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Title: does anybody have any solid information on OS5?
Post by: eniac on April 06, 2007, 01:40:05 AM
I am struggling to find info on OS5, does anyone have any solid information?
Title: Re: does anybody have any solid information on OS5?
Post by: TheMagicM on April 06, 2007, 02:10:53 AM
yes I heard from me, myself and I and they/I/we say OS5 is vapourware.  LOL
Title: vapourware......
Post by: eniac on April 06, 2007, 02:16:49 AM
we could have said the same thing about OS4......
Title: Re: does anybody have any solid information on OS5?
Post by: Methuselas on April 06, 2007, 02:17:41 AM
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TheMagicM wrote:
yes I heard from me, myself and I and they/I/we say OS5 is vapourware.  LOL



Damn you, M! I was going to say that!!!!  :-D  :roll:  :lol:
Title: Re: vapourware......
Post by: Piru on April 06, 2007, 02:18:57 AM
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we could have said the same thing about OS4.

Bollocks. At least OS4 was shown to people.

OS5 is total vapor, it's some daydream of some guys who have absolutely no clue of OS design or development.

My guess is they're trying to pull some more VC money with this phantom OS.
Title: Re: vapourware......
Post by: Methuselas on April 06, 2007, 02:22:20 AM
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eniac wrote:
we could have said the same thing about OS4......




Not really. OS4 was done *ENTIRELY* by a respectable, 3rd party. A, Inc. had *NOTHING* to do with it.


I guess you weren't around when the Tomas and Hans-Jorg talked about having to take *OTHER* jobs, 'cos AI didn't pay them for the work they were doing.


Title: Re: vapourware......
Post by: Damion on April 06, 2007, 02:24:42 AM
Fleecy and I are working on OS5 in house. Yes, it will run on A1200 with 030 card. If everything goes well, Amigans should have a nice Christmas present to look forward to this year.  :-P
Title: Re: vapourware......
Post by: arkanoid on April 06, 2007, 02:39:30 AM
Piru, who is that kid in your pictorgram? he has no front toothies! :-P
Title: Re: vapourware......
Post by: Piru on April 06, 2007, 02:45:47 AM
@arkanoid
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Piru, who is that kid in your pictorgram?

Well, that's me obviously. It's quite old picture, though. :-)
Title: Re: vapourware......
Post by: Plaz on April 06, 2007, 02:53:02 AM
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Fleecy and I are working on OS5 in house. Yes, it will run on A1200 with 030 card. If everything goes well, Amigans should have a nice Christmas present to look forward to this year.


Wow, I need to get shopping. I didn't know Christmas was only 2 more weeks away!  :lol:

Oh BTW, my two 040 cards and one 030 card have died and I dont' expect the last 030 card to last till Xmas. So by the time you get done it won't matter much to me any way "Fleecy" :-)


Plaz
Title: Re: does anybody have any solid information on OS5?
Post by: jorkany on April 06, 2007, 03:17:50 AM
eniac,
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I am struggling to find info on OS5, does anyone have any solid information?

I did have something solid related to OS5, but I flushed.
Title: Re: vapourware......
Post by: XDelusion on April 06, 2007, 03:52:41 AM
I don't think it's going to have ANYTHING to do with WorkBench. And the people behind Amiga now a days don't seem to have anything to do with the community.

Nice Avatar jorkany, I LOVE that show!
Title: Re: does anybody have any solid information on OS5?
Post by: Matt_H on April 06, 2007, 04:38:59 AM
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eniac wrote:
I am struggling to find info on OS5, does anyone have any solid information?

No, because there isn't any. Focus on OS4/MOS/AROS/OS3.x for the time being.
Title: Re: does anybody have any solid information on OS5?
Post by: krize on April 06, 2007, 06:51:47 AM
OS 5 is just {bleep}!
Title: Re: does anybody have any solid information on OS5?
Post by: kd7ota on April 06, 2007, 07:35:11 AM
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jorkany wrote:

I did have something solid related to OS5, but I flushed.


HAHAHAAH! Now that was hilarious.

