[UserReview] Vampire V2-128 received and it's just pure p0rn.

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Yes I can, and you can too. There are even HAM6 and HAM8 icon sets around, and arexx scripts to generate HAM6 and HAM8 icons from images. It was also quite common back in the days to use HAM8 display for IBrowse and AWeb, with HAM8 capable datatypes for images.

Please stop making your own history. HAM8 modes are/were quite slow, and it was far from (quite) common to use them for anything else than showing images.

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Err, what? Of course the sources for 3.X exist. It's not developed because everybody here tells me "go away, we have no interest in it". That's a difference.  Again, I've no problem if people prefer AROS - that's a choice everybody can make - but don't tell me that there are no sources for 3.X. There most certainly are, and they would be most certainly be used if there would be interest in a - albeit closed source, paid - development.

Err, what? From your answer is unclear (at best) who is interested and who is not. I suppose users are interested for quite a long time. They proved it by buying OS3.5/3.9/AmigaForever/on forums, many many times. Parties who are NOT interested are copyright owners and developers (yes developers too, if we agree that there is the way how to reach the license and sources).

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Part of the discussion was that P96 was to be bought completely by Hyerion (they currently only have a license). This money goes from Hyperion to T&A. Where is this money supposed to come from?

The very moment P96 gets into Hyperion's claws it is essentially lost for 68k anyway. Without magical radical change of thinking in Hyperion, I think it is not possible to collaborate with them on such thing.