Future of Amiga

[Karlos]

My old PC is more or less free now. It would make a fun AROS box, I suspect.

[Karlos]

bloodline wrote:

Karlos wrote:
My old PC is more or less free now. It would make a fun AROS box, I suspect.

Do it!!! I can't promise you more fun with a stinky old PC ;-)

It'll probably happen, unless the good lady wants to take the machine.

I suppose there's nothing stopping me running AROS in a VM on the new PC, right? Four cores, I'm sure one of them can be spared for the job.

[Karlos]

Golem!dk wrote:

IMO the only way for Amiga to once again become a mainstream OS is to port OS4.x to x86 and create classic card with a 68xxx based processor that could run all classic software.

How would that make it a mainstream OS?

Also, why would you need a card for backwards compatibility? It isn't as if modern x86/x64 hardware isn't more than capable of software emulating everything in a classic Amiga flawlessly.

[Karlos]

@Matt

So, what's the status of "transparent" 680x0 emulation in AROS these days then?

There's supposedly a HPUX server at work somewhere which allegedly runs legacy big endian binaries under some form of emulation under the newer x86 based OS. I'm not sure of the details though.