does anybody have any solid information on OS5?

[Plaz]

Fleecy and I are working on OS5 in house. Yes, it will run on A1200 with 030 card. If everything goes well, Amigans should have a nice Christmas present to look forward to this year.

Wow, I need to get shopping. I didn't know Christmas was only 2 more weeks away!  :lol:

Oh BTW, my two 040 cards and one 030 card have died and I dont' expect the last 030 card to last till Xmas. So by the time you get done it won't matter much to me any way "Fleecy" :-)


Plaz

[Plaz]

Aw man, that's a real bummer. Maybe they can be repaired somehow.

Perhaps, but even as a repair tech of 20+ years, they just aren't worth the time and money to me. I was saving for a PowerVixxen instead, but no one has said lately if that project is still alive or dead. How nice it would be to have OS4 on one of those.

Also I forgot to mention my MKIII 060 card that quit too. Not even a trip to the repair center in France to could save it. So I donated the parts that other cards might live. :-)

As for Ami Inc's mention of "in house" OS5..... I don't think we'll see that on much more than a cell phone, IF it ever sees the light of day. Ami Inc hasn't shown me that they are willing to spawn a desktop of any kind. Each time there's a mention of a new motherboard project, the response seems to be "Good luck with that", if there's a response at all. I'd be more optimistic about OS4 and OS5 if we saw Ami Inc actually partnering with a hardware developer.... Cell, PPC, x86... any thing. Has any one seen news of such a partnership?

Plaz