How dead is the AMiGA OS this time?

[Piru]

@countzero

genesi says it's not planning any new platform for the morphos

I'm sorry but I can't see how this is relevant. MorphOS will run on any hardware the we decide to add support for, Genesi or other.

[Piru]

Well, at least we own our OS, and don't need to worry about licensing issues.

[Piru]

@countzero

Well, the theory is flawed: There are no rights to "get", Pegasos II designs are free for everyone.

[Piru]

@Agafaster

no reason, other than linux being freeware, and both Morphos and OS4 arent. they would need to do it official like, which would mean approaching Apple.... you can work the rest out!

Why would anyone need to contact Apple?

[Piru]

@Agafaster

cos they own the hardware, no matter how 'obsolete', and the rights to decide who runs what OS on it.

No, they do not have the right to block any OS running on their hardware, and they don't even try. They DO try to block Mac OS X running on non-apple hardware, however (and years ago Apple stopped mac clone business).

to do it properly, IIRC, would require hardware documentation ?

You can use open source operating system implementation as a reference. Many components (such as graphics cards) are the same as on PC, anyway, so they're no problem. Some hardware might not have any drivers at all, though (wireless networking hw drivers for example).

as a side note, I would be interested to play with Morphos on my A1

MorphOS requires working cache coherency (just to mention one reason why you won't see MOS on A1).

[Piru]

@TheMagicM

You guys didnt release any new version of MOS until some counter or whatever reached 0. (you said yourself its not about the money) Never happend nor is it going to.

This wasn't "we", the MorphOS Team. This was some disgruntled developer who got shafted by Thendic/Genesi/whoever, and made some silly claims that he would block MorphOS releases. We (the MorphOS Team) have since released two new MorphOS releases, 3D driver update package, and various smaller bug fix releases (not to mention the developer material which has gotten updated dozens of times). The "counter" has never reached 0.

MorphOS 1.5 will be released, but not before it's ready for release.

[Piru]

But beyond that for a moment. What would be the point in porting to yet another dead end platform?

PPC Macs are no longer produced

There are 1000x more PPC Macs than A1/Pegs combined, and they will continue to be available via ebay etc for a long time. Sounds good enough reason to me.

[Piru]

@keropi

I see no technical reason why it couldn't be released, other than not having as wide driver support as would be desirable. But the "100% certain" platforms for now are Pegasos I and II.