BigBenAussie wrote:
Why not port AmigaOS to that!!!
Because AInc
in their infinite wisdom decided to kill AmigaOS by letting an irrelevant computer shop called Eyetech have a say, so now you have to pretend that there's still "
Amiga hardware". Macs would be among the obvious hardware targets for a desktop PPC OS like AmigaOS4+, but now there's a scheme in place that makes this impossible (at least in a legal and income-bringing way).
We all know the A1 is going to be expensive, but how does that compare to the price and features of a Mac.
"Poorly" would be an understatement.
The closest Mac counterpart to the current top of the line "AmigaOne" licensed hardware, a Teron PX motherboard w/ a 933MHz G4 (sold underclocked to 800 MHz?), would be the cheapest "budget" model, the eMac.
US$800 will get you either a licensed Teron PX
motherboard with
these specs, or a complete eMac
computer with: 1 GHz G4, 128MB RAM, 40GB HD, Radeon 7500 32MB, 17" CRT screen, DVD/CDRW drive, Firewire, modem, mouse, keyboard, speakers, MacOS X Panther, MS Office and a heap of other software.
For the money required to build a reasonably equipped computer with the Teron PX mobo, you'll get e.g. a PowerMac G4, a low-end PowerMac G5 or a high-end iBook. Not to mention the second hand Mac market...
And most of you guys are arguing betwen A1 and the Pegasos when a Mac PowerPC computer is out already.
Yes, those arguments are so stupid and utterly pointless. I suppose that some believe that one piece of hardware is "more Amiga" than the other, or something along those anachronistic lines. It's all just hardware. A commodity to users, and a necessity for an OS. Make and sell the software (AmigaOS), and let your customers choose themselves where they prefer to buy their hardware.
What about IBM? Do they make and power PC computers?
Yes, although I doubt their stuff would be a commercially viable hardware target for Hyperion to pursue. We're talking expensive and not-aimed-at-consumers stuff like RS/6000 workstations, development/evaluation mobos and computer-on-PCI-cards.
But if AmigaOS was allowed to be installed on hardware regardless of whom you buy it from, and thus also available in a shrinkwrapped box, I suppose there would be nothing stopping third parties from writing "officially unsupported" drivers for whatever they like.
And if UAE runs under a MAC and UAE gets an OS4 port aren't we in business anyway.
UAE emulates a 68k Amiga. AmigaOS 4 will run on PPC Amigas and "AmigaOnes".
