OS4 on tour - why so little news?

[takemehomegrandma]

I was wondering why there are so few posts about the OS4 on tour. It must be the biggest thing this far from the "official" side, but aside from a bunch of screen shots and some show pictures, there has not been much info from the visitors. Why is that? Or have I missed it?

There must be lots of things to report about!

How fast does OS4 feel, how fast does it boot, how stable/prone to crash is it, how does software perform, what software runs on it, what software did they show, etc, etc, etc ...

What did they say during the presentation, estimations of release dates, etc, etc, etc ...

Show reports please! :-)

[takemehomegrandma]

The_Editor wrote:
AFAIA

A report is going to be posted in this months CAM.

 :-D

Heh, all information filtered through the Information Minister!  :-P

But seriously, I would like these questions to be answered by some of *the visitors*.

[takemehomegrandma]

Markus_Bieler wrote:

Perhaps everyone who tried OS4 had to sign an NDA

I was at the show in Switzerland. But I have nothing to tell. Its more or less OS3.9 for PPC, like MorphOS is OS3.1 for PPC. Its very slow on the Cyberstorm, but I guess thats because its beta and not everything is ported to PPC-code.

Markus

Thank you! One down, ten to go! :-)

What software did they run? What about stability?

[takemehomegrandma]

@ Markus_Bieler

Thanks for the info! :-)

Did you get the impression that it is close to a final release version?

To me it sounds like it still is in a pretty early stage; they do not demo any real applications running on the OS, still some essential parts are in 68k, perhaps not quite optimized and fine tuned (hence the slow appearence), the JIT is not there, etc.

I'm sure they will get everything sorted out, the question is how long time it will take. There has been speculation about a CSPPC release in September, but I wonder ...

Anyway, thanks again for the info! :-)

[takemehomegrandma]

@ Alkemyst

In summary, what does it say?

(I rather not visit that site, because everytime I do I get a feeling that I support the really ugly moves some months ago  from some of the people behind that site (and a certain company in the Amiga community)).

[takemehomegrandma]

Markus_Bieler wrote:

Good report about Basle and the presentation, but [color=993300]too[/color] positiv.

Otherwise I would have been surprised! ;-)
That's why it's interesting to hear reports from more ordinary users. :-)

[takemehomegrandma]

@ HyperionMP

Sounds promising. :-)

So in your opinion, an end-user release for CSPPC in September is plausible?