OS for the X1000

[nicholas]

Quoted for truth. It seems like there's a lot of people in this community who suffer from such a massive inferiority complex that they've decided the Amiga should just be a PC. What's the point in that?

AROS and Amithlon are both as much Amiga as they are PC.

[nicholas]

Well, I'm not referring to the cross-platform compatibility projects so much as I am these people who whine about not being able to use Excel or whatever on their Amiga. The logic seems to go:

• "I hate PCs and don't want to have to use them for anything,"
• "I need to use Program X but don't want to do it on a PC,"
  
• "Program X therefore needs to be available on the Amiga,"
  
• "Nobody wants to port or clone Program X for the Amiga as it stands,"
  
• "Therefore the only practical solution is to change the definition of 'Amiga' to be whatever environment is needed to run Program X without porting or cloning,"
  
• "Now that I've redefined 'Amiga' to mean 'Intel PC,' I don't have to hate using one anymore!"

Guys, it's okay to use more than one platform. It doesn't make you a traitor to the cause.

+1

[nicholas]

PPC is completely wrong target platform for AROS development.

The A-Cube motherboards already have a working AROS port.

[nicholas]

And it serves only for technology demo. It can not run 68k binaries so it is better run AROS natively on x86 or m68 hardware (i.e. Natami if it ever gets released).

Neither can AROS on x86 so it's just as useless/useful as the PPC port.

99% of AROS software is open source anyway so the CPU architecture it runs on its largely irrelevant.

What AROS PPC does need is binary compatibility with MorphOS and/or OS4 software.

[nicholas]

If AROS/PPC was MorphOS compatible you would need only small 68k emulation layer to make it 68k compatible... but I still dont see point for AROS/PPC. AROS lacks on so many areas but x86 compensates many of its flaws.

Such as?