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  • RE:Macs and blu-ray

    From Warp 4@VERT to Nightfox on Fri Mar 29 21:35:00 2013
    Re: RE:Macs and blu-ray
    By: Robert Wolfe to NIGHTFOX on Fri Mar 04 2011 09:21:00

    Speaking of Amigas, I've heard AmigaOS is still alive and being developed,
    although I haven't seen any Amiga computers being sold in a long time..

    This is true, granted you pretty much have to run it with an emulator these
    days on today's computers.

    It seems odd that they'd still be developing an OS that needs an emulator to N>run. I assumed the necessary hardware is also being produced by someone..

    Unless they are making an x86 or x64 version of it now, too :)

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  • From Froggy Me@VERT to Warp 4 on Sun May 19 03:53:05 2013
    Re: RE:Macs and blu-ray
    By: Warp 4 to Nightfox on Fri Mar 29 2013 09:35 pm

    Re: RE:Macs and blu-ray
    By: Robert Wolfe to NIGHTFOX on Fri Mar 04 2011 09:21:00

    Speaking of Amigas, I've heard AmigaOS is still alive and being devel ->although I haven't seen any Amiga computers being sold in a long time

    This is true, granted you pretty much have to run it with an emulator t days on today's computers.

    It seems odd that they'd still be developing an OS that needs an emulator N>run. I assumed the necessary hardware is also being produced by someone..

    Unless they are making an x86 or x64 version of it now, too :)


    Yes, the necessary hardware is still being produced. It's PowerPC based. A good example is the X1000:

    http://www.a-eon.com/x1000.html

    FroggyMe

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  • From Dingo@VERT to Froggy Me on Wed Aug 28 14:40:00 2013
    Yes, the necessary hardware is still being produced. It's PowerPC b
    good example is the X1000:

    http://www.a-eon.com/x1000.html

    I relaly wanted one of these, but even though i made great salary the
    year it was released (Ahem, about 2 years later than it was promised to
    be...) I still couldn't justify the >$2,000 USD cost for sub-par
    hardware.

    Personally I'm banking on Natami:

    http://www.natami.net/

    Unlike the X1000, it will actually be bit-for-cpu-instruction-byte
    compatible with the amiga. The whole PPC Accellerator card evolution of
    OS4 doesn't seem to be getting very far. It certainly doesn't have
    enough market traction. I would expect in 5 years or so that X1000 is
    still the last and only amiga os4-compatible machine, still expensive, procured from ebay, just like the genesis and other PPC-like systems
    before it, and still 5-10 years behind in technology -- that is, you
    won't have Ruby, Python, Flash, Java, etc., support out of the box like
    you do with even a PPC-based macintosh, or the direction places like
    MorphOS are going.
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