Executive Update - Amiga Status Announcement

[jd997uk]

This, to me, is a very straight forward press release. If you want to have Amiga approval, you have to apply for it.  
Typical really, that in 'our' community, it has to be turned into such a big issue. One minute, Amiga isn't (allegedly) interested in the desktop any more, then, as soon as they try to protect it via a minimal amount of quality control, all the ejit trolls come marching outa their caves claiming all sorts of nonsense, PAH! (if you don't know what I'm on about, go and look at the thread over at ann.lu - actually, second thoughts, don't bother).
Anyone with at least half a brain, would see that ANY company, in ANY industry, has to maintain a quality control system, whether it's through 1st party (their own), or 3rd party (anyone associated) products. Anyone in the UK or Europe who's had to suffer the ISO9002 stuff, would KNOW what approval systems are all about. This is a walk in the park in comparison.
There's no hidden agenda here, if you go to Amiga with a solid business plan, an approveable product, it ain't gonna be hard to get an 'Amiga Approved' stamped on your resume. All this is mainly about protecting YOU, the consumer.
After all, what would you prefer: buying a product from an established RELIABLE company, or an 'allegedly' compatable product, from some back street merchant? The choice is yours.

-john

[jd997uk]

I think there is no agreement with bplan and that's why it is not listed.

The message here is that as you say, you will need an official Amiga ROM to run OS4. So, for the A1G3SE, it'll have it's BIOS 'flashed' with extensions to enable it, and I suppose for Cyberstorm/Blizzard PPC owners, the OS will need the 3.1 ROMs to boot. No big deal really, although many will make a big issue out of it.
BPlan, at this time do not appear to have contacted Amiga Inc with any regard as to running OS4 on the Pegasos. Fair enough, that's their perogative.
All that Amiga Inc have done is to re-iterate their statement that ONLY Amiga approved HW can legally run Amiga OS, whether natively, or through emulation. Anyone out ther who's going to buy a Pegasos might want to ask BPlan the question on OS4 compatability. If enough people ask, they might actually approach Amiga Inc and enter into an agreement - who knows?

-john

ps. do not take this as an anti BPlan/MorphOS rant, I've no reason to have any issues against either of them. But it *appears* that they are a single entity (ie they are joined at the hip), so, since the HW has it's own OS, there would not be a reason for BPlan to bother entering an agreement with Amiga Inc for an official OS4 port.

[jd997uk]

This bundling crap is nonsense. When was it ever that you couldn't buy an AmigaOS without hardware? I know for a fact that flavors of OS3.0/3.1 sold bundled with ROMs for A500-2000's and 1200/4000's... Only selling the OS with hardware is going to kill it. Everytime we upgrade we are going to have to buy a new license?  So I buy a first gen A1, along with OS4...then I want to upgrade, I can't take my ROM from the first gen to the second and use my OS CD's again? What a load. Way to go Amiga, lock into proprietary hardware again.

Eh? What bundling ? If you want to buy an A1G3SE without OS4, go ahead. All that's going to happen is that any officially endorsed product will be *enabled* to run OS4.x
So if you upgrade to (say) a G4 board that has been endorsed, there's no reason for the OS not to work.
Sheesh, some people.

-john