And I am not at all opposed to the x86 architecture. I think that's where we should be, but if we are not running our operating system on that architecture what are we doing that's "Amiga" exactly? What's the appeal of getting on those forums and writing about and reading about Amiga if the interest is really Windows and Linux?
I'm starting to wish I had been an Atari user.
We're running into this problem:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus If in 1993 commodore had rebuilt AmigaOS in the same way that microsoft & apple have done since, there would be no problem.
Ideally each machine should come with a kickstart license & the linux distribution should ship with an integrated version of UAE. So you can have apps that use intuition appear like native apps & h/w hitting apps can be run in a window or made to run full screen.
Native applications could be catered for by offering libraries that have the same semantics but then call the real OS (IIRC Apple do something like this to help port old apps).
However moving forward I'd expect new applications to be written for linux & it would just be to create a link to the past.
A branded linux computer would be interesting, calling it an Amiga would probably get a few sales from people who have an attachment to the name. Similar to how the AmigaOS4 machines did. They only had a tenuous link to the old days & all they have ended up with is expensive hardware and a much more limited OS (because they are limiting themselves to how commodore might have done it).
