u guys must be mental or something ..sorry but wtf are you guys on about?
we have 3 alternatives on X86 allready , have they sold so much copies of new games or software the last years to actually make that arguement valuable?...NO.
you guys (and haynie too) are missing a crucial thing here, morphos and os4 has been dooing everyting on their own more or less and with slaggin like this...we just feel very proud ...ugh.
look at all the fancy stuff mos and os4 has, look how stagnated the 68k arena is, ever crossed your mind why? ...well they moved to the new plattforms to build it up for the final release or whatever ,sure there is problems but its nothing daily to write an os and trying to keep up with the ever so fast growing times of the OS wars (by that i mean keeping up with all the dubious standards microsoft creates or whatever etc)
putting all PPC efforts in a catagory like has been done here today is disturbing and one thing is for sure , you can not run a company if you havent got it close to your heart.
The biggest problem that is on linux theese days is (and has been for many years) is that since its an second alternative OS to windows (for most USERS anyway) ...so what do that mean? ... well it means alot of things but one thing in particular, they expect everything on linux to be FREE and if they buy a game for windows they expect it to be free on linux because it got released 1 day later or 3 years later, this is why companies like Loki died though some survived but hardly because theyre running linux only companies and living of the actual sales.
i agree with things haynie says and thoose are the commercially viable stuff like if we go mainstream...we wont make much progress with any of our alternatives (morphos/amigaos) as it stand today because of the current MHZ /GB wars but hello... i belived it was time to show the world what a slow ass machine can do if the OS running on it was amazing , doing such on a x86..sure would probably be cool but who will support and make drivers for the millions of types of boards and so on? ..who will pay for that? ..u would be bankrupt before 4 dentists showed up with a big money bag because you wouldnt even have had something to show them in the scheme u set up in advance...
people are too obsessed by owning everything a store has ...what happened to..buy something ...let it be a washermachine or a dvd player and use it till it fails and not run and upgrade just because it has the wrong color or the new model has a new feature that you wouldnt use anyway.
anyway i find this thread insulting to our efforts with both OS4 and MorphOS , afterall they are the future OS's you guys will most likely use (since this is still an Amiga board...aint it?....) (aros and morphos works closely at some parts it seems and winuae is getting better every day but the future of OS4 and MorphOS last i checked was not X86....)
and btw to all thoose in here who belive in x86 and so on.... commodore (and amiga) died because of their x86 waste of money (and time) production runs just to try and make money...it didnt go very well ofcourse as we know
sorry for going bananas here but u guys pressed a nerve and damned good too ....Stop that.
