Alan dismissing the handhelds at AmiGBG

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Well... AROS does boot on the Palm devices (they use a 68K compatible CPU, you see).
When that port become more mature you could get a cheap Palm second hand and play with AROS on the move.

It is also certainly possible (desirable) to port AROS to the PocketPC PDAs, something that I have looked at myself.

One key point is that a Desktop OS does not transpose well to a handheld device... Fortunatelly AROS has been designed to allow the GUI to be modified for Embeded systems.

P.S. The PPC cpu is not a good choice for handhelds, I would put my money on the StrongARM. :-)

And... The Amiga Chipset wouldn't make much sense on a hand held device. All you need is a nice fast blitter chip and a 16bit 44.1Khz DAC (so you can listen to your MP3s/OGGs). All the other stuff the Amiga chips provided can now be done much better with a nice fast blitter on a chunky (Hi-Colour/Tru-Colour display).

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Khephren wrote:
I've lost track too  I think Alan has stuck his neck out enough already. If I had any capital i'd design a portable Amiga, probably a little bit smaller than a Psion Netbook. Fifty pence won't cut it however.
     Back to bloodlines ideas about strongarm/fastblitters: that would be great, but would it run all your Amiga apps and games? if it didn't it would be kind of pointless. Also no modern PDA supports 640x512 or 640x480 to my knowledge, which would at least be required to get a lot of amiga apps running. Unless you could get Aros running on a netbook/series7.  Where does aros stand legally anyway? I love the idea of it, but can't believe it is legal.

Concidering that the AROS team have written AROS from scratch (no AmigaOS source code has been studied or used) and taken great care not to use any trademarked names, AROS is perfectly legal.

It certainly is not ilegal to make something which is "compatible" with another thing.

Well binary compatibility with AmigaOS 3.1 would be possible on AROS on the Palm since it uses a 68K compatible CPU.  :-)

But other than that, any new CPU will require programs to be recompiled (not really a problem with C programs) . And this is the crux of the matter with AROS (and indeed AOS4 and MOS since they do not run on 68k cpus, although they have emulation).