Why not support Aros 68k instead of patching old binaries?

[Blizz1220]

Just out of curiosity is CGX in Aros (68k) remake by Aros team or is
it the one created by original author ?

Whole thread seemed pointless to me , if Cosmos fixed some tiny bug in
some OS4 library he would be cheered form there to the moon probably.
And about what Cosmos said about kickstarts it can only be seen as wall
of silence from people and companies who know who has what rights.
Not to mention that you need Amiga to use them (or at leas you had to
spend a lot of time on one for them to be any use to you).

From what I can read Hyperion is right company to contact for licensing
Amiga Kickstart (3.1?) for hardware projects but even better way would be
just ignore whole legal "you better not 'cause you know" and let end-user
get what he needs himself.Those who are not able will be advised on how
to do it anyways.

[Blizz1220]

Problem with Aros68k is that it obviously won't work on regular not
heavily expanded Amiga but it might be a treasure trove of software
that can be run on modest Amiga configurations.Lot of AROS software
doesn't need that much memory / cpu power (I mean things under 2-3
Mb when compiled , Netsurf68k is good example).

I think Cloanto is the right company to contact for licensing emulation
like projects (no way to know).When new more powerful 68k hardware
FPGAs start showing up then Aros68k will shine.And who say PPC is the
more future these days than FPGAs or RPis should check their facts.

[Blizz1220]

No , not Netsurf but it's pretty low demanding.I was thinking of maybe
some IRC Client stuff , Telnet , more advanced drawing program that
have more functionality then old stuff.NEW SHELL !

And it's irritating when thing that were adopted as standard such as MUI ,
AHI , P96 , CGX etc. are now somewhere in between of not being developed
but maybe if many people ask then original author who is now coding for
PPC will suffer to implement few things.

This kind of stuff happened all the time before.I see no problem if there is
CGX library (pathced by Cosmos) available somewhere and programs that
want use it can just put in readme that you need Cosmo's patched version
instead yet more patches upon patches upon patches.

Original library is still there and if it's hosted on Aminet nobody but the
author can change it.As market shrinks few companies that remain will
have to find every possible way to make money to survive to it's under-
standable that new player won't be welcomed with open arms but that
should not be the case when they are just offering free upgrade for
end users.