@wawrzon:
>im not so much advocating to attract regular customers to aros 68k at this point, but people who care, and are able to contribute in some way.
You seem to be suggesting that there are no regular users left in the community, only programmers. But I think the majority of Amiga users are still non-programmers. Maybe we should have a poll about this.
i am talking to you, among other contributors to this thread, i assume most of whom have some programming experience. in fact its me, who is basically a plain user, occasional but rather incompetent tester and have been trying to make few simple ports to amiga. i agree that most of the plain users who just sometime play a game do not count much in this case even if they could actually motivate aros68k development if there were any.
>finally informed statement about the matter from someone who knows not only aros but os4, mos and genuine amiga from application programming standpoint.
I've programmed for all these systems, so I believe I qualify...granted that for OS4/AROS there are other users that help with testing etc. Several of my programs are available for AROS x86. The rest would also be available, except for the fact that AROS is missing ReAction. How is software supposed to get ported to AROS when AROS lacks basic functionality that is part of the OS (not even undocumented functionality!) that the application absolutely depends upon? (In the interests of fairness, I should point out that both MOS and OS4 are missing some OS3.9 functionality too, but AROS is missing the most though.)
okay, but in case of aros you even could substitute missing components of the system on which your software relies if you really wanted. you dont have such a possibility on closed source alternatives.
so to exemplify and invert your reasoning, you who blame aros developers for the state of aros, namely not working enough or fast enough for you are actually even more to blame if you dont even contribute. aros developers are the same situation as you, making it in their free time, working on what they have fun working on. neither you nor them are on any duty.