What if??

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Ken86Stang wrote:
What do you think the Amiga world would be like today if Amithlon had never run in to legal problems and was still under development?

We would probably have a new Amiga platform by now

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Tension wrote:
Sorry if im a bit slow... but what is Amithlon, and what problems did it run into?   Could it have been Bill McCock??

Amithlon, was a 68K CPU emulator that ran on a cut down Linux kernel. This could be booted on an ordinary x86 machine and then boot into AmigaOS... It gave AmigaOS full access to the hardware an also allowed specially written native x86 programs run as well... It ran into all sorts of problems, which I'm sure Bernie doesn't really want dragged up again... I suggest you google it... :-D

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swift240 wrote:


    Amithlon, was a 68K CPU emulator that ran on a cut down Linux kernel. This could be booted on an ordinary x86 machine and then boot into AmigaOS... It gave AmigaOS full access to the hardware an also allowed specially written native x86 programs run as well... It ran into all sorts of problems, which I'm sure Bernie doesn't really want dragged up again... I suggest you google it...


I was thinking that if that is all it does, then why not use AmiKit?
AmiKit does the same, it literely piggy backs of a 86x system.
Utilising the graphics and sound and HD and any CD/DVD ZIP, USB stuff.

Mike.

I quite agree, in fact winuae would probably offer you much more now. But Amithlon was rather low level, offering little more than 68k emulation in theory offering a speed advantage over UAE with it's full chipset emultion. When it was released it offered a real computing platfrom for future Aos development... Not too dissimilar to Apple's hardware archicture migration... Now UAE is probably better choice for all users

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Trev wrote:
Amithlon would have been quite useful as a device driver development platform, as it was considerably faster than a real 680x0 and supported OpenPCI, among other things. Oh well....

It would have allowed a steady migration to x86...

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trekiej wrote:
Does anyone know who produced it?  I know that Bernie worked on it.  I believe haage-partner sold it.
What was closed about it?

I heard that a color wheel was a problem with the IP.

H&P screwed over Bernie.. enough said.

The Colour Wheel was from OS 3.9 was from AROS... no IP issue.

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Sadly Bernie doesn't post here anymore... I don't know why... umisef hasn't logged in for years...

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trekiej wrote:
I wonder if Bernie would work on AROS?
If he hasn't already.

I'm not sure AROS would hold much interest for him... Though I expect some of his work will make it into AROS via the UAE integration bounty.