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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If AmigaOS came on x86 Hardware you'd only be dual booting back to windows. You'll be using it now and then as a quaint alternative, just as a lot of people do with Linux. I think this is one of the things that keeps Linux retention so low. You have some trouble with Linux somewhere and you go "F'it I'm going back to windows". Only making the investment in the PPC hardware will encourage you to plow through the teething problems and get the most out of the system. There's no windows on this PPC platform.... AND THAT'S A GOOD THING!!!!
Also I, and many other Amiga enthusiasts find the thought of an x86 based Amiga abhorrent. I believe the Amiga was a computer, rather than just an operating system. The current specs aren't great, granted, but I can only think this is step one.
What I'd love to see, is Amiga(or someone) license the hardware of an established console manufacturer and make the SUPER AMIGA that we all want, that can play all the console games as well as boot into OS4. Put it in an A500 style case and it'd be a winner. All consoles are going to be PPC based for the foreseeable future and OS4 is now primed for a port as it has a Hardware Abstraction Layer. It would also only need to support one graphics device instead of everything ever done, as drivers are also going to be an issue as they are with Linux.