OS4 on PS3

[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

[pixie]

@boing:
It's posters like boing that are slowly reviving the Amiga community little by little. If they like things they should neither start developing nor leave.

No, it still doesn't make any sense :roll:

BTW, I'm indeed developing, not that it should matter to you anyhow... plus Amiga Inc don't need no one to help them, they've become experts in bashing themselves

[pixie]

@boing:
It's posters like boing that are slowly reviving the Amiga community little by little. If they like things they should neither start developing nor leave.

No, it still doesn't make any sense :roll:

BTW, I'm indeed developing, not that it should matter to you anyhow... plus Amiga Inc don't need no one to help them, they've become experts in bashing themselves

[drHirudo]

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.

Ok, go ahead, create your own, just don't try to enforce your (flawed) opinion onto others. I am sure people like Dammy will welcome you there. Don't forget to close the door on your way out.

[bloodline]

drHirudo wrote:

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.

Ok, go ahead, create your own, just don't try to enforce your (flawed) opinion onto others. I am sure people like Dammy will welcome you there. Don't forget to close the door on your way out.

I see you are part of the "La la la I'm not listening crowd" :-(

[Nitro]

As much as alot of people would like it these polls and threads are a waste of time.  The only ones that can do anything for OS4 is Amiga Inc, and I don`t think they care at all.  They have had lots of hardware platforms to go to, but don`t.  I would bet money, you will see an AROS port or UAE on linux before OS4 would get ported to the PS3.  Maybe even AmigaForever 7 on PS3.

[Savan]

I see you are part of the "La la la I'm not listening crowd"

Look where it got them, nowhere. Yeah you have OS4 and quite a few Amigaones out there but that is it.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

[coldfish]

Amen brother!

So long as there's a vocal, fanatical, puritanical, zealous element of the Amiga community it will never elevate beyond a obscure, proprietary hardware, niche platform.

Ah well, I could care less, Ive got Aros, Linux and XP with WinUAE all running on my Lappy.  Spoilt for choice!  

ps: Damn KDE is purdee and quick too.

[drHirudo]

Look where it got them, nowhere.

Much better than the solutions you implied - AROS - useless OS with no software; MorphOS - underdeveloped and dead OS with no new software either.

Yeah you have OS4 and quite a few Amigaones out there but that is it.

Yep it's at least something, compared to the other similar choises. If you want and like the Amiga, that's it. If you don't - there are much better places to go.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

Sure, I happily sleep in my bed, do you feel comfortable in yours?

To the "why no AOS 4 on x86" crowd: - it's Hyperion's effort, they can decide whatever to do with their child.

[humppa]

drHirudo wrote:

Yeah you have OS4 and quite a few Amigaones out there but that is it.

Yep it's at least something, compared to the other similar choises.

Last time I checked, the Morphos-compatible platforms were still on sale. Rumours also say that there are millions of x86 which could potentially run AROS or Amithlon.
Yes, at least that's "something" compared to the few (half of them flawed) AmigaOnes which were produced.  :lol:

[drHirudo]

humppa, hardware is nothing without software, boy. You can buy the fastest PC available install AROS on it and watch your icons all day, but you will feel bored pretty soon, I am sure. Oh, well, you can try to port some neat software to AROS, but you can't do this directly on it, you have to install Linux. The Morphos-compatible platforms are as much outdated in specs as the AmigaOnes, and even if you run MorphOS on they, you will find that you switched to Linux faster than you thought. That's why I said if you like and want Amiga, AmigaOS 4 is the only choise which still have some hope (and future) left in it. If you want Linux or something else, buy PC and be happy.

[Lando]

drHirudo wrote:

Much better than the solutions you implied - AROS - useless OS with no software; MorphOS - underdeveloped and dead OS with no new software either.

MorphOS isn't dead.  There have been several updates in the past year, including the long-awaited native TCP/IP stack, updates to the USB stack, the release of the free PowerUP version along with two updates for it, the MorphOS 3D package with OpenGL compatible API and Goa Warp3D wrapper (that is faster than the original on the same hardware), the latest Ambient update (released on 12th March).

That's just off the top of my head.  And development is ongoing.

It's also home to the only (as far as I know) working KHTML-based browser for any Amiga-like platform.

[humppa]

@drHirudo

humppa, hardware is nothing without software, boy. You can buy the fastest PC available install AROS on it and watch your icons all day, but you will feel bored pretty soon, I am sure.

So what's the difference between MorphOS and OS4 concerning software abundance? AROS is still a developers OS - and you know it. Developers like to code (you should know that yourself) and don't want to stare at icons all day.

and even if you run MorphOS on they, you will find that you switched to Linux faster than you thought.

That's not what I am seeing. I see people who are happy to have a platform that is able to run multiple operating systems. So funny that you construct this as a disadvantage.

That's why I said if you like and want Amiga, AmigaOS 4 is the only choise which still have some hope (and future) left in it.

Because... Linux or other OS dont run so well on it? Is that the reason why it's "the future"?  :lol:

[drHirudo]

So what's the difference between MorphOS and OS4 concerning software abundance?

There were times when the MorphOS software was more but now it's the vice versa - on the PD front:
MorphOSNews - 675 items.
OS4Depot.net - Total files: 908
AROS Archives - Total files: 35 (irrelevant).

AROS is still a developers OS - and you know it. Developers like to code (you should know that yourself) and don't want to stare at icons all day.

Huh, developers OS on which you can't develop!?!

That's not what I am seeing. I see people who are happy to have a platform that is able to run multiple operating systems.

Any link to these people so I can see them. What I see on MorphZone is mostly whining and sometimes trashing AmigaOS.

So funny that you construct this as a disadvantage.

Buying Pegasos for multiple OSes is silly. PC box runs the same and even many more OSes, faster. With only one exclusion (MorphOS), but it's irrelevant.

Because... Linux or other OS dont run so well on it? Is that the reason why it's "the future"?

How much I have to repeat that buying Pegasos or AmigaOne for Linux is silly, since you can run Linux on much cheaper box, and you won't care about the endian problems which may arise on the PPC when porting x86 software?

[XDelusion]

OS4 on a PS3?

Hmmm, that would be like having an Amiga that needs to goto the shop every other month because the CD drive won't work, or DVD playback screws up.

[humppa]

There were times when the MorphOS software was more but now it's the vice versa

Nice stats. Here are even more "drastic" ones: upload stats by architecture *cough*
So how does this relate to your statement "hardware is nothing without software"? Are both platforms equally dead? I can't believe that the OS4 future will be a very prosperous one if I look at the hardware situation.

Any link to these people so I can see them.

Maybe it's some kind of colour-blindness that occurs if you hang around on AW.net for too long.  :lol:

Buying Pegasos for multiple OSes is silly. PC box runs the same and even many more OSes, faster.

Yeah, having a platform which is only able to run one single OS is better, good point, NOT.

How much I have to repeat

Are you an incarnation of Rogue?

that buying Pegasos or AmigaOne for Linux is silly

I heard that there are people who bought a Pegasos because of MorphOS and because of general interest in a PPC-based platform.