New OS4.0 screenshots online

[HyperionMP]

>Yup, and a rescue/defrag utility.

Actually Seehund, there will be a very comprehensive Salvage and Recovery suite included with OS 4 by Jörg Ströhmayer.

(I believe that was part of the Executive update)

It will do anything you would care to think of.

The HDToolbox replacement is by Andrea Vallinotto.
Since the feature-set of OS 4 is now frozen, I will release the final feature-set in the next few days.

[HyperionMP]

You are right: it is Strohmayer.

Typo.

His recovery and salvage tools are already finished and there is support for them in the new HDToolbox replacement which is based on a client/server model so  other coders can use the functionality from their programs.

[HyperionMP]

I should point out that the screenshots of the HDToolbox replacement don't make use of the new OS 4.0 GUI (which would be an automatic process anyway) but of 3.9 and Reaction.

[HyperionMP]

Well, you'd think people would all understand.

If I read some of the negative BS that Wayne Hunt has been posting on Moo Bunny....

Let's set the record straight here once again:

1. 30 developers work on OS 4, EACH IN HIS RESPECTIVE FIELD OF EXPERTISE.

This means that work on a HDToolbox replacement doesn't hold up work on the kernel, 68K emulation, 2D drivers, salvage and recovery tools, TCP/IP stack, device drivers  etc.

2. Only very few aspectsof OS 4  lend themselves to visualisation

How do you propose we make screenshots of a kernel, a 2D driver, a filesystem, salvage and recovery tools, devices, a USB stack  etc.?

3. The functionality of HDToolbox was too limited and it was in fact buggy in some places because it could not deal with certain types of controllers and drives.
All of this constitues sufficient justification for a replacement, especially if you consider the fact that H&P did not fact give us access to the HD Toolbox source-code they did for 3.5.

So snap out of it Wayne.