Any REAL news from the OS4-tour ?

[Hattig]

Which doesn't mean that you haven't even looked at it, which would be really hard to believe (in other words, I wouldn't believe you if you told me that you never ever LOOKED at the AROS source code).

Which goes straight back to what Hyperion have been saying on the previous page - whatever they say, someone will reply saying that they are lying, hell - two successive posts by two different people at Hyperion saying no code from AROS was used ... sheesh

Given your response, I am glad that OS4 is not using AROS code. Which is a shame as I used to download the AROS floppy images and run them, play with the demos, etc, all the time.

Grow up, people, and that goes to both sides. People who have been calling for a full OS4 demonstration running on hardware, with full interface, showing 68k applications running, etc, have been shown just that and more by this demonstration. I haven't heard anything about stability or whatever yet though, I am sure that we will at some point. In addition, we see that OS4, graphically, has all the features and more that were so harped on about in MorphOS recently, like gradients and AA fonts, etc.

My questions for Hyperion would be:

1) How much work has to be done to get it running at beta-quality on the AmigaOne?

2) (as a refresher) Compared to the original specifications for OS4.0, what are the differences in the specification for the OS4.0 that will be released

3) After the release of 4.0, and after a long drinking session to celebrate, what will you be implementing for OS 4.1, and how long do you envisage (allowing for having to do more contract work to get money, etc) it taking before it is available.

4) Any chance of some Imagine / ImageFX / etc benchmarks of the 68k emulator in OS4.0?

[Hattig]

But I really want you to PROVE your claims, for once, so I'll wait for you to show me what you're talking about.

Crying wolf are we? Why can't you simply believe that Hyperion, who are professional programmers, simply did not look at the AROS source code, etc.

Hell, given that you think that he doesn't know much about AROS at all, don't you think that pretty much shows that he hasn't paid any attention to AROS, including the source code?

AROS doesn't run on PPC machines, but various parts of AROS when compiled for PPC and run in a different operating system will run fine. That doesn't mean that anybody is wrong in this stupid, retarded argument.

PS: I remember the old AROS web site used to say a lot about being source code compatible only with AmigaOS applications (once completed) - probably because they would have to be recompiled to run on x86.

[Hattig]

Sorry, but given the past experience with Hyperion, I can honestly say that I am more inclined to believe what the logic says than what they say, specially when in that same post there's an outright lie and a blatant contraddiction. It just happens that they're not trustable people, given their track record.

This is what you are calling a lie:

"AROS is only meant to be compatible with 3.1 at source-code level."

Indeed, this is true as this is what used to be said on the AROS site before (I don't know about now) ... the statement does not preclude AROS also being compatible at the binary level for OS legal applications when AROS is running on the same architecture as the application (i.e., 68k, for which AROS has not been updated in yonks).