AmigaOS 4.0 makes Wired News!

[Kosh]

I don't know if anyone else has noticed (I tried to look for another thread but didn't find one) but AmigaOS 4.0 made it into Wired News... however it made it into their 7th annual Vaporware awards at the #9 slot.

From the article:

9. Amiga OS 4.0 (Amiga)
Perhaps not coincidentally, Amiga also made the same No. 9 slot in last year's Vaporware Awards for failing to ship its long-promised, next-generation Amiga machines. Well, the hardware appeared but the operating system is still missing.

"After four years of promises and slipped schedules (original release date June 2001), this is still vapor in the extreme," wrote reader Nate Downes. "They have resorted to demos of a pre-alpha version running on a Mai reference motherboard, with hopes and dreams of it shipping by the end of the month. They always fail to mention which month."
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The full article (3 pages long) can be found Here

[xeron]

Marvelous. Even bad publicity is publicity ;-).

Interesting that they chose an employee of the main competitor to describe the situation ;-)

[redrumloa]

Interesting that they chose an employee of the main competitor to describe the situation

I wonder if that was really him. Funny, in a way. I just pray this doesn't start the factions warring again :-o

[Kosh]

No, I have no relation to the so-called K.O.S.H.  I've gone by this nickname online for 10 years now and won't let something like that make me change. I'm stubborn  ;-)

[xeron]

Nahh.. we were talking about Nate Downes, who posts here as Downix.

[redrumloa]

Kosh wrote:
No, I have no relation to the so-called K.O.S.H.  I've gone by this nickname online for 10 years now and won't let something like that make me change. I'm stubborn  ;-)

I just assumed you were Fleecy :-P

[redrumloa]

xeron wrote:
Nahh.. we were talking about Nate Downes, who posts here as Downix.

Nate's a good guy, he was just stating his mind. IMO they probably picked him for the simple fact his vote probably was the only one that didn't say "F***ING CROOKS BASTARD SHEEP SHAGGING BLAH BLAH BLAH".

[Kosh]

Well, hopefully my new sig clears things up  ;-)

[thing_from_space]

This is the second year OS 4.0 has made the list as I reported last year. Fortunately, Duke Nuke 'Em Forever, the Lifetime Acheivement Award winner, will probably never be released saving OS 4.0 from that "honor".

[mikeymike]

I do hope that if/when OS4 is released, there'll be an easter egg, with an anti-credits page dedicated to all the people who said it would never happen.

Personally I think OS4 will arrive.  My last estimate was June last year, so I'll change that to June this year :-)

[Argo]

Well, he's done it now. Looks like all famous people, he's got his own fan club. :-D

[redrumloa]

Argo wrote:
Well, he's done it now. Looks like all famous people, he's got his own fan club. :-D

Shame that some people do not know the difference between a personal opinion, and a competitor company's smear. Oh well, I knew that would happen.

[mikeymike]

Well, he's done it now. Looks like all famous people, he's got his own fan club.

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[Seehund]

redrumloa wrote:

Nate's a good guy, he was just stating his mind. IMO they probably picked him for the simple fact his vote probably was the only one that didn't say "F***ING CROOKS BASTARD SHEEP SHAGGING BLAH BLAH BLAH".

Exactly my thoughts. (As a side note, I didn't nominate AOS4 or write anything about it to Wired myself, so that's one less "F***ING CROOKS WAAH WAAH"... )

The frenzy they're whipping themselves into over at the True Amigan(TM) Protective Quarantine right now is sort of cute. Now they found the obligatory strawman and scapegoat. Kinda Let's ignore that he's right, he works for The Other Side, and Wired was probably payed to publish a quote from HIM and only HIM. Come to think of it, Wired was probably PAYED to reward AOS4 a place this year, because there's no way that anybody but Nate Downes would nominate AOS4... No way.



Nate is right, and it's sad that he's right. Was he supposed to try to hide reality just to be what Bouma likes to call "constructive"?


A bit funny though that Wired themselves seem to think that there will be "next generation Amiga machines". But hey, I think some old crap about "new Amigas" is still to be found somewhere on amiga.com, so It Must Be True.

[Tomas]

Did i miss something? who promised to release OS4 this year?? I know there was promises last year by ainc, but i have seen none this year...

Who is this Nate anyways?