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Title: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: alx on April 16, 2004, 10:21:21 PM
Leuven, Belgium - April 16, 2004. Hyperion Entertainment and the Amiga OS 4.0 development team are extremely pleased and relieved to announce that after nearly 30 months of painstaking development the Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release has gone gold and will be sent to the duplication plant on Monday, April 19, 2004.

The Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release consists of a current snapshot of AmigaOS 4.0 for the AmigaOne platform with a straightforward HTML installation guide in English, German, French and Italian as well as the Amiga OS 4.0 SDK.

The Amiga OS 4.0 SDK will allow near effortless migration of existing Amiga OS 3.x source-code to OS 4.0 as well as the creation of altogether new content.

The SDK comprises the following material:

* Complete Installer for easy and painless installation;
* GNU C Compiler 2.95.3;
* GNU C Compiler 3.4.0 RC 1;
* vbcc 0.8f;
* GNU GDB Source-Level Debugger;
* System Includes V 50;
* System Autodocs V 50;
* PDF Documentation on GNU C compilers and GNU Debugger;
* PDF Guide "Project Migration to AmigaOS 4.0";
* Example programs with source (among others: Reaction, expansion library, Roadshow, FFS2);
* Newlib.library (experimential, shared C library);
* CLIB2 source code.

Users will be able to register their copy at a soon-to-be-launched portal site which will offer Amiga OS 4.0 related content for download.

Hyperion Entertainment and the AmigaOS 4.0 development and beta-testing teams wish to thank all of you for your patience.

Amiga OS 4.0 (c) 2004 Hyperion Entertainment, developed under license from KMOS, Inc. All rights reserved. "Amiga" and associated trademarks are registered trademarks of Amiga, Inc.
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: The_Editor on April 16, 2004, 10:25:10 PM
Roxx0r.


Well done to the "Crew"
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: odin on April 16, 2004, 10:32:19 PM
:hat:  :mickeymouse:  :banana:  :kitty:  :-)
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: tormedhammaren on April 16, 2004, 10:37:16 PM
Well done Hyperion! :banana:
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: ikir on April 16, 2004, 10:55:19 PM
:pint:
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: Tomas on April 16, 2004, 11:09:51 PM
great news indeed  :-)
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: Panthro on April 16, 2004, 11:10:33 PM
yeah (begins to start saving for an A1 8-) )
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: Glaucus on April 16, 2004, 11:23:47 PM
Good job boys!

Question: Why two versions of GNU C Compiler???

Also, can we get the OS 4 SDK seperately? The reason I ask is that I don't have an AmigaOne, and probably won't be able to afford one for some time. However, it would be cool if I could at least browse the new SDK and see what goodies lie within. And heck, some cross-compiling would be fun too.  :-)

  - Mike
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: cecilia on April 16, 2004, 11:29:04 PM
Quote
pleased and relieved
may be the understatement of the century.

and we all certainly feel the same way!
good luck to all! :-D
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: Matt_H on April 16, 2004, 11:33:58 PM
Words cannot express the excellence of this news.
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: JaXanim on April 16, 2004, 11:34:10 PM
That's put a smile onya face!

(http://waveguide.v21hosting.co.uk/pic22t.jpg)

JaX
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: Rogue on April 16, 2004, 11:34:16 PM
Quote
Question: Why two versions of GNU C Compiler???


The 3.4.0 included is RC 1, i.e. a beta version of the current release branch. It still has some bugs left, therefore it is not recommended for "deployment" code.

Quote
can we get the OS 4 SDK seperately?


Dunno to be honest. We didn't think about this possibility yet.
Title: YAY!
Post by: weirdami on April 16, 2004, 11:58:02 PM
:banana:  :banana:  :banana:  :banana:
 :pint:  :pint:  :pint:  :pint:
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: jj on April 17, 2004, 12:01:10 AM
[color=0000FF]Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/color]


 :banana:  :banana:  :banana:
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: DeQuevedo on April 17, 2004, 12:17:45 AM
Im happy to ear this :banana:

