So no backward compatibility with any old Amiga applications?
OS4 will run ppc amiga software aswell aswell as some 68k software through some emulation layer
No common hardware? A totally new OS?
It is the same OS.. It has just been ported to ppc :-)
Isn't this the equivalent of "Amiga" selling a rebranded e-Machines Wintel Box with XP and UAE and calling it an "Amiga"?
Not at all.. This machine runs the real AmigaOS and also runs ppc software natively. Do you really expect a system based on the highly outdated 68k cpu?? a cpu that has not been produced since ages? whats the point with "new" hardware that still uses the same outdated chips as the classic system? then you could just aswell just use a classic one..
What do you Amiga folk think of this? What keeps you with Amiga if they're making completely incompatible hardware and software?
Incompatible with what? AmigaONE cannot run classic amiga 68k software without emulation, since the PPC cpu is a totally different processor.. The amigaone runs software that is written for native ppc without any emulation.
Same story with macs also when they changed to ppc cpus..
What makes an Amiga an Amiga?
The name.. and also the fact that it runs AmigaOS
No, because the transition was seamless. All the classic Mac 68K apps worked perfectly on the Mac OS for PowerPC. I think that's a little different than a completely new platform that keeps the brand and has an emulator for legacy apps.
Why do you think 68k apps worked under ppc? EMULATION!! just as AmigaOS/AmigaONE will have...
Hmmm. . . would the PegasOS or Amiga OS 4 run on UAE running on a Macintosh?
Sadly not :-( Since UAE does not have PPC emulation yet.. Hopefully it will have one day though :-)
