Please make version for 2019

Looking forward to "Why use an Amiga in 2014?"

So basically what I got out of this video was the only reason you use amigaOS or any of the variants is because it gives you a warm nostalgic feeling?

Dan I truly love this video, the best part of it truly is that a site in 2021 for the first time congrats man

Very nice video. I am glad you are still enjoying Amiga world like I used to :) Great old times! :) :) :)

I would just like to say it is a fantastic video, and that’s from somebody who sought for the first time in 2021. It is still worth watching for quality well done Dan

Buddy!!! You're video's are the most concise anybody has seen on KZfaq! Trust on that! You're doing a fab job! Keep up the good work! Best Wishes!!!

Really appreciate you posting this vid. Great to see someone is still using Amiga!

Interesting video. Thanks for filming and uploading it. The software content has piqued my interest sufficiently that I'm going to follow the links you've included. And I like the hardware content too. The eclectic mix of hardware (case, keyboard, etc) to produce such a sleek set-up scores major 'cool' points! Good to see someone following their own path. Kudos to you! :-)

Loved Hired Guns. One guy on joystick, another on keyboard, third one on mouse... All looking at a 14" CRT. Priceless.

This is a great video. Subscribed, and liked it as well. Keep 'em coming, and I'll keep watching.

I used to write 6502 code for the Atari and 680x0 code for the Amiga back in the 80's, and it's amazing to be able to run these systems today, whether on new hardware or under emulation. And tempting to write apps and games for these legacy platforms, just for fun.

Best 30 mins I've spent all week, thank you! THANK YOU!

Ah yes, Dir.Opus and Protracker, that brings it all back. Cheers for the video mate, very interesting stuff!

I had no idea there was still an Amiga scene or that there is a up-to-date Amiga OS. Thanks for the video!

A better title to this video would have been; "Why use a modernized Amiga Operating System from a long ago obsolete computer on relatively recent Apple Macintosh hardware in the year 2011, yet, ultimately, I'm never going to explain why....". =)

Excellent work! Well done. Your fans LOVE these videos.

Any chance of an up to date AROS review video now you've used it more? I'm interested in it

@Gefrce I've used AmigaOS since around 1991 and it's the OS I feel most comfortable with, understand the most and above all, enjoy using. There's not much it can do that my PC/Mac can't, except run some apps I like, and let me be involved in the community. It's just a hobby really these days.

my old installs remain too - thanks for this video man watched intently

Really great, informative video! Gives people an insight into why people still use and love Amiga OS (and variants). Especially people that might have never heard of them.

Fantastic video! Thank you for this. It feels great to know there are true Amiga-heads like us out there. I really enjoyed the detail and articulated explanation of your experiences. Also, I must find one of those white Eyetech cases! That AmigaONE machine of yours is really something. I can't wait for the X1000 as well. Anyway, Well done sir. Amiga Forever :)

This is a really random question but do you know if the amiga boing ball keyboards and mice they sell at amigakit work on pc's running windows or linux?

WOW thanks so much for this. I bought my A500 in the late 80's moved up to an Amiga2000 & used that for years before I reluctantly gave it up for Windows 95 sigh! I had been following the Amiga since up until maybe 2 years ago so this was a nice surprise almost brought me to tears (of joy) I just got e-mail from an old Amiga buddy and we are planning a meeting with like minded friends. That prompted me to poke around the Amiga scene again & I found you. Now I gotta check more of your videos.

love this video, I cant believe its back and so much better looking cant wait to load my g4 up

Which of these operating systems are shipped with a package manager? (which connects online to download applications?)..and if not, is this on its way?

Amiga as OS is pretty cool to watch how it behaves and works still in these days and how compatible it is, so huge thumbs up!

Very, very nice, thank you for the details and the comparison between morphos and os4 when running classic 68k apps. I have one question: Does the 68k classic app ¨Deluxe Music 2" (Electronic Arts) run on the AmigaOne X1000 under os4 ? I spent many hours getting it up to run on MorphOS2.7 on my PowerMac but it will freeze when the system is trying to output the sound, also it has some gui errors. I assume this is because the app has no AHI option, only the original Paula sound. cheers

Thank you techguruuk. Oh the memories.... and all the things I forgot I loved about the Amiga :)

Really enjoyed this video. Could you advise what screenmode you are running on your A1200 into you HDTV? Thanks.

When you were talking about the fact that Amiga OSes are mostly compatible with each other (Including AROS) were you talking about all of them or those just in the PowerPC range? As in will stuff like the x86 version of AROS work with MorphOS and Amiga OS 4 Compatible software or will only the PowerPC version of AROS work with MorphOS and Amiga OS 4 software?

@vudarksky I've used Ubuntu since 2004, what's your point?

Had great time watching the video. Thank you !

interesting stuff, i still have a couple of basic amiga (in the loft). does the aros (PC) based os (or even the morph one) run the WHD load games like the real hardware? or do the apps u did demo get recompiled for aros/morph...

