Amiga Coldfire project dead?

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Hahahhaha, that is the beauty of then iPhone autocorrect... :roll:

haha,... gotta love a comment on autocorrect that has a demonstration of the downside of autocorrect in it  

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Because there are millions of motherboard/graphics/audio/hdd controller/network card combinations even in just the last 5 years. And that doesn't include all the laptop models. The mind boggles!

PPC via stuff like Warp OS is much further. ARM has 100s of combinations at best and PPC not much more either.

This is why Windows is such bloatware probably. But Windows has 70% drivers from previous releases completed anyway most of the time.

This train of thought always baffles me.
Those same nic/gfx/sound/scsi/sata/etc. cards are also options for other architectures. The only thing that's specific to an architecture (besides the arch itself) is core logic (and even that isnt arch dependant all the time). AROS has done fine over the years on multiple north/south bridge combos without needing specific support for them (as is the case with modern computing), why would it be different for any other OS ? If x86 isnt an option due to the sheer volume of options then either is arm, ppc, 68k, etc systems with agp/pci/usb/etc... too many options  

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I'm wondering how does the Falcon work then

Or even the TT's ?  
Having said that I dont know a lot about the ST range of machines, I mostly just remember adverts in magazines from when I was a teenager. Is the ST restricted to any specific version of TOS ? (ie. is there infact a hardware restriction that keeps ST owners updating ?)

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How many actual drivers are there for PPC boards with PCI or AGP? Nobody will be buying anything like all of the 1000s of different video cards that may physically slot into a PPC board if there is no OS4 driver really.

Now that's actually pretty close to my point. Why would this fact change just because the cpu type is different? There's thousands of options for any machine that has even a few industry standard connection types. If a person is interested in something they'll buy what works (as per your os4 example). There's simply no need to support everything. This doesnt limit you to only a few motherboards either, and doesnt need as much maintainance as a lot of people seem to think. ich7 based boards have been in existance for about 3 years now for example and Ive used a few different chipsets on a few different motherboards to update my aros machine in that time without issues. I beleive AROS also supports ich8/ich9 as well, but Ive never bought one. Anyway, this is slightly off topic, but just an example.

 At the end of the day I simply dont buy into x86's potential options being a show stopper, or even really an obstacle. Having said this though Im perfectly happy for things to stay as they are with each platform having it's own reasons to be happy about how things are going at the moment.

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Actually there's a side of 2d that AGA completely blitzed the megadrive/mega cd and that's bitmap handling. For pure arcade style gaming the megadrive is easier to get good results with, but that doesnt mean the amiga isnt capable of it too as was occasionally demonstrated (albiet too infrequently). You cant compare based soley on paper type specs, anyone who knows the amiga hardware knows that what it's capable of isnt reflected on paper. In the case of the cd32 I do agree though. An additional meg fast ram wouldve been a much better idea than akiko. The extra speed added via fast ram wouldve done just as good a job in reagrds to 3d, but it could also be used elsewhere as well and benefitted the system.