Seehund wrote:
Kathyone wrote:
I am currently negotiating with Hyperion to provide a new amiga motherboard or using an existing or brand new design.
I want Hyperion to eliminate the need for a ROM, or I'll have to add a new one to the board design. This will slow things down. However, flash ROM won't be much of a problem.
I want to use a dual core set-up.
Hyperion was foolish to make it one board specific.
They now say on their website that they will work with you to port the OS to a new chip if necessary. I was thinking of AMD. The chips are well supported and have a future.
Kathy Elliott
Mystical Rose Technologies
Former Amiga Developer and OS Tester
If hardware vendors will still need to negotiate with the AmigaOS producers or owners, and AmigaOS will still only be allowed to be sold for "Amiga motherboards", then what's the difference?
AmigaOS would still be dead, only it would be dead on a better CPU this time. 
Nevertheless, good luck!
I don't understand what she's saying. AmigaOS 4.x is PPC, that's the only CPU Hyperion have a contract for. And if AmigaOS did get ported to x86-64 then I'd want to be able to go to Scan or Aria and choose my own motherboard, not have someone over at AmigaInc telling me what motherboard I can use and who I have to buy it from - that's just insane.
In other words, what is she going to be selling? Sounds like she wants to design and manufacture her own x86 motherboard, which will only be produced in small quantities and no doubt be high priced / low specced because of it, plus the obligatory Amiga 'name tax'.
Meanwhile there are hundreds of off-the-shelf, tried and tested, high-performance, low-cost x86 motherboards already available for me to buy any time I like.
Why the heck would I want to buy hers?
I was against AmigaOS on x86 or for a long time. But now, I think that if AmigaOS 4 had gone to x86 from day 1, instead of the AmigaOne debacle, there's be tens of thousands of OS4 users right now. Still a drop in the ocean, but a vast improvement on the current situation.
