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mikeymike wrote:QuoteGuys, any chance of making clear a few things OS4 does have? Or is that against NDA? The thing is, if you aren't using a beta of it, you won't and can't know what it can do yet. Well there's the featurelist on the AmigaOS site.
Guys, any chance of making clear a few things OS4 does have? Or is that against NDA? The thing is, if you aren't using a beta of it, you won't and can't know what it can do yet.
hnl_dk wrote:Quote...API support: MorphOS supports AmigaOS's API + PowerUP and WarpOS. OS4 only supports AmigaOS's API. ...MorphOS supports AmigaOS 3.1's API + PowerUP and WarpOS ... AmigaOS 4.0(beta) supports AmigaOS 4.0's API (big difference)Quote...Desktop: MorphOS has full top-to-bottom 24/32-bit color support. OS4 has various elements still using an 8-bit pen-based system. ...QuoteIf you are thinking of the icons, remember that in AmigaOS 4.0(beta) every icon has it's own paletteQuote... My judgement on all of this: MorphOS's list shows that it is more mature, more "ready for prime-time", but this is not a negative slam against OS4. Remember, MorphOS has been under active development for going-on 5 years, compared to OS4's 2+ years. At twice the development age, of COURSE MorphOS is more refined, more polished. This is not exactly a huge leap of logic here. I fully expect OS4 to rival MOS's current features in another 2.5 years. But imagine where MOS will be by that point. ...Remember the AmigaOS4 development team has not been starting from the scratch... AmigaOS has been under development since 1984...That only applies if you really think the AmigaOS sources are worth anything...QuoteAs many have tried to explain, the original sources are for all intents (excuse the pun) and purposes worthless. All credit to Hyperion, they have done a lot of work to get OS4 ready.People seem to think the original sources have some magic incantantion written into them... they don't, they are of far less value than the ROM Kernel Manuals.
...API support: MorphOS supports AmigaOS's API + PowerUP and WarpOS. OS4 only supports AmigaOS's API. ...
...Desktop: MorphOS has full top-to-bottom 24/32-bit color support. OS4 has various elements still using an 8-bit pen-based system. ...QuoteIf you are thinking of the icons, remember that in AmigaOS 4.0(beta) every icon has it's own paletteQuote... My judgement on all of this: MorphOS's list shows that it is more mature, more "ready for prime-time", but this is not a negative slam against OS4. Remember, MorphOS has been under active development for going-on 5 years, compared to OS4's 2+ years. At twice the development age, of COURSE MorphOS is more refined, more polished. This is not exactly a huge leap of logic here. I fully expect OS4 to rival MOS's current features in another 2.5 years. But imagine where MOS will be by that point. ...Remember the AmigaOS4 development team has not been starting from the scratch... AmigaOS has been under development since 1984...
If you are thinking of the icons, remember that in AmigaOS 4.0(beta) every icon has it's own palette
... My judgement on all of this: MorphOS's list shows that it is more mature, more "ready for prime-time", but this is not a negative slam against OS4. Remember, MorphOS has been under active development for going-on 5 years, compared to OS4's 2+ years. At twice the development age, of COURSE MorphOS is more refined, more polished. This is not exactly a huge leap of logic here. I fully expect OS4 to rival MOS's current features in another 2.5 years. But imagine where MOS will be by that point. ...
As many have tried to explain, the original sources are for all intents (excuse the pun) and purposes worthless. All credit to Hyperion, they have done a lot of work to get OS4 ready.People seem to think the original sources have some magic incantantion written into them... they don't, they are of far less value than the ROM Kernel Manuals.
mikeymike wrote:OS4 and Java have absolutely no relation at all.Hardware dependent like every other.
BigBenAussie wrote:IMHO opinion this whole discussion about OSs is moot.Ultimately we all want the Amiga platform to reclaim its legitimacy in the public eye.This does not come by selling a hardware agnostic OS like Linux. It comes from having a BOX like a Mac with a big bold AMIGA logo.If this were not the case we'd be happy with advancing the OS UAE uses. Or we'd be seriously going with AROS and not discussing this any further. Amiga Inc even realised that hardware agnosticism will be selling the Amiga platform short and got hardware deals going.But we're all sitting around waiting for what?An AMIGA BOX!!!!The Pegasos BOX is out and not everyone is buying it, so what does that tell you. ITS STILL NOT AN AMIGA BOX!!!!As stupid and as crass as it sounds having an Amiga is akin to making a fashion statement. AMIGA is the label.AND YOU DO WANT THE LABEL. ADMIT IT!!!!See my avatar. You're already reacting emotionally to it. Notice it does not say Pegasos or Genesi.
