CLS2086 wrote:
For me and lots of friends, AROS is just an Amiga Based Emulator not as good as WinUAE.
For me the Pegasos and A1 are just an Amiga based emulator not as good as WinUAE. I know why you and your friends don't take it seriously - twenty year old processor architecture grudges that have been completely moribund for longer than most people now can remember.
No one cared when Apple moved to x86, because their fanbase doesn't believe in some bizarre hardware cult that says 68k and PPC are holy and pure and x86 is the work of the devil, it may have been a clunky and outdated architecture in the past, but now it's the best option there is for the desktop market, pretty much because there is no alternative.
Pegasos and AOS4 have a dim future, pretty similar to any dead platform, like classic AOS, the C64, the AtariST, etc. MorphOS will live on longer than OS4 since there is actually hardware available for it but your hardware for that is now stuck forever at the tech level of 2005.
As for a 'market' for an Amiga product, I don't really think there ever was one after C= went bankrupt, outside of devoted fans who will steadily dwindle. A market for the OSs on the other hand is a different matter.
IF Apple hadn't basically decided to terminate the life of the desktop PPC market then MorphOS could have had a pretty bright future as a niche platform like any of the PPC Linux distros, but now I think even they have shadows looming let alone MorphOS. OS4 compounds that problem with the complete bar-stewardse at AInc who seem intent on killing their own platform.
AROS is a nice idea, but until it gets more apps; until it gets useable to the degree that a classic Amiga is, very few of the fanbase will move over to it. Combine this with the 'religion' of PPC that seems to have a very strong hold on some here and I doubt it'll grow a userbase from the few Amiga fans left.
If AROS does become more useable as an everyday OS, which for me means just and office package, a web browser, a paint/art package and a media player, that's what I consider the core apps of any OS that many people use on a constant basis, then I'll definetly have a little harddisk set aside for it. I reckon that's the only way it'll get users.
