Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Quote:Intuition wrote:
Quote:jPV wrote:
Quote:Yeah, and there were some counterreactions, like establishment of
http://www.amigaforum.de/ which was advertised as a manufacturer independent Amiga forum, but it's hard to get any new forums popular these days, because long history and fame of the old sites.
They've run Amiga.org into the ground, but to be fair to them that process started when DiscreetFX was running the place. They've just continued the process.
EAB is the only decent English speaking forum, but it doesn't have the same feel as Amiga.org had 10-15 years ago. Or perhaps I'm looking through rose tinted glasses somewhat.
I'm not sure that isn't a little unfair to DiscreetFX.
During that period we were trying to resurrect work on Aladdin4D as well as some other projects.
Now that is in Aeon's hands as well.
BUT, from the point of competition between MorphOS and OS4, this situation doesn't bode well.
The vendor we are waiting on for the release of the X5000 has a stated preference for OS4, and while they have worked with our developers on that project, that will affect our relationship to future Aeon product releases.
Availability of the X5000 is being delayed so our primary competitor can complete its port to the platform.
And Genesi isn't interested in building us new hardware.
So, availability of new hardware continues to be a problem.
While the move to X64 makes some sense to me, a Power8 port would be the easier route, and in either case, commodity hardware rather than proprietary hardware is probably the best course for our future.
[ Edited by Jim 11.09.2016 - 16:28 ]"Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
