As a (previous) owner of Amiga 1000 I'm looking at the development of Amiga OS 4 and Amiga one and I don't see some stuff which IMHO is really important - not being ported to AOS 4.
A good example is: XFree 4.x
If XFree will be ported, then you'll have TONS of software instantly running on Amiga! Start from QT and KDE apps, GTK and GNOME stuff, Open Office (just recompile!), Multimedia players (Xine is a good example).
I know that a rootless X will not look like an Amiga OS 4 GUI, so what? you'll have the application running, and then it can be ported to fully Amiga GUI, but until then - I can start do some stuff. I'm pretty sure that other ISV will port other apps if they'll see that there's XFree..
As for 3D games - I've seen that 4front will make the Radeon 2D support, but what about 3D? you really don't want to run a 3D game in a software rendering mode - trust me on this one. Been there, done that..
Comments?
Thanks,
Hetz Ben Hamo
(hetz@kde.org, heunique@slashdot.org)
