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Posted November 16, 2017
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Prah: Wow, I have found something more obscure than Linux users.
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PixelBoy: Wait until OS/2 users see this and a system war is at hand.
My godfather was a gung-ho OS/2 Warp fanatic, and tried to convert me to it as well.

I'm happy though I didn't because I have no idea where I'd be if I had converted, probably in some ground cellar using MacOS. I went with Windows 95 instead.

As many others, I find it surprising and in a way adorable that there is still an Amiga community (and I am not talking about retrogamers keeping old Amiga 500 machines still alive; heck I have WinUAE on my PC but I don't consider myself as an Amiga user anymore).

And I mean adorable in the most positive meaning, not meant to be condescending. I don't mean you Amiga users are cute or anything.
Posted November 16, 2017
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Outrun1978: I am wondering if anyone at www.gog.com is reading this and would consider helping Amiga OS4 users out. For those wondering Amiga users are still out there and the ones that are out there are using Amiga OS4 as their main OS along with new machines such as the AmigaOne X5000 machine that I am typing this from.

We have a number of games ported across to Amiga OS4 that require us to make use of the existing CD's for installation and use of the existing PC game files but given the age of some of the games, it is not always easy to find and this is where GOG is really good. Unfortunately due to the way that GOG operates its downloads, it is not possible to run the installation on Amiga OS4 and thus we have to use a PC and then move the files across.

So far I have been able to purchase the following games from GOG and use them with an Amiga OS4 executable file to have these run on my machine:

Quake III
Aliens Vs Predator
Return To Castle Wolfenstein
Descent Freespace2

There are other Amiga ports such as Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale so this is a good opportunity for GOG to make some money here out of Amiga users who have trouble finding the actual CD versions of these classic.

Is this something that GOG would consider supporting?
Out of interest, do you keep tamagotchis too?
Posted November 16, 2017
You guys don't have to be mean about this. :b
Post edited November 16, 2017 by SamyMerchi
Posted November 16, 2017
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Maighstir: We already have. We try to not be complete dicks about it though. (I try, but sometimes fail.)

EDIT: While I have discs for OS/2 Warp v3, I don't currently have it installed on a machine, and I don't have any of the current OS/2 offerings: eComStation and ArcaOS. I did install HaikuOS (modern iteration of BeOS) on a machine at work though.
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ZaineH: I envy you. I haven't had luck finding a decent OS/2 disc set. I should download Haiku and see how that'd work on an old laptop of mine. I've been waiting for R1 Beta since I got the laptop. :)
Count on not being able to go wireless, it's particularly picky on what WLAN chips it supports, even with the separate firmware pack. Also no support for the authentication to modern email services, so you likely won't be able to experience the interesting solution they have to email (when opening the e-mail application, the only thing you get is a compose window, everything else is done through the file manager).
Posted November 16, 2017
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PixelBoy: Wait until OS/2 users see this and a system war is at hand.
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timppu: My godfather was a gung-ho OS/2 Warp fanatic, and tried to convert me to it as well.

I'm happy though I didn't because I have no idea where I'd be if I had converted, probably in some ground cellar using MacOS. I went with Windows 95 instead.
Well OS/2 was a brilliant invention, in theory at least.
You could run DOS, Windows, and native OS/2 programs all within OS/2 with no emulators.

The only problems were of course that first there was no native OS/2 software to speak of, and running Windows software inside OS/2 took so much resources that it was a joke. A simple "worm eats an apple" kind of Windows game was painfully slow, more demanding applications even more so.


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nightcraw1er.488: Out of interest, do you keep tamagotchis too?
Not the guy who you asked, but anyway, those were nothing of interest really.
Nintendo Game&Watch on the other hand, that's the thing!

They were even rereleased as collections for Nintendo GameBoy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_%26_Watch_ports_and_remakes
Post edited November 16, 2017 by PixelBoy
Posted November 16, 2017
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SamyMerchi: You guys don't have to be mean about this. :b
We haven't been. The question was answered and we've moved onto discussing it.

