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RE: just a thought…

The Master — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:16:51 GMT

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RE: just a thought…

Sven Harvey — Wed, 31 May 2006 19:46:14 GMT

Just for reference OS4 was originally planned to be a stepping stone... During the conversion of the OS from 680x0 to PowerPC, the intention (and indeed this I believe this did happen) was to start the move to make the OS as hardware agnostic as possible. Later revisions of OS4 are supposed to add support for multiple PPC processors, and 64-bit support for use with the appropriate PowerPC processors such as Cell and so on. (its been made clear on more than one occassion that the project leaders on OS4 - the Frieden Brothers are fans of the Cell somewhat.)

The plan was then to move to processor agnostic fully 64-bit OS with OS5, allowing porting to any processor with appropriate specs.

Of course this was all laid out in a road map in 2000/2001 which should have seen OS5 out by the end of this year... and we'll be lucky to see OS4 out and hardware to run it on.

RE: just a thought…

The Master — Fri, 26 May 2006 12:14:31 GMT

If Amiga Went x86 and This lowered Prices Of Amiga HardWare Then I Would Probably Buy Os 4

What About 2 Versions PPC and x86

How Can A Mac x86 Keep Compatablity With PowerPc Software ? That Might Be 1 FoR The Mac Forum

I mean The MotherBoards Can Have The Amiga Custom Chips and be x86 Wouldnt Commodore HAve Gone With What It Saw As More Advanced and Done The Swap Like Apple?

They Had A Blizzard PPc Card On Ebay For About £170 But How Can You Justfy Buying That I Nearly did?$£"%

RE: just a thought…

Sticky Mick — Fri, 26 May 2006 10:42:07 GMT

I had actually forgotten them, Jason. But that's precisely what my point is. It would be a completely viable proposition, but for the price of memory.

RE: just a thought…

Jason — Fri, 26 May 2006 10:10:34 GMT

How do you think the PDA/phone versions of Windows work?

RE: just a thought…

Sticky Mick — Fri, 26 May 2006 10:01:10 GMT

But, this is what throws the spanner in the works:

The Amiga O/S is primarily ROM based. The core of the O/S is actually stored on a ROM chip (later versions were flashable to allow updates), whereas Windows is purely disk based.

Now think about this. What would happen if the price of RAM fell to something stupid, like £1 per GB (wishfull thinking:D) and somebody out there developed a ROM Board that did for Windows what the Kickstart ROM did for Workbench?;)

RE: just a thought…

Sticky Mick — Sat, 20 May 2006 13:36:53 GMT

You could run Workbench on the PC via what was called "The Siamese Sytem" a network connection that was developed by a company called HiQ.

The only bit of decent info on it now is here: [url]http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~pnolan/siamese.html[/url]

One of the features was the ability to have a Windows desktop at 1024x768 and an Amiga Workbench window open at a resolution of 800x600 on the same desktop, with a game running in it with no performance hit to either the PC or Amiga.

RE: just a thought…

Teafie — Thu, 18 May 2006 09:35:08 GMT

I liked the Idea of the amiga using the cell processor.

It realy caught my imagination. I thought this is the future.

Ive tryed to follow it up resently but it would appear the the ideas gone the way of the dodo.

heres a link to the only thing I know that uses the cell. WHY

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/2005/05/16/news_6124681.html?sid=6124681

RE: just a thought…

BJM — Thu, 18 May 2006 00:18:46 GMT

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

RE: just a thought…

maticus — Wed, 17 May 2006 23:56:56 GMT

having just read the ars technica review I am quite impressed by the new platform and OS kinda makes me think of the compactness and effecientsy of the nintendo wii. so yeah it would be a shame to waste all that effort. but still considering the rocky history of the amiaga it would be wise to have that as a backup plan. by the way does anyone know the name of the film i was refering to? it`s doing my head in now.:blink:

RE: just a thought…

johnbarry — Wed, 17 May 2006 23:27:16 GMT

[quote][b]maticus (17/05/2006)[/b][hr]just a thought, instaid of the amiga comunity dreaming of a new hardware platform to resurect the amiga platform. why not develop OS 4 for the pc?. [/quote]

Probably a goodish thought, but then where would that leave Amiga One and the already expense spent on development. They would want/need some return and probably want to keep it for themself. To my knowledge (I stand correctected if wrong) Amiga develop the Computer and own / develop the OS. Unlike PCs made by many and the OS by one?

It may be a bit of competition though like Linux?

just a thought…

maticus — Wed, 17 May 2006 22:46:56 GMT

just a thought, instaid of the amiga comunity dreaming of a new hardware platform to resurect the amiga platform. why not develop OS 4 for the pc?. kind of like that fillm (the name escapes me) with lenord nemoy and donald sutherland were plants from out of space are taking people over.