Amiga still alive and kicking

In news that will warm the hearts of old-school Amiga lovers, I discovered today that the not only is the AmigaOS still being updated but that the final version of AmigaOS 4 has been released.

Now, I was never a Commorodore or Amiga man myself. In the heady days of the C64 I was busy faffing about with an Amstrad CPC 464 (with green monochrome monitor and tape deck! Woot!) and I never did own an Amiga. However, all that I have read since those days indicates that the AmigaOS was one bitchin' operating system which had an untimely and messy demise.

The down side to the AmigaOS release is that it can only be used on the PowerPC based AmigaOne motherboard which, apparently, is on a production hiatus (although more may be released this year).

That makes this a strange class of random news - if you have an AmigaOne system, you probably already know this. If you don't have an AmigaOne system, this news is no good to you anyway (unless it stirs up some loin-lifting nostalgia for your systems of old). However, it does make it perfect news for some random geekery.

Found via Ars Technica [permalink]