A-EON Technology acquires OctaMED

[XDelusion]

This is exceptional news! Alas, my Efika will be used till smoke is running out of it! Freaking awesome!

Now if ALL of the next Gen Amigas can get decent MIDI support.

[XDelusion]

If so, they should not tempt us with "possible MorphOS and AROS versions". If they want a bounty or a pre-order system (I prefer the latter. Then we don't have to pay double for the products) then they should just make it happen and watch the money rolling in.

Add a "preorder for MorphOS" and "preorder for AROS (x86 and x64)" on your homepage, with a counter telling how many orders left that is needed and withdraw the money once it reaches zero.

Waiting for the community to figure out how to make money for you is kinda lazy :p

I agree.

[XDelusion]

OS3.1 compatible and clean 68k binaries work everywhere, no big deal with MorphOS and AROS versions. I'm sure they are even prepared to fix minor issues to make sure it works flawlessly on MorphOS and AROS.

That's another point, and come to think of it, I believe that all that prevents it from working under MorphOS is AHI support.

As for AROS, well perhaps a bounty could be raise to lease the source or what ever, and pay someone to write a port with the bounty, though again... us so called Next Gen Amiga users lack many media based features that we now take for granted on the classic Amiga, like MIDI support.

[XDelusion]

It shouldn't come as much of a surprise really, A-Eonkit make OS4 hardware so that is the focus of their software development too.  Other "Amiga-like" OSes are not really in their business model.

Well if they are trying to dictate which OS wins out... they won't see me buying their products as I only use MorphOS and AROS at the time being, at least till FAST FPGA solutions emerge as I believe I am officially over classic hardware and all the money it takes to keep it up, keep it stable, and expand its capabilities.

[XDelusion]

That would be a valid argument if there was a large amount of development required to port between our platforms.

Correct! There should in theory be minimal effort in porting, thus minimal effort in expanding the user base and therefore sales. They would be fools not to.

[XDelusion]

Whose theorem is this research based on?  "Should" covers all manner of sins, doesn't it.

I'm no coder, I don't know that for a fact, and I know that some things such as ScummVM seem to compile just fine on MorphOS without any tweaks to the code, where as on AROS...

...well your guess is as good as mine.

It's their property now, they can do what they want, but I just can not imagine that porting something from one OS, to an OS that is heavily based upon the original, could be all that much drama in the end. If they want to expand their market base, they owe it to them selves to at least take a look. At least I'd hope they are thinking about the whole Amiga community, and not just users of this Amiga flavor or that.