Hello Noel,

  Good to hear from you.  I will top post as I am going to do a short
answer - not just by my standards, which are often far from short, but
a general standard.

  We need a clear decision about rights to OS 4 period.  Then we can
see what develops.  Not clear where MorphOS is though the advertised
hardware has decent specs.  I think the OS team is ready to go to
another level but without resolution of the main legal claims all is
tentative.

  Not dead, but the patient needs attention; and the sooner the doctor
can get out of court and deal with the patient the better.

On 03/12/2008, you wrote:

> 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
> 
Talk to you later.
--
Dr. Larry Keller
Levin College of Urban Affairs
Cleveland State University
lkeller@...