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Re: OS Enhancement Pack for 68K users - market demand?
« on: June 25, 2003, 12:40:00 AM »
Market demand? AFAIK OS3.9 was not that great success. And since many PPC users can run PPC OS (MOS/OS4) in the future there is only little interest for 68k.

Really drop that ancient 68k crap. 68k is *dead*. Dead dead dead.
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Re: OS Enhancement Pack for 68K users - market demand?
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2003, 03:59:42 PM »
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There are many (and we speak about the majority of Amiga users) out there with 68K processors. Still many with no intention or opportunity to switch to PPC. (For many Amiga is just a hobby, and can't spend hundreds of euros/dollars/whatever on their beloved Amiga)


I can't imagine that anyone would spend money on OS3 upgrade especially when that upgrade offer virtually nothing. You are not going to use anti-aliased fonts or gradients on your 020/030/040. FFS2 is quite small improvement and RoadShow... Ok, RoadShow could be nice to have but most Amiga users have working TCP/IP stack already.

Can't imagine that anyone would pay for another Aminet Patch Compilation (if you strip PPC related stuff).

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What were the actual sales numbers for OS3.5 and OS3.9?


I don't know about 3.9 but OS3.5 sold 15000 copies. Definitely 3.9 sold even less. Today many top users have Pegasos or AmigaOne, some even have MorphOS beta running on their Amiga (or maybe even OS4).
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