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| Posted by Senex on 25-Nov-2002 15:22 GMT | In reply to Comment 27 (marktime):
@marktime:
As we told you and the others already on Amiga.org: There's no need for OS4-compatibility atm since OS4 on AOne won't be here for a long time. And chipset-independent 3.x Amiga-software -68k as well as PPC (PowerUp, WarpUp) DOES run on MorphOS.
Some quotes from Amiga.org:
Senex: "Just want to add the following from the latest press release for the game "Tales of Tamar": 'Tales of Tamar is now running on MorphOS for Amiga and Pegasos. It benefits form the WarpUP emulation in MorphOS, which even seems to be faster than the original.'"
JoeAFUA: "As there are no native AmigaOS 4 applications for now yes indeed it's hard to be compatible with them. In fact the "AmigaOS 4" we see in the screenshots isn't compatible with these applications too (which is in fact an AmigaOS 3.x with some components planned for AmigaOS 4) :)"
Senex: "Who cares? It will still take a long time until OS4 will run on the AmigaOne (and therefore for OS4-only apps). Just because integrating the 68k-emu and all the different components takes much time and reveals many new problems. Just look at the progress the MorphOS-team made - they as well needed very much time for these steps. And if you'd need such a OS4-application really badly, you could still code an A4-Box for MorphOS."
JoeAFUA: "Yes indeed and I would add: Look at the development time of other OSes like Linux, Windows, MacOS, MacOS X, OpenBeOS...etc. You can see that even when the OS is ready (I mean everything is running together and almost complete, which is even not the case of AmigaOS 4 today), the betatesting period is at least of 6 months and even 1 year. The public betatesting period of the Jaguar update of OS X (I just talk about complete builds betatesting) have taken one year, and it's just an update for OS X 10.1 which is nothing compared to a complete port that need kernel rewrite and some other parts rewrite like OS 4. The same can be said for every OSes on the market. So according to what we see in the computing industry as soon as the first complete build will be ready for betatests, Joe Users will still have to wait at least 6 months or 1 year because of the needed betatesting period." |
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