Talk:AmigaOS version history

Dates missing

Release dates are missing!!#!

Yes, add dates please. Marko75 (talk) 00:34, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

I agree. This article is severely lacking in the release dates department. JettaMann (talk) 15:57, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

What the hell is going on?

There are now three separate pages for AmigaOS. This one, AmigaOS and AmigaOS (Workbench). As well as the main article at Amiga. Someone needs to clean all this up. Seriously. 59.167.243.34 (talk) 00:40, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Workbench covers the GUI. AmigaOS gives a general overview, leaving this article to detail differences that came with each version. Inevitably there's some crossover and perhaps things could be improved to avoid repetition - are there any specific issues you can see? A similar thing is done for other OSs (e.g., Finder (software), Mac OS and History of Mac OS). Mdwh (talk) 02:04, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Hopefully it got clearer with the new Amiga templates, see Amiga. Marko75 (talk) 00:34, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

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Fair use rationale for Image:Amiga Workbench v1.4b1 rev 36.8.png

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Intelligent memory paging was removed from AmigaOS 4.1 features. Why?

It is major improvement in the development of AmigaOS. AmigaOS 4.1 is the first AmigaOS version that implements feature called paging/swapping/disk based memory etc.

New memory system introduced in AmigaOS 4.0 Final (12/2006) supports this feature, but it was NOT implemented until AmigaOS 4.1 (testing, compatibility reasons..). AmigaOS 4.0 July 2007 Update doesn´t support paging/swapping/disk based memory (as originally stated in the article).

In my point of view, most prominent AmigaOS 4.1 features are: JXFS swap cairo and compositing engiene

Pavlor (talk) 12:09, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

It got probably moved to the OS4 article in an effort to minimize the redundancy of features in several articles. What features should (if they are relevant) be listed or not, is not that big deal for me :) But yes, the memory paging part is important indeed. So I have re-added it to the features. --Marko75 (talk) 15:22, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Lack of references

All sections for 1.0-3.9 lack references and are inaccurate. For example CDFS was developed for Kickstart 3.1 (CD32!) but in 3.5 it was replaced by some 3rd party framework (CacheCDFS IIRC). And what about version used in CDTV? It surely had some CD-ROM support built-in, didnt it? I am also wondering was AmigaGuide support really introduced in 2.1? I thought it was added in 2.0 already or maybe in 2.04? This article screams for verifiable content. Xorxos (talk) 22:36, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Note: I added primarysources banner. Sources for OS4 are ok but there is nothing for previous releases. Xorxos (talk) 22:42, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

I think AmigaGuide was distributed separately from Workbench until 3.0/2.1.Pavlor (talk) 10:58, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

I think you are wrong. Another reason why we need sources like the original Workbench manual :-) Xorxos (talk) 20:00, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Now, I checked my OS2.1 disks (Install/Workbench/Extras/Fonts/Locale) and there is NO AmigaGuide/amigaguide.library. It is strange. However, my conclusion is that AmigaGuide/Multiview was really budled with OS since WB3.0. There is AmigaGuide package (on Aminet) for OS versions lower than 3.0.Pavlor (talk) 12:41, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

I see. It looks like you are correct. According to Amigaguide article AmigaGuide was introduced with 2.1 but I couldnt find it from references being used. Amigaguide was developed by Commodore in 1990-1994 so it appears to be possible it was made available before 3.0 but only as an external download. Xorxos (talk) 18:50, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

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Naming

The lead says:

• Version 3.1 of the Amiga operating system was the first version to be officially referred to as "Amiga OS" (with a space between "Amiga" and "OS") by Commodore, possibly inspired by Apple renaming the classic Mac operating system from "System" to "Mac OS".

I don't think this is possible, since Apple didn't rename it to Mac OS until 1997. MFNickster (talk) 00:36, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Done! Pavlor (talk) 05:11, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Images corrupted?

Two of the images on this page seem to have been horribly corrupted. I guess there was some sort of "fair use" deletion, but then they got replaced by a garbled downscaled version by User:DatBot? These should both be updated with a new screenshot:

• File:Wb 20.png
• File:Amiga Workbench 3 screenshot.png

- Rainwarrior (talk) 02:09, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

I found the original for the first one and replaced it with a slightly less illegible downscaled version (presuming it's "okay" for copyright in the same way the bot's downscaled version is?). Can't find the original for the second one though. - Rainwarrior (talk) 02:19, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Would be much better just to take two new screenshots though, probably? - Rainwarrior (talk) 02:20, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Found something close to the original for the second one and downsampled it similarly, so I guess they look slightly better, still far from ideal though. - Rainwarrior (talk) 02:27, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

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