AmigaOne Help....

[SamuraiCrow]

amigazone wrote:
Why is everyone so concerned about backward compatability???

If Amiga is gonna survive, forget the past. What u gonna do with a backward compatable amiga? play old 16/32bit games in HAM mode.

So long as the disk system is compatable for the transfer of files thats all that is required. if you wanna play ur old amiga games... buy an old amiga off ebay.

If amiga is gonna move forward, forget the past, weve moved on from 4096 colours and AGA Graphics

The reason for concern about backward compatibility is that there is little software written for modern Amiga architechtures and we need our old stuff to keep running.

If you want to learn to write your own software and support yourself, get AROS, it's perfect for you.  You won't need the Amiga brand since you consider the classics to be dead anyway.

[amigazone]

OK.. lets put it into another perspective...

To build a Amiga using a custom  chipset as before woud be too expensive to produce thesedays.

Using a PC with an Amiga complient FDD controler would be much cheaper. Software emulation would allow the use of Old Amiga Code Software while New developers could create software for the New Amiga Arcitecture.

Lets face it... A PC is nothing until its been loaded with an OS... why cant that os be AmigaOS :-)  :-)

[jorkany]

amigazone,

Lets face it... A PC is nothing until its been loaded with an OS... why cant that os be AmigaOS

As far as OS4 goes, Hyperion has made it clear that even if they wanted to make an x86 version of OS4 they can't because they only have license to make PPC versions.

Don't even think about the PPC Mac either! For some reason Hyperion can't get the mobo documentation needed to support PPC Macs. Besides, the PPC Mac is no longer in production and Hyperion has stated that they "aren't targeting the 'have a few spare PPC systems lying around' market". New PPC hardware must be custom-built from the ground up for OS4, and it must also be expensive, slow, and hard to get. I know it all sounds crazy, but you'll catch on soon enough!

But like I mentioned before, AROS is free and runs on PCs.

[Tomas]

o build a Amiga using a custom chipset as before woud be too expensive to produce thesedays.

You could use hardware emulation in a chip similar to the minimig and this will give you much better emulation than what is possible through software and it should still be pretty affordable.. A pc running a software emulator will just not do the job in my opinion and i clearly notice the difference between lets say winuae and the real thing.

Using a PC with an Amiga complient FDD controler would be much cheaper. Software emulation would allow the use of Old Amiga Code Software while New developers could create software for the New Amiga Arcitecture.

Why on earth would we need that? A custom floppy controller would not be any cheaper to produce than the custom chipset in a chip and what is the point considering that you can just load the adf image from your hd or even dvdrom? New pcs does not even come with a floppy drive these days..