To the Game Boy Advance or DS?
Some one has already ported
UNIX (Version 5 through a PDP-11 emulator and an abstraction layer) to the GBA.
How about porting Amiga OS (Classic OS, like 3.1) Believe it or not, I imagine this would have a viable market.
I'm looking at the power the DS here, is certainly capable enough to compete with the more robust and twice as expensive PDA's that are currently on the market.
A polished OS would make the DS very marketable in my mind, as an alternative to other PDA's. Particularly since the DS has such an innovative design. In my opinion Nintendo is an innovative company that deserves more attention in the consumer computer market.
Let's face it, the AmigaONE is going nowhere fast. Porting an existing OS to a homogonous platform that is likely to be around for 3-5 years might be a better idea. It just seems like a good fit. Amiga OS has a simple effective and efficient GUI that would suit itself well to handheld devices.
I'm sure the Linux community is eyeing a similar solution, but hey, how suited to the DS is a modern Unixish OS? Not very.
I hope the Amiga COMMUNITY can get it's butts in gear and organize a team to pursue this endeavor seriously. It's an enormous task, but there are so many people still involved with the community I have to believe it's possible. Maybe we can start by writing UNIX guy a letter. He mentions porting Mac OS in the bottom of the article. He's not alone either, there are lots of developers writing neat stuff for the GBA.
......Calling all low level programmers..
Oh and someone rich enough to purchase the SDK and whatever licensing logistics are necessary from Nintendo
