Natami started and stopped again

[nicholas]

The remainders of the Natami-Team is basically the team behind apollo core, then one of the former members is now creating a new core on its own (you can read discussions on amigacoding.de), I was member of the team too and have concentrated on Aros Vision after the Natami project ended, some others like Samurai Crow are around and he has said he would help me to improve Aros 68k to make it a perfect replacement for 3.1.).

Natami was a combination of custom hardware and specific core done by one developer and this developer had all rights to it. After this developer officially left I had a couple of email contacts with him and I asked him if he could think about opensourcing it, a couple of weeks later there was the last thing I officially read from him that he would continue with his project on his own with a new name and that was the last thing I have heard of it. Nobody of the team could do anything about it. Today the hardware would be very very old and the Natami board (as every custom solution) would have been very expensive if ever finished. What Gunnar now plans is much promising, affordable and based on new hardware. I was very interested in Natami at that time (in fact it was the reason why I started to be interested in Amiga again) but 2014 I think Natami is past. How Gunnar said, we have everything available now, ECS and AGA implementations (Minimig and the core of FPGA Arcade), free OS and Roms (Aros 68k) and also components that were done at first for Natami (Apollo core and SAGA) so if the persons responsible act together something good could come out of it.

I'd like to see a motherboard in some standard ATX format with Gunnar's Apollo core as the CPU and PCI Express slots with openpci.library support.

Basically a PC with a 68k CPU.

[nicholas]

I just should point out that it was a different project that was cancelled. Natami was not re-started.

I checked out some videos of OS4 and MorphOS. Both are okay, but not worth the price yet.

MorphOS is very much worth the price.

I registered MorphOS v3.1 for 100 quid and then received FIVE major updates free of charge to bring me up to v3.6 currently.

I will continue to receive free updates to major versions of the 3.x series.

What other OS give you that much?

Buy Windows XP and then updates to Vista, then to Win7, Win8, Win 8.1.  how much would that cost you?

Plus MorphOS is free to use for unlimted amount of time for those who are too tight fisted to pay for it, you just have to reboot every 30 minutes.

As for OS4, then I agree with you that the costs is too much.  I run it on a Pegasos II but your only option if you don't want second hand hardware seems to be the $3000 X1000 or various models of low performing SAM mobos.

Project Moana should have been a proper release from Hyperion years ago.