Is THIS AmigaOS 5

[Nlandas]

Lemmink wrote:

Could someone enlighten me whats so "AmigaOS" about it, except for the name of course?

Absolutely nothing, but that was the plan of AInc from the very beginning.

Supposedly, it's a full AmigaOS running over top a host OS. It boots up AmigaOS and runs the software. It's small enough and fast enough since, it's binary not interpreted to take on JAVA as an execution environment.

Now take it to the next step as it will apparently load Workbench as well. So it's an AmigaOS Kernel that can run on virtually any OS and potentially any hardware with a small boot Kernel. So put port it to all of the different hardwares that are being made by different people in the OS community and run the new OS 4 workbench on it.

It really looks promising, if they'd get a product out the door. I'll give them until the OS 4 legal wranglings are over before I pass final judgement.

[Nlandas]

Matt_H wrote:
Sigh. This *might* have been cool 5 years ago, but I can't understand why anyone would develop for this platform now. There must be a huge overhead involved, and the advent of cross-platform media libraries (SDL, etc.) makes platform scalability almost redundant.

Huge overhead? AmigaOS? The original ran in 256K or RAM right? With a 7Mhz 68000. I think the overhead is actually minimal and you end up with a binary environment versus an interpreted one. I know we all love our Classic Amigas but this is something new and I've waited this long.

I think I'll give it until the OS 4 wranglings are completed before I throw in the towel.