A bright future for Amiga?

[mdwh2]

that_punk_guy wrote:

Kronos wrote:

How many of those will be ready to live with just RTG-SW ? SW they often never used back in their days ?

That's the sad truth of the matter. 70-80% of the software that made me love the Amiga so much has no chance of running on new Amiga hardware without UAE.

But would you want to? And would you pay hundreds of pounds to run 10-15 year old software? What sort of software do you mean?

For games, I'd say it's better to run under UAE. Firstly, you can run them under the OS, rather than having to shutdown all your applications and reboot into the game. Secondly, whilst UAE has compatibility problems, it seems to be a lot better in general at running old software then current modern day Amigas are.

Things like SoundStudio are a problem though, I agree. It's a shame that it never supported AHI. I wonder if something can be done like happened on Amithlon, where calls to paula are remapped to the sound card?

[mdwh2]

Brianew wrote:
   But, if I want the look and feel of an Amiga, but can't have an Amiga, why would I choose MorphOS over AmigaForever?   Especially if AmigaForever runs the same software and faster?  Sure it's not PPC but I don't care I get more performance and a much greater performance/$ so what's the overriding factor to choose MorphOS?

But exactly the same can be said about AmigaForever versus OS4!

I don't understand what extra special property AmigaOS 4 will have. To suggest that MorphOS is comparable to AmigaForever is absurd - the latter is an emulator that runs on an OS that's not at all related to the Amiga. MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 are/will be native PPC OSs that run Amiga software through emulation, or natively if recompiled for the new OS, and I believe both OSs are supposed to be very similar to AmigaOS 3.x.

At the end of the day, one has to compare *all* solutions, and pick the best that is best for them. I don't see how somehow AmigaOS 4 will be exempt from comparisons with WinUAE.

So if I limit myself to the two options you provided:
Amiga Logo OR Look feel via MorphOS.   I'd have to pick the Amiga Logo.    I already have look feel it's AmigaForever running software quicker then MorphOS.

I've got some stickers with the Amiga Logo on them, I think they were given away in Amiga Format a few years ago. Want me to post them to you, so you can stick on your machine of choice and have both speed and logo?

(And for the record, I use WinUAE - but I choose it over both MorphOS, and any OS that Amiga Inc might produce in future).