OS3.9 BB3+4 V1.2 Available

[Gulliver]

I am a bit confused but happy

I thought the boing bags and betterwb were over at:
http://lilliput.amiga-projects.net/start.htm

betterwb looks to have been more recently updated there 2015 Feb.
vs the boing bags 2014 Nov.
The last boingbag 3&4 was version 1.0g there

I need to update that website.

I started the project and now I still seldomly contribute. Minous is calling the shots now, and  his website is the most current one.

[Gulliver]

Now, I really pushing hard to get something like a new official kickstart for the classics, and I'm talking to people here and there to get things arranged so we get back some progress, and some $#$@$!! moron takes at the same time the sources and claims everything is just ok?

You are late: there already is a new official kickstart for Classics, which has been released by Cloanto and is included in Amiga Forever 2016 and being sold in physical form through various Amiga retailers. It is kickstart v45.061.

http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/16-125

[Gulliver]

Again, that no longer the case, at least according to the folks I talked to. There is currently a window of opportunity for exactly that. The reason that Cloanto has problems with Os 3.9 is not because they are not interested. It is more that Cloanto has unfortunately only rights on 3.1, but not on 3.9.

But no, the copyrights are not lost, the sources are not lost, and I really *do* have some hope that it should be possible to renovate 3.9 a bit. What triggered all this was of course the arrival of new hardware.

Whether this will work or not I cannot promise, of course, but it doesn't really look that bad anymore.

I do believe there is indeed a market for something like a renovated 3.9. It certainly shows a lot through interest in both new hardware and AmigaOS custom modifications/hacks that many of Amiga fans and retro hobbyst will be willing to pay for such upgrade.