This is common around here.

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PixelBoy: Wait until OS/2 users see this and a system war is at hand.
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timppu: My godfather was a gung-ho OS/2 Warp fanatic, and tried to convert me to it as well.
I got it when it first came out. Didn't see the hype with it all and most of the folks promoting it were of the "It's not windows!" niche.
Post edited November 16, 2017 by drmike
Posted November 18, 2017
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drmike: I was looking for a method of installing it on a VPS but haven't been able to find one. You could run it within a vm though if you want to just try it out.
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saldite: That was kind of my thought for now. I always like trying out different OSs, so I'll probably look into setting up some kind of VM to play around with.
If you buy a copy of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition for Classic - the version that's intended to run on 1990s-era Amiga hardware with PowerPC add-in cards - it's possible to run that in WinUAE.

It's 'not officially supported', but it's do-able. There's a guide right here.

(I haven't, because I have a Sam440ep-flex based Amiga.)
Posted February 05, 2025
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Outrun1978: I am wondering if anyone at www.gog.com is reading this and would consider helping Amiga OS4 users out.

Quake III
Aliens Vs Predator
Return To Castle Wolfenstein
Descent Freespace2

There are other Amiga ports such as Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale so this is a good opportunity for GOG to make some money here out of Amiga users who have trouble finding the actual CD versions of these classic.

Is this something that GOG would consider supporting?
Sorry for thread necromancy but this fits one recent issue
of mine…

Actually a good and easy solution would be to
ensure a version of the pc gamefiles using
.cab files and NOT innoextract is used.

.cab can be depacked on AmigaOS 4 direcly
(I am currently writing installer scripts for the
Cd/dvd versions of baldur’s gate etc to install
directly on AmigaOS, sady the gog version uses
innoextract .bin which cannot be depacked on
AmigaOS).
Posted February 05, 2025
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SteffenHaeuser: -weird formatting snip-
Hi. May I ask to what end you found a thread from over 2500 days ago?

What, pray tell are you attempting to accomplish with this? I understand the idea, but I'm not certain what you're even doing with these files on Amiga, which still currently requires a proprietary commercial ROM/kickstart to do anything with except stare at an expensive rare pumpkin.
Posted February 05, 2025
Pumpkin aside, wasn't the Amiga on a completely different 16-bit architecture. How could quake3 even run there?
Posted February 05, 2025
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MazDen: Pumpkin aside, wasn't the Amiga on a completely different 16-bit architecture. How could quake3 even run there?
A descendant chip of the legendary 68k and several custom chips, yes. Technically 32 bit, but handled as two concurrent 16 bit operations whenever that happened.

But yes, the Amiga was stymied by it's lack of ability to cast rays, much less render polys.
Posted February 06, 2025
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dnovraD: What, pray tell are you attempting to accomplish with this? I understand the idea, but I'm not certain what you're even doing with these files on Amiga
Using them with source ports, duh. How is it possible to not understand that?
which still currently requires a proprietary commercial ROM/kickstart to do anything with except stare at an expensive rare pumpkin.
Not even vaguely relevant to anything, which is 100% on-brand for you.

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MazDen: Pumpkin aside, wasn't the Amiga on a completely different 16-bit architecture. How could quake3 even run there?
This thread is talking about AmigaOS 4, which runs on PowerPC. This stuff was done ages ago and is not in question; the OP was asking for GOG to specifically package stuff so that the files are easily accessible on AmigaOS, rather than having to acquire a physical disk and copy files from that. You know, for the two people who would actually find that useful. (Back in 2017; these days I'd guess it's one or zero.)
Posted February 06, 2025
My bad, I'm not very familiar with this platform and only now found out about the existence of AmigaOS4/PowerPC. I'm even surprised that according to Wikipedia the last release was not that long ago.

In any case, sorry for the off-topic.
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