When are AOS4 released?

[jonssonj]

Hi all!

I'm very curious about AOS4. I have not bought a A1 yet, but maybe I will in the future. First of all I want to try the AOS4 on my A1200 with BPPC. So, when do you think we (amiga users) can expect to be able to buy the AOS4 from our favourite Amiga dealer?

I hope it will be released very soon.

BR
Jörgen

[4pLaY]

If you holding on for the BlizzardPPC version i fear you will be let down! i DOUBT you will see a version for classic Amigas anytime soon if ever (especialy the BlizzardPPC).

[Colmiga]

I thought Phase5 boards were supported by AmigaOS 4.

[Cymric]

jonssonj wrote:
So, when do you think we (amiga users) can expect to be able to buy the AOS4 from our favourite Amiga dealer?

When it's ready.

[jonssonj]

Ok, but people here on amiga org have tried to install AOS4 on a A1200 with BPPC and says that it works almost out of the box. I thought it was the same version of AOS4?

BR
Jörgen

[jonssonj]

@cymric

hehe...  

[cecilia]

you can only get OS4 by buying an uA1.
it's not sold separately.

[reflect]

Those that run OS4 on BPPC/CSPPC are betatesters. Last I heard, OS4 will be released at about the same time for the AmigaOne and the CSPPC, and at a later stage for the BPPC cards.

Right now, the only way for you to run OS4 is by doing what Cecilia said, buy an A1.

[ikir]

OS4 is already usable. A1 is my main machine now.

An OS4 version for Blizzard  will be released at the same time, or a little later, of the A1 final version.

www.intuitionbase.com
A lot of infos about OS4 and A1. You can find exlusive screenshots of OS4 on Blizzard PPC, also a video.

www.amigaworld.net
The official A1 support forums.

www.eyetech.co.uk
Pretty useless website, but eyetech is the father of A1.

[Jethro_Tull]

Hi Ikir, as an Amiga prodigal son, having returned to the scene with the purchase of a second hand A1200, I'm now tempted to upgrade it to be able to run OS4.  

I know pretty well it'll never acheive the performance of a modern A1 mainboard, but would a Blizzard PPC200MHz board be enough to tinker with OS4 and maybe develop some stuff?  In your opinion would OS4 be useable on such a configuration?  I've seen the video on intuitionbase, but would also like the optinion of soemone who's seen it 'live' and maybe got a chance to use it!

Thanks in advanve
Jethro Tull

[reflect]

Indeed it will be enough to tinker with it. You won't be able to watch DVD's and things like that (just not enough CPU power) but for most other things that we do on a daily basis.. mail, irc, surf the web. One of the guys of IntuitionBase.com has a bppc (166MHz I believe) and he runs OS4 on that one with much success.

[HotRod]

JIT isn't available on that video AFAIK and that should make
a big difference as well. From the video it looks pretty much
like AOS 3.x when it comes to speed so it looks promising I
think.

[cgutjahr]

jonssonj wrote:
Ok, but people here on amiga org have tried to install AOS4 on a A1200 with BPPC and says that it works almost out of the box. I thought it was the same version of AOS4?

Yes, beta testers are already able to use OS4 on their BlizzardPPC and CyberstormPPC machines. And yes, it's pretty much the same version that runs on the AmigaOne - the only difference is that some of the lowlevel stuff had to be adapted to the classic Hardware.

But there's no install script yet and creating a user friendly installation process for end users will require quite some work. Currently, only real men should try to install OS4 on a classic Amiga.

Additionally, some drivers are still missing.

[Rogue]

If you holding on for the BlizzardPPC version i fear you will be let down! i DOUBT you will see a version for classic Amigas anytime soon if ever (especialy the BlizzardPPC).

Looking at your signature, I wonder what makes you think you can give a qualified comment on the subject.

The classic versions of AmigaOS 4 are at about the same level as the AmigaOne version, and release wil most likely be simultaneous with the AmigaOne version.

Plainly, I've seen this "OS 4 will never come out" in various shades of blue (or grey or red or green, no pun intended) way too often to think it is funny.

[Rogue]

I thought it was the same version of AOS4?

It is. The kernel is slightly different, and some of the low-level device drivers, but that's about it. Things like e.g. Intuition, DOS, Graphics, are identical.

Any change in the AmigaOne kernel is also done in the classic kernel.