Does Hyperion own the rights to OS 3.1, 3.5, 3.9?

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I wonder how we could get your work on Boing Bag 3 and 4 into official updates...

I'm not sure that they see anything related to OS3.x as being beneficial to themselves.

It seems like the abandoned product that still competes with the current one.

Making OS3.x better only hurts OS4 sales.

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Seeing that OS3.x runs on real Amigas with 680x0 CPUs and only OS4.0 runs on PPC enhanced Amigas, I don't think this statement is entirely true.

I meant it from the viewpoint of someone selling OS4.  Making OS3 more usable does nothing to promote an OS4 sale.

Frustration with OS3.x however, doesn't hurt OS4 sales at all.

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(P.S. I know someone's going to mention AROS, but no. Whatever its other merits, it has exactly one 68k port, which is deprecated and not even for the Amiga, and one PPC port, which seems to require an existing Linux install. It might be an Amiga-inspired or Amiga-based operating system, but it's not an Amiga operating system.)

FYI, it has a native non-Linux hosted x86 port and in the last couple of weeks, the native 68k Amiga port has finally been revived and is making serious steps forward.

The first bounty was assigned and has a delivery date of around December if I remember correctly.

I'd expect a usable native 68k Aros in the next 6 months to a year if they keep this pace.

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Every new version of Kickstart and Workbench broke things.

Some games can't even deal with an external floppy or fast RAM.

Our 040 and 060 systems aren't even 100% compatible.  Remember those libraries we have to put on the system to get them to boot correctly?

100% compatibility wasn't a deal breaker when the platform was actually evolving.

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It isn't binary compatible yet.

Once we can start mixing and matching Aros and OS3.x it will get very interesting.