Do these OS's read and run ADF files natively? Possible to connect an Amiga external floppy drive to either of them in any way?

Brilliant video, thanks for mentioning Aros. I hope to get my X1000 soon as well.

Really nice video. Thumbs up :) btw, what resolution is the A1200 running? Remember trying to run Hi Res Laced back in the day, but you would get a headache in 10min because of all the flickering, So usually used the VGAonly driver (or what it was called). But on your video your screen doesnt seem to flicker at all, and you're using ordinary PAL.

such a nice video and so interesting. Do you mind if I play your vids on my TV station? I never had a chance to experience this, but always wanted to. I saw a cool music composition program in about 1990 and played on a friends comp for only a few minutes.

Yeah I've tried doing videos that way, only thing is it's very difficult to see if text on the screen is actually in focus on my tiny view-finder.

Very nice video! I noticed you are using a rgb-cable for connecting your 1200 to a samsung LCD display. Do you notice any flickering? I have hooked up my 500 to a 26" samsung lcd screen using the same cable - still have some flickering going on. Any idea why?

You didn't really explain why one would use this. Does it have any advantages over a modern Linux Distribution?

Does it use the old mac approach of the double fork file, where the file type is lost on a non Amiga partition (or being emailed without first being "wrapped")?

@techguruuk I have Snow leopard on my Mac Mini and can run PPC apps just fine. Have they scrapped this for Lion?

I know this video is kinda old :) but I miss my A600 that I have owned back in the days so Im thinking of getting A1200 and I've got few questions. Hopefully you will find a time to respond. First of all I know you have said that these OS's require PPC but is there any chance to make them work on standard A1200 or A1200 + ACA if not what about let's say A600 + Vampire? The other question is which Amiga emulator is the best for PC in your opinion?

Responsiveness does not equal raw processing power. Windows may run at a decent speed, but only because it's not optimized and the programmers just "throw the hardware at it" to coin an old expression. AmigaOS was originally designed to run on a 1mb 7mhz 68000, while it's had a fair bit added to it over the last decade or so, its optimized roots are still there. An Amiga operating system in my experience is ALWAYS more responsive to user actions than any Windows PC I've ever used.

Was that a Blender Icon i saw in the Amiga OS 4.1 in the Taskbar?is there a compiled version of it for Amiga OS?

Does the morph OS run on a beige g3 mac or the original Imac?What about 603e macs? I have a few of each of these machines and it might be interesting to try it.

I love that Amiga OS 4.1 workbench desktop background you have in the video from 3:30 to 5:45. You mention it is a custom workbench desktop background. Where can we get that, even if not to use on our Amiga? Can you post it somewhere? Thanks.

can you install MORPH OS on the amiga forever amgia 4000 ppc?

Wow man - this took me back to my childhood days. I'm considering getting some PPC Macs and installing AmigaOS on those. Thanks for the idea :)

I love that a British guy is so in love with Amiga, because I could listen to you say "Amiger" all day and it wouldn't be less funny. Seriously though, good vid man, keep it up, it's interesting to see someone so involved with AmigaOS in this day and age. I could never do it myself. Maybe on one computer, like a portable web browser or something, but to be stuck with old

is there a possibility to run flash videos with amiga os4? guess not right ? i really would think about buying on again if! :)

I was wondering as xbox360 is using a nice PowerPC CPU and as it features a nice Open Source and legal bootloader, could it be possible to use AmigaOS or MorphOS on an xbox360 ??

Are 68k apps which depend on AGA,OCS,ECS will work under AmigaOS 4.1?

I will buy Amigas in the future, but also I wonder about your HD camera. I am also shopping for HD camera. What type of HD camera is it?

I have to compliment on a rarity in this type of video. Ironically, the typically aggressive stance the Amiga fanbase takes to its promotion style was a key motivator in what deterred me from the platform in the eighties. Taking a clinical outlook and illustrating with verifiable facts is a lot more convincing.

cool vid :-) .... good to see all the old stuff work well aswell....heard some news other day that development of x1000 boards were in beta test with 4.1...

Lots of people that cannot understand why you would use an Amiga today. I struggle with that too, but I think it is the fun factor, along with doing something different. And just look at this video, 286K views(!) which means that people surely are interested in this. I really like that white glossy Commodore gaming case with the smallish Amiga logo, very stylish!

Would you happen to have a copy of UBOOT 1.0.0 ISO?

Oh, whdload installs actually work? I mean, how did you connect the Amiga to the LCD? My Amiga 1200 connected via VGA shows a black screen when games start. Always thought you needed a multisync monitor accepting 15 khz or something.

Is there an Amiga distribution that runs on x86_64? I know I could get the X86 AROS, but would it support all of my RAM?

love the chuckle after showing the clock

Hi, I have a ibook g4. what do you think I can run on it in the amiga arena? 1.33ghz g4, with 1.25gigs of ram.

