Old Mac hardware?? Amiga??

[recidivist]

I agree but that still nly makes a few thousand of us  who can see the obvious  potential;it just isn't enough for somebody to make money !

 There is an enormous amount of G3 Mac hardware sitting idle that can be had for very little;so who ,having spent $20 for the old Mac will spend $200 for MorphOS ?
 
 What we who are willing to use the old G3 hardware want is a cheap OS.

 You(we)(I) have three basic choices and one far-out: run MacOS and Mac programs,run MacOs with E-UAE for Amiga ,run one of the PPC Linux distros  even if it isn't the latest(neither is the G3)..or IF you are a super programmer willing to donate your work (or at least expect no more than pizza and beer money) try your hand at porting MorphOs or AmigaOS and then try to get the blessings of the OS owners to allow its release.

[recidivist]

Piru:
I haven't the slightest;I suppose reverse engineering?
Notice I never suggested that I  have the knowledge ,expertise,or anything to do ports.
 There are a few who go to extremes just to prove older hardware CAN do tasks either  not envisioned or not implemented  during the time such computers were new.
 Sure commercial developers get to play with the new hardware months before it hits the stores but the hobbyist programmers had to wait,and often learn new tricks in programming;the dedicated hobbyist seldom counts the time spent in finding how to push performance,while his counterpart who is being paid must justify hours spent.

 Owners of pre-G4 Mac might as well simply use the latest available MacOS release that works on their computer (or the latest linux available) and the best programs released for that computer during its  commercially useful life-those programs that cost $500 to run on that $3500 Mac can both be found for pennies on the $ now.
 
 Some people dumped classic Amiga hardware when it became commercially obsolete : as in the truckload of Amiga 4000s and Video Toasters I missed out on by minutes about 10 years ago.Seller  accepted $100 just to get rid of that old stuff.
 Businessmen depriciate the equipment and move on; it is only the hobbyists who see value in old cars,old computers,cancelled stamps,etc.

[recidivist]

If our friends at Cloanto  could make an Amiga Forever for Apple that works as well as their AF for Windows ,I think it would sell .
 If someone was going to use an older Mac as their Amiga emulator or stand-in then also it might make sense to "freeze" the MacOS enviroment ;that is specify EXACTLY which version of MacOS be running in order to limit the programming variables.

 Maybe Hyperion and Acube should contact the Chinese factories that made some of the last Commodore and Amiga  hardware?
 Wonder what it would cost for a new run of A1200s ? Might want to leave out the floppy drive to cut costs and just use ADF.Think yhe would sell a 1000 ?