Linked by Mike Bouma on Wed 9th Jun 2004 18:35 UTC
Core AmigaOS 4.0 developer Hans-Jörg Frieden has written a status report with regard to the current state of AmigaOS. Various advances have been made since the Developer Pre-release version of AOS4 was completed. Meanwhile AmigaWorld.net has launched a new File Depot portal dedicated to providing and hosting Amiga OS4 files and related resources.
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@ smurf975
> however I would first try and find a niche market such as
> embedded multimedia devices.
First you would need a development platform, so I think that is the first you should be targeting. Without software any new platform is doomed, this was also one of the reasons why BeOS did not really catch on enough for it to survive. The existing Amiga community can help alot with regard to this (First niche).
The second niche would be embedded multimedia and similar devices as has been stated for many times. The plan IS to gradually expand into new niche markets. :-)
> BeOS would be the first to mind. As I think it was a lot
> better then AmigaOS.
If you compare your AmigaOS 3.0 from 1992 with the last versions of BeOS, I would certainly agree (the BeBox made it's first public appearance inb 1995! The popular BeOS release 4.5 was not released until 1999!), and the same would IMO even be true for even MacOS9. ;-)
AmigaOS4.0 will have more than "some small modifications" compared to AmigaOS3.0!
> I also don't understand the deal with Amiga and its
> obsession with the powerpc cpu.
The Amiga isn't obsessed by the PPC processor. It just happens the PPC has more in common with 68k processors and thus already many steps towards moving to PPC have been made in the past. AmigaOS4 is also in beta for classic systems equipped with old PPC expansion boards.
Also the PPC is excellently suitable for that "embedded multimedia" niche you were talking about. (For example the long battery life due to energy efficiency)