| From: | Andreas Mixich |
| Date: | 12 Aug 2000 at 10:25:32 |
| Subject: | AOS3.5 (slightly OT ;-)) (was Re: reliable filetype recognition needed) |
Hello Donald
On 06-Aug-00, you wrote:
DD> To keep this ARexx related, I just heard that there will be no further
DD> AOS 3.5 development, so I guess that's it for anythiing new related to
DD> ARexx, if true.
I know, that Haage&Partner had a project in the works named StormREXX.
I have seen a screenshot and it was due to release in Summer a few years
ago ;-)
I have asked them twice, but got no reply.
StormRexx (as reported in a german Amiga magazine) was supposed to be
compatible with the existing ARexx, a StormC like dev-environment
and (!) a compiler. This would have been nice in AOS3.5 as well, especially
since the developing company is the same.
I never believed in OS3.5, though, I hoped, when only 3.1 existed, that an
update would be done. But this update too much has the spirit of an
application, than an OS update (nice icons, little stuff here, little stuff
there, some good steps into the right direction, I think it has an
email.library, new GUI system [sadly its not MUI], but nothing really
serious, that would give the "Classic" a drive into the future).
I have heard, they even did not implement many of the existing patches, which
make the system unstable, if 'patched'.
I still have to run such bastards like MCP, because the new OS does not
support some of the most Amiga'ish things. (Cruncher patch, which makes
named applications being able to read XPK- or PP files and stuff, activate
on wb-title, are just two reasons which would fit into an OS update, IMO.
The cruncher patch even would not have to be a patch. It could be built
right into the filesystem I believe.)
A clever window/screen browsing by keyboard, as offered by MagicCX, i.e.
etc. etc. etc.
I am still not able to use my Amiga as a more complex Internet machine,
because of the missing MultiUser filesystem, a thing, that is needed since
many years.
It is just frustrating. And now, they won't "Open Source" the OS. They
instead let it die ?! If it is no commercial success for them any more, why
taking it away from those, for whom it would be a "private success" to
continue using the Amiga there, where it still is the machine of choice ?
I have invested a lot of money over the years and am able to accomplish
tasks very nicley on the Amiga. I would have been glad to get a polished up
AmigaOS, discontinued, but stabilized and perfectionated for the years I
will continue it in some cases, and if just with UAE or (hopefully) an Amiga
on a PCI-Card.
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