Hello Larry,

On 12/03/08, you wrote:

>> The Amiga is dead, time to give uip the ghost I think....
>
> As long as some ghosts continue to program for my AmigaOne, I
> will stay connected.
>
> Seems we almost revived this list - a ghostly thought?

It seems a change is needed, a more inclusive name perhaps:
Amiga Hardware? I have not looked around on this matter. People
often bring hardware issues to the OS4 group, maybe because of the
activity.

Our A1s have been coasting along for some time now with our
version of OS4. Every now and again someone says "Help! my A1
won't boot." and another says "Replace your battery." and that's
about it. Admittedly I wonder about the capability of my graphics
card when I get a wmv video that trails chunks of the images all
over the place so it's a little hard to make out the images or
perhaps I need a G4 with altivec.

However, what I want to address is that the real concern is
with modern hardware to run OS4, or for some people modern harware
to run other amigarish software, MorphOS, being prominent.
We see people fiddling with an incomplete effort to run OS4 on
Mac minis or whatever they are called. No one is legally prepared
to say OS4 runs on SAM440s but I do not believe no one is
working at making new hardware available or adapting software to run
on what is available. There may be an avalanche of "new" developments
once the legal rows are resolved, if ever, but these themes have been
done to death in various forums.

On the classic side we have the minimig flavour of the month of
interest to those who love making something work and want to play all
those retro games again where the game is the thing, not realistic
graphics. After all we are well used to operating in symbols and some
never progressed beyond comics in reading anyway. I also wonder at
the commercial realism of these guys: http://www.natami.de/
but their existence makes my point that people are trying.

Noel