Interview with Ben Hermans revealing current status of AOS4

[Damion]

Every avatar should have a solid set of balls!

[teo]

@Agafaster

very nice. but I think they actually looked better hollow ! did you do them by hand ?
if so its a sterling effort !

unfortunately, no, i didnt use my hands to play with my sterling balls... Used a pc with lightwave & composited in photoshop

Im debating making them hollow again, with a few mods, mabye different color squares internally, grey? Being the logo from amigamonkey.com, i should make them brass, ie, brass monkey balls... does anyone have a feezer? i may have an experiment to try ;-)

I think your avatar looks real good.

As a matter of a fact, that's what is was thinking earlier when nobody was talking about it.

[teo]

@#Mountain_Myst

I think your avatar looks real good.

As a matter of a fact, that's what is was thinking earlier when nobody was talking about it.

much appreciated... btw, its supposed to form the letter "M" (as is amiga *M*onkey) did anyone notice, or do do you think i need to tweak it more?

[poweramiga2002]

is there anyway we could get a short summery of whats going on and rough idea how long for os4 for A1 and 1200ppc ? in latems terms

[Agafaster]

@teotwin,

they look even better now !

(sounds like a load of old balls to me)

[Darth_X]

@teotwin

Yeah, the empty spheres work and form the M well :-D



Nah, the  'FUD?' comment was for...

Almost makes me want amiga inc to go bust, then we may have the possibility to move the platform to already widely spread hardware

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[Darth_X]

So far, Hyperion have NOT proved that AmigaOS4 is in alpha and actually boots up to workbench. Ben Hermans posting to a message board is not proof.

So.. if AmigaOS4 is for real, I want REAL proof by then end of March. March was mentioned as the launch (but not release or shipping date) of AmigaOS4.

It doesn't matter to me if OS4 is finished, or shipping, or even completely bug-free, or even crashes occasional.. All that I will accept.

The challenge:
An MPEG video posted on the internet showing AmigaOS booting up into a workbench screen with functioning mouse and graphic user interface..

That's all I want to see.. some proof that this system exists and works. :-D

[MarkTime]

@Darth_X

Exactly!

Its the same old drill you know....AOS4 is always a couple months away.  Keeps everyone waiting, don't ya know.  And it works remarkably well.

So well in fact, that if you want to maintain any credibility at all, you have to concede against the mountain of optimism that another 'interview' creates....

then a few days later you start hammering away at their credibility again.

Same old same old, until the product is released.
I want the product to be released, but who knows when that will be.

If Hyperion knew the answer, they could say, but they don't know...and its unknown...all this March, April speculation, is once again.....made up by the faithful, unconfirmed by the people really in the know--Hyperion.

NO ONE SAID MARCH OR APRIL FOLKS, right now that is JUST WISHFUL THINKING.  How many years of wishful thinking before some of you develop some skepticism???

geez....sigh....I loved redrumloa's quote in another thread....these are the days of our lives...

:-)

[MarkTime]

@teotwin,

after you mentioned it, I could see the 'M'....before that it was probably working on me at a subconscious level :-)

do you see my avatar, its a boy throwing a bird into a bears mouth....people don't seem to get that at first.

:-)

[Rogue]

I want REAL proof by then end of March

Proof? You can either believe me or not. We're not in a court, I am not the defendent, and I don't need to prove anything.

An MPEG video posted on the internet showing AmigaOS booting up into a workbench screen with functioning mouse and graphic user interface..

And then some. Every idiot on the planet will tell you it is faked, as much as they told you that the dual G4 is a fake, the AmigaOne bootlog is a fake, and about everything else is a fake. Someone will step up and tell you that he has 100% reliable source that OS 4 will not come out before the end of the year, or that we sacrifice little critters in druid groves to speed up the process.

Yeah, I aplogize. I am in a bad mood today.

[hnl_dk]

Hi Rogue

Don't take it to your heart ... Darth_X is just an jealous MorphOS fan ... jealous that he made the wrong choice ;-)

I hope you will get a nice weekend and good work :-D

[Darth_X]

@hnl_dk

I am so NOT a jealousd MorphOS fan. Sure, I have an interest in Pegasos & MorphOS. I have an interest in all kinds of new technology.

And Pegasos & MorphOS are VERY exciting.. a new computer platform & OS!

You assume that I have no interest in AmigaOS4, but that's not true. You don't know me.

When AmigaOS4 becomes functional and working, I hope to see it up and running at a tradeshow such as Cebit.
 

[JurassicCamper]

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

....said the communities biggest "Fud Spreader"....
Ever thought of getting a job on a Farm ?  :-P  :-P

Nice article just curious on what state warp3d will be in when the os ships or we still be limited as to what GFX will can buy because of the 3d support.

[Paul_Gadd]

Hyperion guys you can talk the talk but can you walk the walk?

Users want to see products instead of just way to much talking and making announcements,

You have to love those announcements though, i might go and order a Amijoe card and a Boxer board and must get one of those Amiga 5000 machines like those announcements claimed in the past.

[z5]

Users want to see products instead of just way to much talking and making announcements

So one day people are bitching because no status reports is given, and when one is given, there is way to much talking. Oh well...

You have to love those announcements though, i might go and order a Amijoe card and a Boxer board and must get one of those Amiga 5000 machines like those announcements claimed in the past.

As Rogue pointed out, you can blame Hyperion for the last year, but NOT for any boxer, amijoe, Gateway, Viscorp, Escom and any other announcement for that matter. It's simple really: they didn't have ANYTHING to do with it.