potential PPC Amiga REAL CHEAP

[strobe]

lou, nobody on this forum has the AOS4 source. Nobody on this forum has Hyperion's ear. Posting on a forum isn't going to change anything.

Only a business plan with $$$ is going to get Hyperion to do ANYTHING. They wouldn't be able to do anything without money in the first place.

You could put a bounty up and I doubt you could raise $100.

Pitch this plan to Hyperion. When it falls on deaf ears, drop it.

Amiga is just a hobby platform these days. If you know how to code you could port AROS to the Game Cube, perhaps creating an alternative to the official platform's dismal state of affairs. A cheap platform with a free OS which isn't subject to a bunch of untrustworthy companies which are liable to die when the wind changes.

[Louis Dias]

strobe wrote:
lou, nobody on this forum has the AOS4 source. Nobody on this forum has Hyperion's ear. Posting on a forum isn't going to change anything.

Only a business plan with $$$ is going to get Hyperion to do ANYTHING. They wouldn't be able to do anything without money in the first place.

You could put a bounty up and I doubt you could raise $100.

Pitch this plan to Hyperion. When it falls on deaf ears, drop it.

Amiga is just a hobby platform these days. If you know how to code you could port AROS to the Game Cube, perhaps creating an alternative to the official platform's dismal state of affairs. A cheap platform with a free OS which isn't subject to a bunch of untrustworthy companies which are liable to die when the wind changes.

Yeah, doesn't it seem like anytime a deal is struck somebody goes out of business?

I will look into AROS at some point...

I just feel that Hyperion may want some return on investment and the only way for that to happen is to release OS4 on some platform...

I mean if Hyperion decided that OS 4 was to be ported to the GC and no future A1 edition would be released, then everyone who would have bought an A1 (but hasn't yet) will now buy a GC to run OS4 because they WANT OS4, which was the only reason to buy an A1 in the first place.  Well, the A1 is dead.  I guess we will have to wait and see for an announcement from Hyperion.  How many people actually have A1's?  Maybe they saw the writing on the wall and have already begun a port...but to what platform?

[strobe]

PowerBook?  :banana:

[Louis Dias]

strobe wrote:
PowerBook?  :banana:

Yeah, well, everyone's gonna want it for whatever they already own...right...

[strobe]

I'm not going to buy a desktop ever again, unless it is a server in the closet which I'll never lay hands on.

If I want to use Amiga SW I'll use UAE on a laptop. Leave desktops for cubicle torture. I don't care if it has four G5s and costs $1k

[adz]

My god, this thread is still going :-o :-o :-o

Why don't you all just buy a Mac and be done with it, you know you want to :lol: :-P ;-)

[seer]

I mean if Hyperion decided that OS 4 was to be ported to the GC

Hyperion has nothing to decide about where Amiga OS4 is going to be ported to. At best they can make a suggestion to Amiga Inc.

Well, the A1 is dead.

They said MOS was dead to... It's still being developed. So MAI might be gone, no official news. And yet the same old story..

[Louis Dias]

Pic of Revolution's GC controller and memory card interface.  Seems like mounting it horizontally would work better in this situation.

http://media.cube.ign.com/articles/615/615030/img_2795077.html

[Tripitaka]

Mac? Did someone say Mac? I hate Mac's and as for a Gamecube Amiga...."sigh" more chance of a Coldfire board for the CD32   :lol: :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[Louis Dias]

ok how about on PS3 then...  HyperionMP dropped some hints as does this article:

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/06/09/news_6127219.html

funny how this guy from Sony re-itterates what I've been saying about NETWORK drives...

and the guys at gc-linux.org have a DVDplayer library now so you will be able to burn 3" dvd's and have the GC read it.

[Tripitaka]

lou_dias wrote:
ok how about on PS3 then....

IBM has 2 other cell customers, so far then..... 1 making the PS3 (Sony of course), 1 using cell for military targeting systems and finally 1 using cell for medical applications. As yet no details on who the non Sony customers are seem to be forthcomming from IBM.
If cell is versatile enough for these applications, who knows? PS3 Amiga? If you consider that sony are OCPA members too it could make some sense I guess. :-?

[Louis Dias]

@ALL

I am officially no longer a Nintendo "fanboy"!

http://cube.ign.com/articles/624/624200p1.html

[Louis Dias]

Ok, hopefully at the end of the month my finances will be in order and I can make some purchases to move forward here...

there's an SD card loader for the GC now. $14.95
http://www.jandaman.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=gcsdgecko

www.gc-linux.org have moved forward with the DVD-drive ATAPI api..and now have a mini-media player (mplayer)

and this: http://www.gamecubecase.com/
for the people who need to burn 4+GB DVD's for console hacking...like 1.8GB isn't enough for most things...

nice tutorial here: http://www.consolejunky.com/gamecube-guides/sdload/

Why bring back this old topic you ask?

- A good CELL compiler is years away.
- Newer (next-gen) consoles are still not going to be cost-effective.
- A1 is dead and the A1-micro is "je ne sais qua"
- the GC is "well-known" now from a hardware point of view, next-gens are not...AT ALL.
- Nintendo Revolution may not even have HD output so the GC will have superior resolution (854x480p @ 16:9 mode) vs 640x480i

[T_Bone]

bloodline wrote:

If you can put linux on it, you can put AOS 4.
 

How have you made that connection?

Heh, doesn't work in reverse either.  :-)

[Dan]

Well you can put linux on it,  it just isn´t very useful. :lol:

[billt]

Ack, just realized how old the post I replied to was, that was probably beaten to death since then.