Amiga OS 4 should be ported over to xxbox 360

[bhoggett]

I think AmigaOS should be finally allowed to rest in peace and dignity.

It time for the grand deceit that is "the Amiga future" to be put to bed.

Why? Because every single platform you can aim it at already has better alternatives, or will do when it becomes worth investing in. An AmigaOS which only appeals to Amiga fanatics - and let's face facts, that's the only audience an OS without software, investment and developers can reach - isn't going to stand up to serious players. The age of the start-up getting in ahead of the big boys is dead and gone.

Amigans deserve better than a series of lies and broken dreams year in year out, being led by the nose by people who in reality have no respect for those whose faith they demand.

...on second thoughts, maybe they don't. I hear Hyperion supporters going on about "if you don't buy a ticket in the lottery, you can't win", but would you buy a ticket in a lottery that has no intention of holding a draw? It seems Amigans would, as long as the [d]conman[/d] salesman wore the right shade of red or blue.

All the time, money and resources wasted in chasing an impossible pie-dream should have been given to more deserving projects. Keeping old operating systems alive just for the benefit of a tiny fanatical audience has never been and will never be a profitable, rewarding exercise.

[bhoggett]

Tomas wrote:
It does not matter so much wether or not it will conquer the world of OSes. What matters is being able to run the OS that we prefer.

Sure, but there aren't enough people who feel that way to provide a commercially viable user base. It can't support even the basic expense in developing an OS, never mind providing enough revenue to keep application/games developers in business. I won't even venture into the hardware issue.

I can certainly say that alot of people here prefer running AmigaOS over Linux, MacOS, Windows and so on. I dont think that most people have much faith in AmigaOS being able to conquer anything besides the hobby market anytime soon.

It's not even "the hobby market", because there isn't one. At best, there's maybe a couple of thousand fanatics tops, no more.

As for now it is just a hobby platform. I do however believe that the user base could slowly grow over time if we get it onto some affordable and available hardware.

But why? This is the question no one will answer: why would anyone who isn't one of the fanatics choose to use AmigaOS with its lack of software, resources and numerous limitations? Even Hyperion practically admit that anyone who has a choice would not choose AmigaOS - they have used this as a reason to stay on custom PPC hardware for the last five years.

The first step is to get some kind of native software base. The problem right now is that we have barely no software devs due to the fact that there is hardly any available hardware.

No, there are hardly any software devs because the number of people actively interested in Amigas is now tiny and what you have is splintered between three related but incompatible platforms. If you got new hardware the people buying it would be the same ones who have an AmigaOne now - your dev resources would not magically increase.

So for now it is mainly targeted at the current amiga community, but who knows what it will be in 20 years providing that it is still being supported.

So, another 20 years of pixie-dust, fairy tales and magical mystery hardware that never quite reaches the working prototype stage?

The world moves on - the Amiga scene is stuck in a time warp. It's the resistance to get out of this time warp that has stupefied Amiga development for years. It won't go anywhere - because it can't go anywhere - unless people discard all the stupid principles that are acting as an anchor and holding it fast to the bottom of the pit.