deddly,
[/quote]Can someone clear this up for me a bit? I understand the anger directed at AI due to all the promises and lies. What's new to me is that people don't like Hyperion, what did they do that annoyed people? I missed all of that.[/quote]
I was not very active with anything Amiga for many years, until about three, maybe four, years ago when I decided to check around and see what was new. I found out about AmigaOne and OS4, and started looking into it. It didn't take long until I discovered the AmigaOne was junk, so I started asking the same questions that pretty much *everybody* asks when they first discover OS4 was developed for PPC - why can't I run it on my Mac? It didn't take long for the Hyperion "gang" to start treating me like I was some kind of idiot for even asking that question, and other pretty obvious questions that always seem to come up.
So, here I am, an experienced developer who thoroughly enjoyed the Amiga back in the day - now I have zero positive interest in OS4. What a great company! And the OS4 community is so full of rational, endearing people, lol! It seems Hyperion couldn't beat off newcomers fast enough with their sh!tty attitude.
Aside from my personal experiences though, take this as just one example:
Which of the following has Hyperion claimed about the lineage of OS4?
A) "It is based on the original AOS sources, and so it is the true Amiga!"
B) "The original AOS sources were not very useful, so we rewrite the whole thing."
C) "We never gained access to the original AOS sources."
D) All of the above.
Correct answer: D
Then there was all the BS where Hyperion claimed the embedded market was wide open, just waiting for OS4 to swoop down and take over, even now we are in talks with a large unnamed embedded customer, blah blah blah - all turned out to be total BS. Then there is the classic, "Three months to change some flags and recompile". Hyperion is full of crap, basically. That tends to turn a lot of people off.
OS4 is just a waste of time and effort. It never amounted to anything, it hasn't drawn the community together - if anything people put their hopes in OS4 and Hyperion pissed them away over the years.
