AmigaOS wants you!

[itix]

Good luck to find a developer, who knows Amiga inside out and willing to join to this shipwreck called Hyperion.

[Matt_H]

It's evident that AmigaOS project is stagnated and falling behind. The promised basic features are still not available to end users. Users are stuck to flaky USB1, old Workbench, lacking 3D support, and installing various 68k components to get even the basic functionality one might expect (say console with review buffer). Promises of release or the component being in beta testing doesn't quite do it.

I personally don't have any interest at AmigaOS anymore. There's nothing AmigaOS could offer that wouldn't be implemented in a better way elsewhere. The "designers" have taken it to the directions I don't want to follow (adding pointless interfaces, adding pointless alien APIs, breaking both source and binary compatibility, adding "shared objects" that are not shared etc).

As a paying customer of OS4, I am starting to feel the same way.

[AmigaNG]

In 3 or 5 years there won't be an OS4 to work on.

Yep because it will be OS5

Why do so many of you feel the need to reply with another dig/wismly remark towards Hyperion and OS4 team just simple asking for help? if your not intrested then their no need for a reply.

I wish I could help, but dont have the skills, the hardware, or really the time

I hope you find someone and get Classic OS4.1 and X1000 out soon!

[drHirudo]

In 3 or 5 years there won't be an OS4 to work on.

You are repeating this broken record since 2005. Keep going on if that makes you happy.

[persia]

Open source OS4.  Let anyone and everyone tinker with it.  It's way too late to make this a commercial success, that train left the station more than a decade ago.  Use the Linux model and have Hyperion take the role that Canonical serves in the Linux community.

[cgutjahr]

No.

Exactly, because the messenger does matter.

Then again I don't spread misinformation and lies like mr Haynie did.

I'm with you on that one, just trying to prove a point.

I'm curious though: You think everything I post or say I do as a MorphOS Team member?

No, I'm saying that's what some of the readers will see when they read your comments - which is not doing much for the climate of discusssion.

Just like a lot of people (you included) noticed "CBM hero accuses MorphOS of being illegal" two weeks ago and it suddenly had a lot more weight than the 500 times it had been claimed by other people in the past.

[TheBilgeRat]

Meh - according to the little birdies, all this red vs blue nonsense will soon be over.

Now for squishing AROS and MorphOS together and creating the Kwisatz Haderach of amiga operating systems, from 68k, PPC on up.

[Franko]

Not being a big fan of OS4, MorphOS or AROS as they're not really proper Amiga operating systems as they don't run on "REAL" Amigas (ie: in 68K and not PPC or whatever)...

I don't get why folk actually go on about them so much on an Amiga forum, at the end of the day none of them (unless AROS finally release a proper 68K version) are really going to be of any use to the majority of the last remaining Amiga users and their real hardware, often wonder why anyone actually bothers with continuing to develop them when they really haven't much to do with real Amiga hardware...

[Argo]

AROS and OS 4 do run on REAL Amigas.

[WolfToTheMoon]

AROS and OS 4 do run on REAL Amigas.

If by real Amigas you mean 68K + PPC acc then MorphOS runs too.

[Franko]

AROS and OS 4 do run on REAL Amigas.

I've got OS4.0 and it requires a PPC board to run, that why I mentioned PPC in the post, how many folk using a desktop A1200 actually own a PPC board...

The point I was trying to make is (and I'm not putting all the work that folk have put into these OS's down) for you average Amiga user with say a desktop A500/600 or 1200 is just what use are these systems to them when they can't run them on a bog standard or 030/040/060 Amiga...

[Karlos]

If by real Amigas you mean 68K + PPC acc then MorphOS runs too.

Well, MOS 1.x does certainly. Is there a version of 2 that runs on PowerUP boards?

[cha05e90]

The point I was trying to make is (and I'm not putting all the work that folk have put into these OS's down) for you average Amiga user with say a desktop A500/600 or 1200 is just what use are these systems to them when they can't run them on a bog standard or 030/040/060 Amiga...

I never were able to use Prepcard on my A2000 - and the HDToolbox won't work with my A1000 floppy disks...oh dear. :-)

[takemehomegrandma]

From the Hyperion Entertainment Blog:

Are you are software development professional?
Are you passionate about software development?
Do you want to contribute to AmigaOS by working directly on its source code?
The AmigaOS software development team could use your help.
If you are serious about helping with AmigaOS software development then please contact me today.
I look forward to discussing how you may be able to contribute.
Steven Solie
 AmigaOS Development Team Lead

http://blog.hyperion-entertainment.biz/?p=327

OMG, has things gone that far? And ssolie has taken up the "AmigaOS Development Team Lead"? Well the signs are stacking up...

[takemehomegrandma]

There's a lot of bad things one could say about the performance of various AmigaOS4 developers in internet forums. But they never make public statements about MorphOS or AROS, let alone negative statements.

Yeah right, which planet has you been living on for the last decade?

[Lando]

OMG, has things gone that far? And ssolie has taken up the "AmigaOS Development Team Lead"? Well the signs are stacking up...

Who is ssolie and what happened to the Friedens and Steffen Haeuser?  I haven't really been keeping up with things OS4-related so I'm probably hopelessly out of date.  Did they retire or something?