Ben Hermans Interview - submit your questions

[Mr_Capehill]

Ok:

- How many times have you considered to drop supporting the Amiga platform? Or what are your motives today?

- Any clues about future game ports?

- Is there some HAL stuff missing in A1's OS4 version still?

- Would you consider porting games and for example, Warp3D, for MorphOS?

- Would you port OS4 for Pegasos if they sign the contract with Amiga?

- What is your  favourite beer?

- How can you tell if you are talking to Hans-Jörg or Thomas?  

- Does Steffen Häuser yell into phone "Hi!!!"?  :-D

[AmiGR]

edited by admin : This topic is Questions for Ben Herman -- please do not use this topic for debate and answering questions best left to others.

[Rogue]

They are not the same person, you can tell who you're talking to, they use different expressions:)

Thanks, Alkis ;-)

[Mr_Capehill]

Rogue: I hope you didn't mind  :-D It always amazes me how  you and Thomas seem to think about same things at the same time, ie by sending a message about same subject with the same content at the same time, but with different wording of course.

[T_Bone]

WarPiper wrote:
when is the x86 version OS 5 comming?

and now that Aminga Inc is DEAD, where do you see the amiga two years from now.

give a list of software companies that are developing for the new OS,  GIVE ME A REASON TO WANT TO BUY YOUR PRODUCT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're asking the wrong man, Hyperion have nothing to do with AmigaOS5, you'd have to ask Fleecy.

[Warface]

@Kurt

Thanks Kurt, we know that you're the worst kind of red trolls, no need to make us remember to that.

@all

Let Ben Hermans answer the questions, don't answer to each other's questions please :-)

@Ben Hermans

It has been partly asked, but is your contract for AmigaOS 4.0 or AmigaOS 4.x? If the first, is it possible to keep your project going further with Updates/Boingballs/Anything?

[AmiGR]

:-P

[Mr_Capehill]

Some of the questions might have been answered a year ago, probably the most of the answers are still valid:

http://www.student.oulu.fi/~jniemima/interviews/ben_hermans.html

Talking about the Friedens, it would be interesting to have twice a monthly technical QA with them. There is an interesting thread here:

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=555&forum=4

Of course, I fear that their time is very limited  :-)

[olegil]

I agree, that thread was really good. And I don't even read amigaworld.net :-)

However, I need to point out a couple of things. If something has already been answered, it shouldn't be asked again, so it's perfectly valid for one user to answer another users question. Saves Ben the time to copy'n'paste their answers ;-).
Also, if Rogue is here commenting in a thread about questions to Ben Hermans about OS4, why not just frelling ask him instead? ;-)

[redrumloa]

Now that time has passed and the market has changed, would you be willing to reconsider porting AmigaOS4 to the Pegasos with say a USB dongle?

[Paul_Gadd]

Ben would you recommend Mr Sheen or Pledge?

Also include if it came in a aerosol can or a spray bottle.

[logain]

It its already on the list i think, however.

I would like to know how the situation really looks if Amiga Inc got
bust and the sub-license they have get redundant.

Is Hyperion still allowed to use the Amiga brand and Sources of
the AmigaOS?

Is Eyetech still allowed to use the brand too?

What would be in case 'anyone' else would get a (sub)-license
for the Amiga brand and sources?

How does it effect the future development for this platform fe for
OS>=4.5 then? (afair Hyperion didnt really want to do anything else
but selling games after OS4.2)

[uncharted]

redrumloa wrote:
Now that time has passed and the market has changed, would you be willing to reconsider porting AmigaOS4 to the Pegasos with say a USB dongle?

As other people have said this is not up to Hyperion alone, for example Amiga Inc. still have the licencing thingy.  It's also down to Bill Buck and the Genesi team.  Just because Bill acts nice on public forums towards the Freidens doesn't mean that he is willing to co-operate.

"Beware the guy who has one hand behind his back when he shakes your hand"


===EDIT===

I don't mean to flame Bill Buck or decend this thread in OT land, I just wanted to point out that this question is slightly unfair as the ball is not solely in Ben or Hyperion's court.

[chris]

I would like to know how the situation really looks if Amiga Inc got
bust and the sub-license they have get redundant.

I just want to add something to this.  If AI go under, would Hyperion and Eyetech consider forming a partnership to purchase the Amiga trademarks etc?

Chris

[redrumloa]

@uncharted & chris

I want to get an official answer from Ben Hermans. If we are to discuss this furthwer please start a new thread to keep this one on topic.

[The_Editor]

Hey,

I suspect Hyperion are "On schedule and...

 :-D