New improved intuition.library version from the Kickstart 3.1

[TheMagicM]

Good job Cosmos.  I'm with ya on this one.

[TheMagicM]

Keep up the good work Cosmos. We need more people working on 3.x and it seems you have done a great job! We should all be thanking you....

Maybe someday 3.x will become open source so it can be developed by the community like it should be at this point...

What if it was released as open source...  I wonder how much better WB 3.x can actually get.

[TheMagicM]

So at the end the question is: want we lay our back in the chair and have fun or want we to fight every moment and let this already crippled Amiga ecosystem fade in obscurity due to excessive litigation and micromanaging? If i was me would let people do what they like all the way to the C&D, to the handcuffs and over!!!!

People will always fight because some hold on to the belief that "Amiga" is worth something in the real world..that its IP/brand/workbench/old 68k code is worth something.  Its not.  If I was filthy rich I wouldnt buy it.  Its outdated and has no techological value.   Its only valuable to the Amiga community.  If WE had it, we could improve on it.  The only way to improve on the 68k machine would be to replace the OS like AROS 68k is trying to do (I havent read a whole lot on it, but it sounds cool).

Its also true that the Amiga community, alot of the folks in it, are tight asses and would rather spend as little as possible.  I sometimes think that everyone is on welfare.   I read about MorphOS being "too expensive" and it should be "half price" or whatever.  People just dont want to pay for anything.  Anyway..I just enjoy what I have and sit back with a bag of popcorn when the SHTF in the Amiga world.

[TheMagicM]

@TheMagicM

About people in the community refusing to spend, that is Commodore's Fault: it provided us with a wonderful powerful machine at a very cheap price, so it is in our culture and DNA to expect the best bang for the buck

I wouldnt say it was "inexpensive".  The Amiga for me was expensive.  I was in high school and worked part time to save the $550 to buy an Amiga 500.  It was even more difficult to get an Amiga 2000. LOL

[TheMagicM]

i see other retro computer scenes thrive because people simply have fun and they don't care anymore about stepping some old copyright or API problems, and where devs and users simply do what they care, and don't try to police others if the way others do something do not follow the "clear one and only way".

Lets compare vs Atari.  They have some fairly modded systems out there like the Falcon.  Have they undertaken a port and moved their OS to a new architecture like MorphOS Devs did?  Or are they still on that ugly old TOS that I remember?   I'm just trying to see which you're comparing.  If its C64, now that is inexpensive...nothing to fight about there.  The "OS" is done..other than new things like Wheels etc..but nothing else to do on that system.  

I am curious to know which other retro systems are going the way Amiga is going though since I dont really keep up with anything but Commodore systems.

[TheMagicM]

I need to explain somethings :
8/ PPC is a complete dead-end, created since the beginning by the ennemies of the Amiga Classics
9/ for of course Atari and Commodore goodbye
10/ with PPC, many Amiga coders loose times & energy for nothing (= no success, only about 5000 AmigaNG users actually versus 5 millions Amiga68k users in the past) : superb trap...

68k is even moreso a dead-end than PPC..but thats another thread for someone else to battle.  I personally dont care for 68k other than for retro gaming.