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OMG, I've waited for this! I was SO worried litigation from Clonato would make all the work by Thomas Richter & Co. go to waste on the finishing line. It's rema
by jug 5y ago
OMG, I've waited for this! I was SO worried litigation from Clonato would make all the work by Thomas Richter & Co. go to waste on the finishing line. It's remarkable how litigations are still a thing with the Amiga brand. I don't understand how the profits for the winning party is expected to be greater than the lawyer costs.
- pantalaimon 5y agoI'm amazed that it can be profitable to still develop an OS for those machines!
- jug 5y agoThat too, hahaha! There must be a small, tightly knit but rich/supportive community still there.
- xyproto 5y agoI think it's also useful for legally running an Amiga emulator?
- icedchai 5y agoI'd be surprised if it's profitable. Maybe a labor of love. I've been an Amiga fan since the late 80's. It was my favorite machine. Nothing quite has had the magic of booting up games like Shadow of the Beast or Blood Money. The Amiga was truly a quantum leap.
- dumbfounder 5y agoShadow of the Beast was one of the most impossibly hard games to play of all time. But that sounds and music.
- icedchai 5y agoThe parallax scrolling was incredible for 1989. Nothing was quite like it.
- vidarh 5y agoAnd the intros. I spent more than me watching the intro sequences and listening to the music than playing the game. Got a bunch of remixes of it.
- Narishma 5y agoA lot of games from that era on the Amiga were like that, great in the audio-visual department but with terrible gameplay.
- jboy55 5y agoIf you ever played that series, you know this music, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDO6__ya6B0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDO6__ya6B0 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKHecxVDEts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKHecxVDEts . I'm surprised they were only 37 seconds long, it often felt like it was minutes (maybe that was just the disk crunching loading the music).
- ndiddy 5y agoAFAIK the company that sells this owns the rights to the Amiga OS and has unpaid volunteer(s) actually doing the work on the OS, so it is profitable.
- takeda 5y agoI used Amiga with Amiga OS 3.1. I'm puzzled though, because I heard there was Amiga OS 3.5, 3.9, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2. How come now it's 3.2?
- LeoPanthera 5y agoThis comment explains the confusing mess of branches: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27159553 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27159553
- takeda 5y agoThanks, I should scroll further down before asking then I would also see it.