the OS4 isn't ported to X86 only because they don't want to and the reason are market driven (oh the true passion for information technology!). oh but yes a ppc mobo is custom...this is the same crap going on for more than 10 years...
The choiche not to support a X86 technology only because it's Intel and we don't like Intel, I wanna to be different blablabla was the final word on the death of Amiga.
We're not in 1985 anymore. The situation is different, the market and the technology is mature today and there are little space for inventing things. I read the manifesto of Pianeta Amiga and it made me smile: "It is an event in which to enjoy again the taste for the "genuine" information technology of the origins, a time in which passion, intuition and the genius of young people led I.T. towards unimaginable progress not tied only by the common rules of commerce and simple market logic"
Infact today in Amiga world (the world of Hyperion, Eyetech etc.) I don't find neither passion, intuition or genius. The greatest are watching us: the people at PARC, Woz, the creators of MAC, the original Amiga team, the MIT hackers in the 60's not these bunch of IT rookies...
Today there's fantastic technology sold at very low price, produced by the people who really know how to do their job but we don't use it because it's not Amiga. I tought computers were a tool to do things, not an idol
And some of you are really slave of a name? of a computer?
Jay Miner is surely smiling now, I wish I could heard his opinion on this right now.
