@Amiga_Nut
A new Amiga with a floppy drive? Come on, skinning Linux isn't going to give you a modern Amiga, but keeping the old internals and OS of a classic isn't either. I know some PCs which physically can't support a floppy drive (well, maybe a USB one), and even if they did, Windows probably wouldn't run the software on them without DOSBox or similar.
I don't know about DPaint, but I know that PPaint 68k works fine on my OS4.1 machine, can load and save IFF images which I can shuttle across the network to my AGA A1200, where they load perfectly into PPaint. And Multiview. Instead of floppy disks I can use an SD card and PCMCIA adaptor which works a treat. Also, my AmiBlitz software which doesn't hit the hardware directly works the very same under OS4.1 (but faster) as it does on my A1200.
I would love an OS which can do what was asked originally and it's not unreasonable. Doesn't matter if UAE is involved or not to me where running the code is concerned but it is reasonable to expect someone asking for my cash for an OS licence to get into partnership and make a cheap FD controller to use a Mac/PC/PPC machine hosting that OS.
If I can't swap between said machine and a real Amiga then I'll stick with PC + WinUAE as that does it all using very powerful x86 components.
What the UAE team need to do is take a leaf out of STeem's book and let me choose virtual CPU mhz so I can have a 400mhz virtual 68060 or just 28mhz 68020.
So new cheap FDD adaptor + virtual CPU speed control in UAEl= 'new Amiga' IMO
(STeem = Atari ST emulator)
