the luxury of a supported PCI GFX card to do hardware rendering. I think bench-marking my 2.2Ghz Athlon-based Amithlon machine gave me something like a 400MHz 68040 and software rendering QuakeGL 68k at about 120fps. The fact that the AmigaOS API also existed in native x86 under Amithlon meant drivers, OS components, and software could be migrated piecemeal giving users a painless migration path to modern hardware options while reducing development headaches for whatever cash-strapped company was nominally in charge. IMO this was the OS's last shot at being relevant outside retro hobby circles. Of course the idiots 'running' Amiga inc killed off Amithlon. Partly through incompetence, but largely as a result of pressure from Hyperion (among others) who could see their investment in OS4 being wasted - very short sighted! Yes, there's AROS which, like MorphOS, is excellent but development took too long for it to have any real impact even if that ship hadn't already sailed with the end of Amithlon. Hmm, I've actually not fired up any of my classic Amigas (or Amithlon) in a couple of years... I think I might go take a stroll down memory lane. I look forward to your next episode.

Nice

I have an old G4 mini and was going to install Morph but after seeing this I think I’ll just look for an emulator. It’s just about the old games for me.

Neat

I really love AmigaOS for one reason: No god damn focus stealing.

Amiga - ACTUAL multitasking - still has yet to be duplicated. Modern machines still bog down. Its a shame when an antique computer system was better than modern platforms in so many ways.

Thank god we have WinUAE...

16:53 popular filler tune used frequently in the retrohour :)

Commodes were brilliant I used one in the early 80s and it was a treat to play games and other fun stuff it did have some good games and there were some interesting software that you had load from two or three disks no Internet connection at that time so no downloads but one art software I thought was interesting was slow to load but was good enough for drawing, I can see it working but remember it but its name I forget? The music software there's 2 I seem to think but I never could find it but let in was on the Spectrums which had to but Amiga that name was the first.

One day, I’m going to wake up in another universe where the Amiga never went to shit, and we all have realistic VR, amazing true multitasking, strong Amiga workbench XVI, and a incredibly powerful company that runs little Microsoft apps, and apple is little more than a fond memory of a failed company...

All well and good but only runs on dead or overpriced hardware. Lets see what happens when you can run a fully fledged Amiga based OS on raspberry pi native or PC

All those wasted years, 17!!!!!, when MorphOS could have been officially adopted and moved the Amiga platform forward but with a much larger user base

I also miss my voodoo5 video card.

Some day someone will realise that the Amiga brand is a curse that kills any company it touches.

Loved my A500, with flicker fixer, 68020 CPU (iirc) upgrade, 8mb ram, SCSI card and full sized HD'S in a bodged tower case. Then my A4000 (god how I hated the IDE not SCSI in that). Great times when men were men and knew how to fight the good fight with hardware and software setup. Great memories but I can't imagine why anyone would buy into this next generation Amiga.. PC hardware with Windows or Linux offers so much more and for fun projects use a Raspberry or other SBC..

I like Morphos but....a Powermac G5 with OSX plays 720P KZfaq, plays 1080P h264 with ease, has a huge library of pro legacy software for audio, graphics and video available and if you need a retro Amiga hit, the Big E-UAE Jit emulator runs 68K perfectly.

I can't forget my amiga smooth scrolling while running at just 7 mhz, My 4 stereo channels......😣

The ONLY way Amiga could ever make a comeback is if it goes "open source", uses off the shelf processors and hardware. It would need to be a VERY lean and fast OS with no bloatware and would probably rely on Linux libraries for a long long time.

I loved my powermac g4

I have run the classic Amiga in emulation since the middle/late 90's. I am not sure there is a real use case for OS4 or MorphOS in 2019 and beyond. I mean Christ PPC architecture lol give me a break. Now if they did a x64 version to run on micro computers, like the intel NUC or many of the net top computers around, then they *might* have a future. If there is any emulation involved it needs to be completely transparent to the user.

why stop with the wii when you could try running morphos on the wii-u or xbox 360 but I guess less exploits

Mplayer, MilkyTracker and more - this is branded Linux next distro.

