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AROS runs under Linux - the native port isn't finished - supports 1 core and no wireless. But the capabilities of such machines are improving fast - the RasPi 3 has 4 x 1-GHz cores, a capable GPU (which need restrictively- proprietary drivers), a gig of RAM, Wifi and Bluetooth. MorphOS feels like a 1980s OS with some bells and whistles glued on.ĪROS probably has the brightest outlook and I can see a niche for it as a low-resource graphical OS for low-end ARM machines such as the Raspberry Pi.
AMIGA OS 2017 MAC OS X
The Mac mini is a machine built to run Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4, glossy modern 21st century OSes with transparency, scaling, versatile networking and filesystem support, and some high-profile commercial apps. It looks and feels like, well, a fast Amiga 1200 (the only original hardware I own.) In other words, very retro and a bit clunky. It works fine and it's fairly quick (until the demo version times out after 20min and slows down.) But there's no Wifi or Bluetooth support. I have the demo version of MorphOS running on an Apple Mac mini G4. If anyone fixes that, that will make it less Amiga-like and less compatibile with the old OSes. AIUI the communication mechanism between the kernel and apps uses shared memory, meaning that even Commodore itself was unable to enhance it to use the MMU of later 68030-based Amigas, because that would have broken backwards-compatibility.
AMIGA OS 2017 FULL
The original AmigaOS was something of a triumph, but it achieved its small size and good performance because it targetted the 680000 - yes, it does full pre-emptive multitasking, but there's no inter-process memory protection, no virtual memory, and poor hygiene between OS and apps or between different apps, making it hard to adapt to more modern hardware. Personally, I don't see a lot of future for any of them. None of the successors are very compatible with each other.ĪmigaOS 4 and AROS are experimenting with multiple-core support. Nothing is very compatible with 3.5-3.9 as they were 3rd party extensions. AFAIK, all include emulator(s) so they can run original binaries. Runs on x86, with ARM, PowerPC and 680x0 ports available.Īll are API compatible with Commodore AmigaOS 3.1. Runs on unlicensed, non-official more recent PowerPC machines. a 3rd-party recreation, sponsored by Genesi, natively for PowerPC, with rumours of an ARM port. Runs on some recent licensed PowerPC-based Amigas & some PowerPC accelerators for original machines. Based on officially-licensed original sources, rewritten for PowerPC. By Hyperion, originally licensed by Amiga Inc. Based off the original binaries, with many added components and some bug-fixes & updates. There are, or were, 4 forks of AmigaOS around. And getting all of the current parties to talk and work with each other. It's just a complete and utter mess in the meantime. Make it a "real" and a viable alternative. But open source the Amiga OS and let the community run with it.
AMIGA OS 2017 SOFTWARE
Let Hyperion et al continue to package up software and sell it commercially (like RedHat). Ideally I think the OS(es) in dev today would all work together with the hardware teams and go the route Linux took.
AMIGA OS 2017 DRIVER
But I wouldn't try and push it into "modern" daily driver use. Much of this has to do with software support (lack thereof) as well as driver support. 4.1 works on PPC hardware for goodness sake. I've not heard of a single instance where the 3.9 or 4.1 users feel they have a viable, modern system they can realistically use. It's not ever been open sourced, just reverse engineered (see AROS, MorphOS, AmigaOS 4.1). I think the honest problem is 3.1 is locked down, really. Here's hoping AmigaOS 3.1 developers somehow get Firefox (or another HTML5 browser) ported once these FPGA accelerators become more common.