Amiga Platform

[Targhan]

Also Amithlon and Cloanto's AmigaForever.

I have Amithlon, AF, and a Pegasos with MorphOS.  I think I may want to try out AROS too :-)  There should be both PPC and x86 AROS... :-)  So many toys!!  

[Targhan]

@NewRevolution

Absolutely, I'm more than willing to share what I know.  First, there is AmigaForever (I call it AF), which has the least amount of contriversy surrounding it.  Quite simply, AF is a complete UAE emulation soluton that legally has use of the names, roms, etc.  It is available through Cloanto, the same company/developer that created PPaint.  It has the limitations of an emulator, but in some cases emulation is better than the actual advancement of the platform.  (Example: try to run a game for OS1.3 on a 3.x machine.  Then, try to run it on AF.  Chances are it will work better on AF than on the real Amiga!)  I believe the url for more info is www.cloanto.com (or is it .it ?)

Amithlon.  This is what I would call a "higher class" of emulation.  Amithlon runs on x86, but does not require another OS to be present on the machine.  It uses a modified linux kernal (hidden) to boot up to AmigaOS 3.x.  There are a few bugs, but on a whole the system is really nice.  I have Amithlon on a tri*boot PC, and it's faster than either Linux or Windows on the same computer.  (Your milage may vary)  Unfortunately, there is a war between the two "core developers" of this project.  Talk about flames.. Good grief! The mere mention of Amithlon is sometimes enough to get a war started.  Basically, it's a good system; however, it does show the scars of the constant bickering.  The url for this would be www.amithlon.de. I believe that one of the two main developers is also maintaining a website for Amithlon, but the url escapes me at the moment.

[Targhan]

Pegasos: A PPC mainboard that is designed to run MorphOS, along with several other OS's.  This can be compared to the AmigaONE hardware, and it often is.  It is rumored that there may be an OS4 kit for Pegasos, but it may have been part of flamebait.  Irregardless, in the forums here, Pegasos is tied to the "Great OS4 MorphOS Debate."  I wish I had more solid ground for this, but, sadly, I do not.  I do believe AROS is being ported (Which is another Amiga-ish OS, which I have to investigate more myself).

MorphOS... Oh yeah, mentioning either OS4 or MorphOS here is almost asking for a flame war.  It seems as if the two (AmigaOS / MorphOS) are diametrically opposed.  MorphOS is very difficult to explain, in that it is a new OS but also a reimplementation of the AmigaOS.  The most blatent difference between the two (other than who is flaming whom) is that MorphOS has integrated MUI rather than ClassAct (classact is now called reaction, fyi).

The best place for information on the Pegasos is PegasosPPC.

And for MorphOS: www.morphos.net.

NewRevolution: Please check out the various websites before spending too much time reading the flames that are bound to happen.

(Equel opportunity time here: more info on OS4 is at os.amiga.com.)

[Targhan]

@codesmith

Well said.

[Targhan]

Basically, PowerUP and WarpUP were PPC kernals for Amigas that had the Cyberstorm or BlizzardPPC cards.  

MorphOS is supposed to be portable at some point, and I believe OS4 as well.  It should be taken into consideration that these projects have to start somewhere, and the road is a long one indeed.