Mac PPCs and Amiga PPCs - OS compatibility?

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Samuar wrote:
"share same OS":

Use the same operating system with little or no modifications. Say, get AmigaOS working on both an Apple Mac and AmigaOne from the same CD?

Or get a version of linux that runs on both?

Without emulation.

AMIGAOS that can run on Macs, Amigas... PCs.. Palms... sounds like you want AROS  :-)

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So from my point of view the best thing for the Amiga would be AmigaOS 5.0 on x86!!!

Then use AROS!!!!


oh, and um... yes, I'll hype AROS to all who will listen... and since it's free, and runs on the most common, most powerfull and cheapest hardware avaiable for the desktop... I see no harm in what I do  :-D

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Melaure wrote:
The idea of an Amiga OS 4 running on PowerMac sound great but seem irrealistic. Sure I would buy one if it was the case. But First Apple protect it's hardware, second it's a big job to develop the kernel and drivers for Mac hardware ...

The only real thing in the way of running AOS4 on a mac is AOS4's reliance on uBOOT firmware... any chipset issues could be overcome by looking at the Linux sources.

Already the PPC version of AROS should be able to boot older OF based macs.

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Iggy_Drougge wrote:
Sadly, the PC is the only machine which actually does run AROS. The Amiga port has been abandoned for a long time, though I do hear news about someone investigating its re-portability once more.

What would actually make AROS useful right now would be a port to m68k Macs. They're extremely cheap, and use the same processor, so there should be a high degree of binary compatibility with cleanly written Amiga software, at least if you fill out the blanks in AROS with bits and pieces from your own copy of OS3.

Hmmm, good point.

Booting an Original 68K is a serious issue though... does any one still have the knowledge required to boot these things?

68K port of AROS is fine by the way, it boot the Palm (which uses the 68k compatible Dragonball CPU) fine and also runs (now with touchcreen support)!!!  :-o

Also AROS can now boot OF based PPC boards too... :-)

We're getting there

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Exactly why would AROS be dead slow? Have the programmers been lazy?

No, the suggestion was to run Linux/BSD and then run AROS over that using X11 as the "Hardware interface" for input/output... X11 crawls like a new born baby with no arms and legs (this is most noticable on the 68k :-) ).