Most Amiga like experience on modern hardware

[OlafS3]

What do you mean by "Amiga Software" here? 68k?

[OlafS3]

You already know the options. When you do not want to pay money for licenses/new hardware there is only Amigaforever (at least not expensive), my 68k distribution based on Aros 68k and Aros X86

[OlafS3]

"AROS, when I last tried it, felt raw. I think with AROS you need most work to make it nicely running."

When you want to install it you need supported hardware (the same problem as Linux) so best you ask on aros-exec what to use. For start you can install and use it in a "controlled" environment like VMWARE. There are three big distributions (Icaros, AspireOS and Broadway X) to choice. So no excuse to not trying it out. When you are only interested in 68k I can offer you my distribution based on Aros 68k. It is based on Kickstart Replacement and reprogramming of 3.1. (Aros 68k). Not all old software works, but much (and improving)

http://www.natami-news.de/html/aros_vision.html
http://www.natami-news.de/html/distribution_download.html

[OlafS3]

there is Aros 68k running on classic hardware. Is that emulation too?

[OlafS3]

"compiled and enchanced from original source files"

who cares? Users want to have a good computer at the right price and do not care what has originally used 68k code. At least one of the "copies" has avoided to make the same errors as AOS (to connect too tight to one hardware-platform). That was already the problem of the old AOS and it was repeated again.

[OlafS3]

We will see which platform will evolve faster in future. I am pushing now on another platform to speed up the development even more :-). I think competition is always good and Aros and MorphOS will accept the competition. This "clone" sounds rather stupid to me, perhaps you (and some others) see it that way but I can assure you noone outside the OS4 camp (a couple of hundred users) cares about it. We will see who will when what deliver, the development on OS4 is from my view pretty slow but perhaps we all will know more after Amiwest.

[OlafS3]

I f.e. offered the idea to share the base code (f.e. USB, PCI, important libs) as Opensource between all camps (in this case I discussed with MorphOS core team members). The answer was pretty clear... NO.

So every camp reinvents every wheel for itself and wastes rare resources but there is no big hope that this will change.