I have always personally seen XL (and amithlon) as a burst artery, bleeding the Amiga to death
IMHO i dont agree, Amiga inc. should be making some money from it too through licensing and its no threat until os5 or whetever that runs on all kinds of hardware.
XL is more about maintaining a userbase until something better is available
Just think about this: all I know is that this will be good for the sales of remaining amiga hardware and sofware. But perhaps the price of this success is too high. I can only begin to anticipate the anger of XL users.
what amiga hardware? honestly, if my (expanded)1200 dies it would be too expesive to get a decent amiga system back, never mind that a 060 or ppc is almost impossible to get (new). and is still slow compared to pc hardware + amigaXL.
Since i bought AmigaXl and installed it , i have started to really use photogenics,arteffect soundFx and am willing to buy (and have) new software for AmigaOs.
My Xl workbench :-)
If AmigaXl is no longer develloped/sold i (and others) would eventually switch to another os and may not come back even if the A-1 is finally released.
I would
really like Amithlon to be further develloped and hope this issue is resolved soon!
This is one piece of software that is very good and should not dissapear.
Seperating the rom images from the cd could be an option but not a very nice one.
Its just cool to show people with a pc a Amiga by just popping in the cd :-D
Richard Mulder
aka Weasel, Techrat