AmigaOne Alive?

[dammy]

They now say on their website that they will work with you to port the OS to a new chip if necessary. I was thinking of AMD. The chips are well supported and have a future.

Never mind OS4, AROS is already working on your first step (x86-64 native) and could do it far cheaper then Hyperion.  The x86-64 native port bounty sure could use some donations.  Michal is reworking the AROS kernel to be modular for a bunch of future improvements to bring AROS to modern OS capabilities.  :-)

Dammy
TeamAROS

[dammy]

Yes, you can install it on a drive to use it natively.  Going with SFS, it's a bit tricky to do the install, but there are instructions on how to do it (or jump over to #aros on irc.freenode.org for semi real time help if a Dev is at the keyboard).  There is UAE for Amiga apps.  There is also AROS-Max distro which has both native, hosted, and  emulated ISOs.  

Current active projects:

ATI driver (nearing test release)
USB
x86-64 port (major rewrite of kernel to allow modular support)

Though we do try to post to AO, alot of more info is posted over on AROS-exec.org.

Dammy

[dammy]

I have never had the chance to look at the AROS internals although I am familiar with the effort from the beginning. I have been associated with the Amiga from 1987.

AROS documentation can be found here.  Asking questions would be best on either the AROS-Dev ML here or post on AROS-Exec.  If you want to know more about AROS' developement direction, try irc.freenode.org on #aros and if mschulz is around, ask him.

Dammy