[Vampire] The AMIGA Future Is NOW! AROS!

[Fats]

To mix 68k and x86 applications under the same aros instance would require something like the amithlon gcc compiler that generated x86 code that was big endian. I don't think anyone has ever looked at doing that, but for me this would be awesome.

This has been discussed in the history of AROS. Getting AROS compiled using the amithon gcc should be possible with some (dedicated) development work. This was not used for AROS as we want to have AROS run at maximum native speed when running on the native platforms and thus not use of unnatural endianess or structure packing.

[Fats]

its simply a matter of interest and contribution. if there were people actually willing to make it happen, one could at least fork aros if not branch it out withing its own source tree.

As you say there is no fatwah on somebody working on it. Not even need for fork or branch, just make it a separate cpu, e.g. i386be and x86_64be.