Would you pay $100 for an updated Classic AmigaOS?

[Jope]

In the 1.3 days there was ARP, which was a rewrite of most CLI commands. How many of you remember being excited about ARP? I sure was, did an arpified 1.3 workbench disk as soon as I could get my hands on the package. :-)

Now we have AROS, which is a rewrite of much more.

Embrace that if you want an "updated classic AmigaOS", it's a waste of time debating an upgrade when a rewrite is already well on it's way.

[Jope]

I can´t get all this AROS excitement.

Have played with it before, and it´s really interesting. It´s also a huge achievement from all the guys that work at it, and i praise them.

But as it´s incompatible with the software library for OS 3.x, what´s the point in running AROS? It´s a cool system as i said, but it doesn´t replace OS 3.x?

The point was, use AROS components to update OS3.x on the classic amiga. If the components are not backwards compatible, some more work is needed.

I don't care for the x86 build of AROS either.

Just like the ARP rewrote some of the 1.3 commands, the AROS project has rewritten a lot more than just a few CLI commands. And on top of it all, the source code is available.

You won't be getting the 3.x source code form amiga inc, or any of their affiliates, I'm sure, so why bother updating 3.1 when you can replace parts of it with code that is truly free and available?

I'm sure you're familiar with http://amidevcpp.amiga-world.de/afaupload.php ..