God!! Everyone who mentions this gets beaten to death. I wish people would lighten up because ts a legitimate question. If it wasn't people wouldn't be bringing it up all the time....especially as a possibly cheaper solution. The last time a beating occurred Hyperion members said they considered it, but could not do it because of the immense amount of chipsets that would need to be supported. I agree. The next point you could make is pick one x86 motherboard and just support that as a formal Amiga motherboard, then somebody throws somes vegetables at you and tells you, like how would you go pick one? How could you make the deal and on what criteria? I would have thought with the plethora of x86 hardware vendors it would have been easier than inventing a brand new PPC solution, but for some reason I am obviously wrong. Fine....What do I know? Then say you do get an established x86 mobo vendor, the next problem is that they change chipsets so often to keep up with the competition. So there would be a moving target for OS4. So having technology on the A1 that is way behind the times is actually allowing OS4 to get finished sooner as they have all the time in the Amigaworld to get it done...without the technology on the boards changing. Go figure....
What people have to realise, is that if someone gives you a decent answer then its something that can be passed on before the thread goes 4 or 5 pages and too many people get pissed off.
I really think there should be a page on A.org or AW that has an OS4 FAQ or commonly asked questions section. Because the next question asked is going to be, "why no port to Mac". Which I think would be a very short term solution at best. Actually, I'd be happy to write one because I've practically asked every apparently stupid question there is.
(Scurries away ducking the tomatoes thrown)
Ok. Going back to my happy place now.
