thoughts on OS 4 and AMIGA ONE

[jd997uk]

I’ve been waiting ever since. Impulse wanted to make the program more operating system compliant, and made the decision to wait until the new version of AmigaOS was released first. It’s been a while now…

It's not Impulse that's responsible for the Amiga CUP.
Martin Mackenzie has taken up the reigns to bring Imagine to full PPC code.
Currently he is working with Hyperion as one of the programmers on OS4. When his work there is done, he will restart work on Imagine.

-john

[jd997uk]

@Warface

. I hope though it won't be that butt ugly as the windows version

I doubt very much that it will.
AFAIK, work had been done (completed?) on getting Imagine to follow Amiga style guides, rather that the ghastly default of Imagine. See here. for pictures. It certainly makes many of the requesters far more user friendly. If (as I'm sure it will) it utilizes the OS4 GUI improvements, it'll look just how you want it to.

-john

[jd997uk]

@MarkTime

I think they forgot what a 'constant' update program is.....

Well, at least is is going to progress.
Interesting fact gleaned from the Imagine ML is that the PC CUP only has 80 subscribers in it.
Given the size of the Amiga market compared to the PC one, how many subscribers do you think IFA has?

I've definately got this on my 'to buy' list when OS4 is out. I've just got myself getting used to Imagine4.0 again, running ontop of WinUAE. Render times are a whole heap better than my 1200/060 and I expect a G4@800MHz+ to be even better with native PPC code.

-john

[jd997uk]

Imagine ML can be found here
The 80 were for the PC version only. If you join the IML, have a trawl through the archives from the last month or so, there's been a bit of a row regarding lack of development on the PC version.
BTW, Martin does post to the list, so if there were any urgent questions you needed answering, he'd probably be able to help.

-john