Erm... I'm getting right confused here... :confused:
I was under the impression that I have simply been trying to get AROS to work on my Amiga's and it was nothing more than basically a ROM image file to replace the Amiga's real ROM into fast memory... :confused:
So if it is meant to be just that then why would It need to run UAE (as this would make the whole thing pointless on a real Amiga), I thought the whole point of AROS was to replace the original Amiga Kickstart ROM with a version that is copyright free and freely distributable and not some totally different version of the Amiga's OS like OS4 and MorphOS are...
If AROS 68k is going to be like OS4 or MorphOS then I think I'll give it a miss as I don't want my Amiga's looking like either of them... :confused:
@Franko
AROS is an AMIGA LIKE NG-OS for any platform - it's not an AmigaOS 3.9 or AmigaOS 4.x - it's a more modern rendition of AmigaOS 3.1 but with support for standard modern hardware straight from the box and not requiring multi-patches.
It was always the plan to bring it to the Amiga original hardware as a replacement of the ROM and OS, but
keeping binary compatibility - So it will replace the kickstart and that should be enough.
That's how it currently works, and that's how it will be for Classic Amiga HW.
Running E-UAE does not make much sense, and I can't see where would you get that idea!... Only if you wished to run very specific software (very tied to one specific processor/ROM/custom chip) from OS. Even then there's whdload which is reported to work (AFAIK)...
I've only run on WinUAE, and I have to say that it works wonderfully. Never run on Amiga HW directly (none of my A1200 or A4000 are working), but reports have been made, and work is being done to get it working on all possibilities and at a decent performance - right now, AFAIK, it's not brilliant but it's getting there.
As for the future, Classic hardware will perish (simple fact of life), but other architectures will exist and hopefully AROS will embrace most of them.
Maybe someone will add support for PPC cards for Amiga Classic hw, but even these are very few, and not produced any more - so not much life expectancy there (except if someone starts producing PPC accelerator cards in the near future)...
Natami is the only project with some interesting prospects, but even this has to fill its niche and then time will tell about it's evolution.
AROS is not tied to PPC or 68k or even X86... that's a good IMO - Other options are tied to what seem dead platforms architecture.
