AmigaOne Help....

[SamuraiCrow]

...except that AROS isn't done yet and AmigaOS 4 is on its final release version.

[SamuraiCrow]

amigazone wrote:

If any new Amiga ever appears on the market... I think it should be based on a PC using a different FDD Coltrol Chip.

Then The Amiga may stand a chance. There is no requirement for Kickstarts anymore because a new Amiga Should use generic components fromany computer shop thus keeping cost down and allowing for easy upgrade.

I aint no programmer (well apart from PHP & MySQL) but they should have gone down this road when planning AmigaOS4.0

The AmigaOne used PC-style graphics cards and sound cards and wireless network cards in PCI slots just like a PC.

The only reason they used PowerPC chips instead of Pentiums is that Pentiums natively use little-endian byte-ordering.  That means, in order to maintain backward compatibility they'd have to add a BSWAP opcode after every read to the bus and before every write to the bus.  That would have adversely affected performance.  AROS, doesn't do this and, therefore, requires EUAE for any sort of backward compatibility at all.

[SamuraiCrow]

amigazone wrote:
Why is everyone so concerned about backward compatability???

If Amiga is gonna survive, forget the past. What u gonna do with a backward compatable amiga? play old 16/32bit games in HAM mode.

So long as the disk system is compatable for the transfer of files thats all that is required. if you wanna play ur old amiga games... buy an old amiga off ebay.

If amiga is gonna move forward, forget the past, weve moved on from 4096 colours and AGA Graphics

The reason for concern about backward compatibility is that there is little software written for modern Amiga architechtures and we need our old stuff to keep running.

If you want to learn to write your own software and support yourself, get AROS, it's perfect for you.  You won't need the Amiga brand since you consider the classics to be dead anyway.