Hyperion Entertainment, creator of various Linux game ports and currently working on the next generation Amiga OS, has now unveiled their new dedicated Amiga OS 4.0 website. It showcases important features and is targeted to current and new users as well as potential OEM clients.
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RE: Strike one up for vaporware :-)
Member since:2005-07-06
> all of the good stuff from Amiga has been incorporated
> into modern OS's
<sarcasm>Yeah, sure. OS's such as Windows and Linux have such great and widely used datatype systems.</sarcasm>
Oh, wait, you said "modern OS's" so that means neither Windows nor Linux qualifies...
Member since:Maybe you don't follow the developments very closely, but development of AmigaOS4 is very rapid now, with existing users of the AmigaOS4 Pre-release getting regular updates (update 3 came this summer and was the last update before OS4.0 final is released).
If you read the website carefully you'll see that there is nothing preventing AmigaOS4 to come out for the Apple Mac, should Apple decide that they want this OS for their hardware. AmigaOS4 is not limited to a single hardware platform and Hyperion would even be willing to port it to different Processor architectures, if there is demand for it.
Member since:> there is nothing preventing AmigaOS4 to come out for
> the Apple Mac, should Apple decide that they want
> this OS for their hardware
LOL. Will Apple pay licences to Amiga Inc and to Hyperion to port and sell alternative OS for their hardware ? You must be joking. In real world Amiga Inc would pay to Hyperion to port AmigaOS into as many platforms as possible. This looks like a joke to me.
AmigaOS doesn't have memory protection, so your unsaved documents will be lost when other applications decides to take down your system, no real browser, no commercial and almost no usefull software. You can change icons, backgrounds around desktop, that's pretty much all.
Most software runs on interpreting 68k emulator. Usefull software runs in E-UAE, which you can run on any other platform of your choise.
This is not trolling, it hard to swallow truth. Amiga *a lot* of years ago were respected platform with features nowhere seen before, but now it's 10 years behind everything. Sad to see unreal fanboy fantasies about "Taking over Windows world". LOL.
And no-one got licences from Amiga Inc to port AmigaOS4 to other hardware than A1 (few have tried with zero success). Mentioned Troika doesn't have licence, they just speculate and don't speak about this topic. Eyetech has monopoly and Eyetech is bust. No more hardware, no more OS sales. It's borked and rotten from inside. Stay away and better go try AROS on your current box.
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Now before the Amiga users get their panties in a bunch, I know that OS4 has betas out there to developers, but I've been hearing about this OS for ages, and nothing new has come up for the users. - While Amiga inc, hyperion and the rest have been developing, original amiga hardware is going down the tube, and newer, affordable, hardware is scarce.
I would LOVE to use this OS, but it seems like it will never come out, and no hardware support for common platform hardware (x86 compatibles & macs)