Billsey wrote:
@Kronos and Tigger:
Do you really think Apple won't defend their own turf? Unless Apple provides those drivers, it ain't happening without an awful lot of litigation and people going to jail. Linux is a free OS that can be downloaded without cost. Amiga OS is a commercial product that would be in direct competition with Apple on their own hardware.
The very same Terra Soft company we are talking about who is the big distributer of the Teron boards from MAI, also ships its Yellow Dog Linux (PPC linux) on Apple computers, in fact they are an Apple OEM and the Macs they ship have full Apple warranty etc. In fact they will even load Mac on Linux on the machine if you want them too. Apple is a hardware company really, if they can ship hardware thats great to them, they'd love another OS to run on their hardware at this point. In answer to your other dongle question. The issue is that the OS isnt coded to check for a USB dongle which would have been fine. Instead its looking for a Rom on a motherboard, noone is going to make special boards (I'm sure you've seen the comment from the Barbie guys), we cant even use the same board as Eyetech is supplying, because they are soldering a new Boot Rom to the motherboard. If the OS had a USB dongle instead we'd have hardware options, we dont now, and thats an issue. If Eyetech runs into money trouble, supply problems, etc we have no Amigas, thats a crazy situation for Amiga Inc as a software company to allow itself to be in, and almost equally crazy for Hyperion who gets paid on software unit sales.
-Tig
