Hyperion arn't the ones who have been making and breaking deadlines. That's mainly A inc. I've even seen some people try to blame the problems under gateway on Hyperion :-)
f they sell 2000 A1XEs thats £1 Million UKP + Vat Eyetech will take.
Good. Amiga needs to slowly crawl back up to where it used to be. One of the reasons that development took so long was lack of funds. When Amiga, Hyperion and people start getting returns from that, it should start to speed up the R&D cycle (eg Hyperion could use money from OS4 to pay developers, instead of doing other stuff).
As a few more people trickle back into the community, there will be more money to use - things will really start to speed up. To be honest, I'm not at all surprised at the time things are taking. The userbase had shrunk to a point that Gateway decided to give up on the "classic" platform. A inc and others had the foresight to see that it could be done, but don't forget how agonisingly close the platform got to dying.
A year ago, many people were doubting that the A1's would come out. Eyetech released the G3SE's and the XE's are already in the hands of developers.
The same story is happening with the OS. There are copies being betatested
right now.
Hopefully, the waiting has almost come to an end...
