Waccoon wrote:
OS3.X is a good enough OS for a single user with some updates.
Good enough? To do what?
To do what I mentioned.
A GC running AROS and a web browser and email client and games.
Well, the reason why your setup is so simple is because of your expectations. E-mail is just text transfer. Games don't need an OS -- they just hit the hardware. The browser is complicated because of heavy multitasking, and I'd imagine AROS is going to give you some trouble in that regard. Is there even a CSS web browser available for AROS?
You can do this stuff with a Windows machine, too, if you know how to select your parts. I'd expect it to be just as cheap, if not cheaper, than your system. How much did you pay for this qoob thing, again? Didn't you have some trouble soldering it? Why go through all the trouble of hacking when there's ready-built solutions available? Amigans don't seem to get this at all.
the qoob was $55, it's 6 wires to solder and just screws to takes apart the GC. It can be done in less than 10 minutes. I used a 30 watt iron when I should have used 15, left heat on the pad too long. Simple mistake if I had read the reviews of other people doing it, it wouldn't have happened. My solution is better AND easier than the other way anyway.
there is no ready-built solution, a PDA is not a game machine and doesn't use DVD's, a laptop is too delicate to be bounced around in a car everyday, plus it's bigger than a GC. And if the GC breaks (RARE) a second GC is $50 away, not $700 for a descent laptop.
The device is truly portable and there aren't any hard drives that would get banged around and ruined. Get where I'm going?
Oh, so you don't want a potential PPC Amiga REAL CHEAP. You want a homebrew PDA. I think the computer industry already released a slew of those devices a decade ago. What's the point of insisting on an Amiga if you're going to spend all your time staring at an application that doesn't really care what OS is underneath? I find it difficult to believe that AmigaOS (or AROS) is just "better" at e-mail and web browsing than any other small OS that fits nicely on a flash card.
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An OS used to be an app launcher with a filemanager. What they sell you now is a total user environment. Things are so integrated that you don't get 100% processing power out of the machine because you have the OS layer there. An OS should just control basic things like threading and memnory management - everything else is an add-on (read - slow down). Sure the OS provides some standard api's to make things 'look' & 'feel' like they are part of the OS, but that should be it. When I want to bang the hardware, I should be able to bang the hardware. And it's not about being better, it's about being functional and doing what I want - nothing less, nothing more.
PS, the Amiga was only supposed to be a console.
