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Hope you are enjoying the new system.  It's good to see even more X1000 users.
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Re: Hyperion Entertainment: Clarification of Current Situation
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2015, 05:20:17 PM »
@kolla

A-EON is involved in a few projects at the moment which involve both OS 3 and OS 4 versions to be developed at the same time.

The developer involved has commented on the huge differences and advancements between OS 3.9 and the current 4.1 in terms of core libraries.  This has slowed development down as a lot of AmigaOS 3.9 functions have to be patched or written from scratch.

It would be great from a developers point of view if OS 3.x was keeping pace with OS 4.1 in development terms as it would make porting a lot easier.
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Re: Hyperion Entertainment: Clarification of Current Situation
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2015, 02:50:35 PM »
I am using an A1200T here and also my X5000.  I am very much wanting to shorten the software gap between them in terms of whenever software technologies can be developed mutually for both.  I think that Classic Amiga's have gone long enough without some investment in new software, but I accept that some advancements do not make sense on Classic due to the limited CPU power.  However maybe in a few years time, FPGAs may make some things viable for Classic ?
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Re: Hyperion Entertainment: Clarification of Current Situation
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2015, 04:04:20 PM »
@wawrzon

I am sure there are ways of developing for both Classic AmigaOS and OS 4.1 mutually in terms of Workbench applications and libraries.  This helps bring the development costs down and gives much needed vital investment back into Classic at the same time.

@Iggy

I have learned recently how costly real software development is, so developing FPGA solutions for Classic is one important step, then paying for software to be written for them is another expensive project. I remain positive though that solutions can be found.
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Re: Hyperion Entertainment: Clarification of Current Situation
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2015, 06:51:10 PM »
@wawrzon

I am looking with one eye on the future too.  The foundations laid now are important enablers for more complex projects later on.

The work that Amiga enthusiasts do in their spare time for little or no money is quite simply remarkable, but relying on the goodwill of these enthusiast developers is not the complete answer as we will be in the same situation in another decade with development ongoing at the same pace.  So a commercial injection of capital is also needed to kickstart the software development process in a structured way.
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