I have an Amiga 1200 + HDD + 68060 in a small PC case... maybe it's worth getting her out of the shed...

Mostly, it's all about games. Even though a whole new amiga (e.g. powerPC or coldfire or dual-CPU 680x0) could have been made, if Escom were trying to be as budget as possible by selling the a1200, they could have done a good job of it with a few tweaks, and amigans would have bought the machine had it been named the cd1200 or a12cd. The a1200 would have needed 2meg FastRAM on the MBoard, (thereby giving 4meg when added to the ChipRAM, and it is a minimal change to the hardware design compared to more ChipRAM even though it would have been nice). At the time people moaned how the a1200 should have had at least a 68030, however maybe they are wrong and the existing 68020 would have done, had it been overclocked to a stable 28MHz (since, with fastRAM it will run like a 68030 of 24MHz which is an a3000 basically). An FPU should have been added too, and it'd just require the pull-up resistor/capacitor arrangement. Also, putting on the akiko would be worthwhile and allow a cheap way to help a CDROM drive (and c2p with FPU pre-calculation in future games). With that in mind, instead of bothering with the coding of the new workbench, a better kickstart and a "game bundle deal" to include a CDROM version of an existing game (like Gloom or AlienBreed3D or whatever) but with an expansion pack on the same CDROM (optimised for FPU pre-calc) would have been a wiser usage of software development resources. Lastly, the parallel port could have been upgraded so as to allow either a CDROM or HardDrive to be plugged in (depending on whether a laptop CDROM was to go in the IDE, or whether a HDD would go there, thusly vice versa). The kickstart would allow parallel-port booting. The akiko might have helped the CDROM a bit. Then, of course, flinging in a CDROM drive, as either a laptop slim one internally (for the IDE) or a parallel port one. The changing of the parallel port to allow all this would be the bigger challenge with the 68020, and even the 68030 had its own serial. It would have been worth it though. An rj45 ethernet would have been wise. Bundling the cd32 joypad in it but adding an extra gravis-compatible analogue thumbstick on it would have been good for games. All of this doesn't take that much development. Not a big undertaking. Don't even need to change the sound. Nobody truly cared about the "low quality" sound. The sound was cool anyway. Also a CDROM (even the a570) could use a AudioCD "passthrough" for music. The Escom company had CDROM drives. All of this would have left the trapdoor expansion untouched and so an upgrade for the FMV cartridge and a PowerPC (or coldfire) all-in-one-addon could have been released later as an official product if they really felt they wanted to, but by then mpeg2 could have been added on it for "FMV" with a PCI breakout cable to add a HBA for a DVD (which runs at 10x CDROM, exceeding the parallel port's 6xCDROM speed which it would not have run so fast anyway). Also RAM would be cheaper by then, and graphics could have been included (such as the Hombre but with a 32bit blitter), and a TV-capture-Card to continue the video-toaster strengths, and upgrading the soundcard. Release a new OS with that "all-in-one" tradoor expansion if needed (and leave a RAM slot on it for SIMM or even SDRAM if released late enough). A dual-CPU architecture would have made sense one day, upon success of the 28MHz 68020 adaptations already said.

Running it on a 1.3Ghz iBook G4 with 768Mb RAM :) Need to swap the HDD by a CF or sumthing :P

Commodore went "tits up". Gotta love Britishisms. Good video.

Imagine if they'd gone ARM instead of PPC. Amiga OS would be running on something akin to the lowest cost computers around, like the Raspberry Pi, or maybe even a phone. Did AROS native ever get anywhere on the Pi? I'd much rather run that than Debian especially when my pi case is a miniature A500.

Would repeat your words

Jedi Outcast!

That blender version is f%**I%$ing old.