Quick Gary Hare IRC report, no more 3rd party AmigaOS after OS4.0.

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Red,
 That's speculation. We don't know what Hyperion's contract covers in reguards to development of Amiga OS 4. It could be just 4.0 or the whole 4.x series. What Amiga, Inc. is working on in house could very well be AOS 5. Which would be sort of consistant with what Amiga, Inc.'s previous management laid out. Granted the grain of salt nature makes this all rather speculative and foggy.

Though I do thing that what Amiga OS 5 (what AI is working on operating systemwise) will be unlike any AOS we've seen. Which gets me abit concerned.

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by HyperionMP on 2005/3/20 17:19:42    I can assure you that the future of AmigaOS 4.0 is quite safe and secured back in November of 2001.    Continued development of Amiga OS is certain provided there is sufficient financial return.

Alot of us, I think, are more concerned about 4.1. Will ther e be further development in the Amiga OS 4.x series, given sufficient finacial returns, beyond Amiga OS 4.0? If so, will that be done by Hyperion or Amiga, Inc.?

We're just feeling alittle insecure about the future of Amiga OS is all and would like some reassurance.

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by Wayne on 2005/3/20 18:50:23    @Ben,    That's a very interesting way of saying "OS4 is already in beta so we might as well finish it but we doubt any future releases would ever be done..." Thanks for confirming what Garry said..

That's one way to look at it. Then again he just stated an obvious plain truth. Like the TV show will stay on the air as long as it recieve sufficent Nelson ratings. Well, of course it will. That's how business works. Though what is sufficent?

I'm seeing quite abit of saying something without really saying anything. Which leads to alot of reading inbetween the lines. Which doesn't help as some people use microscopes. All it gets you is a distorted version of what may be the truth.

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@JoannaK

Are you blind? Didn't you read the transcript? It's not DE, It's call AmigaAnywhere!  :-D

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Hyperion has stated in this tread that they would continue to develop OS4 if it was financially possible. What part of that statement didn't you understand?

Oh, he understands. He just doesn't think that it is a finacially viable endevor. Sales of Amiga OS 4.0 have to pay for development of 4.1. What ever number of sales that is, he just doesn't feel that there will be enough sales to reach it. Mr. Hare did state that there needed to be about 2000 sales to finace the voucher deal. So, that sounds like a good target number as any. Will there be enough sale to continue development, I won't even hazard a guess. Mainly, because I feel the community has a rather unknown amount of dark matter.