Amiga on the IBM hardware?

[Heiroglyph]

Haha! Thank for the alternative OS suggestions. Is it the software or the hardware that makes it so hard to port to different boards?

The license. :flame:

I read recently that a Mac LC could be modified with a ROM chip to become an A1000.

I read fiction too.

[Varthall]

Thanks for the reply. Now how did Amiga get ported to those rare and discontinued boards and not to any mainstream hardware? (well, mainstream-ish) I've never actually seen an Intellistation or RS/6000 in person.

Actually, the Sam460ex motherboard has been released last year, while the Lite version has been released last May, and they are both still produced and sold.

Is installing Amiga on this as simple as instaling an OS on a WinTel machine?

The installation procedure has (at least on my AmigaOne) been always fast and simple (like with Windows or Linux), I believe it is the same for Pegasos II machines, too.

Varthall

[Duce]

Installing OS4 on my SSD (SATA) equipped SAM 440 takes under 3 minutes, from start to reboot/usable state.

It could not be any more simple.

[Minuous]

Haha! Thank for the alternative OS suggestions. Is it the software or the hardware that makes it so hard to port to different boards?

Hyperion have actually gone out of their way to deliberately put DRM crap to artificially prevent it from running on most machines that would be otherwise capable. Similar to the crap Apple does with their worthless OS.

[nicholas]

Hyperion have actually gone out of their way to deliberately put DRM crap to artificially prevent it from running on most machines that would be otherwise capable. Similar to the crap Apple does with their worthless OS.

There is no DRM in OSX nor is there any in OS4 either.

Lack of hardware drivers for other machines does not equal DRM.

Using your twisted logic one could say OS 3.9 has DRM because it doesn't run on Atari ST's or 68k Macs.

[tone007]

I totally went out and picked one of these up for free hoping to run OS4 on it.



Well, not really.  I just wanted a cool blue coffee table.

[Templario]

No, because the OS isn't programmed fot this machines, but if there are much people as you, the Mor.. that like runs over old machines, maybe.

[jj]

Prices for an RS/6000 started at around $10,000 and went up to well over $100,000. A used Intellistation Power 185 will cost you $6000+. Not really a good choice for porting an OS to.

Thats sounds ideal for an OS4 high spec platfrom.  The X1000 will prob be in those price regions.

[cicero790]

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