AmigaOS 4 Screenshots out!

[Rodney]

It still amazes me, after how much hyperion said the screen shots wenrt going to be all that great before they came out, and how hyperion also said that on the page the screens were displayed that people are still disapointed.

On top of this, there is still more to be added for the consumer release. That is, the developer version still isnt out, so of course its going to look like its lacking functionality. Also, the main goal is PPC!! I see no reason why you should not like this if its so close to what 3.1 looked like yet runs on PPC...

Also ,can someone confirm for me if the guy working on GUI art work (who i think is from mason icons) also did those greate OS4/OS5 mockups?
MockUP-1,MockUP-2...

I think those mockup screens are the best ive seen, and i think if you could imagin swaping inbetween those two with basicly a flick of the button. (excluding seperate exe's) Thats how AmigaOS should be, and its sounding like it. If we can make amigaOS look liek that thats cool...

And the guy that did number 1 (and possibly number 2) is the guy whos making our GUI right?

[Rodney]

Im sure there was one guy doing work on the UI (buttons, lists etc...) making pictures for certain things!

The guy you mentioned sounds familiar

[Rodney]

I want to see more innovative features, and a desktop GUI that attracts attention. I hope the OS gives the ability to easily change the look of everything on it, from different styles of windows to the textures in them and on their borders. I remember some apps that did that for previous versions of the OS, and hopefully the OS will integrate such features.

The OS will be configurable. Skinning wont be totaly avaliable in OS4 as stated before (maybe im outdated?) however OS4.2 or ealier (boing updates?) will have complete skinning!!

If the skinning is anywhere near as good as Gnome, ill be a happy chappy

[Rodney]

Honestly... the GUI looks like pretyy much nothing. Not something 'new' which you can't do with your own little tweaking with the present GUI.

To me, the original GUI works just fine, but to the masses it doesn't. If they want to do something really nice about the GUI, they should hire someone to do the job, 'cause, like I said, this looks like nothing new besides the menues (which by the way looks like someone has been tweaking a little with Magic Menu).

First of all, Hyperion told us not to expect much as the UI needs lots of work and is far from finished, so you shouldnt be surprised.

Also, This is NOT a consumer release targeted at consumers out side the current Amiga Community. The entire AmigaOS4 series is pretty much only targeted at current AmigaOS owners and past AmigaOS owners (like me) who still try to keep up with Amiga Inc. OS5 will be targeted at consumers out side the current community and my guess is Amiga Inc should have some money from AA by then and should put forward some pretty drastic marketing! For now, its just the geeks OS - like Be was before it went bust!

Anyone who uses the current OS should only be able to marvle at its beauty. That is, the speed/look/andwholefeel! This is what you've been waiting for, we have Amiga Inc and hyperion to thanx for that. Lets thank them guys, not give them $#@!!