OS4 on PS3

[Waccoon]

Not another one of these threads.  :roll:

The only way it would happen is if Sony bought Amiga -- and they have absolutetly no reason to do so with far, far better OSes available.

Writing drivers for closed-source platforms is no joyride, either.  In the end, it would cost a fortune.

I also recall that the "multimedia revolution" was supposed to happen with platforms like the 3DO and CDi.  That turned out real well, didn't it?  These machines are made to be game machines, and that's it.  If you want a web browser, e-mail, and word processor, you can do that on a ten year old PC or a super-cheap Mini-ITX and still get decent performance.

Come on, guys... put OS4 on x86, port some Linux drivers, put a dongle on it if you want... and be done with it!  Then we can all finally have what's really missing from the Amiga community: a laptop.

[Waccoon]

It's posters like coldfish, pixie, wacooon and B00tdisk that are slowly killing the Amiga community little by little. If they don't like things they should either start devloping or leave.

Develop on what?  OS4 has no hardware.  OS3 had its run and is not the slightest bit aware of modern standards.  Any property that could be refactored by competent people is locked in the dungeon, for whatever reason.

Lo, the people in charge for the last 15 years have done a terrific job keeping Amiga alive!  Maybe once they release their next proprietary system with a 1,000 manufacturing run and charge $800 for a raw mobo which is nothing more than a PC clone with lots of bugs thrown in for good measure, we can all start developing (porting) software on a largely obsolete OS.

Or, we can make a new Workbench running on standard hardware, with a real kernel, and a completely new shell and multimedia tools, and kill all this political anti-Intel BS.

If the classic community is what you're talking about, go ahead and buy an Elbox Dragon... if it's ever released.