neofree: 1. Choose an existing or create a new Open PPC motherboard as the hardware for OS4.
They already chose an existing design for AmigaOne. It was still buggy and expensive.
Make their own design? Buggy and SUPER expensive.
C'mon, people gotta admit the new Intel Conroe processors are looking pretty good...
TheMagicM: I think too many people are expecting a new piece of hardware to come out and then the "Amiga" will enjoy some sort of rebirth or out-of-the-dead experience. Its not going to happen.
Hardware is just a means to an end. Unless there's real excitement about what the OS can do, it won't go anywhere.
Hyperion is bonkers if they think holding off for a good hardware rollout is going to make a slam-dunk showing. They need to focus on things that will grab the geeks -- things other OSes can't do. You know, like, make a brilliant new shell that makes Bash look like machine language, or something that FINALLY obsoletes FTP and NFS, in favor of transparrent connections, like what Plan9 was doing. I'm shocked to see that MacOSX still uses NFS for logging into other computers though the window manager! WTF?!
neofree: My interest in Mac lately is you cant browse the net without getting clobbered with spyware or viruses.
I've been virus free for 10 years. I don't recall having any spam problems for at least 2, probably longer.
Use Firefox or Opera, plus some common sense, and you won't have problems. Period.
Oh yeah, and get rid of Norton if you have it. In my experience, it will *destroy* your Windows machine. I hate Norton Anything with a passion.
motorollin: AInc/Hyperion/whoever he hell is developing AOS now are fools to be holding on to OS4. OS4 with a nice installer to allow it to run on a Mac would sell tonnes of copies.
There's too much idealism, not enough ideas.
irishmike: The whole Amiga experience for me is to be able to play some games that I liked when I had DOS 6.22 running. The Miggie just actually runs them better.
No kidding. I completely forgot how painful MS-DOS programs really were until I got DOSBox to run some old games.
irishmike: plus, the whole idea of "Remember when computing was fun?" is why we still use our machines.
It was fun because it was all so new. These days, you just have glossy interfaces covering up the warts. I don't presume OS4 is any more "fun" than Windows. The design is just too old. No matter how much Windows aggrivates me, going from Win2K to OS3 is a brain numbing experience.
HellCoder: If all complaining people get there heads together and start building the application they desire so much things will be alot better for them.
An OS is a platform for tools. Without the right tools, it's a lot harder to write applications.
