Crumb wrote:
Quite frankly, if what you want is killing not just binary but also source code compatibility you'd better search a new OS because you are wasting time with AROS.
AROS does *not have* binary compaibility, but when it does (E-UAE) then that can be put on top of the new system, just like it could be put on top of any modern OS if you really wanted to. Please don't start with your usual "integrated (E-)UAE will suck because it's nothing like the emulation layers of MOS/OS4 etc etc", pesonally I don't need anything that integrated, besides I will not use any potential new OS on anything but x86 in the next decade, and if so it might not be big-endian anyway.
If you killed amiga source code compatibility it will be anything but amiga-like.
What is amiga like ? to me it is the GUI, the simplicity in the directory structure, the RAM: ENV: and ENVARC:, the preferences "use" vs "save" system (that relies on the previous two), etc, not because I'm nostalgic, well I am, to a *restricted* level, but because they are well enough done. if I cannot adapt to new (and better) API then I might as well throw myself into the trashcan
I don't know why some people has some extrange fixation with the word "amiga" and they seem to want to see some kind of new OS as "amiga next gen os".
Actually in case Rob forks it, he will not include anything "amiga" in it's name, he made that clear. And btw, you contradict your self here, look below (look for "LOOK HERE").
Amiga API is outdated. Live with it.
I wont
If you change the API it won't have anything in common with amiga, just like AmigaDE/Anywhere/Whatever hasn't anything in common with the old amigaos and won't attract my attention.
There's MOS, OS4, and AROS.. but wait, AROS is not "amiga" according to many amiga zealots anyway.
Just like OSX isn't macos and is just a different OS (based on unix) with a MacOS sandbox launcher.
Users don't care crap about the internals, programmers might, *intelligent* programmers will not.
LOOK HERE
If you want that you could use an amiga-like skin on WinXP/OSX/Linux/Zeta, run UAE and launch your adfs with a launcher and live happy calling it "next gen amiga".
I see, if one breaks backwards compatibilty at soure/binary level then it's "anything but amiga-like" (quoting you from above), yet, somehow magically, a different *premade* OS *is* !
If you were really interested in a next gen OS (inspired on AmigaOS just like BeOS) you would start from scratch, not building it over an old API that just will cause you problems.
Just like people don't build castles on marshes (with the exception of the monty phytons) you shouldn't build a "new OS" on top of an outdated API and OS.
That's the same reason Be Inc didn't build BeOS using CPM as a basis.
Rob made clear that amiga "inspired" is his goal (not to exclude inspiration/code from other OSs though), but if you happen to *know* that *nothing* in the old API *implementation* can be reused (simetimes with modification) than why don't you just point it to him with *detail*, you seem to care alot i mean.