1. Different flavours of x86
2. Tonnes of Different North Bridges
3. Tonnes of Different South Bridges
4. Tonnes of Differnet Bios's
5. Tonnes of Differnet Ethernet controllers
6. Different ATA controllers.
Etc Etc Etc.
Who is going to support this lot Hyperion or You?
They don't have the man power or money to support X86 boards.
The Motherboard manufacturers why should they care about helping to port the HAL to their hardware when it will only sell a few copies.
Piracy.... X86 AmigaOS will be as easy to downloads as the latest windows iso's and sales will be in the low thousands.
Only curious people who just want to have a play with a bit of money to spend will buy it.
Why bother running Amiga OS when the temptation is to great to use windows.
Just going to boot internet explorer and outlook to send an email. While I'm their i'll launch kazza to get that latest song i like. etc etc etc.
I'm guilt of it myself I hardly ever turn my Amiga on these days. Appart to play Payback now and Again. But I hope to sell my PC as soon as a decent level of software arrives.
I'm not gonna sit on my arse. I spent 5 years programming at university and I'm looking forward to start doing it again on OS4.
Look at BEOS.... Dead
Linux... Redhat is laying people off.
PPC is the way to go. Why do you think Phase5 / Bplan went with PPC as well.
Current A1 board prices include the OS so you dont need to pirate it. Whats so different to your current Classic Amiga.
I bet if you bought an A1200 8 years ago and you had no workbench disks or they forgot to put the ROMs in there you would be straight on the phone to C= / Shop demanding them.
Old amigas had a Kickstart ROMS New Amigas have the same functionally but has to be installed from a CD. Appart from thats their is not much difference.
