First of all, we must be calm. We must be passive. We have to wait. Regardless of what we want or whine or bitch about, we won't know anything until they tell us. End of story.
I like the PPC board, but there's nothing for it. Just a bunch of 'possible GUI' shots. There's no software. There's not list that says what WILL run. It's vapor. Air. Nothing tangible. Wu3. When the OS comes, I will look and if I like and there is support, I will buy it.
Needless to say, Amiga Inc is shredding the Amiga Community. Some are MorphOS, Some are AOS4, some are die hard 68K. None are unified. None have a solution, just a stop-gab. There is nothing in the way of support for any of these, 'cos there is no money and the market is so small. Energy and effort is being wasted on nothing. Oh yeah, don't forget AROS.(which rocks, BTW) Regardless, all of these people have the same agenda, yet different ideas. AI, *SHOULD* have unified all of these people. After all, most were working for free, but a collabolation could have allowed an Amiga OS to run both 68K, PPC and X86 platforms. Why? 'Cos these coders were working in their spare time to recreate the OS that Amiga Inc had access too. Simply put, AI should have tried, but didn't.
I have no idea where AI is headed and I'm more here now for nostalgia. I don't run UAE anymore and Amithlon doesn't seem to want to run on my hardware anymore either. I appreciate all that have purchased products like the AOne board, 'cos it kept my dream alive, but I'm not about to drop cash on OS4, when all I've seen is jst some screenshots, a list of what it can do, a board that people are having problems getting Linux to run on and a non-existant list of updated, compliant and tested software that doesn't consist of games ported by the OS designers that are 3+ years old.
I realize that things take time, but it has been 3 years and all I have seen is a lot of people get suckered. I love the AmigaOS, but it can't do what I need it to do today and quite frankly, OS4 doesn't seem to be anything tangible.
Regardless of how we feel, there is nothing there. We have to wait.
And wait we will; patient or otherwise, we will have to wait.
Xun Hao!
Madin
No matter how much you gripe and complain, until AI says something, or the March CeBit show, we have to wait.
8-)
