Next step for Amiga(like)OS?

[Painkiller]

With the court case dragging on interminably and the outcome seeming to not favor Hyperion, perhaps it is time for the AmigaOS4 team to consider another alternative.

I know there is a lot of bad blood between some of the users of AmigaOS4.x and MorphOS2.x, but I am not up to speed on any details of developer disputes between the AmigaOS4.x team and the MorphOS2.x team. I am sure there must be some animosity between the two teams, but it is a shame that they cannot resolve their differences and work on a common goal and project. Take all that talent and knowledge from both OSes and create a new Amiga compatible and "Amiga like" OS that is a step into the future for everyone. Stop fighting each other and work together and maybe something worth attracting the buying dollars/pounds/euros of the few remaining Amiga fans and maybe a few curious Linux users, or dissatisfied Windows users.

I personally am leaning toward getting and using MorphOS2.x, but would much rather see a combined effort which results in something bigger and better than both AmigaOS4.x and MorphOS2.x.

Let's bring the two split parts of the Amiga community back together.

I know that this is all just wishful thinking, but what can it hurt to express it? Please no "Red" or "Blue" trolls here.

IMO MOS 2.0 is allready the OS that we as an Amiga community should be leaning towards. It currently has readily available hardware to run on + it is a very finished OS. Ofcourse there are still bugs to be get rid off.

I have MOS 2.0 currently installed on my PEG II and I haven't had this good "Amiga" experience in years. The system is responsive, it support modern USB devices out of the box etc. AOS is far behind and it has little to none hardware to run on etc. There isn't a single good program to run on AOS that wouldn't have been ported to MOS or have a better alternative at MOS.

MorphOS-Team really delivered this time, just hope you guys can solve Efika problems and port it to mac mini soon.

[Painkiller]

I take it from your message above that MorphOS2.0 is much more stable on your Peg than some of the reports we have been seeing of it running with difficulty on the Efika, is that correct?

Yes MOS 2 is very stable on PEG II tough I haven't yet used much of it features. But it has been on 24/7 for two days now. Only program that I have had crash on me is Sputnik. From what I have been reading on Morphzone, MOS 2 is currently quite unusable on Efika, so I really really hope they fix the remaining issues soon so that Efika owners can really see what MOS 2.0 is about.

[Painkiller]

Uhh I hate the so called modern OSs... Software developers just don't care anymore what they make, instead its quanity at the cost of usability. Many programs are way too heavy than what they should be and new hardware are used to make up for that... Back in the days of Amiga, software were created for the hardware not the other way around.

People just don't seem to care nowadays they just think that hey this is the way it should work when many things could be done a hundred times better...

[Painkiller]

Uh well we are now in an era where you have to constantly upgrade your computer to use the same freaking features and for what? For nothing. I think modern computers should be more consolised, so that you wouldn't have to upgrade every 2 to 3 years. Maybe a 5 year life span would be nice. That way it would be quaranteed that the software would be made for the specific hardware in mind and most likely a lot more effort would used to optimize it. It would be even easier for the devs, because they wouldn't have to be worrying about wide range of different hardware setups and will their code run on it.

It is really a sad state where modern day computing is, we have so much horse power on these machines yet even half of its potential isn't even used due sloppy coding and differences in hardware. Consoles are a perfect exsample how much platforms can actually be pushed once it matures and people learn to code for it, but that isn't going to happen in PC world ever.

That being said I think it would make perfect sense to port MOS 2 to PS3 as it is going to be around for many years to come and its succesor most likely will also support other OSs.

So please MOS team let us have it on PS3 Other hardware that you are planning on using it are pretty much dead.

[Painkiller]

@bloodline

No I want a computer that actually works and is not bug ridden I don't see how that is possible when there is so much variety in hardware.

People have different opinions you know...

Surely MOS is quite full of bugs, but a small team is working on it and I would think it is a lot easier for them to get rid of the bugs with one hardware in mind than thousands of different combinations.