OLPC hacked to run Amiga OS

[amigean]

From Engadget.com:

"Clearly a match made in heaven, the doomed-but-beloved Amiga OS has been made to run on the maybe-doomed-but-beloved OLPC. It's not running natively, sadly, so the real hack here is getting the Amiga Forever emulator running on NickNeg's baby, but still, this combination is just beautifully tragic."

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/olpc-hacked-to-run-amiga-os/

http://www.amigaforever.com/news-events/20080105oapc/

[weirdami]

I guess it's more news that some other places picked up the story, but the the original news item is no slouch. :-P

[alenppc]

Hacked?  :-?

Didn't Cloanto release an official statement just a few days ago stating that it runs  Amiga Forever without modifications?

---EDIT: NM, just noticed the post above.

[ferrellsl]

What a misleading headline.  AmigaOS was not hacked in any way.  Amiga Forever was hacked/patched/modified to run on the OLPC.  That isn't news.  It's a waste of time.

Now if someone had hacked OS4 to run on another hardware platform, that would be news.  This story doesn't even belong on the homepage of Amiga.org.....

[weirdami]

DOWN WITH NEWS!

DOWN WITH NEWS!

 :flame:  :flame:  :flame:  :destroy:  :destroy:  :destroy:  :flame:  :flame:  :python:

[jj]

Well its not news now is it. Was in the first news announcement, and then the thread

[amigean]

I have to admit I hadn't noticed the original news item when I submitted this - but I think that any mention of 'Amiga' in Engadget (a very, very popular tech website) is worth a news item - but maybe I'm wrong.

IMHO Cloanto did a fantastic job in drawing publicity to Amiga (and their product)

I also found the reactions of the Engadget crowd entertaining - a good bunch of amigans also stood up to defend the faith

[persia]

Don't feel too bad, I made the mistake of posting it to the general discussion a day or so before you posted it to News and I was shot down in flames too...