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Offline hbarcellos

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Re: Interest in buying a Mac version of Amiga OS4.x
« on: August 12, 2011, 02:59:00 PM »
I finally understood the AOS 4 point.
They think that Amiga OS must run on original HW designed for it. That's what made Amiga what it was back in the late 80's.
It might be a "sacrilege" running Amiga OS on an "OLD" hardware. Even if the newly designed HW is less powerful and cost 3x times a dual liquid-cooled G5 Power Mac.

They probably know that just a small group of people will pay a lot of money for the new HW. But maybe the difference in revenue for including support for old macs it's not worth going against their principles...

Those are just my 0.001 cents! :)
Rgds,
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Re: Interest in buying a Mac version of Amiga OS4.x
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2011, 08:59:19 PM »
Quote from: Heiroglyph;654309
I voted no.

MorphOS is already available for that platform, plus it seems to be improving faster and they seem to be more responsive to the community.  It's hard to tell OS4 exists at all between yearly press releases.

Go to x86 or ARM faster/better than Aros or do a real 68K update and I'll spend some money with them again.


How long between Amiga OS classic versions?
1 to 2?
2 to 3?

Why do we need to have constant updates for an architecture that tries to revive the golden Commodore years? Just to watch the latest blockbuster trailer on html5's youtube?
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}~ Powermac Quicksilver 933 with Radeon 9600 XT (r300) LOUDLY running MorphOS 3.2
}~ [MY iOS GAME]: http://goo.gl/S9nWB (Amiga users can get it FREE[/color], just ask me)
 

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Re: Interest in buying a Mac version of Amiga OS4.x
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2011, 10:02:24 PM »
What are we trying to achieve?

Even Apple didn't had a modern browser, neither nice games or real useful apps until this iOS hype that drastically increased their users base.
}~ A1200 - Apollo 68040 - HOTLY running OS 3.1
}~ Powerbook G4 1.67 running MorphOS 3.2 without Wifi.
}~ Powermac Quicksilver 933 with Radeon 9600 XT (r300) LOUDLY running MorphOS 3.2
}~ [MY iOS GAME]: http://goo.gl/S9nWB (Amiga users can get it FREE[/color], just ask me)