Ben Hermans - Hyperion Entertainment Interviewed

[System]

He dodged my question like true politician!  Why do they need all this stuff from Genesi about the Pegasos specs?  None of the developers of the OS's that run on Pegasos currently have needed such things.

At least they haven't ruled it out.  If AInc go under, maybe they will release it for Peg then.

[System]

Poster: Kay Date: 2003/5/20 17:15:15

@mdma:

Dodged the question? He gave *three* good reasons why they aren't currently working on a Pegasos version:
*No license. Why should Hyperion strain their resources further just to make a version that can not, and may never, be legally used with the Pegasos?
*Small market. Does an *absolute maximum* of 600 sales (and this is a maximum they would be unlikely to reach) justify the extra development effort?
*No documentation. I somehow doubt that writing low-level stuff without a hardware documentation is as convenient as writing it with full documentation.

How could he have been more direct? (Seriously, please explain, I really don't see how)

Kay

I was being sarcastic.

But seriously, the A1 is not much different to the Pegasos, the main difference is about 200 dollars! ;-)

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[System]

@Ben,

Thank you for taking the time to answer these questions.  Sorry it has taken me so long today to notice this thread and make the following request to the members of this site.  Even though it doesn't seem like it based on some of the comments here, your input is appreciated.

@all amiga.org members and visitors

Ben Hermans was nice enough to grant us a bit of his time to answer a few questions.  His responses are not open for your debate.  If you disagree with his answers, that's fine, but this comment thread is not the place for it.  

Whether or not you like or agree with his answers, please respect the fact that he took the time when there are a lot of other officials in this community who wouldn't.

[System]

oooh. Touchè . Hopefully, in a month or two, I'll have a good comeback, like ("...and approximately 1000 units"). In the meantime, I'll settle for "...and 200MHz and an Altivec".  (and don't try telling me the G3 Pegasos is faster anyway)

:lol:

I am in no way a Pegasos fanboy, or an A1 fanboy.  I just want to purchase the most cost effective solution for me.  At the moment that is a Pegasos..

[System]

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Wayne,

Why was my comment innapropriate?  I was merely pointing out that people will use a cracked copy of OS4 on the Pegasos.  Wouldn't it be better to release it in a box with manuals for people to buy, rather than have people pirate it?  I for one will buy OS4 as soon as it comes out.  If I have to 'patch' it myself to run on a Pegasos I will.  There's nothing illegal about that. Well, not in the UK anyway.

[System]

Actually the "experts" that Hermans talks about never said anything of the sort.

What "they" said was basically you'd never get such an emulation concept working in the "2 months" Hermans publically specified for it.

18months to two years of hard work is about what "they" estimated, and lo and behold were proved right.

(We won't even mention the many times you changed your ABI for OS4.x in order to try and get it to work. I can dig up some "SystemV sucks!" arguments from Steffen... they will go well with the "gcc is evil" and "ELF is monster!!" stuff)

Nobody said a sandbox was the only solution either.