Lou: Infact the OS 4 website insinuates almost any platform is possible.
Well, PPC platforms, at least. How much time and money it costs to do the porting is an issue, as well as hardware licensing. The embedded world doesn't follow the same marketting rules as the PC world.
Dammy: The question is just how much validity can one give such a statement coming from Hyperion. There maybe a glimmer of truth burried somewhere, but I wouldn't be very suprised to find out the majority of what they have said is spin to keep the faithful appeased.
Well, you have to give them some credit, as they are actually releasing a product. How often does that happen in the Amiga world?
As for the future of "parts" of OS4, I still say it is bleak. Why would a company license parts of OS4 when there's a glut of modern, embedded OSes out there tuned for multimedia, as well as lots of highly portable tools that are cross-platform with non-PPC processors? Developers these days are more interested in cross-platform support, now that there's been such an explosion of embedded hardware. Years ago, people thought Java was doomed to fail. Now, Java is a major force in the embedded world, despite its quirks.
They mean nothing, they produce nothing, they have no impact on our lives in any way. I didn't even look at Hyperion's website.
Well, they mean little to the Amiga community. The fact that they are alive is good, but so little information coming out makes it pretty obvious that existing Amiga owners are not part of the picture.
As it should be. I don't want an update to an obsolete design. I want a brand new system that just feels like the old system, but is completely new underneath. While I don't xompletely like Apple's direction with OS X, I must admit that using an existing OS and building on top of it was a brilliant idea, as opposed to trying to make a "new" OS 9.
Let's face it. Amigas are so old, that starting from scratch and using hardcore emulation to run old software would still be a major improvement over the classic line of machines in performance. Apple somehow managed to do it even though they never ceased manufacturing new Macs. Why Hyperion decided to rework OS 3.x and make it PPC native is beyond me, when they could have started with something far more competent, CPU independent, and familiar to modern software developers. It's not like the old Amiga programmers are ready to give up on their new jobs working on PCs and start re-inventing the past.
