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Re: The Future Of The Amiga - Where Do You Stand...
« on: November 26, 2010, 11:32:08 PM »
My standpoint:
I come a long way from 68k, but started migration to ppc more than a decade ago. I sold all my 68k stuff except a vanilla A600. I like the Arcade replay though and am thinking of accquiring one for the retro part in me.
But I am not much of a retro guy, but look rather forward. I try to get the best and most optimized solution. Hence I migrated to MorphOS. Currently I use it for about 90% of my private computing things (Skye is one of the few things I boot Linux or OS X for) and a good amount of my job's computer things.
MorphOS is highly optimized and matured, many apps available for it are really nice. I think it is the most advanced Amigaish system today *by far*.
But I also like AROS. It is open source and free and catches up. And it runs on even more hardware. For MorphOS and OS4 on ppc the air is rather thin on the hardware side. MorphOS at least supports proven, easily and cheaply availabe hardware that is good enough for the next couple of years.
What I also like on MorphOS is the developers and most users. Usually they view things rather realistic. No pipe dreams, but realistic views. And I use MorphOS since the 0.4 release and while many things during the first half of the recent decade didn't developed as hoped the MorphOS team didn't quit but proceeded and the development pace is good today.
The next big step will be the powerbook support. And while I used WinUAE on a laptop ages ago, this will be a new level (this is where AROS actually leads).
Plus, it is big fun to see OS X struggle on things that MorphOS does on the same hardware quite well.
With my about 10 years af MorphOS support I thing I drove quite well and don't see a point to change that. But I will take AROS more into consideration as well (but it is still miles awaay from MorphOS) and maybe add myself an arcade replay maschine for fun of it.