Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 712 from 2006/5/28
From: Germany
Quote:TheMagicM wrote:
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Cego wrote:
Sorry to say that, but the future of amiga lies in the Vampire and FPGA not MorphOS or OS4. It'll be the new NextGen. The sales numbers are speaking for themselves.
I agree with everything but that one line. The original Workbench (3.x and older), blows. Its not an OS that is usable on the web with whatever apps we currently have. Vampire is basically a system that can replace our current aging Amiga's with something that can take over via emulation. I still think there is a place for MorphOS, the other one, I'm not sure. I still think the Vampire is a glorified UAE on real hardware. Will I buy it? Heck yea, why not, but realistically, to replace real hardware and emulate 68k systems. I'll sell what I have on ebay for max $$$$
I dont know where MorphOS goes from here to the future. PPC is cool, it did what we wanted and got us from old Amiga hardware to something newer and much more powerful. Theres a next step somewhere, maybe x86, who knows. What will happen to MorphOS? Will it go the way of Haiku and just be a novelty? Will current devs be interested 10-15 years from now or will it end up having a "final" version and remain closed source for the rest of its life?
MorphOS won't be any better than this regarding community and software support. In that matter it is almost dead, to tell the truth. In 10-15 years there will be even less developers working on the system and even less users. I think it will go down in history as an exotic, unknown operating system that will be remembered for its amiga compatibility. OS4 on the other hand has a lot more 3rd party software support and a bigger user base, but the devs and hyperion are lacking competence, who are basically ruining the system in every possible way.
OS3x/classic has the benefit of beeing mainly supported and developed by the community. a lot of users are contributing hardware and software to the plattform. so as long as theres a community the classics will never die.
I dont agree with you on the operating system issue. I think the old AmigaOS is capable enough to do webbrowsing and video playback. YouTube video playback was already demonstrated. I dont know about modern office applications, but that doesnt play a role in a retro system. maybe it'll be an option to port AROS, OS4 or even MorphOS back to 68k.
I think a beefed up Vampire v5 or v6 could be fast enough to run MorphOS smoothly, maybe even the upcoming v4. Would love to see a comparison between that machine and the Efika.
Pegasos II G4 @1.0GHz, 1GB DDR Ram, Radeon 9200Pro, 240GB SSD+160GB HD, MorphOS 3.18, AmigaOS4.1 FE, Debian 8
