Amiga on the IBM hardware?

[commodorejohn]

Thanks for the reply. Now how did Amiga get ported to those rare and discontinued boards and not to any mainstream hardware? (well, mainstream-ish)

Oh, it's Hyperion policy never to port to anything that's commonly available, let alone inexpensive. Hell, it took them how many years to port AOS4 even to classic Amigas with PPC accelerators?

[commodorejohn]

Haha! Thank for the alternative OS suggestions. Is it the software or the hardware that makes it so hard to port to different boards?

Hardware drivers are the hardest part of porting an OS to another machine (unless you're also switching CPU architecture,) but in this case it's more just plain damn stubbornness.

I read recently that a Mac LC could be modified with a ROM chip to become an A1000.

I very much doubt that, as the LC's hardware is entirely different. In the best-case scenario it would only run perfectly OS-friendly programs that didn't touch the hardware at all, and even then it couldn't do it very well without the blitter.