OS Enhancement Pack for 68K users - market demand?

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itix wrote:
Really drop that ancient 68k crap. 68k is *dead*. Dead dead dead.

There are many (and we speak about the majority of Amiga users) out there with 68K processors. Still many with no intention or opportunity to switch to PPC. (For many Amiga is just a hobby, and can't spend hundreds of euros/dollars/whatever on their beloved Amiga)

What were the actual sales numbers for OS3.5 and OS3.9?

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mikeymike wrote:
Personally I'd prefer Hyperion to spend their time making OS4 the best it can be for PPC, instead of helping drag the rotting corpse of m68k any further.

I would've thought anyone who wanted Amiga to have a future would want the same, but apparently not.

The same applies to dragging the rotting corpse of Amiga any further, yet no one complains :-)

See? There is not much of a difference :-)

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Installing OS4 on the damn slow 68k CPUs is simply a waste of time....

A 060 with a gfx card is everything but not "damn slow"...

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Kronos wrote:

The rest of the features is either
a) eye-candy,
b) can be replaced from Aminet
c) isn't really that important
d) all of the above.

Don't forget, many ppl bought OS3.5 and OS3.9 despite the fact that most of it's features were exactly fitting into your criterias.

68K users would like a new OS update for their cards, and are ready to pay for it. (They will feel it more up to date, can tell friends they have a new OS, and it's much cheaper than affording an expensive PPC motherboard.)

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mikeymike wrote:
@ Warface

A 060 with a gfx card is everything but not "damn slow"...

Compared to what?  Anything recent?

Compared to the requirements of any Amiga software and the Amiga Operating System as we know (except some games converted from the PC).

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pjhutch wrote:

[...] its time Amiga users moved on to new hardware and a new OS4 for the 21st Century. I don`t want 68k stuff to continue to hold us back any longer.

And what about the existing number of 68K machines and their users? (which is overwhelming compared to either cyberstorm or amigaone numbers)

The majority won't buy PPC boards costing a fortune, yet they'd like to have updates to their platform. And as I mentioned I'm sure they will pay for it.

Those suggesting to dump the existing 68K machine userbase and suggest for everyone to switch to PPC live in lucky places - not somewhere where a shrinkwrapped OS is affordable but a PPC board is not (at least not for everyone).