melott wrote:
I beleave the origonal intent of AROS was to be 68k
compatable. As the Classic Amiga machines died off people
would just take their software over to AROS on the x86.
Otherwise why was the Kickstart rom ported over?
I beleave the AROS team decided at some point to change
directions for a universal OS and forget the 68k.
For many months there appears to be no real interest
in the 68k. So as far as I'm concerned and I suspect a
great many others ( Classic Amigans ) AROS is a non-issue.
We keep our Classics alive and as for me, I'll buy a
'Cold Fusion' accellerator when/if they come out.
The only option on the horizon for a fast 'Classic'.
You want to know why no one wants to develope for AROS.
All the facts are there ( cold and hartless ) just look.
I'm sorry, I had high hopes for AROS too, but they are
more or less dead.
I commend the AROS Team for their accomplishments, but
in the end I think ....'Whats the point??'
( its only my opinion )
You views are slightly skewed, one point was that AROS has always been intened to be portable.
It's also important to remember that AROS is yours. In fact it's everybodies! you may use it as you wish. You even have the source code and you may use that source code any run it on any hardware you want. With AROS you are not at the mercy of a single company, you get to see any security flaws, you may add functionality and/or customise it to suit your every need.
Another point I'd like to make is that we actually have 3 68k version of AROS! An Amiga-Native one which can seemlessly replace Amiga OS, a 68k-Linux one that runs hosted on Linux and a Palm version. It is true though that these version have not been developed as far as the x86 version, but that is due to the easy availablity of x86 hardware and the power of such hardware makes compiling much quicker.
