Why is Amiga, Eyetech, and Hyperion so quiet?

[CodeSmith]

I truly have given up hope - I went and bought a PC the other day... the dream is over.

Don't worry, you'll be back :-)

It might take a few years, but we all eventually come back  :-D

[Wolfe]

El_Duduarino wrote:
Yes here I am - declaring that the dream is over. People want to see results... there has been plenty f talk, but no OS. Am I the only person who's patience has run out?

You have now entered the Dark Side of computing.  Save yourself or you will become a M$ Borg.  M$ gates will own your computer soul. . . .  :-P

[T_Bone]

KennyR wrote:
All three websites, Amiga Inc's, Hyperion's, and Eyetech's, haven't been updated in ages now. Considering the release of OS4 is "imminent", why the silence?

Uh oh... the last time there was silence... Eyetech had some shocking news for us!

[B00tDisk]

T_Bone wrote:

Uh oh... the last time there was silence... Eyetech had some shocking news for us!

Wasn't that something along the lines of "We've got no money, you've got no OS, dunno when things are going to start up again" or am I thinking back too far?

[alef]

Hrrrmm....

"Silence is gold" somebody said...
.....and added "Let now speech be silver" - and kept quiet...

I "fear" the silence lately is about to be releaved by
a storm of news......imho "no news are good news"...
...and I do think most of us are in for a surprise   :-)

[Hooligan_DCS]

@El_Duduarino
>I've been coming back to this site for nearly 2 years and nothing has changed. I reckon I could code an entire platform in 2 years by myself.

Lets see.. since 2002 we have..

a new OS .. MorphOS
new hardware .. Pegasos2

in near future (tm) we will have..
a new OS .. OS4
new hardware .. Micro A1


But since you've got a new PC.. I can assure Amithlon will make you happy.. the only problem is the hefty pricetag. But the same goes for A1 anyway so...

>I truly have given up hope - I went and bought a PC the other day... the dream is over.

Eh... I have 3 PC's. 2 Amigas, and my as yet to be AmigaOne. I actually even use one of the PCs, Final Fantasy XI is an OK game...

[JoannaK]

(about patience running out)

El_Duduarino: I gave up worrying (too much) about OS4 well over a year ago. It was not worth extra stress and their 'ready-soon' announcements got way too boring to follow. If it someday happens, it happens. If it never makes to the level I would bother considering to purchase new computer for it, then it don't affect my life anymore.

[PulsatingQuasar]

@El_Duduarino

I think your ego has left the planet here. You're not coding a platform in 2 years by yourself! That's a bit naive( a huge understatement here).

Programming an OS takes a long time. Well, programming in generall takes a long time. I can wait!

[El_Duduarino]

Linux was built in a couple of months.

[rayt]

Linux was built in a couple of months.

Maybe.. but even OS 2.x is way ahead of linux 1.0 :-D You really cant compare it to a modern 2.6 kernel..

And its better to wait a few months longer than to have an unfinished/buggy Os4 imho.. btw, why not keep your amiga and use both in a network..

[CodeSmith]

@El_Duduarino

Just for kicks, you should look at the Linux 0.9 kernel source (the one that Linus did all by himself).  It's pretty cool for a one-man effort, but it was pretty limited.  If I remember correctly, it only supported 4MB of memory (because that's what Linus had, so he could not test larger configurations), only IDE disk drives (hosting only the Minix filesystem) and only VGA text mode; XFree86 only came a couple years later.  SCSI, USB, "proper" filesystems, all those other things have been added by thousands of other people over the course of the last ten years (Linux first booted at roughly the same time that CBM went bust).  Linus has been contributing code since the project become public, but his role has increasingly become one of architect and project manager.