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Been waiting for this for a few years now, looking forward to putting my Video Toaster set up back together and doing some videos with it for emulation (was going to pipe in old composite computers through it so I could then use some old school VT effects!
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I think that's right. 3.5 is for 68K systems like the original Amigas; 4.1 is for the PPC line, which I believe is entirely a fan initiative.
Last edited by wvstolzing on 15 May 2021 at 12:08 pm UTC
Perhaps you are thinking about Workbench 3.5 which was released in 1999?
edit: No you are correct. Another company Haage & Partner got a license for AmigaOS in 1999 and release v3.5 that required a 68020. Later Hyperion Entertainment forked the older 3.1 and released 3.1.4 and now 3.2 based on the 3.1 port and the new 3.2 requires a normal 68000 again so that you can run it on you A500.
Last edited by F.Ultra on 15 May 2021 at 1:22 pm UTC
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Haage & Partner released 3.5 and 3.9.
So confusingly we have, 1.3-3.1 from Commodore. 3.1.4.x and 3.2 from Hyperion, 3.5 and 3.9 from H&P, and 4.x from Hyperion (which requires a PPC, and select hardware, and is much older than 3.2 which was just announced).
Also to confuse matters, it sounds like 3.2 will be distributed as a physical CD-ROM initially, that includes images for all of the ROM files (I think from 1.3-3.2 and for all the different systems including experimental updates for the CDTV and CD32). Then later they'll sell individual systems' updates as digital downloads (like they did for 3.1.4). Also sounds like the full floppy disk version of 3.2 would be on 28 floppies (compared to 6 for 3.1.x).
I figure I'll have to order the CD, and then program my own EEPROMs. Either way, they added resizable windows from any border! Such a feature is standard everywhere else, but was a 'hack' for the AmigaOS :P
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The Amiga is an amazing platform. At least the Vampire Standalone is finally encouraging more open source development with ApolloOS (which is an evolution of Aros).
I say it is time to pull those Amigas out (check all the capacitors / batteries) and fire them up!
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Yeah really confusing, my only guess is that the source to 3.5 and 3.9 is lost which is why they forked 3.1 since the source for 3.1 was leaked years ago. Just wish they could have used better naming / version scheme.
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1.x to 3.1 were Commodore releases
3.X (yeah that's the actual version) is owned by Cloanto (who makes Amiga Forever)
3.5 and 3.9 are owned by Haage & Partner, who no longer have rights to make more versions(?)
3.1.4.x and 3.2 are owned by Hyperion.
The above are all 68k releases. With 3.5 and 3.9 having some PPC support.
4.x is fully PPC, and has some pretty strict requirements.
This is without going into things like MorphOS and AROS/ApolloOS.
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But I may be wrong. The last 20 years have been an absolute mess.
Last edited by Dunc on 19 May 2021 at 3:03 am UTC