@wawrzon
even if os4 ran natively on x86 but still with the speed from the nineties
If AmigaOS4 run natively as not under emulation, AmigaOS4 be runny many times faster then it does in WinUAE now.
it would remain nice gimmick
Well Visualization and Emulation is used a lot in IT, because it saves space and cut costs.
The uses I see for WinUAE is maybe not to run it 24/7 but it has its uses.
* Use it when you travel, a big box Amiga is not easy to drag on the train, or take on the airplane.
* Use it to test cross compiled exe files from Cygwin.
* Use it for recovery, some thing went wrong your real AmigaONE is not booting, you need to find a way to change some boot priorities or need to get access to some files, or maybe some files are corrupted and you need to replace or update some files. (The only way to access the files is to use a Computer that support the new file-systems like SFS/02, JXFS, FFS/07.)
* To try/test AmigaOS4.1.
So as I see it, its more then a gimmick, but it wont replace any hardware.
Seriously as in actually using it for productivity or so, which is the point os4 fans try to prove. namely that os4 is a contemporary solution and not just a retro toy.
Well yes, it be nice to use AmigaOS as you can with any other OS, so yes.
As it is, it only shows that amiga hackers are more capable, have more vision and sense for experiment than the os4 development team.
Well no, WinUAE is limited by all old hardware it tries to emulate, the future for AmigaOS is to support new hardware and too have good hardware acceleration, so no, I see no vision because there is no future in WinUAE hardware support.
But as I was saying it has it uses even so.
