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Re: AmigaOS petition update
« on: July 19, 2002, 11:39:59 PM »
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Nothing really stops you from buying a board from a non licensed company and buy AOS 4.0 seperately


The OS4-version that will be available seperatly will ONLY run on the
old Phase5-card, and thats what the whole petition is about.
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else
 

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Re: AmigaOS petition update
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2002, 11:45:03 PM »
@Crispy_Beef
Please reread the ExecUP on this !!

OS4 will ONLY be sold bundled with the HW !!

The P5-cards, and the A1-dev are the only execptions to this rule !
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else
 

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Re: AmigaOS petition update
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2002, 12:34:01 PM »
@HeUnique
Question:
If I were on of the lucky few that have a Pegasos now, would I ever
be allowed to run OS4 on it, even if bPlan sends a board to Hyperion ?

Current politics say NO !!

Even if bPlan had a licence, I still wouldn't buy the dongled version because:

It would be only available after the initial port is finished.
Or it would be the same deal like the A1-dev: "Buy HW now , MUST buy OS4
later " and I never buy anything I haven't seen/tested before.

Therefore I won't be able to run OS4.

No I haven't signed the petition, because I don't believe AInc have enough
common sense to understand what those who signed want.
If AInc/Hyperion insist that I'm not good enough to buy their SW .....
well who am I to argue  ;-)

About /.
I'm really sick and tired of all these "Hyped-vapor" article I see all
over the place, and I think they are the main reason why most of your
readers tend to disbelieve everything with an Amiga-connection.

The latest OSNews-article was on of the worsts examples:
Lots of wishful thinking, (allmost) no hard facts.
Yes I know the reactions on the side were somewhat positiv, but
what will those people think when they recheck in a month or two and
find out that there still isn't anything available ?
What will they think when the next "article" is written next year, but
still nothing available ? (I would be more than suprised if OS/ A1 cames this year)
Some may even remember last years "will be there this summer", "will be there
in October","buy Party-Pack now" stuff and just say "forget it I'll get a Mac"
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else
 

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Re: AmigaOS petition update
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2002, 02:48:01 PM »
AFAIK the bPlan-BIOS-extensions only include FFS-support at boot-up
and the possibility to boot from a "disk_on_chip".
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else
 

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Re: AmigaOS petition update
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2002, 06:30:54 PM »
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I'm not even sure of the relationship between bplan and the MorphOS team, and what kind of commercial entity that is. "MorphOS AG"? "MorphOS GmbH"? Is MorphOS the property of bplan?


R.S. owns a part of bPlan, so yes MorphOS = bPlan, but according
to the MOS-faq, they are planning to run it on the A1, and rumours
say that it allready runs on the (old version of the) TeronCX  :-o  :-D

The only question that remains is if the Phase5/A1-versions will
come out at the same time as the Pegasos and if they will be free
for download.
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else