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Title: Wonder what happened to this?
Post by: Tension on September 30, 2010, 11:32:30 PM

http://www.theregister.co.uk/1998/09/22/latest_opera_beta_takes/

Did it ever exist or was it just pure vapour?

My guess is the latter.

Title: Re: Wonder what happened to this?
Post by: kolla on September 30, 2010, 11:37:51 PM

Quote from: Tension;582243

My guess is the latter.

Considering all the Amiga people that were (and still are) working at Opera, I'd say it wasn't quite just vapour. The problem was Amiga itself at that point, quite turbulent with an unknown future.

Title: Re: Wonder what happened to this?
Post by: Plaz on October 01, 2010, 01:16:32 AM

Memory may be inaccurate after 10+ years, but the last communication I recall from Opera themselves was that an agreement was signed with a development group for an Amiga version and code was forwarded to them. (Opera Version 3.x I beleive) But after some amount of time there was no further communication from that Amiga group, so Opera considered the project dead and closed. With Commodore's demise and Amiga's future in sever doubt at the time, they declined to seek a new Amiga dev group.  

Plaz

Title: Re: Wonder what happened to this?
Post by: minator on October 01, 2010, 01:41:23 AM

Quote from: Tension;582243

Did it ever exist or was it just pure vapour?

The BeOS version certainly existed, I had a copy.