Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 27th May 2007 19:04 UTC
In yet another set of legal documents in the Amiga-Hyperion court case, it is revealed that AmigaOS 4 was ported to run on the Mac Mini (the PowerPC version, obviously), or, at least, that the port was in a very advanced state. The information was found in an email exchange between Bill McEwen of Amiga and Nicola Morocutti of VirtualWorks, about the latter obtaining a license to sell AmigaOS 4 together with the Sam 440ep board as well as, apparently, to sell boxed copies of AmigaOS 4 for the Mac Mini.
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I'd love to have OS4 running on anything.
I missed getting an AOne. And don't want to go backwards and get an older Amiga with a PPC upgrade to run it.
I have MANY G3/G4 Macs, and would love to be able to run OS4 on those.
I intend to buy an Efika and I hope OS4 will be ported to that Hardware at some point.
I realize that NOT porting OS4 to more common and cheaper hardware protects the Amiga Hardware market.
But, since there is NOBODY selling OS4 compatible hardware... What's the point of protecting nothing?
I think the best strategy is porting OS4 to the Mac Mini or older PowerMac G3 B&W or G4 machines as the LOW END Amiga Compatible market, and then having new hardware vendors skip the low end/low profit market and instead concentrate on the higher end/high profit market.
The funds derived from selling OS4 on the Mac Market can be used to develop OS4 more fully and to add a good brower, office suite, etc...
OS4 will never be anything but a niche OS. But, given the way Microsoft is going... It has a potential to serve a lot of people at home with Older Macs no longer serviced by Apple, as MacOS X will no longer support their hardware, and an alternative to Linux which is too difficult for most people at home to master.
There's an opportunity to make some money here, and make hundreds of thousands of users happy with a nice OS.
IF people stop the dueling lawyers and just start delivering product.