by lempkee on 2003/11/15 19:31:16
Dammy: do you remeber when amithlon surfaced ? , people screamed it was totally legal etc and
Of course I remember that, Amiga Inc (Fleecy?) said it was a licensed product.
lot of people was lost to x86 because of amithlon and they wont come back and guess what only 5% maybe of them sticked with amithlon, rest use now windows and ignores amiga or uses uae now and then though less and less.
Unless you have some heavy duty surveys to qualify the above, your pulling that out of your ass. Seven million Amiga users didn't abandon the Amiga for UAE nor Amithlon. The reason people are using their Amigas less and less is either they are breaking from age/use or they are not sufficient to do what is required. It's been over ten years since Amiga was viable. Learn to accept reality and not call for violent crimes against people who do not think in the narrow little world of yours.
thats my point, this is why everything is as it is and why i am abit rude to the new kids on the block, sorry but i really never put amithlon behind me due to the fact i lost alot of friends because they moved over there and found out it wasnt as it was described (super puper fast and bla bla) , and that amigaos 4 was going x86 etc...made people leave amiga ppc and 68k... for x86, and they wont return unless something big happens..
OS5, according to Fleecy (he wouldn't lie, would he?
will run on x86. There is no reason to return to the Amiga, it's old, it's getting cranky and too expensive to upgrade. The generic (CHiRP) PPC mobos are as much an amiga is any x86 is. Amiga was a special hardware platform that had a customized chipset that it's OS was tied to in an impressive final product. If anything lempkee, you should be flaming Eyetech for having the nerve to rebadge Teron mobos as Amigas.
anyway i always wish for amiga to be the Thing again but i dont think it ever will due to the fact that we have uae,amithlon,umilator,aros,morphos to make amiga just another....ummm thing.... though its nice to make it appeal to everyone but then again look at linux, it aint actually living wealthy because of sales number on the sw etc..
It won't be because there is no HARDWARE to go along with any Amiga like OS, that includes AROS/MOS/OS4. All of those are Amiga like and have valid reasons of being in existance. You maybe rooting for one, but that doesn't mean that those of us who are going with the open source version should be murdered for speaking up for our favorite Amiga like OS.
people dont buy sw or support the plattform unless the crack or whatever is crap, because they couldnt care less ... (majority speaking ofcourse) ..
i just hope people who use aros and morphos and uae and amithlon etc supports the market by registrating products and buys sw etc.
I got news for you, people are DONATING their MONEY to AROS as well as coding, designing logos and other significant efforts to improve AROS. AROS is a true commuity effort, we are all pitching in and do no deserve your knee jerk damnation. IF you don't like AROS on x86, wait for someone to finish the port to Pegasos, or Amigas, or dragonball based PDAs.
sorry for the long message, but i am just trying to explain my point of view as a developer and how the last 5? years have effected me and the people around me.
(i might get slayed when this has been read but i hope people will understand why and what...)
I'm starting to wonder if you understand AROS has been around for what, six years now?
Dammy
