In the past it was often better even for an alternative OS newbie to ask stuff about Linux within the Amiga community, than within the Linux community itself. Over the years Amiga fans have toyed with and tested almost any alternative OS solution out there, in the hope of finding something which resembles AmigaOS’ elegance, power and efficiency in any way. I hope that many other alternative OS supporters will jump onboard for new Amiga hardware solutions. For the most part the OS was developed on existing classic PPC hardware in combination with bridge solutions like the Prometheus.

Hyperion will soon release AmigaOS 4.0 screenshots. > Don’t they have enought of Amiga OS for PPC to at least If you want to make good money, this is where you will have a good chance for success. The AmigaDE will be integrated into future PPC AmigaOS releases, allowing access to hunderds more software titles and the most efficient Java engine currently available. The AmigaDE/Int ent has an even larger developer community. More software for the new AmigaOS is always welcome though. They will announce their projects after AmigaOS 4.0 becomes available. There’s alot of interest and work being done by software developers.

> Can you give us any ideas on the available applications > What are your thoughts on the next 2 months for Amiga? MacOS X has some nice eyecandy and some much more powerful features, so there will be some demand for emulation this, but it surely is a bloated inefficient performance killer also. Well IMO MacOS wasn`t as retarded as MSDOS though. This way you could have a multitasking virtual Macintosh allowing you to switch between different MacOS emulations and AmigaOS.Īlmost nobody was impressed by MacOS at the time though, seeing it run alongside a much more powerful AmigaOS, only made the OS seem more retarded. And you could still use the great AmigaOS pre-emptive multitasking abilities while doing so. This was cool because there was software available for MacOS, which never found its way to AmigaOS, Adobe Photoshop or Duke Nukem for instance. In fact many Amiga users used a software 68k MacOS emulator called Shapeshifter in the past, which allowed 68k Amigas to emulate 68k MacOS faster than equivalently powered Apple hardware at the time. There are talks between them and AmigaOS4 developers. For instance the rights to the PPC MacOS emulator iFusion (for use with PPC Amigas) is now owned by a company called Virtual Programming Ltd, which currently develops AmigaDE/Int ent software.

Regardless work around solutions may become available later on, to allow you to boot 68k and PPC MacOS versions. Anyone think that we will be able to install this board and add an SBLive!, our own hard drive, ram, cd/dvd drive, and video cardĪpple is very anti-competitive regarding alternative OSes and hardware solutions.

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