Quick Gary Hare IRC report, no more 3rd party AmigaOS after OS4.0.

[klesterjr]

@Argo

That's speculation. We don't know what Hyperion's contract covers in reguards to development of Amiga OS 4. It could be just 4.0 or the whole 4.x series.

The voice of reason.

@redrumloa
I've always liked you, and you're one of the best dealers I've ever dealt with -- but what's happened to you? Your posts lately have become so "negative" (both here, and especially at AW) -- I don't know what the problem is, but hopefully they'll get worked out -- I miss the old red.

[klesterjr]

@Wayne

A lot more than 1000 people are "interested" in OS4 (as evidenced by 4000+ downloads of the new OS4 video in the last two days ).

Once OS4 is released, a lot of us will take a more serious look at it (most of us do NOT want to be beta-testers!).

At that point, Hyperion can get back to porting games, where there IS potential for a small profit -- and the SAME users can be marketed to again & again.

Hyperion's only real crime has been being overly optimistic about how long it would take to port an entire operating system versus porting a game.

It's a long shot, but Hyperion has been willing to take it -- forget the "Chicken Little" routine and let's see how it plays out.

[klesterjr]

@Wayne

I downloaded it in one go -- maybe there was something wrong with your connection?

Even so, 2000 x $100 (what Hyperion gets from each copy of OS4) is $200,000 (not $100,000) -- which is still a big loss, no question -- but that has nothing to do with what I said, now does it?

I thought my post was clear, but I guess not -- so, rather than reiterate my point, I'll just move along.

Have a nice day.  :-)