I'm glad you made this video. Recently I was on my MiSTer in the Amiga core and was setting up a dev environment. Can't remember which, but it was wither the AmigaOS 3.9 Developer CD or the GeekGadgets CD and one of them mentioned pOS in one of the readmes and I hadn't even heard of it. The readme made it out to be something exciting that everyone will start using
Thanx for telling me. I will be looking for this mention of it in one of those SDKs. Would be happy if you could let me know if you remember which one it was at any point, as I find this part of the history very interesting!
I suddenly remembered it one day. Tested it back then. No idea how I got it. maybe it was included on a CU Amiga or Amiga Format CD or something like that? luckily it is saved by the archive.org so you can find it there if you want to test it yourself!
Really cool. I was just reading about this OS the other day along with the Amiga history and all the Amiga users desperately looking for a path forward after Commodore imploded. Sadly this was not it. Amazing the resurgence of classic Amiga the last few years.
I definitely recall playing with p.OS as well on AMIGA back in the day and also thinking it was pretty good then I never heard anything else. I had not thought about it since until saw this video.
Thanks for this video of pOS. I was not aware of its existence, to be honest. It does look like it had borrowed a few things from Amiga OS :) I wonder -- was it able to run Amiga apps (system friendly ones) as well ?
I'd forgotten about p.OS, I remember playing with it bitd, was it on a coverdisk or something? I don't remember much about it though. What CPU do you have in your A1200?
I have wondered where I got it from back then myself and concluded with it had to be a coverdisk from cu amiga og amiga format. The cpu I have in this Amiga is the new accelerator card pistorm. It runs a very very fast 68040. Faster than anything one could dream of in the 68k line back then.
Interesting OS concept. I DL'd the files I could find, but they only contain an ISO file which creates a DVD. I have no idea how to get a DVD readable on my Amiga; I only have floppy, Gotek, CD and "Amiga Explorer"... lol
Ah yes. I had the same problem. on my A1200 (which now has a pistorm in it) I have the SD card for OS image and the old CFCard for filestransfer. I formated the cfcard with the name pOS_Install and copied everything from the DVD onto that. Hope that helps you out a bit. If you dont have an additional drive for such things you could try to copy in everything with Amiga Eplorer and assign a folder with the content as pOS_Install. Mye guess is that that helps as well. (Like this: ASSIGN pOS_Install: DH1:path/to/pOS_install )
I'm glad you made this video. Recently I was on my MiSTer in the Amiga core and was setting up a dev environment. Can't remember which, but it was wither the AmigaOS 3.9 Developer CD or the GeekGadgets CD and one of them mentioned pOS in one of the readmes and I hadn't even heard of it. The readme made it out to be something exciting that everyone will start using
Thanx for telling me. I will be looking for this mention of it in one of those SDKs. Would be happy if you could let me know if you remember which one it was at any point, as I find this part of the history very interesting!
Cool OS! Didn´t new about this one! Thanks for showing som history!
I suddenly remembered it one day. Tested it back then. No idea how I got it. maybe it was included on a CU Amiga or Amiga Format CD or something like that? luckily it is saved by the archive.org so you can find it there if you want to test it yourself!
It's always cool seeing what may have been, Keep up the good work
Really cool. I was just reading about this OS the other day along with the Amiga history and all the Amiga users desperately looking for a path forward after Commodore imploded. Sadly this was not it. Amazing the resurgence of classic Amiga the last few years.
Couldn't agree more! It is a very alive community.
cool stuff! Thankfully the latest Amiga OS3.2 is the most stable one I’ve ever used
Quite cool that it still get updates.
I definitely recall playing with p.OS as well on AMIGA back in the day and also thinking it was pretty good then I never heard anything else. I had not thought about it since until saw this video.
It was lost for me all those years as well. It was fun to revisit. It is on archive.org if you want to revisit yourself.
Directory Opus still exists for Windows
Ah nice. I don't use windows myself, but would check it out if I did. Thanx for telling.
Thanks for this video of pOS. I was not aware of its existence, to be honest. It does look like it had borrowed a few things from Amiga OS :) I wonder -- was it able to run Amiga apps (system friendly ones) as well ?
From what I read it wasn't, so I did not try it. But now it annoys me that I didn't try it. Will give you an update after I give it a try :)
I'd forgotten about p.OS, I remember playing with it bitd, was it on a coverdisk or something? I don't remember much about it though.
What CPU do you have in your A1200?
I have wondered where I got it from back then myself and concluded with it had to be a coverdisk from cu amiga og amiga format.
The cpu I have in this Amiga is the new accelerator card pistorm. It runs a very very fast 68040. Faster than anything one could dream of in the 68k line back then.
Interesting OS concept.
I DL'd the files I could find, but they only contain an ISO file which creates a DVD. I have no idea how to get a DVD readable on my Amiga; I only have floppy, Gotek, CD and "Amiga Explorer"...
lol
Ah yes. I had the same problem. on my A1200 (which now has a pistorm in it) I have the SD card for OS image and the old CFCard for filestransfer. I formated the cfcard with the name pOS_Install and copied everything from the DVD onto that. Hope that helps you out a bit. If you dont have an additional drive for such things you could try to copy in everything with Amiga Eplorer and assign a folder with the content as pOS_Install. Mye guess is that that helps as well.
(Like this: ASSIGN pOS_Install: DH1:path/to/pOS_install )
Are you from Sweden?
Close. I am from Norway, so maybe a similar accent.
This couldn't have been run on AGA, could it?
it does support PAL screenmodes, so I think that would work.
@@proteque Ok! But your video was with a graphics card, I suppose?
@@d_vibe-swe yes, this is with a graphics card. I have a pistorm in my 1200 so this is using Picasso96 with RTG through the pistorm.
@@d_vibe-swe Actually. I tested a bit now. and with AGA all the render errors I get is gone. So I guess it supports AGA better than a graphics card.
@@proteque Was it as smooth as with your demonstration? :)