Opinions on AmigaOS4 from OSNews

[Lando]

I read this a while ago, and I think it is completely objective.  What makes it so is that it comes from someone outside the Amiga scene.  Someone without an agenda, someone without a like / dislike for any or the parties involved.  Someone who is simply interested in using Amiga OS 4 but can't because of Amiga Inc's stupidity and short-sightedness.

The sad thing is that he may as well be talking to a brick wall.  Amiga Inc don't give a **** about AmigaOS and never have.  Since the day they took over their motivation was to coax Amiga developers away from the Amiga and into coding games for Tao Elate.

Amiga users are nothing but a mild irritation to Amiga Inc when they bring up things Amiga Inc would prefer forgotten, or when they are bombarded by emails from 'True Amigans' asking about Amiga Inc's plans (as if they have any) for AmigaOne / OS4.

They will carry on selling their Casino games for Pocket PC, and carry on ignoring the irrelevant Amiga users.

It seems like this is finally starting to pay off for them - they've sold ~1000 copies of that Casino game over at Handango (it may even pay for the bike).

[Lando]

An interesting Fleecy quote I noticed linked from that thread on aw.net

A formal approach for the AmigaOS would first of all require that the product be a PPC platform. It would then require that the device actually be available and selling in numbers that provide a business opportunity.

Looking at those criteria, it seems a product must be available and selling in numbers before they can even approach Amiga Inc for an OS4 licence.  

Looks like Powervixxen and Amy'05 are both dead in the water then.  They'd have to release them with no OS / no use whatsoever (apart from an expensive ornament), and sell in them sufficient numbers (think tens of thousands) to provide a business opportunity, and THEN approach Amiga Inc to ask for an OS4 licence.

Certainly seems like AROS is the best hope for any kind of future.  Just needs more people pulling in that direction.

[Lando]

lou_dias wrote:
Gee, all this talk of supporting cheap hardware and porting to platform xyz...

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makes me think
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maybe they current Amiga owners have it right with the Amiga Anywhere virtual machine philosophy!

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you've all been to blind to accept it!

:flame:

AmigaDE was simply useless.  It served no purpose.  I don't see what this has to do with AmigaOS porting?  AmigaDE was a bunch of API extensions for TAO Intent.  As far as I can tell their main use was for drawing alpha-blended rectangles on a Windows desktop.

Five years of AmigaDE's existence and there currently exists 13 titles at ShopAmiga.com, the vast majority of which barely on a par with an Amiga 500 PD game circa 1988.  There seems to be about 1 new title a year.

And if it's 'run the same binary anywhere' why do you have to choose between a separate Pocket PC and Windows Mobile Smartphone versions when you download Casino?  And why does gobbler have separate versions for Pocket PC and Windows? And why do most of the other say that they only work on Pocket PC?

Surely if you download a supposedly _portable_ 'AmigaAnywhere' binary, you simply take the memory card out of your pocket PC PDA and plug it into your Windows laptop or Symbian phone, or Windows Mobile Smartphone and carry on playing?  Apparently not.

Amnyway, people still want to use AmigaOS.  I haven't seen *any* posts asking about progress on AmigaDE - in contrast to the hundreds of threads or forum posts asking about OS4 progress / release date.