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Re: AmigaONE or Pegasos, which one will it be sir?
« on: November 04, 2002, 06:36:07 PM »
@strobe
... You don't have to sign an NDA or any other such restriction. Is I understand it, it's just like buying the end product, only earlier. You buy the product from a distributor and you can do whatever you want with it. ...

I wonder if this is valid:
"
Announcing BETATESTER and Team Betatester!

The time has come for Thendic-France/bplan to start selling machines. We are not going to call it the Pegasos for now.
We are going to call the pre-release version of the Pegasos with the pre-release version of MorphOS for PPC:
BETATESTER. MorphOS may not be ready for regular computer users, but it is ready for developers.
You can purchase a BETATESTER for 1000 Euros (tax not included).

Team Betatester will be composed of people who do/agree to do the following:
1. Purchase a BETATESTER for 1000 Euros (tax not included)
2. Sign an NDA
3. Sign an Agreement not to sell the machine (we will purchase back all machines that need to be sold for any reason).
4. Provide a minimum of two bug reports per week (including negative reports)
until the conclusion of the BETATESTER program (approximately 12 weeks).
5. Agree to test applications as required/time permits
6. Test new peripheral devices including the Thendic Smart Card Reader
(for secure FTP access, online payment and loyalty programs),
the DataPlay disc drive and the ComCam and associated viewing software.

Team Betatester members may also agree/become eligible to port applications to MorphOS
for hire by Thendic-France/bplan. In exchange, Team Betatester members will receive:
1. A MorphOS for PPC v.90 T-shirt
2. A free copy of the commercial release of MorphOS for PPC v1.0 when it is ready.
3. A discount on the Betatester G4 upgrade
4. Access to the Betatester FTP for updates,
fixes, test applications and application releases.
and of course a BETATESTER with
a TWO-YEAR WARRANTY for Hardware!
"
here: http://www.thendic-france.com/TECH/US/products/pegasos/betatester-en.htm
and here: http://www.thendic-france.com/TECH/US/products/pegasos/betatester.htm

I found some clarifications from morphos-news.de:
"
15-Oct-2002: Betatester Clarifications  
Betatester I

Purchased from Thendic-France -- 1000 Euros complete; 650 Euros mainboard with CPU module (both prices less VAT)
Sign NDA and provide at least a bug report a week
Participate on the core testing team
FTP access to latest OS releases and applications
Testing of peripheral devices
First to receive upgrade to G4 package

Betatester II

Purchased from any authorized Distributor or Reseller
Sign up with Betatester II form found on MorphOS v1.0 CD
Access to new releases of OS (major releases not daily/weekly upgrades)
Opportunity to participate in December Conference
Opportunity to port or test applications, develop or test peripherals, create demos or website concepts and win contest prizes of 1000 Euros for each catagory
"

But still it's not clear to me...
- What do one get if one buys the system, where's the full feature list?
- what works on what HW combination?
- what does the "form to be signed" contain?
- Is one allowed to sell the product further? (previously it was not allowed) (could one dare to send the system to phase5 guys hoping one gets money back...)
- what size is the T-shirt  ;-)
 

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Re: AmigaONE or Pegasos, which one will it be sir?
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2002, 08:33:37 PM »
@strobe
Where did you get this:
"It sounds like MorphOS has yet to implement a means of communication across the A-Box border. After all, why else would their user space apps run in A-Box?"

So they run (almost) everything on the emulator (with new API extensions) box??? I thought MorphOS apps are running on the Q-Box???? What the *ell is going on? Is Ambient also just a GUI of the A-Box emulator... How can the memoryprotection work at all???
(all things that I thought I misunderstood from MorphOS support pages are true after all  ....) AAAARGH! MOS sucks!  It's not an OS on it's own, it's just damn imitator.