Amiga Inc answers your questions (updated)

[weirdami]

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[weirdami]

es there is a path from OS 4 to OS 5

Cool. I wondered about how if Amiga was doing 5 while Hyperion was doing 4 if anyone would want 4 at all because five is coming and also if 5 wasn't at all to do with 4.

He did say something about how 5 may come out with 4 never having had come out, but also that Hyperion was  already paid and should get paid more, even though they owe Amiga money. It might be some kind of weirdness if there was a 5 without a 4 being released, but who really cares.

4 is pretty much already done anyway (according to Hyperion) so 5 CAN be based on it even though work is on-going on both of them

It's a little unusual that there had been no leaks or even rumors of OS5 being worked on at all. They must be a dedicated crew that keeps at it instead of going out and getting drunk and having their lips loosed by secret agents for the blue side. ;-) It's a little like the original Amiga crew in that respect... if my amazing speculation is correct. :-P

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@itix

Only in passing, though, more like he was hedging off any "what about Troika" comments.

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@amigadave

I didn't get the impression that this buy-back option thingy was ever executed, only that it was introduced in a new contract that Hyperion signed so they could get the extra operating funds. Who knows if the money Hyperion got was in fact the money the buy-back option relates to.

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@JuSho

We are working on a product that would allow the retro games to be played on various devices, and I hope that we will have some more concrete timing on that product very soon.

^^^^Isn't that what he meant?

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@Englyst

...But I got my T-shirt :-D

I still cannot believe that some people starts to put out negative reply's to these answers you have put up. When finally sticking your head out with a very wanted response it's getting treated like a soccer ball at the World Championships.

I thought the same thing, except... I DIDN'T get my t-shirt. :-)

I don't know why the negative folks even bothered if nothing coming out of Amiga is either the truth or "Amiga enough". I say go sit on your "peg" or blow it out your AROS, but stop being a meany head naysayer that just wants to bring people down.

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From the personal note:

Think of my surprise when I learned that all of our inventory was sold for $75,000.00 to a company in India, when we were generating more than that on a monthly basis. This created a big operational hole for the company and caused us great harm in our ability to move forward. This hardware was not even put up for bid or auction, and nobody was consulted in the process.

Was Petro responsible for that? Maybe why he got fired?