Quick Gary Hare IRC report, no more 3rd party AmigaOS after OS4.0.

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My point is, if Amiga Inc wants to move on, that's their right and more power to them, but they should have the cahones to straight up say "this is this and that is that"

It's so vague on the future I wonder if they have a plan at all.  I suspect there's something political going on.

I notice Ben isn't talking about OS4 beyond 4.0 and tempering that with "if it makes money" I expect it's making something but not much...

My guess is Amiga inc. are not the least bit interested in OS4 and don't have any plans for OS5, but I don't think they're just going to give away the rights.


Why the interest in DE?
Probably because 674 million phones were sold *last year*.

To put it into perspective, the size of the Amiga market is not even 1/100,000 of a % of that.


It's a wonder they don't just give away the rights to OS4...

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I've jokingly stated that I'd trade it all for a Canon Digital Rebel XT kit

How about gettting the camera anyway and thinking about it while you're off taking pictures?


BTW I thoroughly reccommend the EOS digital range, the quality is absolutely fantastic.

I just want everyone who's bothered to read this far to take a few steps back from the Amiga for a moment. Breathe deeply and think about the things (about the Amiga) that are really frustrating you.

The trolls.
Arguments between the sides are to be expected but some folks like to make life difficult.  Then there's the idiots - those who really believe theirs is the only "true" path.

There's not that many of either but unfortunately they are very noisy and very good at getting people arguing.

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The platform needs to be advanced if it is to grow and become anything better than a retro hobby.  That means full memory protection and if possible at east partial POSIX compliance (will make life a lot easier if you want apps like OO or Firefox).

Doing these however will break compatibility with pretty much everything.  However the suggestion of using an exo-kernel could help in that it allows 2 OSs to run simultaneously - you could have two very different versions of the same OS running side by side and with the Amiga using seperate windows for apps it could proably be made quite seamless.

That't be a good start, there'll be a lot more to do - BeOS was at that level 9 years ago...