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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: JohnB on June 25, 2003, 08:08:06 PM
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All tis disscusion of new Mac hardware (and older stuff) always brings up the same question in my mind...
Why not make Amiga OS4 run on Power Macs? Even a cheap E-Mac has better specs than AmigaOne.
JohnB
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Now will you stop thinking those unclean thoughts !!!
You should know that AInc is just protecting you from dubious HW-vendors who like
to rip you of....
......... like Apple :-D
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by JohnB on 2003/6/25 15:08:06
Why not make Amiga OS4 run on Power Macs? Even a cheap E-Mac has better specs than AmigaOne.
I doubt Apple would a) Agree to Amiga Inc doggle b) Would allow any commercial OS on their hardware and not send in the lawyers. YDL is of course, OSS.
Don't you feel better about Amiga Inc protecting you from crappy Apples that don't meet their rigid quality inspection. ;)
Dammy[
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Is that what is is REALLY about, or is it more of a BUY OUR HARDWARE only situation?
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dammy wrote:
by JohnB on 2003/6/25 15:08:06
Why not make Amiga OS4 run on Power Macs? Even a cheap E-Mac has better specs than AmigaOne.
Yes, why not? (http://www.petitiononline.com/amigaos/petition-sign.html) :P
I doubt Apple would a) Agree to Amiga Inc doggle b) Would allow any commercial OS on their hardware and not send in the lawyers. YDL is of course, OSS.
a) is what's in the way (it's dongle, BTW dammy ;)).
No hardware vendor, least of all Apple, will pay AInc to become an AmigaOS reseller, get the laughable right to use an absolutely meaningless "Amiga-something" name for their hardware, provide AmigaOS end-user-support, marketing etc., and provide any dongle mechanism for AmigaOS.
b) doesn't matter, Apple doesn't care about what people choose to install on their Macs, and even if they did they would have no right to interfere.
Don't you feel better about Amiga Inc protecting you from crappy Apples that don't meet their rigid quality inspection. ;)
Yay. AmigaOS - "protected" to death.
But ISTR that I've addressed some (http://www.flyingmice.com/cgi-bin/squidcgi/mbmessage.pl/amiga/87217.shtml) of this recently (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2934)... ;)
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I was arguiing this same point in another thread last nite!!!!
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I didn't think I was the first to think this. If they could get it to run on a Mac about the same time as AmigaOne that would cause quite an uproar. Its just software, why would Apple have any problem with that? It not like they stop people from running Linux.
The thought of an AInc. dongle IS ABSURD.
JohnB
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dammy wrote:
by JohnB on 2003/6/25 15:08:06
Why not make Amiga OS4 run on Power Macs? Even a cheap E-Mac has better specs than AmigaOne.
I doubt Apple would a) Agree to Amiga Inc doggle b) Would allow any commercial OS on their hardware and not send in the lawyers. YDL is of course, OSS.
Don't you feel better about Amiga Inc protecting you from crappy Apples that don't meet their rigid quality inspection. ;)
Terrasoft ships Macs with YDL, with full warrantys etc, another company could do that with AmigaOS (with a much smarter USB dongle for instance) or even with MorphOS. If Hyperion wants to dongle their OS, thats one thing, having the dongle on the motherboard, and only having one distributer for said board, is a whole other thing. Its a failed idea from the folks that can't ship T-Shirts or coupons.
-Tig
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If they can get over their donglephilia, they may as well port AOS4 to MOL.
MOL can already run Linux/PPC.
Then AOS4 would run on the new PPC 970 boards, or anything that can run Linux/PPC.