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The article says that the AmigaOS as developed by Commodore. This is not quite correct. The Amiga and the early version of the OS was developed by the Amiga, Inc company, headed up by Dave Hayne and others who created this killer computer. Commodore bought out the technology from the and hired them, of course. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LordAlveric (talk • contribs) 06:38, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
Dave Haynie never worked at Amiga, he worked at Commodore and styarted working on Amiga when commodore bought it. Revener (talk) 20:02, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
The current article states 'subsequent Amiga models all used ROM chips' [following the A1000] in relation to Kickstart.
However, I remember that the Amiga 3000 also required such a Kickstart disk. Can anyone confirm? Thanks!
The A3000 did not require kickstarter disks, at least after you had everything installed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LordAlveric (talk • contribs) 06:35, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
(This is relevant to a different Wikipedia article). I have the statement in front of me that, when a program terminates in AmigaOS, memory assigned by the program is not freed, and that it is therefore vital for the program to release all memory that it asked for, otherwise it is permanently "leaked". Is this the case? Notinasnaid 10:48, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your replies. The reason for the question relates to a discussion I've been having on memory leak. I'm going to post a question which is very subjective, but maybe there's a consensus. The article includes "In modern operating systems, normal memory used by an application is released when the application terminates". Part of the debate is over whether this is really true, and whether it should say "In some operating systems...". The leading question is: is AmigaOS a "modern operating system"? A supplementary dispute, where it says "The application assumes that the request for memory has succeeded, and continues on this basis. This will typically result in an access violation but in some cases may result in damaging information belonging to this or (in primitive systems) some other application." Should this have "some systems" in place of "primitive systems"? Thanks in advance. Notinasnaid 19:44, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
Comment: Now, there shall be havy change to mainpage :-) Sources: Amiga World News Hyperion news
Leuven, Belgium, 24 December 2006.
Hyperion-entertainment is very pleased to announce the immediate availability (for registered AmigaOne customers) of Amiga OS 4.0, The Final Update.
Originally released in May of 2004, Amiga OS 4.0 (www.amigaos4.com) is the most stable, modern and feature-rich incarnation to date of the multi-media centric operating system launched by Commodore Business Machines (CBM) in 1985 with which it still retains a high degree of compatibility.
Amiga OS 4.0, The Final Update is the culmination of 5 years of development and takes the form of a stand-alone ISO image which contains a full installation of all Amiga OS 4.0 components.
A list of new features can be found here .
Availability of PowerPC hardware suitable for operation with Amiga OS 4.0 will be announced by third parties early 2007.
The Hyperion Entertainment management would like to take this opportunity to wish all our customers and supporters a pleasant holiday season!
Links: Amiga OS4 Hyperion Amiga section
--Rastavox 22:59, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
In other articles the OS is depicted with a "non-personalized" screenshot taken after the first boot of the newest version. The current screenshot has a background image, AmigaAMP and other details I'm sure are not present after the first boot.
Anyone with AOS 4.0, or if not that - AOS 3.9, willing to upload such a screenshot? --Anss123 17:03, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for that, Mdwh. Let's use a reduced version of that image in the article. But first we need to pick which size to use. Here's the image as a thumbnail (size depends on user preferences) and at quarter size.
BTW, the wikisyntax for these is:
[[Image:Amigaos3_9b.png|thumb|Image as thumbnail]] [[Image:Amigaos3_9b.png|thumb|256px|Image scaled to quarter-size]]
Using "[[Image:Amigaos3_9b.png|none]]" would insert the full-sized image in the normal text flow, which is Not a Good Idea.
See Wikipedia:Extended image syntax for more details. (Here's a point which confused me: "|frame|" always uses the original image size. If you want a border and a caption on a scaled image, you have to use "|thumb|Npx|" — the "|thumb|" specifies scaling with a caption and a border, and the "|Npx|" specifies the size, overriding the thumbnail size from the user's preferences.)
Something else I've learned: "[[:Image:Amigaos3_9b.png]]" links to the image page Image:Amigaos3_9b.png rather than inserting the image.
