Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 570 from 2007/7/29
Quote:
ThorstenS wrote:
What does your statement mean with regard to the further development of MorphOS?
Will there be two branches of development in the future?
One is MorphOS 3.x, which continues the current MorphOS on the PPC track. And MorphOS 4.x, which contains memory protection, no longer has a RAM limit, has backward compatibility through MorphOS 3 emulation and runs on other architectures.
Yes. (In theory.) Every company creates such a break of foeatures in a new branch. They don't want to break compatibility in the old branch because then they can still deliver updates in the old branch. and emulation should be fast enough these days.
In practise I have little hope. Since the announcement of MorphOS 4.x and the demo on amiga 34 we haven't heard about it anymore. It is almost 4.5 years now. bigfoot is the only person working on it and instead of completing this he writes graphics drivers for his bounty (if he has electrictiy which is the next problenm). Yes it gives him money but the general development of MorphOS is kind of stalled. we are still limited to almost 20 year old retro machines. everyone is waiting for the switch that is long overdue and does not happen.
