lempkee wrote:
but sure , pegasos is new so we must say its perfect and put the amiga's in the closet because its better they claim, but then when u look back 2 years ago, with amithlon...the same people + many more attacked amithlon for not beeing amiga and sure they are right , but it also uses emulation like mos/pegasos does and so will os4, have we met our doom? ... i think not.
You'd have to work to hate Amithlon. Really, the debate then was about whether or not it was worthwhile to base a *platform* on when we didn't know if a 4 was even coming or if MorphOS would prove more useful than, well, AROS. ;-) People just dragged it out to the encompassing declarations of 'good,' 'bad' or 'evil' because, y'know, it's fun, I guess. (Hey, the whole reason I turned up in the Amiga scene a few years ago was because everything else sucked, and things were so nuts that I could pass for collected in comparison!)
Since VP is arguably faster and more portable than the Amithlon monolith, and paring it down to a 'native mode' leaves you with Linux, it was obvious that we'd have to pick a (hardware) platform if we ever wanted to get native-mode-OS traction again. And hey, it's paying off - we've already brought Apple-unencumbered PowerPC boards back to market, and while we're otherwise back where we started (MorphOS in current incarnation/practice turning out to be a pretty faithful rework of the original principles, OS4 getting to that point), we've got foundations again. 4.0 is already pointing towards VM, memory protection, and that AG2 business if you want to believe in it; MorphOS does need to clarify its position technically (though we can respect the value of making no promises as savvy marketing at this point), but hey, they *have* scooped up a rough half of the community, looks like they're starting down the road to being a better* Apple than Apple, and a working PegII should give them the chance to start courting Linux fans and the 'public' rather than trying to cut their losses among us nuts.
Now let's get this stupid lawsuit out of the way, see if AInc. reboots itself with a Chapter 11 if it needs to (worked for Mandrakesoft?), and keep what momentum both sides have got going! If the Amithlon/Umilator(?) property ever detangles, it'll still have a niche as the best emulator ever written.
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*Umm.. Maybe "more indie" is the phrase? Apple's starting to look a little PBR these days...
[I'm disappointed I know what "Looking a little PBR" means. Blogs will be the death of us all.]
