AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-Release will reach the dealers on May 21st, 2004.

[System]

I can understand why people might want to steal a copy of HalfLife, but AmigaOS 4.x pre-release?

Gimme a f**king break

[System]

Given that Steffen Hausser recently said that OS4 would be ported to Pegasos "when hell freezes over", I see no reason whatsoever not to have a pop at OS4.

If it's never coming to Pegasos, what do I care about it?

The point is that this OS4 lunacy has come to a head on the printing of CDs - that people are literally saying that a nondescript employee of a random CD manufacturing plant would want to steal a copy from the batch of pre-release CDs.

Likening the event to the initial release of Halflife, one of the biggest games ever, and was highly reviewed at the time, for a very large platform base?!

Sorry, but the comparison ends at the fact that they're both on CD

Neko

[System]

In their present state both AmigaOne/OS4 and Pegasos/MorphOS are deeply niche solution. Both need to be adopted by new users to survive.

True, but the Pegasos is a hardware product, and
we have our own software solutions we can sell with it if we choose.

Eyetech and Hyperion are different companies selling different things, but tied at the hip in ways that may not suit either company.

If someone wants a PowerPC solution, elegantly designed by some real platform experts, then the Pegasos is one solution they've all going to have seen and are able to choose. I didn't see anyone from Mai or Eyetech at SNDF or any other show where the primary focus was PowerPC processors.

The Pegasos is not a niche solution - and Eyetech had better hope that the AmigaOne ITX is not a niche solution. Both are reference platforms - Pegasos for PowerPC in general, and AmigaOne for the Articia northbridges.

Depending on what the developer wants to do (either PowerPC development - Pegasos perfect choice - or Mai Articia development - AmigaOne best choice) they have two relatively well proven routes to go down.

Again - I don't see the people who make PowerPC processors ordering AmigaOne boards or signing them off as official reference platforms for the processor.

Cutting throats? Maybe, but it's not MY throat.

Neko