Status report on AmigaOS 4.2 development

[jorkany]

There's an ongoing thread:
starting with post #327

Some questions are being answered by those using the Hyperion corporate account.
The question about the netbook has been asked twice, with no answer yet.

Nevertheless, there seems to be a willingness since yesterday to answer some questions posed by the members.

#6

And who is answering the questions? Not just an account name, as we all know that account is shared. Is it the same person who said that OS4 was already running on the  netbook back in 2011?

[jorkany]

I say the account was hacked.   Bet it's the same password for the blog and that is why there is even an update.  :rofl:

Well technically you could be right.
But just in case you are, it's not me!

[jorkany]

It is indeed - and they've left this absolutely huge hardware proposal unaddressed for nearly a year and a half now. If they're making announcements, I care more about knowing whether there will be an affordable OS4 machine sometime in the near future than about an update to an OS that only runs on machines I can't afford.

Given that OS4 has never made a dime and in fact is costing hundreds of thousands of Euros a year to keep afloat, I wouldn't spend a dime on this dead-end OS even if it ran on cheap PC hardware:

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic_id=35809&forum=33&start=120&viewmode=flat&order=0#702951

Development cost of roughly 100K euro per year since 2001 i.e. 12 years and running, expensive lawsuits (500K litigation cost).

Sorry but the shareholders are going to sit this one out and you can be glad that they do because they are the ones funding AmigaOS 4.x development for over a decade without any financial return.

[jorkany]

Jorkany : What is your point? You dont use, I use, several others use, some more doesn't. Still what is your point? You don't understand that people has hobby OS? OR you try to convice people to stop suppoting OS4? Or what?

I wouldn't run OS4 with cheap x86 hardware, I run Windows with it, I even run OS3.9 with really expensive 68k hardware.

The point is, there's no future in it. It's been pointed out by many that there is no profit in OS4 and it's at best on life support but realistically it's dead. Up until now that's just been "opinion", but now you're getting it through the official Hyperion channel.

The title of this thread is: "Status report on AmigaOS 4.2 development". Well, there's your status report.

But by all means, keep using OS4. Keep buying behind-the-curve hardware and investing in your fantasy that this is "Amiga".


@XDelusion,

I image the case is the same with MorphOS, but stupid me, I keep holding on, I guess I just enjoy it?

Difference is, MorphOS makes or breaks it on their own - MorphOS isn't masquerading as "Amiga" to try to make it appear to be something it's not.