Does Install erase a disk?

[nbache]

Instead of calling anything "end of line", at least this can be said:

3.1 was the last version with involvement from the "original" Commodore.

Then Haage & Partners (read: developers working for ...) made 3.5 and 3.9 based on 3.1. Some of the sources of those components were owned by the contributors and were not put back into the official AmigaOS repository, while others were.

Then Hyperion (read: same same ...) made 4.x, which, as Kolla writes, is now at 4.1 Final Edition Update 2 plus a few smaller updates. 4.x is a fully ported (and further developed) version for PowerPC machines aka NG Amigas and won't work on 68k machines.

Then, for classic Amigas/68k, some other developers made 3.1.4 and 3.2 based on 3.1 plus some 68k reimplementations of some of the 4.x parts as well as some other improvements (I haven't tried it, so others may be better at describing it). Hyperion also marketed these.

So 3.5/3.9 may be an end of one line, but other lines have taken over the various needs of transportation (to stay in the terminology).

I think that's about it?

Best regards,

Niels

[nbache]

For 3.1.4, they weren’t “other developers”, they were pretty much the same ones that also worked on 3.5 and 3.9,

Agreed, and thanks for the correction. I did actually plan to formulate this differently, but got distracted and forgot.

What I thought about was that some of the developers closest to H&P, not least Jochen Becher, took part in the "dead end", if it was, where their sources never went into the OS repository (for good or bad reasons, not my place to judge). Therefore those modules weren't available as parts/basis for neither 4.x nor 3.1.4/3.2.

most of the key components also came from 3.9 just as much as from 3.1 directly, only a few came via 4.x. The only missing 3.9 components were all the ReAction classes and resource.library, and software relying on these, essentially all OS3.9 Reaction based prefs programs.

Thanks for that clarification too - as I wrote, I haven't used these later 3.x releases or been as close to their creation as I have been to the others.

Oh, and HDToolBox (and hdwrench.library) by Joan Dow.

Joanne, actually (sorry for nitpicking :-)). But she left already after 3.5, IIRC.

So I would argue that the REAL end-of-line OS release for A2000 (and the other 68k systems) is currently on the hard drive of ThoR

Oh dear, sounds like a sad, but recognizable story ...

And this brings us back to what Amiga is REALLY about - drama! - arguing, whining, bickering, blaming, entitlement, huge egos, besserwissers, splitting, forking, hacking, patching…

Indeed. Wish all that negative energy could be reversed and put to better use.

Best regards,

Niels