Hyperion Entertainment unveils dedicated AmigaOS4.0 Website

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Its runs on all PPC processors according to the website, and its very easy to port to new PPC products, yet somehow there is currently no hardware for sale which runs the OS and the only official hardware has EOL parts on it.
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I would like to take OS4 for a test drive, especially since I'm completely disappointed with my Mac mini. This Mac has to be the slowest damn computer I've ever used.

Yet, its hardware is faster then any AmigaOne and its cheaper then an AmigaOne.  And Apple is currently averaging over 1000 Mac Mini's sold per day, which is about how many AmigaOnes Eyetech has sold in the last 2 years.   Why exactly again is OS4 not running on cheap mac hardware??  Not like Hyperion doesnt have a bunch of Macs around anyways.  
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A couple of things:
1. OS4 is for Amiga hardware not Mac hardware and due to Apple's.

OS4 can run on all kinds of PPC hardware according to Hyperion's new website, why aren't they aiming it at hardware that is actually available??

Second, Eyetech make Amiga hardware not Hyperion.

Actually Eyetech doesnt make amiga computers, they sell rebadged terons, which I didnt comment about, Hyperion in the past did ports to the Macintosh of games from the PC, so they have Macs around they could get OS4 running on which is why I mentioned Macs and Hyperion together.

2. Mac Mini is too slow is because they haven`t provided enough memory. 256MB is bare minimum, up grade it to 512M or even 1GB to best of Mac OS X.

That may or may not be true, it has nothing to do with the issue.  Right now there is no hardware available to run OS4, Apple sells more Mac Mini's in a day then Eyetech has ever sold AmigaOnes, since there is a OS4 hardware shortage, maybe they should port it to something people can actually buy.
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Poster: T_Bone  Posted: 2005/10/31 16:09:58

> As it stands a much larger company than you can imagine
> has already licensed parts of OS 4.0.

Oh, I don't know, I can imagine some pretty big companies!

I imagined I was shopping at the #1 company in the fortune 500 today (oh wait I was at Walmat), and I had a telecon with #10 & #25 today and then went ang bought gas from #2, before stopping to buy groceries from #21, and then picked up some 2x4's from number #13, so why this belief that we can't imagine how big a company Ben??  I dealt with 6 of the top 25 today??  
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I think you missed a very obvious (and important) question: WHICH parts of OS4 have been licensed?

I didnt miss any question.  If it was a significant portion and Ben was competant he should have said something like, a major company has licensed the OS, or a major company has licensed the emulation layer, the HAL, .. etc, you get the idea.   Instead Ben posted "As it stands a much larger company than you can imagine has already licensed parts of OS 4.0".   Which means someone licensed something insignicant of the OS, which Ben and company either supplied the licensee with source code they will put on their hardware or did the port for them.  An OS isnt something you really license part of, so Ben is telling us they are endrunning AI, or its an insignificant part, like when I license fonts for the heads up display for the Apache.  Hyperion-Amiga Font, official font of Panasonic DVD players in Germany, just isnt really as big a story, but thats probably something like what we are seeing here.
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