News from Hyperion

[maffoo]

Building on that work, Hyperion is committed to continue development of AmigaOS 4.x in the year 2008 by drastically expanding both the feature-set of AmigaOS 4.x and the range of supported PowerPC based target hardware.

Assuming the legal wranglings don't get in the way, this is great news! Hopefully it will include an official way of running it on PPC Macs  :-)

[maffoo]

@A1260

the pegasos v1 and v2 hw is old by now... eifka is new but crippled industry hw... no new morphos is going to be released for that hw either...

AFAIK MorphOS 2 is under development and will support Efika.

so why should hyperion/ainc throw money on it... business wise its not profitable at all...

I would imagine it would take minimal effort on their part to make OS4 boot on Genesi PPC hardware. Considering AInc's current business model is to not allow OS4 on any currently-available hardware I can't see what they have to lose.

[maffoo]

AFAIK MorphOS 2 is under development and will support Efika.

thats not what i have heard...

I remember the developers mentioned it a while back, and I don't recall reading anything to say they had stopped development. Wikipedia still refers to a MorphOS version in development for Efika.

I do agree that they need to make OS4 available for Sam, given that it's available (unlike the A1.) Indeed if I had to choose I would prefer to see OS4 for Sam than Efika. However it would be nice if OS4 supported as wide a range of PPC hardware as possible.

[maffoo]

The development has not stopped. I should know, considering I'm one of the guys developing it.   ;-)

That's good to hear  :-) I don't suppose there's any chance of it being ported to other PPC hardware? (I know it's cheeky to ask, but it's always worth asking  ;-) )