@takemehomegrandma
I had a feeling that the comments that sparked this thread would've been from you, but chose not to name you.
No, it didn't, don't try to make it look like I have created some Anti-AROS thread here, because that's not true!
Sounds to me that Mazze's comments are spot on.
Mazze started this thread by asking a question, which has now been answered in many ways, by many people during this thread.
Let me break it down even further. AmigaNG basically said 'if you're interested, here's how to get a "NG Amiga"-like experience for the cheapest price'.
Let's *not* "break it down"/re-interpret what he said, he said *exactly*:
"if you really want a cheap Amiga ng type of experices then I would personally recommend getting an old pc and installing Aros on it, not a PowerMac", and nothing else!
He advised *against* getting a PowerMac, despite them costing the same as an "old PC", and he also recommended AROS as "the NG Amiga experience". All of this is *fine* of course, he is entitled to his opinion, but so am I! So I merely pointed out that the "NG experience" doesn't come from x86/PPC, but from the OS, and that AROS plays in a different league when it comes to this, no matter that it can run on x86. This is what made Mazze run off like a hurt little primadonna and start this thread asking how MorphOS is better, a lot of people answered, and now he (and OlafS3, Manu, etc) is like hurt little children, which is just hilarious. If you don't want to know, don't ask the questions!
There is no denying that AROS is cheaper than OS4 or MorphOS
The OS in itself, yes, but not necessarily by a great deal if looking at total system cost. It's not that it's expensive to get a MorphOS system up and running.
But that's not even the point - the point is that the level of "NG Experience" doesn't come from the price either, it comes from the OS.
so basically what you end up doing is questioning whether AROS should even be classed as a NG Amiga system.
WTF?! Absolutely *not*, what is this?! Of course it is a NG Amiga system, it was the first of its kind, and I have *never* kicked at it in any way!
But there are many differences between AROS and MorphOS, and in the end MorphOS is the one giving the better "NG Experience" (actually it offers *the best* of all three NG Options).
What I've found following the evolution of AROS is that the complaints levelled against it have shifted as its improved. I see now that the complaint du jour is about seamless running of 68k software.
That has *always* been on the topic, it was lifted forward by Amiga NG Enthusiasts to the AROS devs more than a decade ago (search ANN.lu for example), but it was always discarded as a low/non-priority thing that no developer thought would be necessary or interested in working with.
Whilst it's not the first time I've heard this complaint, you seem more willing to use this as the key point that separates AROS from OS4/MorphOS.
*I* seem? Ask *any* MorphOS or OS4 user used to their system how much they would like this feature to be removed? It's *not* a trivial thing!
Note that it possibly *will* be removed in "MorphOS 4" or whatever, but as a trade-off you might get x86, 64-bit, SMP, MP etc (who knows).
So is what you're saying that once AROS has seamless 68k software usage, like say Amithlon, it can be seen as NG, but not before?
AROS can never have the same seemless 68k Amiga compatibility by using UAE, it will always be like an Amiga computer running on top of the AROS computer, although *looking* like it isn't!