:pint:  :pint:  :pint:
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: Lo on April 17, 2004, 12:23:32 AM
(http://www.amiga.org/images/subject/icon25.gif)(http://www.amiga.org/images/subject/icon24.gif) :-)  :-P  :-D  :pint:  :-P Yipeee!
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: samo79 on April 17, 2004, 01:05:32 AM
Well done guys, we love you !
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: restore2003 on April 17, 2004, 01:28:18 AM
:pint:  :pint:  :pint:  :pint:  :pint:  :pint:
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: Khephren on April 17, 2004, 02:08:35 AM
God this is such good news! Congratulatoins to the Hyperion guys, rest assured I'll be using it long past the 30 months it took you to code it :)
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: angrybrit on April 17, 2004, 02:27:52 AM
Have fun, Amigans. :-)  8-)
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: Jose on April 17, 2004, 02:50:12 AM
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Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: Jose on April 17, 2004, 02:51:31 AM
By the way, I'm interested in the developer version separated too, I also don't have an A1 yet...
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: Warrent on April 17, 2004, 03:37:36 AM
Thanks to all that made this happen

:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: redfox on April 17, 2004, 03:49:35 AM
Well done ... this is great news  :-D :-D

Thanks,
redfox
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: graffias79 on April 17, 2004, 03:52:20 AM
The first significant release since COMMODORE! Wow!   This really is big news!

Viva Amiga! :-) :-)
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: Dalamar on April 17, 2004, 04:27:36 AM
[color=CC0000]YEY AMIGAOS4 TEAM!!!  THANKS FOR THE HARD WORK!!![/color]


Edited by Argo: Please don't use xxlarge font, Large is big enough.
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: Argo on April 17, 2004, 04:52:13 AM
@Glaucus & Jose

You might want to contact Hyperion Enterainment (http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/_amiga/corporate.html) directly. I think either the Sales Manager and Commercial Relations or US Liaison would be the ones to contact.
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: FluffyMcDeath on April 17, 2004, 05:25:25 AM
This is pretty good news. Soon I'll be able to order my A1. I didn't want to get an earlybird as I wanted to PAY for my copy of OS4. Is that crazy?
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: CodeSmith on April 17, 2004, 06:54:58 AM
@Fluffy:

Not entirely... I see my purchase of an EarlyBird as a way of showing my support for all involved parties, in a much more meaningful way than a web poll.  I also get to play with OS4 earlier than those who choose to play it safe and wait for the finished version.
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: Rebel-CD32 on April 17, 2004, 07:36:08 AM
:banana:  :laughing:  :pint:

This is a definate cause for celebration... so will it only work on the AmigaOne, or can we use it on Pegasos and Macs and GameCubes or what ?
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: Argo on April 17, 2004, 07:44:46 AM
@Rebel-CD32

  It is for the AmigaOne Earlybird owners only. Thus the Pre-Release Developer's version is only for the AmigaOne.

As stated in the second paragraph:
"The Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release consists of a current snapshot of AmigaOS 4.0 for the AmigaOne platform"
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: asian1 on April 17, 2004, 09:26:28 AM
Hello
What is the schedule for consumer version?
Is this new OS compatible with Micro A1 or A1Lite?
Is there any 3rd party free applications CD for this new OS?
Is there any book / user guide for this new OS?
Thank's.
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: Zorro on April 17, 2004, 10:13:42 AM
Great news... 8-)
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: Framiga on April 17, 2004, 10:20:16 AM
GREAT :-)

Thanks to Hyperion and . . .to ALL betatesters too :-)
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: Animagic on April 17, 2004, 10:47:39 AM
[color=FF3300]YES! YES! YES! [/color][/b]

 :pint:
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: sir_inferno on April 17, 2004, 10:50:26 AM
i hope they have a spare copy, they'll probably lose this one...

