pOS - A promising operating system in 1997 running on the Amiga

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A quick look around in the prerelease of pOS running on the Amiga 1200. One of the promising operating systems from the late 90s that did not happen.

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@sacredbanana 9 ай бұрын

I'm glad you made this video. Recently I was on my MiSTer in the Amiga core and was setting up a dev environment. Can't remember which, but it was wither the AmigaOS 3.9 Developer CD or the GeekGadgets CD and one of them mentioned pOS in one of the readmes and I hadn't even heard of it. The readme made it out to be something exciting that everyone will start using

@proteque 9 ай бұрын

Thanx for telling me. I will be looking for this mention of it in one of those SDKs. Would be happy if you could let me know if you remember which one it was at any point, as I find this part of the history very interesting!

@TheSlikstik 10 ай бұрын

Cool OS! Didn´t new about this one! Thanks for showing som history!

@proteque 10 ай бұрын

I suddenly remembered it one day. Tested it back then. No idea how I got it. maybe it was included on a CU Amiga or Amiga Format CD or something like that? luckily it is saved by the archive.org so you can find it there if you want to test it yourself!

@Grizaptimus 9 ай бұрын

It's always cool seeing what may have been, Keep up the good work

@boydpukalo8980 9 ай бұрын

Really cool. I was just reading about this OS the other day along with the Amiga history and all the Amiga users desperately looking for a path forward after Commodore imploded. Sadly this was not it. Amazing the resurgence of classic Amiga the last few years.

@proteque 9 ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more! It is a very alive community.

@f1lupo 2 ай бұрын

cool stuff! Thankfully the latest Amiga OS3.2 is the most stable one I’ve ever used

@proteque 2 ай бұрын

Quite cool that it still get updates.

@MaximumRD 9 ай бұрын

I definitely recall playing with p.OS as well on AMIGA back in the day and also thinking it was pretty good then I never heard anything else. I had not thought about it since until saw this video.

@proteque 9 ай бұрын

It was lost for me all those years as well. It was fun to revisit. It is on archive.org if you want to revisit yourself.

@LupusGr3y 9 ай бұрын

Directory Opus still exists for Windows

@proteque 9 ай бұрын

Ah nice. I don't use windows myself, but would check it out if I did. Thanx for telling.

@espenskog8745 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for this video of pOS. I was not aware of its existence, to be honest. It does look like it had borrowed a few things from Amiga OS :) I wonder -- was it able to run Amiga apps (system friendly ones) as well ?

@proteque 9 ай бұрын

From what I read it wasn't, so I did not try it. But now it annoys me that I didn't try it. Will give you an update after I give it a try :)

@Lucretia9000 8 ай бұрын

I'd forgotten about p.OS, I remember playing with it bitd, was it on a coverdisk or something? I don't remember much about it though. What CPU do you have in your A1200?

@proteque 8 ай бұрын

I have wondered where I got it from back then myself and concluded with it had to be a coverdisk from cu amiga og amiga format. The cpu I have in this Amiga is the new accelerator card pistorm. It runs a very very fast 68040. Faster than anything one could dream of in the 68k line back then.

@bobrandale4864 9 ай бұрын

Interesting OS concept. I DL'd the files I could find, but they only contain an ISO file which creates a DVD. I have no idea how to get a DVD readable on my Amiga; I only have floppy, Gotek, CD and "Amiga Explorer"... lol

@proteque 9 ай бұрын

Ah yes. I had the same problem. on my A1200 (which now has a pistorm in it) I have the SD card for OS image and the old CFCard for filestransfer. I formated the cfcard with the name pOS_Install and copied everything from the DVD onto that. Hope that helps you out a bit. If you dont have an additional drive for such things you could try to copy in everything with Amiga Eplorer and assign a folder with the content as pOS_Install. Mye guess is that that helps as well. (Like this: ASSIGN pOS_Install: DH1:path/to/pOS_install )