AmigaOS and The x86 Question

[takemehomegrandma]

billt wrote:

This seems like a rather odd reasoning to me: we cannot compete if we run on x86, but we can compete if we run on underpowered, overpriced hardware, with no option for people to try it out before buying?

When did people have option to try it out before buying? I never got to try it before buying my A500 way back in the good old days. There was no "free demo" hardware to borrow from Commodore to evaluate OS1.3 on before I paid up.

...and the Amiga has never been a cheap hobby either, so ridiculously expensive hardware is completely justified, right?

You can try a demo of MorphOS before you buy, a nice feature that will become more obvious when it is released for the Mac Mini (the closest to standardized hardware the Amiga has ever come).

Maybe not something you can take for granted, but a nice feature indeed! A competitive advantage worth highlighting. As is reasonable priced hardware, for that matter.

[takemehomegrandma]

Flashlab wrote:

people whining on forums are not going to change the legal obstacle that prevents this port from happening.

What legal obstacle? Haven't Hyperion showed clear enough that they don't give a {bleep} about their contract with Amiga Inc? What's the difference, in terms of "legal obstacles", between making a Sam, Pegasos and x86 port?

[takemehomegrandma]

krize wrote:
x86 wont happen... Who got the money for the work/or even the license ? The only way "forward" as I see it is the mac ppc ports.. For both Mos and os4..

There are quite many used ppc macs and it wont take years to port it...

The PPC architecture is kind of dead, at least when it comes to future developments and advancements of CPU's that would be interesting to "us". OK, second hand Mac hardware will keep some community members happy for a while, but at some point further down the road, both MorphOS and OS4 will simply have to jump to either ARM or x86. But if I understand things correctly, this will probably also mean starting over with a clean slate when it comes to backwards compatibility. Anubis anyone?

[takemehomegrandma]

Flashlab wrote:
@takemehomegrandma

The legal obstacle in that they can only port OS4 to PPC hardware.

According to the contract they couldn't port it to new PPC hardware either, but now we have both a Sam 440 port and a Pegasos2 port and presumably they are working on something else (that presumably concerns an OS4 port). They have clearly showed that they don't give a rats ass about the Amiga Inc contract, and if I recall things correctly (didn't follow the developments in detail) they even argue in the court process that they consider the contract dead because Amiga Inc went bankrupt or whatever, so they are now the rightful owners of the. Didn't they even try to get the Amiga trademarks in a separate lawsuit? Anyway, the "legal obstacles" argument against a x86 port simply isn't there anymore in Hyperion's current position.

[takemehomegrandma]

@persia

Did you replace the fax machine with a horse in that picture? :lol:

Office Space is a great movie BTW... :-)