OS4 dev. pre-release...what's up next?

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My guess is that a dev release with developer tools, compiler, etc. will do two things.

First, it will let developers port 3.x/3.9 stuff so there are some apps ready for it and not just legacy versions running under the emulation layer.  Of course, new code may be in the works too.

Second, a good way to find some of the subtler bugs is to have people writing for the new OS and see what snags they hit.

I bet they'll let the dev release run with the registered developers for a couple months and then release the consumer distro.

Just my guess....

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> Need to know if Amiga Forever 6.0 would would work under OS4?

Huh?

That doesn't seem likely or even necessary.

From what I've read Amiga Forever 6.0 is a Knoppix (Linux distro) based UAE aimed at x86 machines.

Since OS4 runs on a PPC Amiga it doesn't seem probable.

Anyway, why would you need to put Amiga Forever on your OS4 installation?  It has an emulation layer for 68k software.

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>> I'm sure someone will port UAE to OS4 eventually
>> if it is not already.

> Yep, it has . Click here

Nice screenshot but there is only a distribution for Amiga OS and I'm guessing that's for the current 3.9 version.

...so maybe once you get OS4 you can install and run the UAE for Amiga but UAE would probably be running under the OS4 emulation layer.