How about creating a Open AMIGA Consortium?

[Donar]

Does it make sense to create a AMIGA HW Consortium?
It think we should put the best brains together!

I think the question has to go out to Jens and Elbox and not us.

If they are not interested it would be best to ask on the big sites who is willing to help out on NatAmi HW or Software wise and see who is willing and capable to help.

[Donar]

It's going to be hard enough to get developers to write for the aros machines without expecting them to create 2 or 3 versions, 68k, PPC, PC, a common os will help, if the 68k takes longer to run a program, so be it, at least it will run.

I for one think AROS should be forked.
1. Create a 68k version that runs 3.x Software.
2. Create a "whatever" (AROS 64 with Mem protection) version which uses the 68k version for compatability inside a box or ArosUAE Integration.

=All people happy.

[Donar]

In a lot of ways I think AROS needs classic Amiga and classic Amiga needs AROS. I'd be happier if if in some way classic Amiga were emulated.

To Emulate a real Amiga on "AROS 64" you would need:
A real copy of OS 3.x and/or it's kickstart or a AOS3.x compatible AROS M68k build. I do not think it's smart to rely on copyrighted material for a open source OS to function "properly". So i take it you want AROS M68k too? :-D

A lot of people seem to expect 2 things: For it to happen overnight and for someone else to do it.

People usually pay for Hardware so it's no problem to wait for someone else to do it. On the software side - if everybody (maybe 1000 people) would give 10€ to the Aros Kickstart bounty's the one we expect to do it for us would get 10.000€ for his effort...  

[Donar]

Mac is not really that much more expensive than other NICE PCs.

The problem is they have no "prosumer" model. Either you buy a screen with an integrated computer and only one 3,5 drive (imac) or a 8 core Xeon Workstation (MacPro). I only need a tower with C2D or C2Q two Optical Drives and say 3 HD's. And no i do not like external enclosures. The only way to get this is a Hackintosh...

Ok sorry for being off topic...