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Title: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: Im>bE on April 21, 2004, 02:18:36 AM

10: Before handing it to Hyperion,
    Amiga.inc misspelled "AOS4.src", so that it said "BOS4.src".

9: They kept testing the early versions on winUAE.

8: Hyperion misunderstood, and tried to make a game out of it.

7: Betatesters kept complaining on the lack of software for it.

6: 0.01 % of Hyperions time and money is not all that much...

5: Inexplainable and frightening deaths among the Hyperion crew
   after they killed the Guru...

4: Bill Gates 'invested' in Hyperion.

3: It took alot of time to copy'n'paste the 3.9 source.

2: Too many problems when it was time to fit it onto a DD diskett.


...And the number one reason AOS4 has been so delayed:

Amiga.inc sold "Amiga OS Club" coupons to Hyperion,
telling them they would get the source + a "Club AOS4" T-Shirt.


Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: x56h34 on April 21, 2004, 02:58:38 AM
(http://images.usatoday.com/life/enter/tv/_photos/2001-09-18-david-letterman.jpg)
Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: Jettah on April 21, 2004, 08:01:39 AM
@ Im>bE

4: Bill Gates 'invested' in Hyperion.

Wrong! You misspelled a word yourselves:

Bill Gates NEVER invests. He just infests! :-P

As for all the summed up reasons: nicely conjoured up but tsk, tsk, tsk!

Regards,

Tjitte
Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: Mikkihii on April 21, 2004, 08:03:01 AM
:roflmao::roflmao:
Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: Linchpin on April 21, 2004, 08:05:41 AM
@ Im>bE

Dude! AOS4.0 has been surrounded by "negativity" for ages man... at last it seems it may be coming out (well, it is) and your still having a dig at it man!

Its gotta be about time we had some positive direction towards the amiga! (Its been a long time....)
Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: drHirudo on April 21, 2004, 08:30:16 AM
AmigaOS 4.0 wasn't delayed. It simply had changed release date several times, that's it.
Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: bloodline on April 21, 2004, 11:38:40 AM
OS4 has not been delayed, it's right on schedule, ready in two more weeks.
Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: Karlos on April 21, 2004, 01:25:06 PM
It's so easy to criticise, isn't it? To borrow a quote,

"Any fool can condemn and criticise. And most fools do."
Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: mikeymike on April 21, 2004, 01:39:02 PM
@ Im>bE

What was your intention with this thread?
Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: TheMagicM on April 21, 2004, 01:42:40 PM
just a joke I think... pretty funny though.
Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: bloodline on April 21, 2004, 02:09:14 PM
Quote

mikeymike wrote:
@ Im>bE

What was your intention with this thread?


Given that he did not use any of the "official" reasons (which he could have), this was clearly intended as a joke.
Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: Linchpin on April 21, 2004, 02:10:45 PM
Lets all just look towards the new Amiga OS. Let sleeping dogs lie as they say, y'know its taken a long time and hopefully that is going to equate into a great OS. From what i have seen of it its class anyway (and that was with no apps lol)!

Roll on NextGenAmiOS!
Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: cecilia on April 21, 2004, 02:12:49 PM
as with Letterman's bit's, the funniest one is generally #3.

3: It took alot of time to copy'n'paste the 3.9 source.

:roflmao:

---

now that OS4 is about to be unleased, let's all have a good laugh (at the jokes, not the OS) and enjoy it (both)!
 :lol:
Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: mikeymike on April 21, 2004, 02:26:24 PM
Quote
Given that he did not use any of the "official" reasons (which he could have), this was clearly intended as a joke.


Oh.  Erm.  Chortle?

:-)
Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: TheMagicM on April 21, 2004, 02:48:33 PM
David Letterman said that?  
Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: mikeymike on April 21, 2004, 02:53:58 PM
I'm confused...
Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: Im>bE on April 21, 2004, 06:01:14 PM

Ofcourse David Letterman said that!

Do you think I made those jokes by myself???...

Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: AxE on April 21, 2004, 06:55:46 PM
ROTFL, :roflmao:
nice one Im>bE :D
Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: TheMagicM on April 21, 2004, 07:04:06 PM
thats even funnier then... Good publicity though as then people will probably want to know what the heck OS4 and Amiga is.  I bet there were not many laughs though as some of that is only understood by Amiga users/emulator users.


Edit: after searching Top 10 archives, David Letterman, in fact did not write that.
Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: Brian Hoskins on April 21, 2004, 08:01:31 PM
Im>bE:

You forgot the one where Hyperion were handed fake, misleading business cards.

Ahem.

Brian
Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: pwest on April 21, 2004, 08:58:36 PM
Hmm. I see this as just a humorous joke that could only really be told at this particular time in the Amiga's history. I don't think we need to get all bent out of shape about it. We need to stop taking ourselves quite so seriously.
Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: Wolfe on April 21, 2004, 09:06:13 PM
 :roflmao:
Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: justthatgood on April 21, 2004, 09:49:50 PM
Well you have to tell the programmers to quit putting that stuff on punch cards and 8" floppy disk.

I want free Amiga stickers with that too (to go with my Apple ones I guess?)
Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: Rogue on April 22, 2004, 12:12:14 AM
Quote
5: Inexplainable and frightening deaths among the Hyperion crew
after they killed the Guru...


And you think that is funny... I think it is quite tasteless.
Title: Re: Top 10 reasons why AOS4 has been so delayed:
Post by: Im>bE on April 22, 2004, 09:14:39 PM

>And you think that is funny... I think it is quite tasteless.

Hence why I added the "..." dots.