Do you approve of PPC (in some form) as the future of Amiga?

[Fransexy_]

You cannot possibly be this dumb.

It was half-jokingly.  The problem with Amiga.org is that you can not embed images

[the_leander]

It was half-jokingly.  The problem with Amiga.org is that you can not embed images

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You'll find that works just fine.

[Fransexy_]

Anyway they must concentrate on software, no matter on which CPU it run (even if itś alien technology and is cheaper than X86) if there is not applications or certain features in the OS they will get the same result

[runequester]

I dont think the number of cores really have much of an impact on how fast final writer 97 and Dpaint IV runs.

[Manu]

x86 all the way. Think of all the people we've lost over the years because they never could run AmigaOS on their Windows boxes.

[murple]

Discussing the future of Amiga is like arguing over who should be the next Roman emperor. Amiga is dead, it died with Escom. Sure, we can talk about current and future Amiga-inspired platforms, but they aren't Amigas. Amiga is and should be entirely in the realm of retro computing, as much as we would've all liked things to have gone differently in the early 1990s.

[Buzzfuzz]

X86, but it's the OS'es that must be completely ported to X86.
The goal should be that 3.1/3.5/3.9/4.1 run entirely on X86, if we accomplish that, then Amiga as an OS has a future again.
 
It shouldn't matter which hardware would be in it, but modern drivers should be devolved of course.
I expect the OS to fully run on a X86 on a SATA SSD with whatever video car, audio card/onboard, network and everything else.

[dammy]

X86, but it's the OS'es that must be completely ported to X86.
The goal should be that 3.1/3.5/3.9/4.1 run entirely on X86, if we accomplish that, then Amiga as an OS has a future again.

Problem is of course, your still chained to 3.1 API even if you go x86.  Keep OS4 on PPC only, neither are going any where.

[haywirepc]

Porting 3.1 3.5 or 3.9 to x86 would be awesome. I'm amazed that no one ever leaked the source code to any of them.
 
The files and sources had to have gone through many people's hard drives over the years. I wish someone would leak it. A bounty could be started to port it to whatever people wanted.
 
Steven

[Fats]

Other: in my distorted universe the future of Amiga is AROS running on x86, AMD64, ARM, PPC or m68k. It's up to the user to choose.

greets,
Staf.

[the_leander]

Porting 3.1 3.5 or 3.9 to x86 would be awesome. I'm amazed that no one ever leaked the source code to any of them.

At one time it was available from an AT ftp server, an "oversight". IIRC it was this that allowed Olaf Barthel to get his copy.
 

A bounty could be started to port it to whatever people wanted.

Yes, because once you've gone so far as to commit copyright infringement, the next stage is to monetize it and potentially put other people in the spotlight along with you...

[redrumloa]

Porting 3.1 3.5 or 3.9 to x86 would be awesome. I'm amazed that no one ever leaked the source code to any of them.
 
The files and sources had to have gone through many people's hard drives over the years. I wish someone would leak it. A bounty could be started to port it to whatever people wanted.
 
Steven

What an odd statement, actually a few odd statements.

Anyhow, I guess you never heard of AROS?

[wawrzon]

i am not against any proposed solution nor against any other imaginable (including quantum processor), yet as long as it looks like just panickly trying to catch up with modern pcs i might as well stay with 68k.

[Lando]

I voted x86 as it's the only logical choice.  Actually the only choice period.  Aros is the future.

[mongo]

At one time it was available from an AT ftp server, an "oversight". IIRC it was this that allowed Olaf Barthel to get his copy.

Olaf Barthel was hired by Amiga Technologies GmbH to organize the source code from the Commodore backup tapes.

[Iggy]

Since we already have AOS4 and MorphOS, I'm not sure about the point of this question. PPC has been a part of our future for quite a while.
 
Everyone needs to get over the Amiga name. "Amiga" is just a trademark. Soon we're likely to have X86 "Amigas" that won't be able to run AmigaOS (just AROS, Windows, or Linux). That's the future whether we like it or not.
 
As to future platforms for those of us still hanging on, since they're already available what are we debating here?