Amiga Platform

[Psy]

NewRevolution
What I'm getting at, is that if Mr. Bill Buck and Mr. Bill McEwen (hey - at least the got ONE thing in common) are going to follow the road they are heading, they will run Amiga down the gutter... again. I guess Amiga Inc. sits with the ace by having some of the intellectual property rights. MorphOS should make their system compatible with AmigaOne. It will only strengthen their market share and support - but Amiga Inc. must not charge redicules royalties from MorphOS (I think that is how it works?)

Well there is more to this soap opera as there is different game plans.

See Genesi (Pegasos) game plan is hardware they'll sell to anyone even people that don't care about the Amiga and the hardware sales will subsidize MorphOS.  Genesi probably wouldn't even mind Amiga OS 4 on their hardware.  Yet this means Genesi has little incentive to port MorphOS

The Amiga Inc/Eyetech/Hyperion is a alliance with Amiga Inc at the top with each having their own agenda and intrests.

Amiga Inc game plan is Amiga DE a run anywhere Amiga virtual environment that will be implemented into the Amiga OS later on.  So programs for Amiga DE can run on any Amiga DE system.

Hyperion has the right to devlop Amiga OS4 so besides being in the alliance they have no reason not to port it to other hardware but since Eyetech is in the alliance this complicates things.

Eyetech is the hardware end of this alliance.  They have delivered hardware yet wait for Hyperion to deliver the OS.  Yet Eyetech has a competition on the horizon  from the Pegasos 2 with what could be better hardware and better prices.  Eyetech has nothing to gain yet alot to lose with the porting of OS 4 to other hardware

So you now you have Amiga users divided with people buying or planing to buy Eyetechs Amiga Ones just for the Amiga OS 4 (since that is the only thing the Amiga One got going for it) yet this is the thorn in the community since if Pegasos 2 lives up to claims and OS 4 gets ported that lobs the ball at the Amiga Ones court to sink or swim.   Some think Amiga One needs to be protected since it carriers the Amiga name and Pegasos don't.

[Psy]

Ah! So Eyetech, if they are lucky, are getting it in both sack and bag (as we say). That means non-Amiga programmers (here: Linux) can start developing HW propritary applications. Not only will they try to gather the Amiga community, but they will start attracting the Linux community as well. Now that is a pretty large user group.

Well Pegasos is doing the same thing.  The outside world already knows of Pegasos.  Here is a review from osnews

Also on Slashdot they had a huge thread about how well Pegasos could run MacOS via Mac On Linux .

It seems to me that Amiga Inc has been rushing a bit. Amiga has been behind the curtains for the last decade, I don't think a couple of more years would have mattered much. Especially if that would have improved the comming OS4. But as mentioned before, it's more important to get the core functionality to work first, then spice up the OS.

Well Amiga Inc is competing with Genesi  and Genesi has the upper hand when it comes to funds plus Genesi can afford to lose the battle with MorphOS as Genesi already is positioning Pegasos to be more then just a next gen miggy board ie porting OSs to it like BeOS.  The idea to turn the Pegasos into a next gen Atari has also flew around atlest in the community.