@BigBenTheAussie



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WTH? How the hell is that our problem???? They don't even want to port to x86. What you seem to be suggesting is like paying Microsoft a huge sum up front just for the honour of them being able to sell Windows to us?

If you read my suggestion, you'd have noticed that I am actually not hugely bothered about an x86 port of OS4. What I really want to see is C=USA pointing computing enthusiasts interested in a machine that is in the tradition of the A4000, ie, an enthusiasts box, towards the X1000 while keeping the customers interested in a machine in the A500 tradition, that is, a gaming machine, to themselves.

You wouldn't lose any customers, because the enthusiasts won't buy your PCs and the gamers won't buy the X1000. But it would make the community more content to know that the custom hardware AmigaOne running AmigaOS isn't going to be drowned out in the advertising kerfuffle surrounding your CommodoreAmiga machines.

Those are my selfish goals. Your side benefits in that it can point to its promotion of the X1000 for enthusiasts and say 'look, we're supporting the original products' continuation! Aren't we good?'. This is something Acorn (2006) failed to do. The tech media took a rather negative view of that and look where they are now. Their company is dissolved and their x86 RISCOS-less PCs are regarded by their financial backers as a big mistake.

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You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

Clearly.


@elatour

Sorry, the events you're talking about rather pre-date my interest in computers. Like I said, I'm new around here. Anyway, here and now the way I see it, there are little companies doing work having their parades rained on by the money men. I kept my 'little companies' comment vague, because I wanted to include the other Amiga-likes - CommodoreUSA's 'Commodore-Amiga' PCs and their big advertising budget will pull the limelight away from all of them.

Last edited by T-J on 16-Sep-2010 at 11:39 PM.

@eliyahu

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rabid fandom only apple can dream of when AROS users can start talking about it being supported by commodore: 'AROS IS THE OFFICIAL AMIGA OS! OMG! OMG! THE REEL AMIGA HAS RETURND!!11!' you know, that kind of nonsense.

And what Aros fans have done that yet? Maybe a couple of x86 fans have. but I don't recall seeing any Aros fans. Many of us don't care about the name at all.

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