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Title: WARNING: Fake OS4 beta
Post by: Kees on November 28, 2002, 12:24:49 PM

Taken from AmigaOS4 Mailinglist:

"A word of warning: I have received word that a supposedly leaked beta version of OS 4 is available. The file contains, among other things, a README carring my name ("HJF") and a hal.rom and kernel.rom file.

If you really bothered to download it, this is a fake. It obviously  outputs some "funny" messages like "xx Megabytes of memory leaked, but OS4 has virtual memory anyway" and other childish things, like the funny "HYPErion". As it is common with these kind of things, it might have more sinnister side effects, meaning it might contain a virus or something, although I can't say this for sure."


"In any case, this is *not* OS 4. Not even remotely. The author obviously doesn't have any clue about how OS4 looks like, otherwise he wouldn't have used ".rom" as a file extension - we're not using ROM code anyway.

Besides it is 68k - and ExecSG is ppc native, contains about 4000 lines of PowerPC assembler which will most definately *not* run on 68k :-)

Best regards,
--
Hans-Joerg Frieden
Senior Software Developer, Hyperion Entertainment
Mail: Hans-JoergF@hyperion-software.de
Web: http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com"

Title: Re: WARNING: Fake OS4 beta
Post by: jumpship on November 28, 2002, 12:51:57 PM

Actually I am surprised that no one has done this before and it has taken so long!

Hyperion shouldn't worry too much, it was bound to happen at some time.  Especially now that OS4 is nearing completion (apparently ;-)). Still, roll on the actual release! And my A1-XE turning up!!

Title: Re: WARNING: Fake OS4 beta
Post by: Wilse on November 28, 2002, 02:05:29 PM

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Still, roll on the actual release! And my A1-XE turning up!!

Amen to that! :pint:

Title: Re: WARNING: Fake OS4 beta
Post by: blobrana on November 28, 2002, 05:51:11 PM

Who would do such a thing!?

I`m not going to bother preaching about it, OS4 is just around the corner, and another OS for my collection!

Title: Re: WARNING: Fake OS4 beta
Post by: ikir on November 28, 2002, 07:30:51 PM

bha'......

Don't care about it

Title: Re: WARNING: Fake OS4 beta
Post by: kd7ota on November 29, 2002, 05:35:28 AM

Someone has too much times on their hands of they are making a fake OS4 Beta version.  Yes, people can be evil like that, but heck, never trust releases unless the official developers say so on their websites.  :-P