How dead is the AMiGA OS this time?

[Cryten]

Hi

I just took out my trusty old Miggy (A4000/CSPPC etc etc) from the storage room, and I fired it up to see if it's still working. It's still running, and for some odd reason I felt like upgrading the OS, but there's still nothing out there to actually look forward to...

So, the question is, how dead is the AMiGA this time? I mean, is there anyting going on out there that may resurrect (the hopes for) the platform once more? For instance, who's the current owner of the rights to the OS (Hyperion, or some obscure company that promises to deliver what everyone else just made promises of for the last 10 years?)?

Could someone compact the last 2-3 years of hope/despair into a short post/reply? :-).

I know, I should have used the search function and I should have done my home work etc etc. Will the words 'I'm sorry' make up for that? ;-).

[cv643d]

You can try out MorphOS on your machine.

[LoadWB]

Once again the Green Monster rears it's ugly head... I wish *I* had a CyberStorm PPC in my storage room.  Maybe Santa will be good to me this year :-)

[krize]

http://powerup.morphos-team.net/

[Tomas]

Hyperion is still working on AmigaOS4... The last "promise" was for a release around christmas time.. But this was said previous year as well, so i dont get my hopes up. It is already avaliable as a pre release for the few lucky ones who got a hold of the AmigaONE hardware and for some beta testers with classic amiga and a ppc accelrator.

[trekiej]

I would buy OS4 if it were available.  It would not bother me if there was no hardware available or not.  I would buy it to support the Amiga.

I hope this is not off topic.
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[countzero]

now that the pegasos is also discontinued and genesi says it's not planning any new platform for the morphos, morphos can be considered dead as well.

[AmiKit]

@Cryten

I felt like upgrading the OS, but there's still nothing out there to actually look forward to...

Or you can try an emulation while waiting for OS4... http://amikit.amiga.sk  ;-)

[Piru]

@countzero

genesi says it's not planning any new platform for the morphos

I'm sorry but I can't see how this is relevant. MorphOS will run on any hardware the we decide to add support for, Genesi or other.

[Tomas]

I'm sorry but I can't see how this is relevant. MorphOS will run on any hardware the we decide to add support for, Genesi or other.

If you decide yeah.. So far it looks pretty negative from what i have read around.. I sure hope it gets ported though.

[TheMagicM]

its pretty dead no matter which side you're on.  AOS4 has no new hardware.   MOS has hardware just not "officially supported".  Both sides take a "when its done" approach to the release of their respective OS.  IMO AOS4 would be ahead of the game had they had licenced hardware.   But hey, I'm just having fun w/emulation and using the real deal.  

[Piru]

Well, at least we own our OS, and don't need to worry about licensing issues.

[gdanko]

I'm sorry but I can't see how this is relevant. MorphOS will run on any hardware the we decide to add support for, Genesi or other.

But until we see something people will be skeptics. Mac G4 would be a perfect platform to support. Linux can port to the G4 Macs, no reason MorphOS cannot.

[Cryten]

Some seem to suggest MorphOS, but as been pointed out by others, it seems to only offer a dead end that's very similar to the Amiga. That being said, it on the other hand seem to offer atleast a possible future where things actually will/might happen... Btw, from reading the replies in my own thread, I can see the question of MorphOS or not MorphOS is kind of an infected questions here ;-).

Even if Amiga OS4 was released for classic HW + PPC, and Amiga One, isn't that the very same thing as saying that it will be discontinued anyway? I mean, if there's no new HW to run an OS on, what's the point?

Is there any official statement (MorphOS/AMiGA OS) that the OS will be ported to ANY available HW platform?

[countzero]

conspiracy theory :

now that genesi has lost interest in pegasos, maybe hyperion can get rights to the platform and and port os4 and resume production ? after all it's a known and working system. and it's has better specs than the current os4 candidates as far as I know ?