To high of prices on new boards

[psxphill]

People keep saying this but there is no desktop ARM hardware to port the OS to. Just tablets, phones and small RPi style machines with no CPU power comparable to even the lowest specced MorphOS/OS4 machine.

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/Exynos/platform_partners_platform.html
 
this looks good http://hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G135235611947

[psxphill]

Are you serious? You don't program on the pc because some of the development software is expensive? That's crazy!

Especially as most development software on the PC is free.
 
Even Microsoft produce free products
 
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/products/visual-studio-express-products
 
Although they seem to intentionally suck at protecting their paid for products to the point they might as well be free too.
 
The Visual Studio 2013 is currently free as well.
 
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/2013-downloads
 
If you hate Microsoft or something then use mingw/msys etc.

[psxphill]

These things are nice but like I said, by the time a port to one is finished it will be out of date and most likely out of production.

It depends on how quick you port. As long as you get a board with open source Linux drivers then a port shouldn't take any more than a month per board.
 
All "new Amiga" hardware is out of date.