The question noone seems to have answers to is..
okay. Now you got amiga OS on an I7.
What difference does it make when Quake 3 is the most you can put it through?
At least it wouldnt need to be recapped and the battery damage repaired.
But the comment about paying $100 for OS4 that runs on modern Intel hardware hits it on the head- after shipping it costs about $80 for Amiga Forever(deluxe with the DVDs and C64)... Which has sold more copies?
I'm no engineer, but hardware abstraction is a facet of all modern operating systems- the MOS fab is no longer at the Amiga's disposal. Most of us will never see OS4 if it does not evolve to support hardware that makes sense. It really is that simple.