Memory protection will break source code compatibility so AROS can't really support it fully. ABI v1 supports it as much as OS4 and MorphOS do. Is there anything else we should throw out along with any resemblance of AmigaOS compatibility?

[ Edited by Samurai_Crow 02.10.2019 - 17:32 ]

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>> 3.12 is close to being done

> Where has this been said?

I guess it was correct, though :-)

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No. Everything must be done in one step. The worst case would be to loose compatibility over and over.

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Nah, worst case would be talking and talking bout it without anything ever getting done.

Scares away old users without winning any new.

[ Edited by Kronos 03.10.2019 - 14:50 ]

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Good for ya mate, lots of potassium there. Be careful with the sugar though.

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No it was tomato.

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AROS x86 is not binary compatible with 68k software, everything need to be recompile, so it is no problem to cut off some parts of API to get memory protection, unix compatybility, and good drivers.

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I just love a plan working out.



Bigfoot just bootet MorphOS on AMD for the 1st time at Amiga34.

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As "most users" (the myth) do not care squat nor have much knowledge on underlying functionality of the operating systems anyways, MorphOS could do well with "doing like Apple" and just hook onto some BSD (DragonflyBSD would be an obvious "amigan" choice, and also "just AMD64").

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Where's the fun if you don't do it yourself, though?

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Exactly - anyone can do a lot more themselves if the underlying layers of the operating system is for example a BSD.

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Maybe MOS team won't admit it, but I'm pretty sure it's only really fun the first or the first few times. Like the first time ~selfmade PPC hardware (Pegasos), first PowerMac, firsttime Laptop (PowerBook). But much less for 2nd PowerMac version, 3rd PowerMac variant, 4rd PowerMac, 5th PowerMac variant, 6th PowerMac variant. Otherwise if it was so much fun it wouldn't have taken so long for all these although they are all PPC motherboards.

And even if MOS ran on top of some other common kernel instead of running on top of Quark Kernel, you could still make your own drivers for pretty much everything like disk/usb/gfx/sound/network if you really want. And if you don't tell anyone, MOS users probably would not even notice. Of course if later they find out, they will retro actively declare it a POS and stop using it.

> there is a new video from Ravi Abbot

This video is less about MorphOS than I anticipated going by its title. It also has a number of inaccuracies* and some outlandish moments**.

* Amiga sold mobile phones and pants (4:50), Gateway bankruptcy was cause for Amiga sale (6:00), no new OS during Gateway era (6:05), Pegasos has MIDI ports and introduced support for DVD drives to the Amiga world (8:00), QNX ran on Peg1 (8:10), Sam460 was first machine running both MorphOS and OS4 (12:33), MorphOS demo has 20-minutes restriction (13:35), HTML5 is in the process of becoming a Web standard (20:50), Octamed and Protracker run on MorphOS (24:36)

** mentions "good people" like Fleecy Moss (5:50), a whole minute wasted on idiotic Merlancia drivel (6:20-7:20), shows old Apdf instead of new VPDF (24:12)

What does he say at 7:25? The Pegasos was created 13 years after Commodore did what (which should be around 1989)?
And as for playing Youtube videos in Odyssey (23:05) in overlay mode, shouldn't window size be irrelevant for CPU load?