AmigaOS 4.0 for Classic Amiga available now!!!!!!!!

[huronking]

Maybe but Hyperion would be the only party able to pay
it's own lawyers.

I'm gonna order one too.

[mikrucio]

Yeah im gonna order one. Frame it and put it into a clear plastic box. and stand it in the middle of my living room.

[Fixer]

I still find it annoying that you have to buy this old expensive very specific type of card to run it, but at least the classic users now finally have something they can get their teeth in to!

[A1260]

by Fixer on 2007/11/28 18:59:03

I still find it annoying that you have to buy this old expensive very specific type of card to run it, but at least the classic users now finally have something they can get their teeth in to!

dont worry when aos4.0 is out the door, i am 100% sure there also will come a new ppc card for the a4000/a1200, it will takes some time to make but i am sure it will come... so just get your hands on a copy

[Einstein]

Is it really necessary to start a new topic each day ?  :roll:

[Ferry]

ddniUK wrote:

But,weren't we all Amiga fan boys back in the day? I wager that fandom didn't stop most of us gathering up a few dodgy floppies along the way...

If you are trying to say that piracy killed the Amiga, you are quite wrong, I'd say. Commodore never sold software, at least not as a software company but as a side-product, its main business was hardware, so piracy would have been even "good" for them: since soft was "easy to obtain", more people would have bought the hardware needed to run it. This has happened to many other platforms: PC, Playstation, even Mac (it was told about Mac that they even gave some sort of "carte blanch" to University students to "pass software around", in the believing that they would then buy a Mac to use it).

Of course, I'm NOT defending piracy, but those concepts shouldn't be mixed. And we all know the cause of the Commodore demise: awful management, including nearly no investment in Amiga promotion and advertising, or announcing a new model while they still had a large stock of the old one (A600 vs A1200).

Saluditos,

Ferrán.

[Hans_]

A6000 wrote:
Just something to consider.

If Amiga Inc win their court case against hyperion, then all these copies of AOS 4.0 will be illegal pirate copies.

I doubt it. If Amiga Inc win, then its up to Hyperion to compensate them for all the copies they sold. That's their job, not ours.

Hans

[Lurch]

A1260 wrote:
isnt new zeland 5 or 8 years behind the rest of the world?.. then there should not be no problem getting cheap amiga's and stuff....

LOL sometimes it feels like that, especially with our internet connections but alas no luck

Amiga hardware is hard to come by

amigakit wrote:
@Lurch

We have quite a few customers in New Zealand and regularly ship there.

Would love to purchase stuff from overseas but that would require a credit card I'm guessing? Plus the shipping would be quite high? Will be checking out a few computer boot sales in the future hopefully will try my luck that way

[ZEUS]

Oh! too late Hyperion too late sadly :madashell:  I`m waiting too much getting work with os4 classic but not happened I sell my bppc 2 months ago.. I hope it will work good for u all survivers  :-P   u think is over? u`re wrong! the game just began for amiga again  :-D

[ddniUK]

@ Ferry, your assumption is wrong.

My point is that the Amiga community was generally involved in wholesale software piracy.
That activity, kills commercial software production.
What effect a lack of software has on a platform I leave to you to decide...

My feelings are that a lack of profit for small software houses, with increasingly decrepit hardware and intransigent "I want it all on my 512k A500" users crippled the Amiga... It ain't dead yet!

[Bamiga2002]

1 day ! Sadly i must delay my buy for some days, because my salary arrives only then...

[McVenco]

Einstein wrote:
Is it really necessary to start a new topic each day ?  :roll:

The topic is the same. Only the title is changed by the topic starter :-)

I'm not going to buy a copy of OS4. I have no PPC card anymore and don't plan to buy one back in the future either, unless someone gives me one for free :-)

[dammy]

I doubt it. If Amiga Inc win, then its up to Hyperion to compensate them for all the copies they sold. That's their job, not ours.

And Hyperion then has to pay for AI's lawyers as well.  I wouldn't be too shocked to see an emergency appeal for relief being filed on the day OS4 goes on sale.   Now I do wonder, will this mean Hyperion will pay all those third party devs that were suppost to be paid at OS4 release?

Dammy

[EDS.bod]

I've ordered a copy and i don't even have an Amiga anymore (CDTV and A1200 Tower sold in 2004).

Bought it just because I think Hyperion deserve the support.  Maybe if I see an A1200 + PPC on ebay I'll snatch it up.

[spirantho]

Not only have I pre-ordered this (despite having a fully working A1 too) I've just gone and bought some new toys for my A4000 to celebrate.

Let the good times roll!!! (for once!)

[Jeff]

I have a nice collection of classic Amiga's also ranging from the 1000 all the way to the A4000T and not one of them has the hardware needed to run OS4.0. Nevertheless I also pre-ordered my copy from Amigakit.

Hopefully someone will come up with a way to either make this version run on other hardware, or create new available hardware that it will run on.

Jeff