26 November 2016, 11:23 | #1 |
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Hyperion's stance on amithlon?
http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/emu...rionblast.html
Hyperion once said that AMIGAOS/x86 is suicide because it can't compete with Windows. If this did happen, could they be right? Could they atleast try? Or amiga would've been better now it was in x86/64 rather than ppc. Last edited by jdog320; 26 November 2016 at 11:28. |
26 November 2016, 13:43 | #2 |
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Drivers - this is a key for success - Linux any many niche OS's support HW with many limitations - Windows usually outperform them due of this.
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26 November 2016, 13:48 | #3 |
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Yeah drivers are a prob with linux. It a shame really, Amithlon was fast. And you know if it's still dev'd today, you could probably build a dirt cheap Miggy that costs 10x less than the AmigaONEs. And it was also quite compatible.... for the most part. I guess that they could use a PCI card for the missing AGA chipset.
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26 November 2016, 15:51 | #6 |
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I believe Bernie had the right idea with Amithlon and using a hybrid emulation/native code method of slowly moving to full x86 code. Granted I'm a HUGE Amithlon fan so I may be a tad biased on this
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26 November 2016, 23:56 | #7 |
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You do realize this "Official Statement" is 16 years old? Is Hyperion even still relevant?
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27 November 2016, 04:26 | #8 |
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27 November 2016, 05:10 | #9 |
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Could be. I don't know.
But I think the PPC vs X86 argument is very very dead. There was just no way for PPC to EVER compete with the economies of scale in the X86 market. PPC was the dumbest move in the history of bad moves, and the resurrection of Apple and OS X to a market leader began when they dumped the PPC platform and moved to X86. |
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Hyperion were right to a degree, but their position assumed success with PPC etc. Which was a massive massive assumption. Again the Amiga market ate itself. |
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28 November 2016, 08:01 | #12 |
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Who cares what Hyperion's stance is on anything? Why do threads like this continue popping up? Ignore this obnoxious copyright troll out of business.
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It is because of entities like them that you can't download Amithilon or the ROM's for the Amiga and emulate, making development for the platform non-existent. It's great to pay lip-service to "ignore this obnoxious copyright troll", but so far the community is unwilling to do so. |
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28 November 2016, 21:27 | #14 |
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You can buy the ROMs for a relatively decent price now. Especially on Google Play (about EUR2) so I don't see that as a major issue anymore for the individual user. For bigger projects and longevity, of course it needs to be all open-sourced since they don't have the man-power to produce anything I could use as my "main machine".
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Buy ROMs? Some of you clearly like to draw out your suffering...
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30 November 2016, 12:19 | #16 |
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Because if I want to sell a new spin on Amiga running on different hardware, I want to do it legally rather than invest money and then loose it.
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30 November 2016, 13:40 | #17 |
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What new 'spin' is there to sell? Exactly the same stuff running on another port of FS-UAE?
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30 November 2016, 13:50 | #18 |
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There was a thread about the AmigaForever Workbench running on Linux. I personally think that if someone could make the AmigaForever WB, install and work properly in Linux then, to me, that would be a better solution than trying to resurrect Amithlon.
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How doesn't that work already? its just a set of preconfigured WinUAE images.
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