Elwood wrote:
Wos or not Wos ?
What I mean is:
- WarpOS is not strictly needed. It means that OS4 will live without it. Why ? Because coders will be able to do an OS4 native program easily. So why do you want those old Wos programs whereas you can have better ?
With that reasoning 68K emulation is not strictly needed as well.
- Why should they add code to the OS to support an old format we will all forget in a few months ? (for the same reason above) We all don't want "dirty" patches in the OS, don't we ?
I beg to differ. When WarpOS support was announced and represented in the feature list, no one claimed "it's a dirty patch" and "why should we support an old format". It has only recently morphed into an unnecessary format, when support in OS4 was questioned.
- WarpOS binary format is tricky. Both 68k and Wos code are "merged". It is not easy to distinguish what is what for Dos.
If there were not a working implementation of WarpOS emulation in another OS solution, I'd readily believe these claims...
- Adding support for Wos will take time. And this time can be used for more important things.
That's for sure. But I don't understand the need to make excuses, and claim that WarpOS support is unnecessary and a dirty hack. (The 68K emulator is way dirtier)
As a conclusion, we don't need Wos support but if it can be done, it will be done !!!
Mumblemumble
My personal thought is that I prefer spending time on working on something usefull than on things from the past !
Why do you stick to AmigaOS then...?
Sorry for the rant...
