countzero: because if eyetech changes the chipset, also hyperion should make changes in the OS4 for the new chipset, which will make the final OS4 release even later
Depends how good Hyperion's HAL and drivers are -- and whether they have any plans beyond OS4.
Oh yeah, and whether they get any new hardware for a while.
Besides, I doubt people will want to upgrade their platforms after spending all that cash on AmigaOne hardware. Amigans aren't used to the x86 racket, upgrading in small doses every few months. There's really no market potential for new Amiga hardware if a whole system swap is required. Look at how many people are still demanding OS4 on classic hardware -- and those are the
real fanatics.
Lou Dias: Nintendo Gamecube. Seriously.
I see you're still obsessed with only a PPC-based solution that is not fully PPC compatible.
Why would Nintendo be interested in AmigaOS? Given the hardware locks, it wouldn't be possible without their direct support, both technically and financially.
Would you expect every AmigaCube developer to have to buy a Nintendo developer's license? Consoles companies make their money on software. Nintendo would want their cut, especially if the OS was built on Nintendo's APIs, as you frequently promote.
Look beyond the "at-margin" hardware, and you should realize that it's not as cheap as you think, to say nothing about the extra hardware you need to make it work.
Wayne: I sincerely -- and I can't express how badly I want this, but I -- want both efforts to port their Operating system to better, cheaper, more available hardware such as the Macintosh.
For decades the holy grail of computers has been turning hardware into software. Only Microsoft has really understood this well.
Once Amigans get over technical supiriority and actually write software that gets the job done, Amiga as a platform can move on. Until then, it's just the same old lies and political bull-dump year after year. I was really excited about Tao's VP until Hyperion dropped the PPC bomb. Does Amiga want to be anywhere or not?
minator: The Amiga sold the vast majority of it's units as ...a games machine!
Guess what it was originally designed as?
The Amiga's bus was far too sophisticated to be a mere game machine. It was a full computer with a game machine's graphics capabilities.
Nobody knew anything about multimedia in the time of MS-DOS and 2-color Macs, so nobody used the machine the way it was meant to be used -- through the OS.
Minator: *Sales at end of 2004 were 18 millions units worldwide.
I'm sure all of them are interested in AmigaOS, too, where they can all run their software from memory cards and read-only mini-cds with less than a 200Mhz CPU and 24 megs of memory.
Might as well put together a Linux box from last year's x86 hardware. You can always re-compile your open-source code later if you're truly obsessed over having a PPC machine.
Acill: The Amiga was a lot more then that though. Its just most people never got past the game phase.
Everytime I walked into The Memory Location (PC store), all they used to show off their workhorse 386 and screaming 486 systems was games. It was pretty depressing to hear everyone joke about the Amiga being a game machine when Wing Commander alone sold millions of PCs (even though it sucked).