I was thinking along the same lines, but I was thinking,

"I have something related to OS5..... IT'S CRAP! :)"
Title: Re: vapourware......
Post by: weirdami on April 06, 2007, 08:30:08 AM
@eniac
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we could have said the same thing about OS4...


"we" did. :-(
Title: Re: does anybody have any solid information on OS5?
Post by: weirdami on April 06, 2007, 08:33:20 AM
@eniac

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does anybody have any solid information on OS5?


On this website, that question is flame bait, sadly. Instead of just pointing you to the only information there is, namely pretty much just Amiga saying it was in the works, people will just fight about who's got the better insult. :-(
Title: Re: vapourware......
Post by: Waccoon on April 06, 2007, 09:53:17 AM
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-D-:  Fleecy and I are working on OS5 in house.

All right!  Finally some ultra top-secret info!  I guess that's why your avatar is blank, right?
Title: OS 5
Post by: Robert17 on April 06, 2007, 10:17:37 AM
don't worry folks, it'll only take "Two more weeks."

Also it's "On Schedule and Rockin'."

Sorry guys couldn't resist  :-P
Title: Re: does anybody have any solid information on OS5?
Post by: justthatgood on April 06, 2007, 10:46:42 AM
I'm sure I'm going to be able to make test-tube honest politicians in my home growing kit, before any commercially viable Amiga anything new comes out to play.
Title: Re: does anybody have any solid information on OS5?
Post by: amiga92570 on April 07, 2007, 04:29:26 AM
I will buy about one hundred honest politicians.  :rtfm:
Title: Re: vapourware......
Post by: Damion on April 07, 2007, 04:41:30 AM
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Plaz wrote:
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Fleecy and I are working on OS5 in house. Yes, it will run on A1200 with 030 card. If everything goes well, Amigans should have a nice Christmas present to look forward to this year.


Wow, I need to get shopping. I didn't know Christmas was only 2 more weeks away!  :lol:


LMAO!

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Oh BTW, my two 040 cards and one 030 card have died and I dont' expect the last 030 card to last till Xmas. So by the time you get done it won't matter much to me any way "Fleecy" :-)


Aw man, that's a real bummer. Maybe they can be repaired somehow. I've been *very* lucky with my old hardware so far, but I know one day it'll be my number. I would be fairly upset if my C128 crapped out. (Though all I do is fire it up for a few minutes every 5 years, LOL.)

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Wacoon wrote: All right! Finally some ultra top-secret info! I guess that's why your avatar is blank, right?


Heh heh, yeah, truth is I'm too lazy to find something cool and original. Most of what I would pick is either way too geeky (my g/f does actually check here once in a while), or entirely o/t for a computer site.

Title: Re: vapourware......
Post by: Plaz on April 07, 2007, 05:03:32 PM
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Aw man, that's a real bummer. Maybe they can be repaired somehow.


Perhaps, but even as a repair tech of 20+ years, they just aren't worth the time and money to me. I was saving for a PowerVixxen instead, but no one has said lately if that project is still alive or dead. How nice it would be to have OS4 on one of those.

Also I forgot to mention my MKIII 060 card that quit too. Not even a trip to the repair center in France to could save it. So I donated the parts that other cards might live. :-)

As for Ami Inc's mention of "in house" OS5..... I don't think we'll see that on much more than a cell phone, IF it ever sees the light of day. Ami Inc hasn't shown me that they are willing to spawn a desktop of any kind. Each time there's a mention of a new motherboard project, the response seems to be "Good luck with that", if there's a response at all. I'd be more optimistic about OS4 and OS5 if we saw Ami Inc actually partnering with a hardware developer.... Cell, PPC, x86... any thing. Has any one seen news of such a partnership?

Plaz
 
Title: Re: vapourware......
Post by: Methuselas on April 07, 2007, 05:54:02 PM
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Plaz wrote:


Also I forgot to mention my MKIII 060 card that quit too. Not even a trip to the repair center in France to could save it. So I donated the parts that other cards might live. :-)


Plaz
 




Plaz, you are a gentleman and a scholar. The Amiga world needs more men, like you.


Wait....


You *ARE* a man, right??  :-o