Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs

[EDanaII]

Clever people have figured out how to run Leopard on non-mac WIntel boxes. It almost runs on my T30, and if I had the time to figure it out...

It could be done for OS 4 and PPC, it would just take time and resources...

Ed.

[EDanaII]

ACube showed Bill McEwen a screenshot of it running during an IRC chat session. Unfortunately Amiga Inc. wouldn't give them a license, and ACube have had to suspend its development.

I have to wonder about this. If OS 4 can be made to run on a Mini, then it's a matter of supplying the proper drivers and, perhaps, overriding a protection scheme... any license needed should be from the purchase of OS 4, so all ACube needs to do is sell it as an "enhancement" to OS 4. I'm just not sure why they need to seek a license beyond formality, and, perhaps, not to incur the wrath of Amiga Inc.

Ed.

[EDanaII]

Yup. Just like there's never gonna be Mac on Intel, or Mac on non-mac hardware...

[EDanaII]

[Edited because I posted in wrong thread] :-)

[EDanaII]

@ dammy:

That and piracy of their OS. I doubt they are too concerned with A1 owners booting the OS4 up on a mini-Mac, but the piracy of their OS by those not owning a A1 should be of high concern to them. I expect to see emergency petitions going to the Federal court sometime this week by AI and Itec.

What you say could very well be true, but... wouldn't it be nice if AI actually did something FOR their users instead of constantly frustrating them? What a concept!

Ed.