I can assure you that a lot of hardware works, at least emulated. And emulation/compatibility is quite good so the hardware works as good as it did with OS3.9.

AFAIK MorphOS 68k drivers usually run interpreted, but with OS4 you can use 68k drivers using the JIT if you want.

Petunia helps to make some 68k drivers faster so you'll hardly notice the difference with a PPC driver.

When A1 version is finished the driver support for classics will improve even more.

All the machines I had!

It would be hard to choose between A500, A1200, A3000, A4000, A4000T... I would choose my current A4000T

I loved my A500 but I didn't like the lack of IDE controller and some more ram would have been handy

I liked my A1200 and looking at the past it has been one of the best Amigas because it was cheap, featured an IDE controller and you could add memory more or less easily.

I liked my A3000 but OCS after having used AGA was simply crap. I couldn't live without my dear demos and leaving my Falcon 040/25 for a crappy 030/16 was not a good idea.

I loved absolutely my A4000. I missed the extra speed and extra ram of the Falcon040 accelerator, but it was a rock solid computer, everything was tidy, I could fit CDROMs inside and various hard drives and the best was about to come... graphic cards&scandoubler! With the CV64&scandoubler it absolutely rocked!

But I jumped to the A4000T... then Picasso4 and CS060MKII came. It was a great system, and when I got the CSPPC it was a monster. Now that it's fixed I love it and I'm very happy with it It can run everything from old OCS games to AGA 060 demos and also OS4, MOS, Linux and also MacOS through emulation... It can run past, present and future amiga software

I like my A4000T-PPC more than next gen solutions.

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AFAIK Marek code does not come from any Linux GPL source and it's designed from scratch to suit AmigaOS. He's a MorphOS user and I guess that he supported TD64 instead of NSD because he owns a Pegasos and it's easier for him to test (MOS also uses TD64). I don't know if he still has access to any classic amiga running OS3.9 to test NSD code. I don't want to go offtopic but maybe if an OS4 crosscompiler for MOS was available more software could be ported.

Maybe a small bounty could be set up to make native OS4 versions of his filesystems(now we have another good idea for amigans.net... bounties!).

@poweramiga

thanks

I revived my A4000T last sunday with OS3.9, I hope I can reinstall OS4 soon to finish some projects that have been frozen since my equipment started to fail.

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That's not true.

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That's not true. These m68k binaries are standard AmigaOS binaries. These simply use TD64 system to access >4GB, instead of NSD64. Phase5, individual computers and other manofacturers choosed the TD64 standard.

It works perfectly. Just because OS4 does not support TD64 it doesn't mean that NTFS filesystem doesn't work on AmigaOS3.x.

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You are wrong, current ext2/NTFS filesystems work without problems on real amigas with their standard hardware (including the standard IDE port) and also with 3rd party hardware manofactured by individual computers or phase5. Software like Idefix also uses TD64 system to access >4GB with standard ide port or idefix express, buddha, catweasel, etc...

Would it be difficult to add TD64 support to OS4 so we could have access to other filesystems? It's not a matter of which system is better or worse, it's a problem of accessing more filesystems. AFAIK there's no one working on a NTFS or ext2 filesystem for OS4