Glaucus wrote:
Also, this website about generic PPC systems, as bbrv would like you believe, highlights the AmigaDE - which as far as I am aware of DOES NOT EXIST FOR THE PPC. In fact, it has only been marketted for the x86 market.
AmigaDE for PPC depends on intent for PPC, doesn't it? And according to the intent 2 whitepaper, intent RTOS does support PowerPC. So it shouldn't be much of a trick to implement AmigaDE on PPC, if somebody sees a good reason to do it.
I'm not altogether sure what the motive was to set up a Genesi AmigaDE-for-PPC web site at this time; I imagine a combination of things. But the reason AmigaDE hasn't gone anywhere for several years is, I think, mainly Amiga, Inc. There is still a market for some kind of common API on mobile devices. I just got a Java-capable cell phone and was checking out what was available for it. I was surprised to find that Java games, etc. have to be 'ported' explicitly to each kind of device due to screen resolution differences, etc. I'm a newbie in mobile devices but if this is true, then there seems to be potential for something like intent, and maybe AmigaDE if it really does extend intent in a way that matters. Maybe it makes sense to consider an "AmigaDE" kind of thing apart from the context of the failing IP holder.
-- gary_c
