Future of the Amiga

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redrumloa wrote:
So, what is the future of the Amiga? What does the crystal ball show? A retro curiosity with a handful of UAE users? AROS building steam and getting a foot hole? Tumbleweeds and cobwebs?

Personally? I'm starting to think AROS is the only chance for a NG platform in the projected timeframe of 5 years. As AROS itself seems to be rounding out fairly well, the obvious shorcoming is lack of a software base. What could be the killer app to unit users to rally around it with passion? Or is that too far fetched? Integrated JIT UAE alone would would be the killer app for me..

ImageFX would be nice, especially if we added DV in and out.   When Amithlon was starting out and there were ports to it to use the x86 natively and run faster Kermit and I had a discussion about moving ImageFX to support it.  All the PPC modules run so much faster on the x86 that it would have been a neat program over there.  
    -Tig

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CLS2086 wrote:
ImageFx run faster on Peg2 than on X86

No it doesnt, please fact check before you post, and really I'm the wrong guy to argue about this with.
      -Tig

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itix wrote:
 you dont get killed by endianess bugs and doesnt have 68k asm. Or doesnt depend on closed source 68k libraries and classes...

The only one scared of endianess is Benji, and he can't write any code, so I'm not sure why you guys take a law clerks point of view on the matter anyways.  ImageFX has lots of endianess issues and yet miraculously big chunks of it were converted for plugins for Aura and Photoshop.  How was this accomplished.  According to Benji, magic, according to those of us who did it, simple coding practices, the same things I do 50% of the time we change a hardware platform for our embedded systems.   Its not Rocket Science, I've done Rocket Science, this aint near that hard.
    -Tig