AmigaOne Hardware Design

[Madgun68]

~1700 people bought Amithlon, and that is with poor marketing, high price
legal wars and so on for an emulator.

I'd bet the number of people who pirated it is much higher than those who bought it.

Let me put it this way:
What is better, 10000 copies sold and 50000 pirated, or 2000 sold and 0 pirated ?

Those figures aren't realistic. Nothing in the Amiga community is going to sell 10,000 copies.

[Madgun68]

You're missing the point.

There really is no point to this argument.

Kronos is claiming that even a small percentage of an established market base is significantly larger than one that doesn't yet exist. Investing in a USD$200 software solution is likely to be more appealing than USD$1000 in new hardware.

Quoting ~1700 copies of Amithlon sold is a piss poor way of going about it. That's a pathetic number.

There are 600 million PCs out there. Even if .001% of these were capable of running an x86 version of OS4 and some of these users were willing to pay for it, the install base would be huge.

Who's willing to do the work in the same manner as Hyperion is doing? I don't recall ANYONE offering to do the work. Unless there is someone willing to do this, all these "x86 is a better choice" discussions are pointless, because the product won't be a reality.

[Madgun68]

Hyperion is the only licensee for porting AmigaOS to "new" hardware, and they chose PPC for whatever reasons, and they seem quite stubborn about that. Likewise MorphOS seems to be PPC-only for any forseeable future. It seems like we need another developer for an Amigaish OS on cheaper, better, faster and more abundant x86 hardware. For the time being I'm keeping an eye on AROS for that. AmigaOS 4 by Hyperion and MorphOS will not run on anything else than PPC. Period. Let's just hope AInc change their minds to actually try to make the best out of the current PPC situation and allow for actual sales of AmigaOS to a broad(er) hardware and customer base - in addition to the bundled/licensed thing.

DING DING DING! We have a winner!

The whole issue about what is and isn't supported revolves around Hyperion. It doesn't really matter what can/can't be supported.. Because you aren't being offered the choice. Simple as that.

The only option you really have open is the option to either like what they offer and purchase it, or not like it and spend your money somewhere else.