- OS4 offers very little over OS X, Windows, Linux or any other alternative OS for the average computer user, plus the fact it is a paid for OS, means it will flop in the market, as it is over-saturated.
I for one use those OSs regularly and would love to have OS4 native on hardware that I could readily buy. Even if it's limited to specific models or video cards, sound cards, etc. I certainly would expect the market to be big but it depends on what the developers could do with it and setting it up as a platform to run classic Amiga applications.
- Then, the lack of money means the developers will be unable to pay themselves, causing massive delays in hardware support, ported applications and such.
- This will doom its chances of being among the norm. In other words, it benefits nobody in the long term
I would think that someone with $400 million after taxes might just be able to fund development for quite some time without expecting a profit from it other than just enjoying the product. Might be silly to some but I've seen wealth wasted on things that I would consider far more frivolous
I think that custom hardware is part of the appeal, personally, to most users of the OS. I think its best chance is for it to be solicited to a game system manufacturer such as MS, Nintendo, etc. and having them use it as a base for a computer/game system/media system hybrid
I hear that a lot. I do understand the mindset as the custom chips were what made the Amiga so advanced for the time. Certainly a classic Amiga will always be that combination of custom hardware and unique low overhead operating system. However, in this day and age, exactly what custom hardware would make a computer that unique with the amount of raw processor power that is available in CPU and GPU today. What remains for me of Amiga other than UAE and my A1200HD for my classic fix, today is the operating system, which still remains unique in its overhead and design. I know that modern OS's have advanced in other ways, memory protection, etc. However, I find it interesting that we have two main branches of OS to choose from Unix->Linux/BSD or VMS->NT.
I guess I'm alone, at least in those who still frequent amiga.org and are primarily into Amiga as it remains towards the end on ppc. That isn't meant as criticism but I just guess I'd love to run AmigaOS native on readily available hardware or even a subset of it.
