0S4 development on track

[MarkTime]

This announcement by Hyperion means exactly nothing.  

All the sheep out there who take a pat on the head and a scooby snack in place of real news should be ashamed of themselves.

It is FLAT wrong to say that Hyperion cannot release real news, or that real news about Windows beta's are not released.

I am repeatedly amazed at how people invent excuses on the behalf of Hyperion and on the other side, Genesi......its truly astonishing.    

The JIT emulation is a key point, if its hyperion's opinion that all the key features are implemented, but JIT emulation is not....wellllll I think every reasonable person in the world would say the most important feature is NOT emulated and it could take six months to complete that.

He can say if its completed, if its completed....certainly if its not completed, he will have to be silent, because it WILL be interpreted as a major problem...and rightly so...that is a major problem.

[MarkTime]

Yes, we do disagree.  Writing a new HDToolBox is cool, some new graphics libraries, cool....it is true OS 3.9 is very aged and 4.0 needs new modules and libraries.

But anyone could have done that...that is just no so hard.  As proof, I offer the fact that littered across aminet are all kinds of improved tools....they just aren't the 'official' direction, but writing an improved tool is something many a hobbyist has done over the years.

And pulling the 68k emulator out of UAE and renaming it 'petunia' wasn't all the hard either.

The most difficult thing, and the challenge that will earn Hyperion great respect, is if they can implement a seemless 68k emulator into the OS.

Its been done before, Apple did it many years ago, and MorphOS has done it.

But its still THE most major thing....all the other things are simple in comparison, and if they haven't done it, then its a really really big deal, and it appears they haven't done it.  

I agree with you, nothing has really changed.  The true believers still believe, the rest of us wait and wait, as it is delayed and delayed.

[MarkTime]

@ami

I think others have certainly said it better than me....already...here is what we know

OS 4 is not ready.
No one knows when it will be ready.

That is THE problem.  As a technical person I would certainly find interest in the details of the technical issues, but as a consumer, I know all I need to know:

I can't buy it, I can't budget for it.

In that regard, nothing has changed from the Boris post, we knew these things before.

[MarkTime]

oh dear, you are a beta tester for OS 4, it must be the high point in your life.

I know how you feel, I was a beta tester for 'toon talk'....I still remember those days so fondly...  :-o  :-o  :-o  :-o  :-o  :-o  :-o  :-o  :-o  :-o

I wonder whatever happened to toon talk anyway....