Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs

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Hans_ wrote:

AROS was about source-compatibility so OS4 apps won't run unless recompiled for AROS on whatever processor AROS is running on. That's ignoring the endianness issues of-course. As you've already realized, it would also be a big job.

AROS was about binary compatibility on m68k and source compatbility for non-amiga CPUs.

They could replicate the OS4 API, but IIRC, they don't like OS4's new library interfaces concept. Plus it looks as though they're starting to deviate from the 3.1 API and developing their own ones. You could try, but I'd expect considerable resistance from the current AROS devs.

I don't see why there would be a big resistance from the developers if somebody makes an OS4 compatible AROS version. The mentality is that each developer should be able to do with the open-source source code what he likes. That is the spirit.
I myself am a core AROS developer and I do plan in the future to make two PPC versions of AROS possible. One binary compatible with MorhOS and one compatible with OS4. First I want to finish the i386 ABI though.
One of the biggest hurdles IMO for true OS4 compatibility is an open-source Reaction implementation.

greets,
Staf.

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Hans_ wrote:

Maybe you should tell some of the more vocal AROS advocates to STFU then. The impression that I got was that AROS developers have no interest in OS4 compatibility at all, see it as inferior, blah blah blah.

AROS devs are a bunch of totally different people with (almost) the only common interest an amiga compatible OS. You should not take the rants of one of them as a general AROS statement.

greets,
Staf.