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> My dream is to buy up the Commodore / Amiga IP and make a "true" successor (as I have stated in the past several times!). Honestly, good luck and success! I
by progman 10y ago
> My dream is to buy up the Commodore / Amiga IP and make a "true" successor (as I have stated in the past several times!).
Honestly, good luck and success! I owned a C64, and I remember a lot of fun I had with this thing at young age.
I wish such a revival would also happen to Atari ST. I owned this thing myself, and I remember how incredible performant it was. It was the first affordable workstation. There was software like Turbo-C (the harbinger of Borland C) and Tempus Editor. Tempus Word was a word processor that was more performant and responsive than today's MS Office on a 4 GHz workstation, despite lack of coprocessor and GPU, and despite the fact that the 68k cpu operated with just 8 MHz. Can you imagine that? I am not exaggerating. You have to see it in action to believe it. Only BeOS was performant like that.
That was possible because the ST didn't have all the bloatware of the current PC generation. I am really sick of all the Mac-only and UEFI/SB Win10-locked hardware, and I don't have much mind anymore to be continually aware of rootkits, ransomeware and all the nonsense on Android and PC. Even iOS devices have been hacked already. I don't have the mind to purchase a new device every year or two just to have a rather secure OS version.
It seems that we have no other options than to go back to the roots if we want get rid of all this trouble.
By the way, my personal dream is a workstation which is completely based on open hardware and software. RISC-V would be a good foundation.
- sedachv 10y ago> By the way, my personal dream is a workstation which is completely based on open hardware and software. RISC-V would be a good foundation. The Free Software Foundation has a hardware certification program for this: https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-f...
- cmrdporcupine 10y agoI would love to write a new version of the GEM AES to run on RISC-V, on top of some kind of lightweight realtime OS.