Why not 3.9 -> 4.0??

[SnowBord]

Here's a question which no doubt was flamed to death many moons ago..

As far as I understand, OS4.0 was developed from scratch from the 3.1 source.. WHY?  Considering 3.9 had been developed for some time and had already addressed some issues of re-coding in C and ironing out old bugs..

Can someone shed some light on this?

[JurassicCamper]

Simple

H&P would not release the 3.9 Source Code

H&P esentially only project managed 3.9
The core 3.9 developers now work on 4.0 as well.
These people used their 3.9 code.

So I imagine it a mixture of 3.1 & 3.9 and some clever reverse enginneering / reimplentation if necessary.

[jacadcaps]

"OS" 3.9 doesn't have any modified ROM modules except exec = "OS" 3.9 has no usable modules for ROM stuff in OS4.

[SnowBord]

riiight gotcha.. thanks.
how is H&P lately?

problem is, too many companies involved with the amiga get scorned and / or get little money for their (often futile) efforts..

and amiga developers tend to get shafted on every occasion too, which doesn't help..

thanx for the info!
go reverse engineering!  :-P

[odin]

And if you believe the stories HP is good at shafting devs :-).