/me walks under a ladder and smashes a mirror

 :-)
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: voxel on April 17, 2004, 11:40:39 AM
(http://boogly63.free.fr/emoticons/icon_itsdone.gif)  WOOHOO! YEEPEE! TRALALALALERE! (in french in the text) ;-) (http://boogly63.free.fr/emoticons/icon_itsdone.gif)

-edit-
To BBRV : BELEBELEBELEB! (http://boogly63.free.fr/emoticons/icon_belebeleb.gif) (in Schtroumpf (or smurf for UK) in the text)

To Hyperion & development team : Well done guys! I :love: U :knuddel: (http://boogly63.free.fr/emoticons/icon_kiss.gif)  (http://boogly63.free.fr/emoticons/icon_clap.gif)

Have a multi :pint: on me :-D

Amigalement,
Jean-François, Amiga ONLY since 1985
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to Happy Computing : AMIGA ! (©2K4 by voxel)
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: sTix on April 17, 2004, 11:42:35 AM
!!!!
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: BouncingAyatollah on April 17, 2004, 01:04:37 PM
Well done to the whole team, developers and testers!  :-D
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: TallAmigan on April 17, 2004, 01:09:51 PM
[color=990000]GREAT NEWS ![/color][/b]

 :pint:  :pint:  :pint:  :pint:  :pint:  :pint:  :pint:  :pint:  :pint:  :pint:  :pint:  :pint:


Thank you EYETECH and HYPERION.....
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: TallAmigan on April 17, 2004, 01:10:27 PM
And all the developers.....................
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: Warface on April 17, 2004, 01:44:41 PM
Wishing all AmigaONE users happy hours - it was an exceptionally long vigil for them.
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: Calen on April 17, 2004, 03:14:09 PM
very cool, cheers guys  :pint:
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: JimS on April 17, 2004, 04:03:21 PM
Who knows what bugs lurks in the hearts of Beta...

Ahh... cool...
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: BADHead on April 17, 2004, 04:15:54 PM
a late Yahoo  :-D

and no boys in blue in sight  :-D
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: Minuous on April 17, 2004, 04:21:00 PM
The 4.0 NDK should be available for download like the 3.9 NDK. (As we can then begin porting software to OS4.0. Also some of the matter eg. the ReAction examples, would likely have some relevance for OS3.9 programmers.) That is, if Hyperion and co. intend to have a reasonable application base by the time the user version OS4.0 is launched.
  Anyone know the status of the new RKMs?
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: x303 on April 17, 2004, 05:20:41 PM
c00l

[color=FF0000]x303[/color] :-D  :-D  :-D
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: takemehomegrandma on April 17, 2004, 06:01:31 PM
Congratulations all you A1 fans!

If this is as Amiga compatible as MorphOS is, then you will have a great time in front of you! :-P ;-)
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: Nick on April 17, 2004, 06:51:02 PM
Well it happen eventually. I need this now! My AmigaOne is imminent. Should`ve arrived today damn it! Oh well.

Great work though! 30 months!? Quite a time, but put it like that and it sounds longer, if thats possible.
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: MAD on April 17, 2004, 07:36:24 PM
Hoya!

MASSIVE news!!!
How do you spell "erection"??? ;-D

Be VERY :afro: !!!

M A D
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: amipal on April 17, 2004, 07:37:27 PM
This is great news. Well done Hyperon and everyone else involved in this monumental accomplishment - it means so much to so many :-)
Now to get the flash ROM on my AmigaOne unprotected...
Title: Time for Firefox!
Post by: JamesR on April 18, 2004, 12:55:04 AM
Okay, ready, set, PORT!
Title: Re: Time for Firefox!
Post by: Marky_D_Sahd on April 18, 2004, 09:58:17 AM
Too Coo'!

...And I won't be using it 30 months from now, as I expect Hyperion will have at least 4.1 on hand by then! :angel:
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: WarPiper on April 18, 2004, 10:41:22 PM
Great!!, but I am still wondering when the official realease will be, and please PLEASE say it will have printed manuals. Also what companies they have on board for business software and fun stuff like graphics programs, adobe and corel and jasc would be nice, also ports of The Gimp would also be very very nice, I would also like to know if there is a way of getting Openoffice to work with the amiga.
I am becomming very very interested in purchasing an A1, but I also need to know that I will be able to run some of todays software on it, not just last decades ports, a list of software developers for the A1 and os4 would be greatly appreciated as I have not really seen or have heard of any, maybe I missed it, who knows, but if some one can please point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. thanks
Title: Re: AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold
Post by: Mucker on April 19, 2004, 08:48:48 PM
Top work lads n lasses  :-)