Joined: 4-Jan-2010 Posts: 580
From: London, UK (ex-pat; originally from Norway)
@Leo
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What people don't seem to understand is that what we have now can hardly be considered a market. What we would gain by targetting a real "market" is so much more important than even loosing everyone here...
That doesn't help if they have no income stream and no investment to fund the necessary development to reach that kind of market. How many commercial niche OS's on x86 can you name? How much do you think it's cost to develop the few that are there? It's not like they can just recompile what they've got and go to market.
And AmigaOS x86 port would not magically expand the market. Who would buy it? Ex-Amiga users? The ones that have abandoned AmigaOS for other OS's are unlikely to be willing to migrate back to AmigaOS without a significant chunk of applications running on it first. If they just want m68k Amiga apps they have UAE. And they'd need to compete with AROS.
The point is there *is no money* to do this kind of port without a revenue stream, and without significant OS enhancements first there are few if any compelling reasons for any non-hardcore existing Amiga community members for buying an x86 AmigaOS port.
Unless you can somehow find someone willing to invest millions of dollars in AmigaOS development, Hyperion (and ACube and A-Eon) are stuck with nurturing the tiny markets they have access to and hope they can extract enough profit to improve things enough to slowly nurse it sufficiently back to health to start financing slightly more audacious projects.
Finding millions of dollars for AmigaOS development might've been possible 10-15 years ago, but not now, unless some incredibly rich current or ex-Amigan suddenly decides to risk their fortune. As it is we're lucky enough to have someone like Trevor Dickinson taking the fairly large risk he's taking with a significantly smaller investment.
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