[UserReview] Vampire V2-128 received and it's just pure p0rn.

[Nickman]

http://www.majsta.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=119

Majsta just posted a update to his site. Work in progress obviously.

From IRC

[02/02 20:01] Sooo. how far are you with the design ? all routed and done
[02/02 20:04] is it the same size as before ? (looks like it)
[02/02 20:12] slightly smaller
[02/02 20:12] and yes all done
[02/02 20:12] all routed and tested
[02/02 20:12] so now what, prototype?
[02/02 20:14] no prototypes
[02/02 20:14] we are done

[Nickman]

At last - a screenshot showing OS3.9 Prefs!! That only took 6 months!

Jump in 1 min
https://vimeo.com/153621853

[Nickman]

You told me that you've some experience in Jura. So what's your hourly rate? I know mine. How much time would 10000€ pay you? How much time would it pay a software developer? How much time would it pay a freelance hobby developer. Please be honest, check the numbers carefully.

If those 10.000€ are somewhere lost in the machinary of Hyperion: I believe we agree, that's not worth it. If the 10.000€ arrive - to some degree - in the pockets of the developers, that's probably not too bad a deal at all.

What would that 10.000€ go to ?

Developing of the driver that is already done ?
Development of Picasso96 that is already done ?
Paying for Elbox mistake 15 years ago ?
Make it possible for Hyperion to make more PPC patches ?

IF there still was an active development of Picasso96, which there is not. (last version för 68k is from 1999) and IF that said developer did drivers for you (they dont) then yes this whole thing would look different. Now its just pathetic.

[Nickman]

Ehem, no. The latest version I have is probably six month old. A couple of bugs fixed - not only by me, also by others.

This consists of wrong drawing modes for some versions of BltTemplate, wrong detection of fast/chip memory, a somewhat streamlined blitplane copy algorithm, and maybe a couple of other things I don't remember.

Now, what do I do with that? Ignore the license and just throw it to Aminet? No, I do not have a developer license.

Essentially, it is nice to have this on my desktop, but it doesn't really help much there.

I have here an updated audio.device, an updated keymap.library, an updated keyboard.resource and probably a couple of other minor components I might have forgotten that are, in principle, ready to release.

Do I have a developer licence for AmigaOs? No. Can I release it? No.
Do you see a pattern here?

Yes i see a pattern. It sucks as bad as anything closed source in Amiga land.
You could have put all that into AROS and brought it up to speed instead.
Then you would have been free to release it.

Questions:
1. So you don't have developer license and still you have the source code to it all ?
2. And you think that these 10.000 would have magically made it possible for you to release all the above ? (please not the normal maybe because that is in Amiga land a certain no)

[Nickman]

Amazing Always progress always forward. Such a nice fresh breath of air in the amiga comunity.

But now que comments about missing MMU in 1...2........

[Nickman]

It's not missing, please pay attention.

Sorry can't keep up with the trolls.
Now it's more like.. But still no 68040 compatible mmu..... Right? Or are we past that to?