Commodore OS Vision Forum

Hey! I'm an OLD Amiga guy - I actually go back to Atari 2600 before it was the 2600 - then got a Timex Sinclair 1000, then a C-64, and when it had issues, a buddy of mine had an A1000 with an 80meg sidecar - I was thinking of an IBM clone until I saw the color and graphics... I was hooked. I got an A500, then another, then an A2000, and then an A4000/040 - that lasted me until 1996 or 1997, when I finally shifted to Windoz... with the occasional Linux run...
At one point and why I had 2x A500s, I had a BBS running off an A500 and 2 floppies. It worked great for text RPGing.

Never been thrilled with Dos/Win systems, Linux has occasionally done a few interesting things. I have an Acer Aspire running AspireOS - I had it from late 2008 when I was travelling the world, and bought it to use for work.

Found C=OS a few years ago - version 1 or 2, tried it, liked it, but it wasn't anything to run every day for me at that time - but now, with this version - I have it loaded on as the primary OS on a Gateway (yeah, another Amiga tie) laptop - it runs nicely on a 12 year old machine.

To the devs and others working on this - thanks for the effort - this is a very cool update and really digging it. Gonna do some tweaks to make it how I like it (change to Brave amongst others) but mostly just use this as my fun laptop.

Aah, i never owned the 4000 .. but it's never too late. There's one for sale now but they are kind of expensive in Sweden.
And I was thinking of BBS's yesterday, good times indeed. A lot of fun!

I have an A1000 with a 40meg sidecar which was still massive for back then, split 20/20meg for Amiga/PC.
I even stuck a 286 card in the sidecar which worked fine. I still have it.
The drive would most certainly have stopped working and I thought about replacing it with memory card options.
It powers up, but the pins are damaged, and they cost a fortune to replace.
And as the A1000 is the only input and output mechanism, it's kinda hosed.
Maybe one day I'll do something about it.
I have a pistorm in the A1000 now, and if I was so inclined, I guess I could run a PC emulator for similar performance to the Sidecar.
Kinda bummed I never experienced the AGA Amigas first hand, and only later via emulation.