@Rodney
You might not think that Kronos is a troll, but this topic posting of his was clearly flamebait from subject to signoff. Its not a matter of being a better man, do you think that if Kronos was face to face with the Friedens in a room he would have spoken thus? What about with his dear old mum present?
I suspect you and I know what to expect from a Kronos post so we filter off the excess crap.
Can you imagine say Gary, Nate or Alkis using such a tone as Kronos does? However we expect less in this case.
Lets analyse:
Subject : Any REAL news from the OS4-tour ?
Rudeness. Suggests that the news from the OS4 tour ( anti-aliased fonts/ PPC native and PPC modules working in their integrated emulation approach ) was not REAL or USEFUL which contradicts flatly what Kronos and others have been calling for "SHOW US IT WORKING".
Oh well now they finally dared to show OS4, and waht do we get ??
Rude. Implies that the reason that it had not been shown before was cowardice rather than the traditional AmigaOS approach ( which is not to release betas since 1.3 ). The "what do we get??" shows exaggerated nay pantomime indignation.
Another bunch of useless screenshots
Rude. "useless". No need for that. I agree that screenshots are far from a great indicator of anything but I didn't notice you saying that "screenshots are useless" when we started to see the first MOS Ambient screenshots. However they do illustrate the progress of the UI, anti-aliased fonts and serve as a discussion point. Far from useless. In fact I remember distinctly you arguing with me when I pointed out that screenshots don't tell you diddly about Ambient.
Did anybody ask, what the were seeing ?
How much is still 68k, and how much is PPC ?
(and no, I don't care wether it is just a recompile away, I want to know what is NOW)
Rude to disregard an answer before you get it "I don't care if blah blah waaaaah". What you want is an answer that allows you to go rushing round all the newsgroups and fora posting "ITS JUST 68K FOR FREAKS SAKE!" willfully ignoring the relative simplicity of a make clean all install.
What did run ? 68k SW ? WOS ? OS4-native ?
Is P96 allready intregrated in in graphics/layers, or still patching the orginal libs ?
And how will that affect the AGA-compabilty ?
What HW was used ? SCSI (on the CS-PPC) ? Where new drivers used (emu or native ?), or
ist it still the Phase5-device running in emu ?
What GFX-card ? Zorro,PCI or CV-PPC ? And what others are supported RIGHT NOW ?
All quite reasonable compared to the Kronos we saw before. I ask you though Kronos, if someone sends you a cheque for 100 euros in an envelope they have wiped their arse with would you open it willingly?
And yes I know someone will come around and tell me that I ain't worth an answer
No. I don't think you are worth an answer but what I think in this is irrelevant, your **questions** were worth answering but frankly for the last few years you have come across as nothing but a schoolyard gang member with a gutter jeering attitude who is incapable of hiding his agenda.
(hi Hans-Jörg), but that doesn't change the fact that my questions are valid,
No, it doesn't change that but again we are back to merde encrusted envelopes.
and that
STRAIGHT answer to them would give a much better insight in the state of things as a
million of screenshots could ever do.
Rude. Suggesting that before they have been less than straight.
So no, in conclusion I dont think Kronos's questions are trolling but the packaging he uses is designed to inflame and annoy the answerer as well as telling the audience what he thinks before any answer is given.
I am reminded of those 50s small town american films that shows the jock and his mates jeering at someone trying to provoke a fight.
So Kronos, don't expect a civilised response unless you are prepared yourself to act civilised. For the others on here criticising the Friedens, don't blame them for Kronos' behaviour.
Given how they did not resort to Kronos' level I think they come off "the better man".
