OS4 on PS3

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Savan wrote:
I will insult Amiga companies without hiding behind aliases, Thanks anyway.

Uh, if you say so "Savan"

[coldfish]

   
Amiga PS3

Hi all... I have noticed its a bit fanboyish in here, but I thought I had better give you the heads up on some serious discussions going on over at Amiga related sites.

Many of you will have heard of the Amiga as a computing and gaming platform... but a new version of the Amiga OS has been developed. Amiga OS4 runs on PowerPC architecture and the Cell (as int he CPU of the PS3) has a PowerPC core. Hyperion-Entertainment who are developing the AmigaOS 4 under license from Amiga, Inc. have made it clear on Amiga sites that support for the Cell CPU should be in an update to the OS, possibly or even probably this year.

Considering its intuitiveness, general ease of use and other benefits over Linux and Windows, putting the Amiga OS on the PS3 would be an absolute godsend and really psuh the PC out of homes... The Amiga after all was the king of the home computers before Commodore went bankrupt and a year later it was the original Playstation that benefitted from the developers and softcos.

Would you like to have Amiga OS 4 on your PS3?

Sven Harvey
Gaming retail veteran
Amiga Mart writer in Micro Mart
http://www.cybertron.org.uk/


Sad, and funny at the same time.  

He sounds so desperate, I'd almost sling him a fifty to go and get laid.

[LP]

He sounds so desperate, I'd almost sling him a fifty to go and get laid.

 :roflmao:

[swift240]

Actualy I would love OS4 on my PS3, there is one slight problem at this point in time, that may be considerd as a very small setback.

And that is I dont have a PS3.

But seriously yes I think its a good idea if it ever came about.
Afer all why not?  would the idea be beyond other peoples logic to have it done? or thoughts and feeling on this?

If it can be done then let it.
Unless some one who is so superior that they decide for all of us that it wont be done because they done like the actual idea of it!

[hppacito]

Well, I never saw OS4 working.
I don't not how good or bad is it, but what is soo good about it that (e.g.) MorphOS doesn't have ?.

OTOH, if OS4 depends on a company, is just crazy to wait for them to release it for something they will not get any money on !.

But the real question is: How complex is _really_ to redoit ?
I heard that you don't have memory protection, is that true ?

Is it not aesier to port something else and/or modify it enough to make it as functionally similar to what OS4 is (or will be), instead of waiting ?

just asking...

[B00tDisk]

Lando wrote:


I'm just not sure that SCEI would want to pay Amiga Inc lots of money and add $100 onto the cost of every PS3 HDD sold for the 'Amiga' sticker plus another $70 for the OS, and then wait 5 years for Hyperion to get a '90% complete pre-release' OS4 port done, so that users can experience the thrills of web browsing in iBrowse and writing letters in AmigaWriter.

Yeah...OpenOffice alone crushes any offerings on the Amiga - and let's not even go down the whole web-browser street.

[pixie]

I'm just not sure that SCEI would want to pay Amiga Inc lots of money and add $100 onto the cost of every PS3 HDD sold for the 'Amiga' sticker plus another $70 for the OS, and then wait 5 years for Hyperion to get a '90% complete pre-release' OS4 port done, so that users can experience the thrills of web browsing in iBrowse and writing letters in AmigaWriter.

Yeah... writing letters is a thrilling experience, and most need all M$ Word features to write *a letter*... :roll:

You cannot write a letter with AmigaWord, Final Writer or Wordsworth... (only maybe because they're not sold anymore) plus nowadays most comunication is made by e-mail, plain text or with some HTML, an area where AmigaOS is indeed lacking

[pixie]

Somebody else commented on OSNews about wanting PS3 to be an Amiga.

John Carmack said it further:

As for the PS3, he liked sound of the noises Sony has been making about the PlayStation 3 as something of an open platform, and suggested that perhaps an open PS3 could become a computing platform something like the Amiga of old, with an excellent, fixed graphics subsystem. HDTV displays offer the fidelity to make this happen where it couldn't on past consoles.

[Savan]

Sony are there to make money. I find it very laughable that Sony would have to pay Amiga Inc & Hyperion for allowing OS4 to run on their own hardware. You could understand if OS4 was the latest and greatest OS which companies would fight over to snap it up first but the reality is, it is a hardwareless OS which needs a new home because of pure incompetance.

[Waccoon]

Not another one of these threads.  :roll:

The only way it would happen is if Sony bought Amiga -- and they have absolutetly no reason to do so with far, far better OSes available.

Writing drivers for closed-source platforms is no joyride, either.  In the end, it would cost a fortune.

I also recall that the "multimedia revolution" was supposed to happen with platforms like the 3DO and CDi.  That turned out real well, didn't it?  These machines are made to be game machines, and that's it.  If you want a web browser, e-mail, and word processor, you can do that on a ten year old PC or a super-cheap Mini-ITX and still get decent performance.

Come on, guys... put OS4 on x86, port some Linux drivers, put a dongle on it if you want... and be done with it!  Then we can all finally have what's really missing from the Amiga community: a laptop.

[boing]

It's posters like coldfish, pixie, wacooon and B00tdisk that are slowly killing the Amiga community little by little. If they don't like things they should either start devloping or leave.

[Colin_Camper]

I will insult Amiga companies without hiding behind aliases, Thanks anyway

Yes, Redhouse, Oldtimeuser.

You are a silly little boy. You need a smacked backside.  :-)

Mind you - your vitriole is lost on most of the forum members - they prove the adage that 'consoles are for people too dumb to own a computer'.

[Waccoon]

It's posters like coldfish, pixie, wacooon and B00tdisk that are slowly killing the Amiga community little by little. If they don't like things they should either start devloping or leave.

Develop on what?  OS4 has no hardware.  OS3 had its run and is not the slightest bit aware of modern standards.  Any property that could be refactored by competent people is locked in the dungeon, for whatever reason.

Lo, the people in charge for the last 15 years have done a terrific job keeping Amiga alive!  Maybe once they release their next proprietary system with a 1,000 manufacturing run and charge $800 for a raw mobo which is nothing more than a PC clone with lots of bugs thrown in for good measure, we can all start developing (porting) software on a largely obsolete OS.

Or, we can make a new Workbench running on standard hardware, with a real kernel, and a completely new shell and multimedia tools, and kill all this political anti-Intel BS.

If the classic community is what you're talking about, go ahead and buy an Elbox Dragon... if it's ever released.

[adonay]

Ohh Boy here we go another "fanboy" cosole\os4 topic just what we needed. Get over it !! Its a got damn cosole if you want a computer bye a computer might as wel since the ps3 will cost about 390£ annyways.

[coldfish]

boing wrote:
It's posters like coldfish, pixie, wacooon and B00tdisk that are slowly killing the Amiga community little by little. If they don't like things they should either start devloping or leave.

I could sling you a fifty too if it means I can stay...

 :-P

[pixie]

Sony are there to make money. I find it very laughable that Sony would have to pay Amiga Inc & Hyperion for allowing OS4 to run on their own hardware.

Not only you, probably Hyperion or Amiga Inc themselves if they still exist, that is... it's called common sense