Which OS Would Be The Best Amiga Way Forward...

[Fab]

MorphOS, I've only ever experienced this on a very old version on a real Amiga with a PPC board. I have to say it was just awful and totally useless, from what I know of it now and have seen and read on various sites it's actually even worse now than the old version I tried and seems to me personally to be of little value or use in regard to having a new OS that at least give you that feeling that you're still using an Amiga. So for me I reckon MorphOS is best consigned to the dustbin...

Nice troll.

[Fab]

Hi,
Go back and play with your slow, no go 1.4 ghz PPC, who knows one day you might even figure out how to get it to run a DVD movie (in black and white).

Sorry to tell you MorphOS plays DVD just fine since years (on a 1.4GHz CPU, playing a DVD takes something like 35-40% CPU).

And now, what about taking your meds and be a bit less emotive about a mere computer? Who the hell cares if Apple is a sect, these ppc mac don't profit Apple anymore, anyway. The point is to use semi-decent hardware. And yes, even these old crappy macs still outperform AROS on recent PCs in several areas, thanks to a better optimisation of the OS or applications.

[Fab]

Sounds similar to the transparent API calls that are used in OS4 and MorphOS to me. Are you saying that something that already exists on OS4 and MorphOS is impossible to implement in AROS, and if you are saying this why do you believe it?

But EmuAmiga has to deal with the endianess issue. Structures on the host (on x86 & co, anyway) are littleendian while the emulation side deals with bigendian structures.

Since all the amiga applications peek/poke in system structures, this adds quite some challenge compared to MorphOS/OS. EmuAmiga tries to resolve this in its way, but it's certainly not trivial at all, and it has to be seen if it can even work properly for real world applications (but just read what piru pasted from the author himself, it describes it much better).