In reply to Comment 113 (David Scheibler):
> > Amiga Inc paid for the name Amiga and the RIGHT to direct it's official future
> They have the right to produce hard or software with the Amiga name. But they
> can't force market members just to buy Amiga's software.
The 'Amiga' market is build upon an OS called 'AmigaOS'. The company owning the
rights to the name can not force anyone to buy their OS, sure. But everyone who
buys 'AmigaOS' and hardware officially (= legally) supported by AmigaOS does
'belong to' the Amiga market. Another OS on another hardware is just, you're
guessing right: _Another_ market.
Any OS or emulation claiming to be able to run 'Amiga' software on non 'Amiga'
hardware has to prove its legality or ensure that there is a way to make it
legal. So has UAE, Amithlon, OSXL, MorphOS (imitating Kronos, I'll call it
E-OS, E-mulating OS, starting now; could also be COS, CloneOS for that matter,
so it'd be a part of the dark side of the force, but I'm not going so far ;-)
That said, I'd be happy if bPlan found a way to make E-OS a completely legal
effort. But it will be a very long way for E-OS to remove its heritage, Amiga.
It will last, at least, another 15 years until MorphOS (as itself) will have
even remotely as much native software as AmigaOS already has. As long as > 90%
of all the software running on E-OS will be (68k) Amiga software, AmigaOS will
be my personal choice for running _Amiga_ software, as I'm equally convinced
that many 68k Amiga software will be transformed (read: recompiled at least) to
PPC native Amiga software that will then not any more run on E-OS.
And, honestly, the native software available for MorphOS right now is simply not
what _I_ need for personal use (the software available for AmigaOS 3.x is),
apart from the fact that most MorphOS software up to now did appear as AmigaOS
native software also. It isn't quite the same the other way around and probably
never will be (same as with Linux, x86 and PPC). I do consider this a rather
save bet, even if it would only be 'the name' to make it happen this way.
Would anyone of the E-OS camp like to lose this 90+ percent of software for
their OS of choice for running MorphOS software only? Are you that fanatic?
Speaking from a hardware POV its different. As I have ever stated, the Peg is
a nice piece of hardware, but not quite as much as superior to the AmigaOne as
some people would like to make it. And outside Europe it may even be more
expensive than the AmigaOne (the latter sells for $500 ex VAT in the US, ¤650
incl. VAT (Peg) is about $515 ex VAT there when taking of the 16% german VAT
first, incl./excl. shipping?), even if I do live in the false place then.. ;-/
About a year from now I'd be happy to evaluate a PegII (G5-enabled second
generation) as an additional system for running various PPC OSse incl. E-OS,
(sorry, a matured, independent MorphOS I mean :) and Linux, xxx-BSD et al.
Again, not for running Amiga software, I will have the AmigaOne for that.
(For people doubting this claim, I've done this once before. First getting
an Amiga 4000 EC030 in '94 and a P60 running OS/2(!) a year after, then a CS
MkI 060/50 in '96. The PC has been given back to the dealer 3 year's ago with
taking memory and other parts to the 4000 which then died in 2000 :( ).
So, Videos and Pics are nice for the eyes, Candy for the dandy, so to say. ;-)
What I want/need is a real piece of hardware, not lying under my pillow but
sitting within my new tower and connected to a monitor and a mouse and a
keyboard so that I could write comments on ANN.lu and Add them to the
discussion, using AmigaOS of course, the real one, the only one. ;-)
Ciao, Alex
ps:
Make your choices everyone, and let every other people make theirs. I do not
criticize anyone for choosing MorphOS so I expect not being flamed for my choice
of AmigaOS. This goes for both sides and for the hardware also. Finally, the
differences between the platforms (E-OS/Peg vs. AOS/AOne) are not that large
but lie in the detail so that the most important aspect for the choice is
mostly just personal preference, for whatever reason doesn't matter.
And even some may choose Amithlon. What does connect us anyway is one word:
Amiga. Or did anyone know MorphOS before knowing AmigaOS? ;-) |
