What's this about a OS4 Pegasos kit?

[Madgun68]

I just did.

Yeah.. I think he needs to take his own advice.

[Madgun68]

The only thing Genesi has to do is sign some NDAs and contracts, respect them, fund the OS4 port to the PegasosII and pay the licenses. But instead of making so much noise they should be talking with Amiga Inc directly.

Since you're so informed, please tell all of us how much this license costs.

[Madgun68]

But it wouldn't Hyperion losing out, would it? You'd gain because you'd sell more copies of OS4, even if it's only an extra few hundred. Nobody is talking about pirating OS4, merely bypassing the dongle check. You should be happy about this.

This is known as cracking. You can't legally sell it so Hyperion makes zilch.

[Madgun68]

@Alkemyst

Well it cant be that much seeing as eyetech could afford it.

It's not just the price that factors in to it. I don't really doubt that Genesi can afford to pay the license fee(s). The bigger question is: Would it be a wise business decision to pay the fee(s) considering the currently limited marketplace for AOS4? It's hard to answer this when the details are not publicly known.

Has anyone stopped to consider what consumers are paying in licensing fees for the AmigaOne? If Mai are fabless as claimed, then they're going to make their money off of the licensing charged (in this case) not only for the Teron but the Articia too. Then add the Amiga license on top of that. (Eyetech may front the cost, but IS passed on to the consumer.)

[Madgun68]

Genesi still have not written a firewire or disk drive driver... it shows you how much important is teh Peggy 2 compared to the Peggy 1

Floppy drivers? Why do people even need those? My PC, Pegasos and Amiga machines all have USB. I use a 40Gb usb drive for transfers between the machines.

Heck, none of the PC hardware I've bought recently had drivers on floppy either.

As for firewire.. SHRUG. Don't own any of the devices myself.

[Madgun68]

Very interesting, we got all this "Sold out", "amazing success" nonsense, and yet months afterwards there are still "a few" boards for sale (and it's been "a few" for a some months)

Those were boards set aside for the developer program. And yes, as far as that program goes, there are no more.