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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: nikodr on January 12, 2010, 01:38:50 PM
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Having read this on this site that features the unofficial boing bang 4
http://lilliput.host-cafe.com/Stilltodo.htm
"Still to do (Hopes and Dreams):
a) Contact AmigaOS 3.9 developers, they may have something left to contribute."
I would like to ask do we know what happened to those people that developed amiga os 3.1 ?Where are they now?Did they stop developing?Is there any hope some of them could be here?That they have something to contribute to us?
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I think H&P (speculating here) got their feelings hurt, and hurt others too. so they just left the amiga as it was the fiscally sane thing to do.
Some of them might still be around as forum lurkers (still speculating) but I don't know their names. Most people who were around then can fill you in, both on the gossip and on the names.
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Some of the OS3.9 dev team are now part of the OS4.x dev team.
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After all these years i assume any contracts they had would have been terminated in some way.I guess we could learn many things from them.
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I think H&P (speculating here) ...
Some of them might still be around as forum lurkers (still speculating) ....
Don't worry, speculate as u please. It's the amiga national sport, it seems. :)
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I would like to ask do we know what happened to those people that developed amiga os 3.1 ?Where are they now?Did they stop developing?Is there any hope some of them could be here?That they have something to contribute to us?
You mean all those four developers Commodore had developing the OS? They got new jobs and left Amiga long ago.
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Don't worry, speculate as u please. It's the amiga national sport, it seems. :)
:lol:
Absolutely, I just felt to be very explicit about it since also everything written on an Amiga forum is later quoted as fact.
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After all these years i assume any contracts they had would have been terminated in some way.I guess we could learn many things from them.
Yeah, don't sign silly NDAs. :)
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H&P were 3.5
3.1 was developed when Commodore still (nominally) operated. You can pretty much guess the 3.1 developers scattered around when Commodore went under and started laying people off.
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Forget about AmigaOS 3.1 developers, they have left the Amiga a long time ago!
AmigaOS 3.9 developers are still around, as said many of them working as OS4 devs, others involved either as users or in their own Amiga-like projects.
For example, Thomas Richter mentioned he has some bugfixes for AmigaOS 3.9 he cant make public because he signed an NDA.
Stefan Robl has a new version of AmiDock that supports the subdockies feature that works on 3.9.
And the list goes on...
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Forget about AmigaOS 3.1 developers, they have left the Amiga a long time ago!
AmigaOS 3.9 developers are still around, as said many of them working as OS4 devs, others involved either as users or in their own Amiga-like projects.
For example, Thomas Richter mentioned he has some bugfixes for AmigaOS 3.9 he cant make public because he signed an NDA.
Stefan Robl has a new version of AmiDock that supports the subdockies feature that works on 3.9.
And the list goes on...
Damn those pesky NDA's :(
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Roadshow was to be available for 3.x, don't know what happened.
Damn, would like to have new AmiDock version too, the 3.9 one sucks!
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Quote from RoadShow TCP-IP stack documentation that confirms what was just said:
"You need a SANA-II compatible network interface, such as an Ethernet card or
device driver like "ppp-serial.device", AmigaOS 3.1 and your Amiga must be
equipped with an 68020 CPU (this is the minimum requirement, of course). The
more memory is available, the better. I reckon 4 MBytes would be sufficient,
but I have no information to back that claim."
RoadShow was coded by Olaf Barthel.
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RoadShow was coded by Olaf Barthel.
Olaf posts on http://utilitybase.com rarely. A lot of these guys are still around. One of the problems is a slowly declining user base as 68k Amigas and accelerators die. It would help the situation a lot if the Natami guys could get some new 68k hardware out.
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I agree upto some point: WinUAE its variants, and the Amiga Forever package have brought many users to the 68k Classic Amigas.
Anyway, new hardware, would be a godsend!
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Currently this is what happened to the main AmigaOS 3.1 developers
Jerry Horanoff
Is the principal Software Engineer at SeaChange International, that is a leading provider of software applications, services and integrated solutions for the management and monetization of Video on Demand (VOD), digital advertising, and content acquisition.
His previous jobs were Systems Engineer IV at Comcast, before that a Systems Engineer IV at QVC and even before that one, Senior Software Engineer at Scala Inc.
Michael Sinz
Most recently was the Director of Systems Engineering and Architect at Worldgate. Worldgate was hit by the massive tourmoil in the cable TV industry and now he is looking for something new to do.
Before Worldgate, he was a founding partner and the chief architect for NextBus, a startup company doing bus prediction systems.
Before NextBus, he was the person who started the US R&D offices of Scala Inc.
Darren Greenwald
He is the actual Director of Research & Development at Scala Inc.
Randall Jesup
He is currently an engineer of video-phone stuff at WorldGate Communications, Inc. which designs, manufactures, and distributes personal video phones. WorldGate's products are marketed to consumers through cable, DSL, VoIP and satellite service providers as well as through retail stores worldwide under the Ojo brand name.
He is still active as a software developer on the Mozilla project.
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Michael Sinz is a really cool guy. His web site still has Amiga stuff on it...
http://www.sinz.org/Michael.Sinz/Amiga/index.html