@number6

sorry, but as expected, this story has so many layers, you arent even scratching the surface i fear. the comments of olaf are so very true and honest and spoken from lifes experience and though they are probably entirely irrelevant to the core of the problem. a gordian knot you guys are enjoying discussing here. and this joy is the uppermost layer of the problem.

@ne_one

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@spud101 Evidently no one actually does.

(my emphasis).

Correct, but not quite in the way you mean I think. Many people do. AmigaOS which ever version has not been a monolithic things for many years, if it ever was even under commodore.

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@broadblues

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Many people do

And that of course is both the main issue and ultimately, the most inconsequential.

The brand has value.

But a protracted, expensive battle over ownership of a ratchety old OS does not.

@thread

Hyperion promised multicore - but could not deliver.

AmigaOS needs to be re-engineered from the ground up.

The core need to be written in a portable format.
Give it a few asm commands and it creates the bootstrap to new architecture.

Multicore, multiuser needs to be in the core.

A systems analysis needs be done on all structures to redo slow functions and old algorithms replaced.

Security needs to be added properly api and data memory encryption.

All data access to structures should be forbidden and only access given with requests.

One could experiment with a thin Linux layer

Break compatibility emulation would come.

Data Oriented programming
Highly modular.

Apple is moving to custom arm processor for laptops & desktops.

we need an arm version of AmigaOS 3 and 4.

maybe an arm laptop - open source hardware :
https://www.olimex.com/Products/DIY-Laptop/KITS/TERES-A64-WHITE/open-source-hardware

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@asymetrix

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Apple is moving to custom arm processor for laptops & desktops.

Good for them as it will enable even thinner models with slower / cooler processors with less features and horsepower than Intel variants but bringing more vertical integration and hence larger profit margins!

At this point other than macOS itself 'Bootcamp' is Apple's last killer App following the death of iDVD and near destruction of iMovie and Final Cut Pro IMHO. But it's soon to be thrown out with the bath water just like all the 32 bit apps and useful PowerPC apps before that!

Saying all of that AmigaOS on the Raspberry Pi would be very welcome.

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@asymetrix, BigD

you guys heard about aros, right? lol.

@wawa

Was just going to mention that people could try out the experimental 64bit SMP nightly

http://aros.sourceforge.net/nightly1.php

Oh, and a Pi version is in the works
https://www.patreon.com/michal_schulz/posts

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@asymetrix

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Hyperion promised multicore - but could not deliver. AmigaOS needs to be re-engineered from the ground up. The core need to be written in a portable format. Give it a few asm commands and it creates the bootstrap to new architecture. Multicore, multiuser needs to be in the core. A systems analysis needs be done on all structures to redo slow functions and old algorithms replaced. Security needs to be added properly api and data memory encryption. All data access to structures should be forbidden and only access given with requests. One could experiment with a thin Linux layer Break compatibility emulation would come. Data Oriented programming Highly modular.

This sums it up doesn't it.

The paradox we're in. If we want to overhaul AmigaOS into a contemporary OS, it will simply become something totally else than what we have now, debatable whether this is still worth calling AmigaOS and additionally what will it bring to the table next to the modern OSs we already have?

So to me, it will remain a nostalgia driven hobby platform...

@BigD

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Apple's last killer App

Logic.

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@spud101

sure you could modernize AmigaOS but only if you drop 68k and accept it is no longer compatible. Existing software would need to be rewritten. That is the main problem... who will rewrite software and partly sources no longer exists. At the end such a new OS would be a "proof of concept". You could use a linux kernal as base and perhaps run linux software but then why use such a new OS at all.

So yes... it is a hobby platform

@broadblues

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broadblues wrote: @BigD Quote: Apple's last killer App Logic.

Yeah, ok.... hence the new Apple adverts with famous musicians usings Macs. I get it but they are going the way of the Atari ST if they don't get other creative back on side

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@spud101

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The paradox we're in. If we want to overhaul AmigaOS into a contemporary OS, it will simply become something totally else than what we have now,

If you consider that "most users" are sheep that have no clue about "this thing called Shell-Seg" and all the stuff that is "under the hood" of AmigaOS (can you tell from where I am paraphrasing?) - what does it matter if it is "something totally else"? Clearly, the vast majority of the users do simply not care.

Remember the days of TAO etc? Everyone (the "most users") was super excited then, even though that was clearly something totally else. It really all boils down to what it is the company is doing, that at any time is holding the "Amiga trophy" - if Hyperion tomorrow announced that they have found an immense investor for Amiga OS5, and that they have an agreement with the Matt Dillon, to provide the DragonFlyBSD kernel and userland for Amiga OS5 - the "most users" would be up in arms and super supportive.

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@OlafS25

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if you drop 68k and accept it is no longer compatible. Existing software would need to be rewritten. That is the main problem... who will rewrite software and partly sources no longer exists.

That is clealy not a problem, since all we ever hear "most users" ask for, are...

* modern web browser (which also require modern networking stack, modern security measures etc)
* word processor that can handle MSOffice document formats.

I cannot think of any OS4 specific software for which a move to a more modern OS would not be possible or not be beneficial. The best way to get rid of the problem with legacy software, is to provide new software that renders the legacy software redundant, and best way to provide new software is to have a platform that attracts developers.

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The best way to get rid of the problem with legacy software, is to provide new software that renders the legacy software redundant, and best way to provide new software is to have a platform that attracts developers.

Yeah. !00%.

The best way to attract developers is to have APIs that are clean, well designed (i.e., not full of a bunch of legacy cruft) and flexible (the programmer shouldn't be straight-jacketed into OOP or any type of framework) with good, complete documentation. There shouldn't be any books titled "Undocumented Hypothetical OS". And there shouldn't be any Stack Overflow posts explaining how to do something in 17 steps that should be straightforward and simple. An intermediate-level programmer should be able to get up to speed on this hypothetical new system without living for years in the Microsoft/Apple/Linux House of Pain. This would attract developers, which in turn would attract users.

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@bison

you guys are talking about everything but amiga. go grab your linux copy. or friendos or beos or haiku or whatever and stop complaining that no ne wants to code another redundant os.

@wawa

Your are right, there is a still a lot of potential, let's focus what is here. We can borrow the best things from other Os'es but should not loose the Amiga identity.

@bison

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The best way to attract developers is

To support them, support their efforts, and their products.

@Nonefornow

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To support them, support their efforts, and their products.

And how exactly do we support Thomas R and the OS3.1.4 developers without the money being syphoned off to be wasted in the law courts?

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@BigD

How do one support developers who themselves describe the OS and its code base (in lengthy, detailed essays that goes _way_ over the heads of "most users") as horrible, messy, outdated... could someone please get them out of this misery! :)

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@wawa

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stop complaining that no ne wants to code another redundant os.

I think you're the one who's doing the complaining! There's opportunity here, if you can see it.

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