I put Peecees together to sell them, and I really miss the niceness of Amiga. I obviously can't slap an Amiga together like a PC.
Yes you can. Just put an AmigaOne motherboard in a case and add whatever you want, like with PCs.
I just wish that there were some way to construct a hybrid or something that could cannibalize the PC board and slave it to a piece of Amiga hardware so that can run off Workbench.
There's no need to add custom hardware to a PC to make it run Workbench, Amithlon proves this. Also, some years ago systems like the Siamese did what you are saying. Nowadays the classic Amiga hardware is too old, it's not worthwhile to link it to a PC the way you described.
After all, you can put an Amiga ROM inside a PC and rig up software emulation; why can't you put Amiga ROMs and some other architecture in the PC, adopt an accessory sound and GFX board, and integrate the rest of the hardware through use of drivers, just like the PC does to run its hardware?
PCs are already using "accessory sound and GFX board", and they use drivers to drive them. This is how all PCs work.
Surely all a Pentium III does were little more than process pieces of information at the binary level. With the new Amiga object-oriented environment, shouldn't the Pentium III just become another object?
Are you speaking about the AmigaDE?
It would be nice at the least to have a piece of hardware so the ROMs can be installed and the WB run.
Why should be the ROM installed on a card, while it's more confortable to use its image on the hard drive?
There really seems to be a need for alternative operating systems on the PC. Do you know how often the Windows crashes, particularly SE?
I've never heard of a Windows SE version. Anyway, from what I've heard the latest Windows 2000 rarely crashes. Also, PCs are IMHO well catered with different OSes, what it would need is that they get known in the mainstream, like Beos or QNX.
I tried to install Linux, but I was amazed at the incompatibility.
Have you tried other Linux distros? Have you tried to find the latest drivers for your hardware?
Having Amiga venture into the PC, could allow Amiga games to run from PC with the proper hardware and also from AmigaOne or from whatever system.
I guess that IF there were good games released only on the AmigaOne in the future, it would be much easier to simply port to code, instead of asking the user to buy custom hardware add-ons to run the games.
There could be a card for the Amiga 4000, the Amiga 2000, the Amiga 500. . .and couldn't it all be condensed into an integrated circuit or something??
Not, it would be not worth the effort. The classic Amiga is already severely outdated, there's no point in upgrading them even further since there're already new Amiga motherboards out.
But the point I'm trying to make, would be that if we really see Amiga everywhere, that might be far preferable to PC. I mean, would you really want to buy Windows for your Amiga?? I think there definitely appears to be a shortage of operating systems for PC clones, but have you seen the motherboards? Maybe if Amiga could put an OS into the PC, that Amiga boards could eventually be licensed like the PC boards. . .that should happen in 30 years anyway, shouldn't it, after the copyright wears off?
Which copyright? On the Amiga brand? Why do you think that this copyright is a bad thing?
Part of the Amiga vision I was reading about, suggested that any device should be just another potential device to run Amiga programs on. So I shouldn't be surprised to see Amiga treat a PC motherboard like any other object, like a handheld PDA, like any piece of hardware that could run Amiga software.
But this is what Amiga inc. was already trying to do in these years!
I think we can agree that Workbench would benefit from an automatic window closer. But to address the idea of the CLI,
I don't want my windows to be automatically closed, I want to decide when to close them.
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