AmigaOS 4.0 for 68k: a viable option forward?

[stefcep2]

Someone fill me in: what software runs on OS4 thats worth all this hassle?

68k AmigaOS has 1000's of titles written for it.  How long will it take for OS4 to get 10% of this?  

Sure it might be fun and I am curious to see OS4 in action, but a new platform is just not viable.  Me I'll fire up my A1200 for the occasional game or demo, Winuae for serious apps that I want to use every now and then, which perfom faster than a top=flight amiga. Sorry guys I've been an Amiga owner for 15 years or so but the time for all of this passed about 10 years ago

[stefcep2]

persia wrote:
I'd like to see a move to Intel architecture, it's cheap and plentiful and you could run virtual Macs and PCs on it for productivity.  There need to be a running in period, where an integrated Amiga classic (68k) would need to run to serve as a bridge until x86 software was developed and the 68K software retired.

 

I always thought PPC was a mistake.  Sure there were some performance advantages over x86 at the time, but Amiga went PPC mainly because they wanted to create a closed-hardware design, where AmigaOS4 wouldn't run easily on generic x86 hardware,  This was ofcourse designed to maximize profits for the hardware developers.  It helped that there was a very anti-intel attitude held by most Amigans at the time, meaning they didn't need to be convinced to go PPC.

[stefcep2]

persia wrote:
I'd like to see a move to Intel architecture, it's cheap and plentiful and you could run virtual Macs and PCs on it for productivity.  There need to be a running in period, where an integrated Amiga classic (68k) would need to run to serve as a bridge until x86 software was developed and the 68K software retired.

 

I always thought PPC was a mistake.  Sure there were some performance advantages over x86 at the time, but Amiga went PPC mainly because they wanted to create a closed-hardware design, where AmigaOS4 wouldn't run easily on generic x86 hardware,  This was ofcourse designed to maximize profits for the hardware developers.  It helped that there was a very anti-intel attitude held by most Amigans at the time, meaning they didn't need to be convinced to go PPC.