What's this about a OS4 Pegasos kit?

[filson]

Mark my words, a few weeks after AOS4 is released, some clever hacker (the Amiga community used to have lots of these) will get it running on his/her Pegasos...

you don't say. they run on practicly the same hardware, even same pci interconnect. i belive the PS1/2 was comparably harder to crack than the A1 will be.

[EntilZha]

> I'm sure that if OS4 ran on Pegasos Eyetech would be in dire straits - after all, who'd then buy an A1 at that price?

Especially since you can't buy a Pegasos now at any price, as they aren't produced until the II comes out.

[bloodline]

It can't be hard, load the kernel into memory... then jump to it... simple :-)

[EntilZha]

> Well.. recorded miracles have happened before. But I'd
> rather look this OS4 first before entering into too much
> discussion if it's worth havin or not.

WOW! That's a completely new stance which I think is a really good idea: Commenting about something you actually *KNOW* about, not commenting without having a frigging clue.

[redrumloa]

@Thomas Frieden

Thank you for posting. I take from your post I can assume that the word is an official NO.

[filson]

@ EntiZha

Especially since you can't buy a Pegasos now at any price, as they aren't produced until the II comes out.

didn't bbrv say yesterday that there were still dealers with Pegasos 1 boards? AFAIK they are still for sale here in Holland. Never mind tho. As long as you guys get something done, I can go look forward to be padding you on your back for hanging tough in hard times  :-D

[KennyR]

Especially since you can't buy a Pegasos now at any price, as they aren't produced until the II comes out.

I just did.

[Lando]

> Mark my words, a few weeks after AOS4 is released, some
> clever hacker (the Amiga community used to have lots of
> these) will get it running on his/her Pegasos...

Yeah, yeah, I've heard that line a few times before. It doesn't make it more legal, though, but who cares about such minor details.

But it wouldn't Hyperion losing out, would it? You'd gain because you'd sell more copies of OS4, even if it's only an extra few hundred.  Nobody is talking about pirating OS4, merely bypassing the dongle check.  You should be happy about this.

[Crumb]

The only thing Genesi has to do is sign some NDAs and contracts, respect them, fund the OS4 port to the PegasosII and pay the licenses. But instead of making so much noise they should be talking with Amiga Inc directly.

Come on Genesi! you have $$$, that's a good investment for your platform...

But only make noise when you have come to an agreement. No one should buy a Pegasos II expecting OS4, because given the current relationship between Genesi and Amiga Inc, there are many chances of Os4 not seeing the light in the Pegasos platform...

Come on BBRV! come here and state publicly that no one should buy a Pegasos II expecting OS4 to be released as nothing has been signed yet. It would be very kind of you and would help the community a lot.

[DaveP]

@Lando

So you think that those that would go as far as to crack the dongle check would not just duplicate the hell out of AOS4?

Within hours of AOS3.9 becoming available I was getting offered cracked versions ( which I turned down ).

[Madgun68]

I just did.

Yeah.. I think he needs to take his own advice.

[Madgun68]

The only thing Genesi has to do is sign some NDAs and contracts, respect them, fund the OS4 port to the PegasosII and pay the licenses. But instead of making so much noise they should be talking with Amiga Inc directly.

Since you're so informed, please tell all of us how much this license costs.

[Madgun68]

But it wouldn't Hyperion losing out, would it? You'd gain because you'd sell more copies of OS4, even if it's only an extra few hundred. Nobody is talking about pirating OS4, merely bypassing the dongle check. You should be happy about this.

This is known as cracking. You can't legally sell it so Hyperion makes zilch.

[Alkemyst]

by Madgun68 on 2003/6/5 18:31:11


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The only thing Genesi has to do is sign some NDAs and contracts, respect them, fund the OS4 port to the PegasosII and pay the licenses. But instead of making so much noise they should be talking with Amiga Inc directly.


Since you're so informed, please tell all of us how much this license costs.

Well it cant be that much seeing as eyetech could afford it.

[takemehomegrandma]

@ Thomas Frieden

Especially since you can't buy a Pegasos now at any price,

Send a mail to GGS Data. They have Pegasos 1 in stock. This also qualifies you for the €200 Pegasos2+G4 upgrade.

This mean that you can buy a Pegasos1 now and start using it (and not only in Linux  ;-) ), and then when the Pegasos2 is available you can upgrade to a brand new system, with gigabit ethernet, DDR, and a G4 CPU card running at either (not decided yet) 1GHz, 1.2GHz or 1.3GHz. And the total cost is still BELOW what you have to pay today for an A1G3 motherboard with Linux. How about that?  ;-)

[Crumb]

I'm probably more informed than you may think ;-)