Website Simulates Amiga OS 45
cyclomedia writes "The Decibel Kid — the "AudioVisual Artist" responsible for last summer's Ipswich Zelda Map — has unveiled his new website. Modeled on Amiga OS it supports changing the wallpaper, window dragging, resizing, minimizing, and that z-index shuffle button. The mobile site is a completely different beast, modeling itself as a low-res LCD."
There's even a drum machine. If you're pining for the "real" thing, there's always UAE (if you can find a ROM). Update: 03/05 15:45 GMT by U L : polyp2000 pointed out a better simulation, and a simulation of Workbench 1.5.
Woah! (Score:3)
That's Inception, right there.
Can you play (Score:2)
Can you play Pete Wisemans Klondike on it?
Say did you know that Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry are still developing Directory OPus (for windows, now up to version 11.
It started off as Shareware for the Amiga (V2 was on Fish Disk 212)
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Can you play Pete Wisemans Klondike on it?
Say did you know that Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry are still developing Directory OPus (for windows, now up to version 11.
It started off as Shareware for the Amiga (V2 was on Fish Disk 212)
Because of DOpus on the Amiga, I own a copy of it on my windows. Very much used piece of software. In fact, probably the only piece of software I've used for over 20 years on various machines (and of course, various versions).
That's cool (Score:2)
This is new ? (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.taws.ch/WB.html [www.taws.ch]
http://www.chiptune.com/?again... [chiptune.com]
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Uh and do not forget a somewhat accurate emulator of the early Amiga OS, source below:
<h1>Guru meditation #000001321.8378471<\h1>
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Where's the CSS to make it black/red? Your emulation is foobar'ed.
Re:This is new ? (Score:4, Funny)
Black/red is my default browser theme, is it not the same over there? Try reformatting.
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I've noticed a lot of software guys who love to type "foobar" where they apparently mean "FUBAR" the military slang. I've not figured out if this is intentional, or if they've been so ingrained with "foo" and "bar" from their college days that they just can't tear themselves away from it?
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In my case, it was the K&R C books with foo and bar. But I'm also aware of FUBAR and what the acronym means......but I find foobar to be more "friendly", so when I don't want to insult someone per se, I'll use the foobar version. If I want to lambast someone, I'll use FUBAR (I also capitalize them as I've done in this post, so FUBAR is akin to yelling, too).
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I've not figured out if this is intentional, or if they've been so ingrained with "foo" and "bar" from their college days that they just can't tear themselves away from it?
I've noticed a lot of people who write statements, but then put question marks on the end. It's a bit confusing?
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Ah, I see how you've got confused, but no, because what I was doing there was deliberately overstating the problem for comic effect and to draw attention to the admittedly tenuous irony inherent in your post.
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Also for someone who want to run it today:
http://vmwaros.blogspot.se/ [blogspot.se]
If using UAE is your thing, baby:
http://aiab.ultimateamiga.co.u... [ultimateamiga.co.uk]
I'm waiting till 2055 (Score:3)
.. so I can obtain a public domain ROM and use UAE legally. Or maybe I have to wait for 70 years after the last author of the ROM is dead, I dont know much how copyright on software expires.
Re:I'm waiting till 2055 (Score:4, Informative)
Or maybe I have to wait for 70 years after the last author of the ROM is dead, I dont know much how copyright on software expires.
It doesn't. New legislation will ensure it.
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Or spend a few bucks on Amiga Forever and not have that problem?
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Or spend a few bucks on Amiga Forever and not have that problem?
Or you could stop fucking around with a dead platform and move on with your life.
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Not really, no.
Perhaps I'm just jealous that I don't have enough time to fuck around with dead platforms, but I doubt it.
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move on with your life.
Move on to what? Berating strangers on the internet for having hobbies?
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Hey! (Score:2)
They have one of those for Windows, [windowsrea...dition.com] too!
That's nice, dear (Score:2)
It's pretty, but I can't even drag down the menu bar to reveal the second workbench behind it. And after playing around with the site for a few minutes I never saw a Guru Meditation Error.
Legal ROMs for emulators (Score:2)
You can buy licenses at
http://www.amigaforever.com/sy... [amigaforever.com]
You can also buy legit ROM licenses for Android based emulators at
https://play.google.com/store/... [google.com]
The open-source AmigaOS-alike named AROS includes their own ROM equivalents now as well. (Be careful! WinUAE has old ROM included, Aros Vision needs newer ones (included in directiry “boot” of the distribution))
http://www.natami-news.de/html... [natami-news.de]
Like Cyberduck (Score:1)
That's kind of neat. It is almost as functional as the same concept done by Cyberduck about a decade ago. The Cyberduck site let you actually drag icons around, single click to select, double click to open. I guess I was expecting more when I went to this site, but it's still okay.
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There's been a website emulating an Acorn Archimedes for ages. Which is a far more interesting machine IMHO.
Than an Amiga? Come now, the Archimedes was pretty vanilla hardware for its day -- it was basically a glorified Apple II with an ARM chip in terms of capability. In comparison, the Amiga's hardware was a generation leap ahead, and its OS was far more modern.
This is A Good Thing (Score:1)