A new Amiga Classic ?? Discuss!

[GreggBz]

The one valuable commodity that Amiga still has is Amiga OS.
There will not be any mass manufactured mass apeal hardware possiblities, as far as I can see. I'm sure Amiga supporters, myself included, would be interested in such "nostalgic" hardware solutions, but really, I don't think many others would be interested.

With the horrendas bloat in todays operating systems, would'nt it be nice to see something sleek simple and intuitive like Amiga OS for the PC? Or, on more portable hardware, such as palmtops and even perhaps the Gameboy advance? Imagine that with expansion solutions etc.. With Amiga's diverse collection of applications and software, a superportable Amiga OS device would be great. That's my idea.
Something the size of a GBA that not only plays games but does everything a classic Amiga would.

[GreggBz]

AROS is a wonderfull effort, but I was thinking a more native port of classic Amiga OS.

As it stands, AROS is a kind of an OS Wrapper for Linux.

A big company interested in Amiga OS technology for their portable devices.. say Palm? thay had a fleeting interest once. That would really expediate development.

[GreggBz]

I'm guessing that a lot of the substance of AROS is re-engineered linux. Nothing wrong with that, but it's certianly is'nt using the old code from Amiga OS 3.1. I did read the instalation and FAQ pages at the site some time ago, (They mention Linux/FreeBSD a lot)

I just downloaded and burned the boot ISO, and tried it out. Yes, it's nothing like Linux. But wait.. and Xbox is nothing like a PC either.

I'm not supper educated about it here, I don't know, I only tried it once. I did read up on it though.. and from what I understand they are using linux and the code from linux to expediate development, again, nothing wrong with that.

Anyway, they day I can boot Workbench 3.1 on my Game Boy, that's a dream of mine, neato-torpedo. How many geeks would but an alternative operating system for their portable devices for 29.99?

[GreggBz]

OK, My inital reply in this thread was wrong, but not entirely.
I read this,
From the AROS Homepage

"AROS can run natively on the Intel and Amiga computers, but not quite as good as it runs on Linux. AROS library functions are made to run under Linux first, internally using Linux kernel and library calls. This way a programmer has got the opportunity to bother about the implementation of the whole system first, and to bother about the technical details in a later stadium. People are currently working on making the "native" AROS more impressive. The results are very impressive and it is perfectly possible to use AROS as a real (and only) Operating system on an IBM PC compatible machine."
 


This is where i get that idea.