If I remember correctly MUI is short "Magical User Interface" and was originally an extension for Workbench, right?

Hey, how did you get the speech synthesis on OS 3.9? I thought they discontinued it from 2.1 on. I remember that was one of the big selling points of the original Amigas.

Dose anyone know if there is a way to spoof Amiga OS to run on a PowerPC system , Are do i need to use MorphOS , Also can you cluster with Amiga?

@nannynicky4life Can you choose what system you booting? OS X or Linux? Leopard do fine with G4 800 MHZ and FireWire.

Hi very nice video, unfortunately amiga machines, even vintage one are so expensive and hard to find , but is it true that it is possible to install amiga v 4 or 4.1 on a MAC G4 PPC in order to play amiga games on it ? I spent some time looking for amiga 3000/4000 but with no luck.

how does the Amiga Menubar / multi-desktop function on multiple monitors (multi-head). big fan of the amiga/mac menu scheme

Fascinating. I've not used an Amiga since my A500 days and had no idea about the more modern OS variants. Great to see Hired Guns though - oh the memories!

can you run native amiga apps on the aros version (eg - does it emulate 68xxxx?)

this video single handedly made me want an amiga machine..great video

I FEEL SOOO OLD!!!!!!! I miss my Amigas........... :(

greetings from west yorkshire , i wish to meet you mate :D

so is the amiga ur using is the hardware or is it just software? is the OS prone to viruses? is it open source like linux?

I'm really curious about why you use this hardware/software combination (your machine running OS 4). Does it having something that the mainstream systems are lacking? I hope you can answer, thanks for a very interesting video.

@techguruuk where can i get a computer that can run it i am having trouble find where

@sqned You can, I was mistaken, oops. They added context menus to allow this in 4.1.2 it seems.

So in summary, the reasons for having an Amiga in our time and age are nostalgia, nostalgia, and nostalgia. If you aren't an Amiga nostalgic, there apparently are no reasons at all. I'm disappointed. :(

Best regards from another active Amiga user ;o) Nice presentation.

Would be good to do a video of AmigaSYS I took the install of this under Amiga Forever and tried it add .hdf to FS-UAE expecting same result on Mac, however all i got was garbage screen of icons/screen . ... Perhaps i need 68040 bump instead, and/or Picasso RTG support??

@tft666 I run PAL hi-res laced, but my screen has a built in flicker-fixer, so no flicker :)

before MP3 there was a program called Cube that would play tiny media file that would play the song with out voice , it was huge before mp3 , some did even have voice later on , I am guessing it was some more of midi , anyone know the name?

How did you achived so stable screen on video? what was the refresh rate? :-)

hey is it possible to install the actual amiga os on a pc and not an emulated version?

Can any of the OS's you mentioned in video play games natively or do they have to use emulation as well like via non-Amiga OS?

Yeah, I did try that, unfortunately it's hard to tell if the screen is in focus on a tiny view-finder, I had to re-record the video due to it actually being out of focus with manual. Hey-ho

Yes it's fantastic! I now use it with an Indivision AGA II as well, it has HDMI, S-Video, Scart, RGB, DVI, Component, Composite, every connector I can think of to connect all my classic machines. Also has a built in flicker fixer too, looks nice and sharp. Highly recommend it

With the new Amiga OS running on a mac would you be able to run and play the original native classic Amiga games?? I'm not talking Emulation either..

What fascinates me is how compatible it is with older Amiga stuff. It's nice that people are preserving the past like this.

@robertkalisz Try WinUAE or Amiga Forever for a preconfigured set up

@MrBarrelson Unfortunately not, only minis, powermacs and emacs iirc. I think the iMac has nvidea graphics and MOS only has drivers for Radeons.

I'm curious could you play modern games using these operating systems. Like say the Elder scrolls skyrim or oblivion, or other odern games?

@usquanigo I am aware you can play mods on other platforms of course. Mac keyboards have not had Apple keys on them since 2008, they just have a key with CMD written on it, no logos anywhere on them apart from the label underneath. Run on Windows is not the same as the RAM Disk, windows simply downloads the file to the Temp directory on the hard disk, they stay in there afterwards to until you/the system does a clean up, so they still take up disk space.

@syner79 Hey. it runs using the inbuilt JIT compiler, it's a 68K app but it will just run seamlessly in OS4, no emulation required. It's like using the fastest classic machine you could find.

Love the AmigaOS 4, it's a fun to use operating system.

@djrikki2008 You know what, you're right! My mistake, just realised you can do this from the context menus in 4.2.1. I take that back then, just assumed it was the way it had always been from the Icons menu.

@walter0bz Sadly there is no port

I need to watch this more in depth (got some errends to run) but power PC died out in 05. So basically what we have to do is get a hold of an old G5 to be able to get Amiga OS to run?

Great Work mate! Hopefully Amiga will never die!