We can use other sizes, too. 320px or 400px might be good. What do other editors think? Cheers, CWC 07:47, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
There was a recent addition to this section "and was developed by RJ Mical[4], the creator of the Amiga's Intuition user interface." with regard to the statement "The operating system of the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer bore a very strong resemblance to AmigaOS". First, I believe the statement in and of itself needs a reference or it should be removed from the article. Second, I don't think that a persons resume can be used as a valid source in this case. I don't doubt that RJ Mical was the creator of Amiga's Intuition user interface, but a more reliable source needs to be cited to prove this fact. So there are 2 references needed for this statement now. To be honest, the whole article seems to need a lot of references added.Game Collector 11:54, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
So now there has been a second reference added to the statement, also which comes from a source that has not been proven to be a reliable source of information.[2]Game Collector 14:23, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
The article states that multiple, draggable screens are a Workbench feature. Surely these are a core AmigaOS feature? They're present before Workbench loads.
Zeem.uk (talk) 11:41, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
I've rewritten the bit about ARP because it incorrectly stated that it was only possible to interface with AmigaDOS from BCPL. In fact it was not only possible to do so, it was done regularly by early Amiga programmers. However because BCPL uses an unusual addressing scheme (storing pointers not as machine addresses but as so-called BPTRs, which are scaled according to the BCPL location size chosen by the language implementor) it was notoriously difficult to do. It was easy to cause chaos by sending AmigaDOS a C pointer where it expected a BPTR (and Amigas had no memory protection....) This is why ARP was born--to provide a C interface to existing kernel functions. --Tony Sidaway 14:51, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
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There are too many external links. Some links could and should be moved to OS4 article. There are also too many links to developer sites (utilitybase should be enough) and why there are links to non-english sites? They are not used as a reference in this article. 01:12, 23 November 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xorxos (talk • contribs)
This was placed on Metadata, but is too OS-specific. Please feel free to include it on this article,.:
AmigaOS stored metadata in sections of data files called "chunks" or deep into specific "hunks" that form the structure of executable files (Hunks), where are stored for example the file comments, the owner of the file (not mandatory in AmigOS), the tool that originated the data file (again not mandatory), or in parallel the metadata can also be stored into separated files named ".info" which contain not only metadata, but also various other informations needed to the data file or to the program itself, such as the options available for the executable file, the minimum stack of RAM to run the program, and also the bitmaps images that phisically represent the icon on desktop.
For some reason the PDF creator creates this article without images. Other articles are created fine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.130.121.48 (talk) 16:23, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
We have article for AmigaOS 4, but not for releases 1.x, 2.x and 3.x - in comparison, every major Windows version has its own article (same for Mac OS 7/8/9). However, as there are more articles concerning various AmigaOS versions (this general article about AmigaOS, AmigaOS versions article, AmigaOS 4 article, AmigaOS 4 versions article, Workbench (AmigaOS) article etc.), I will rather not start another one without input of other editors.
I created "demo version" of possible AmigaOS 3 article on my sandbox page (most of informations is referenced, quality of sources is not ideal, but sufficient I think):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pavlor/sandbox2
I have this idea: If there is consensus for separate articles for AmigaOS generations, I will proceed with creation of OS1.x and 2.x articles on my sandbox page and then present these here for final review before creation of actual Wikipedia articles.
Your opinion? Pavlor (talk) 07:25, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
After nearly one year... I did some progress with my idea. AmigaOS 3 article is complete and I will try to publish it via AfC. Many thanks to all, who "anglicized" my text. Feel free to make other changes. Next: articles about OS 2.x and 1.x, then get rid of AmigaOS versions and trim the AmigaOS/Versions. Pavlor (talk) 06:52, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
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Before an edit war starts, please discuss pros and cons here. In case anyone is interested I'll be glad to point out why I think Amiga OS uses a microkernel. --Zac67 (talk) 06:39, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
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Please stop vandalizing the article with outdated information. The latest AmigaOS release is 3.1.4 not 4.1FE. This can easily be checked by simply going to Hyperion's website. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A442:581E:1:E393:6D91:F2C9:8D80 (talk) 05:32, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
I see we're now on AmigaOS 3.2 and yet this article still incorrectly thinks 4.1FE is the latest.