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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12058 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > If porting to another ISA is too difficult then they should not port
    > the AmigaOS compatibility to ARM.

    That's what they said anyway:

    "The problem related to this (change of architecture) is that the PPC & 68K compatibility will likely be lost."
    https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=8121&forum=9&start=18

    > Isn't one of the reasons why MorphOS had little software is because
    > software developers do not want to develop software for PowerPC?

    I don't think that the underlying CPU ISA plays a significant role for most application or game developers. After all, they're usually programming in languages which hide the actual CPU ISA from them. So I guess it has more to do with MorphOS rather than the PPC per se.
    However, considering that the current hardware choice of MorphOS means that its target audience and that of its software is rather limited, it's probably true that most software developers do not want to develop software for an OS that runs on such limited hardware scale.
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