Interview with Ben Hermans revealing current status of AOS4

[SlimJim]

Read it here:
 
Interview at amiga.de
 
A very good and honest interview if you ask me.
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SlimJim

[JoannaK]

Yep.. admitting this month ago would have saved lots of unnecessary FUD calling ...

Yep.. admitting this month ago would have saved lots of unnecessary FUD calling

I really do doubt that.
It doesn't matter what Amiga Inc. or Hyperion do.

The fudders will be here.

[tonyw]

Well, this should at least convince people that work is still happening and OS4 is still progressing. I don't find anything surprising in these "revelations". In fact, I find it refreshing that Hyperion have the same problems as other developers.

By the time we get our XE's running with all the trimmings, it'll be just about time to make room in the case for the OS4 drive :-)

tony

[Kay]

@Mountain_Myst:

I believe you are right. Seing how they are actually managing to put a negative spin on the fact that Hyperion just solved the entire problem of 2d driver support and severely reduced the problem of 3d support, I have full confidence that the FUD-slingers in the Amiga community can do the same for just about ANY conceiveable announcement.

Anyway, a good interview. It's nice to know what's going on. My guess is that something will appear next month (first time loading up Workbench on AmigaOne or something like that). Fingers crossed for a release within April. (Yes, I know I am probably a bit optimistic :-)).

Kay

Man...

I can't even imagine firing up an AmigaOne with OS4 running on that baby.

How it must feel to see workbench boot up in native ppc.

Man, I can daydream about this for ages.
Hope I don't have to though.

Hope it becomes reality very soon.   :-o

[Ilwrath]

I really do doubt that.
It doesn't matter what Amiga Inc. or Hyperion do.

The fudders will be here.

Very true... But giving the reasonable people some reasonable and honest answers to questions is always a good PR move.  

Quite honestly, I hope they really are this far along, and they manage to have something to show in the next few months.  I'm still not going to hold my breath or pre-order anything, though.  ;-)

Unfortuneately, I don't believe in preorders.

Heh..

Never have.

I've never believed in ANY company that much.

I buy when it's available to the public.
When it's actually tangable.

But to the one's who do preorder, I reckon that's a good thing.

I can't do it though.

[SlimJim]

I would pre-ORDER, but I would never pre-PAY.
 
That's a big and very important distinction.
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SlimJim

[Skyraker]

@Joannak

Yep.. admitting this month ago would have saved lots of unnecessary FUD calling ...

And of course you wouldn't be responsible for any of it?

Butter wouldn't melt eh?

Regards

[SlimJim]

@Skyraker
 
Want to compete for scariest Avatar? :-D
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SlimJim

[Skyraker]

@slimjim

Bloody orrible init ?

[SlimJim]

@Skyraker
 
Well, it's not directly soothing to the eye...;-)
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SlimJim

[Skyraker]

@Slimjim

I fed L8-x some household chemicals, mostly turtle wax, sodium hyperchlorate, windowlene... suspended him upside down from a ceiling fan, and took his picture... carpets a mess though. ;-)

[SlimJim]

@Skyraker
 
Ah. upside down. That was the part I couldn't quite figure
out. Nice touch. The rest is of course pretty standard, when
whanting an imposing avatar - right out of the book, in fact.
;-)
 
 (you don't want to know what I had to do to get a picture of
my avatar).
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