Personally, I don't see a lot of future for any of them. None of the successors are very compatible with each other.ĪmigaOS 4 and AROS are experimenting with multiple-core support. Nothing is very compatible with 3.5-3.9 as they were 3rd party extensions. AFAIK, all include emulator(s) so they can run original binaries. Runs on x86, with ARM, PowerPC and 680x0 ports available.Īll are API compatible with Commodore AmigaOS 3.1. Runs on unlicensed, non-official more recent PowerPC machines. a 3rd-party recreation, sponsored by Genesi, natively for PowerPC, with rumours of an ARM port. Runs on some recent licensed PowerPC-based Amigas & some PowerPC accelerators for original machines. Based on officially-licensed original sources, rewritten for PowerPC. By Hyperion, originally licensed by Amiga Inc. Based off the original binaries, with many added components and some bug-fixes & updates. There are, or were, 4 forks of AmigaOS around. And getting all of the current parties to talk and work with each other. It's just a complete and utter mess in the meantime. Make it a "real" and a viable alternative. But open source the Amiga OS and let the community run with it. Let Hyperion et al continue to package up software and sell it commercially (like RedHat). Ideally I think the OS(es) in dev today would all work together with the hardware teams and go the route Linux took. But I wouldn't try and push it into "modern" daily driver use. Much of this has to do with software support (lack thereof) as well as driver support. 4.1 works on PPC hardware for goodness sake. I've not heard of a single instance where the 3.9 or 4.1 users feel they have a viable, modern system they can realistically use. It's not ever been open sourced, just reverse engineered (see AROS, MorphOS, AmigaOS 4.1). I think the honest problem is 3.1 is locked down, really. Here's hoping AmigaOS 3.1 developers somehow get Firefox (or another HTML5 browser) ported once these FPGA accelerators become more common.
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