Ben Hermans - Hyperion Entertainment Interviewed

[HyperionMP]

>If Ben says he has 'tangible evidence' that means exactly >nothing. Until he provides his evidence, he has nothing. Fact >is, Ben loves to have people jump to conclusions...we get it >Ben, some people will jump to any conclusion...woo weeee, >you must be really proud of yourself, you can fool some >very gullible people.

You are making a fool out of yourself, only you don't know it yet.

Rest assured that I would never make such a statement without firm evidence.

>Good to see OS 4 is making progress, but getting workbench >to load atop of exec sg for the first time, last month, doesn't >imply an extended period of bug fixing, but implies they will >get this out the door as soon as possible.

I suggest you actually read the interview. I'm referring specifically to question 2.

Moreover, Hyperion has a reputation of releasing quality products.

I see no reason to doubt why it would be different with OS 4.0.

[HyperionMP]

If you have problems with Shogo and Freespace crashing, you should not waste your time complaining about it on public fora but instead:

1. Register yourself on our site so you can download all the latest updates.

2. Subscribe yourself to the Hyperion dev list so you can ask for help.

If you ask me, your problem is more than likely due to the fact  that you are running some kind of hack (like Executive) or your hardware is causing issues.

It's a known fact that our games stretch the hardware to the limit and this will cause heat-related issues or will bring down the machine if the memory speed is set too low (60 ns).

[HyperionMP]

If  you don't know that especially the BlizzardPPC is prone to overheating, you don't have a clue.

[HyperionMP]

@Neko:

Steffen may have harped about ELF prior to joining to Hyperion but this was never the official line.

Hyperion has consistently used GCC on various platforms (Amiga, Linux and even Mac OS X).

We never changed the OS 4 ABI.

Incidentally, the experts DID claim that what we are trying to do is impossible.

Here's a very recent quote from an American Genesi employee on a public IRC session, no prices for guessing who it was from:

"I don't consider Hyperion a bad company, but they do not have the experience nor manpower to do a proper job of a brand-new OS, which is what AOS4 is. they have the original source. is the common arguement, but what good is that source? BCPL?  68k asm?  hardware-optimized C code?  The actual usable code is less than 20% of the whole so they have a whole-scale OS to write, essentially from scratch and due to the architecture they chose for this OS, they have not a clue if it will ever run until late in the cycle".

Now that's somebody who doesn't have a clue.