MorphOS Emulator for AmigaOS 4.0

[Rogue]

For sure the OS4 crowd have a lot more to gain from an emulator than the MOS crowd do - there is painfully little in the way of OS4 software MOS people don't already have. But not so the other way around.

Yawn... Yes, Kenny, yes :-)

Edited by Admin: Taking Troll Bait

[Rogue]

Well well well... I can only say it is very cool

You may want to try running it on your OS 4 emu once it comes out :-)

[Rogue]

For sure there is no large collection of OS4 software. I've been through OS4depot a dozen times and found nothing I would want to use that I don't already have

Sure there are overlaps. I just don't see the truth in your statement that OS 4 users need MorphOS software - they do not, as much as you do not need to use OS4 software.

OS4 users theoretically could use mldonkey or mplayer or commercial games or a hundred other useful tools built up from two years of being a finished OS with a decent developer base.

As usual, you have a slight hang for exaggeration. We do have AMP, DvPlayer and Moovid for video playback, which is about everything I could ever want. There are hardly many commcercial games for MorphOS (or AmigaOS for the matter), and the hundred of useful tools are mostly unix ports. Sorry, big deal. Sadly, it doesn't look different on OS 4, but that is one of the problems we have in this community.

OS4emu has been fun from a technical point of view, and it's been moderately entertaining watching you and your brother "Talk" about piracy and threaten legal action about it

I don't think I ever thretened legal action. Please point me to somewhere I did so.

My concerns about piracy are valid, as I explained already. Some things like Reactions are only available on the OS 4 CD.

I also didn't write much about it, maybe a handful of comments. Most of them have been in german.

But it's been of no current use to the average MorphOS user, and we can't use stuff from OS4 itself because that would be piracy.

I'm confused now. You accuse me of "whining about piracy" and now admit that piracy would be a possibility (although, as far as I am aware, it cannot load libraries and hence loading Reaction classes wouldn't work - yet).

As far as whining goes, you could have skipped your original commentary and just for once said nothing.

[Rogue]

Can't we all just get along?

No. If we could at least ignore each other, things would already be an improvement, but as you can see from comment #2, it's too easy to fire a cheap shot at the opposition. The problem is people like KennyR that need to stir the cup, and people like me that always have to swallow the bait.

[Rogue]

about two years ago I stated on finnish amiga ml that emulating each others would be impossible. Here we go

I guess some UAE/Shapeshifter-type approach would always work. Impossible is the wrong word, but I would also have guessed that it would be too much work to be worth the effort.