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Amiga Inc said they would be releasing their new OS in the fourth quarter. I have not even bothered to ask folks at various resellers to hear if they have heard anything. I guess famed oS 5.0 is the most popular vapourware as it is rapidly evaporating... ok that was silly...

Seriously, does anyone think we will receive a last minute announcement like we did last year from hyperion?
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Re: Is anyone surprised AMiga Inc has not released their OS as promised?
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2007, 05:07:28 AM »
No.  No surprises here.

They're waiting for the courts to figure out their contracts as are Hyperion.

I think they should just scrap the old deals and start from new, assuming the roles of OEM OS vendor with great product to sell, and purveyors of The Name, who desperately need something with their name on it which they can sell/pair up with their partners and get some money.  After all, they're forever protesting to their creditors (the ones still bothering to care) that they're not the same company under the same contracts..  Yet they ARE the same company for Hyperion?!  I guess it's an IP thing :-/

Seriously, do Amiga think people are just going to stop using their iPhones and FLOCK OVER to Amiga's GREAT NEW CEL PHONE HIJINKS?!  Oh yes, I can run Omega OS 5 on my cel-this iPhone is a piece of crap!  I'll just wipe all that Jobs junk off its ROM and stick Amega on there instead! :-D (for the thick:  Yes, I'm being sarcastic here!)

That's what Amiga are really hoping to get into, and I wish them luck and all-but seriously!  It's 2007, OK almost 2008, and anything/everything they want to do can/is already being done.  It's called JAVA, guys!  Apple has officially beaten you to the punch.  Do you think no one will ever write a dashboard widget to allow the remote purchase of greasy refreshments during sporting events?  OK, what ever you need to tell yourselves.

For the love of Pete, would they just figure it out:  they are the owners of a retro-geek toy!  Embrace it, enjoy it, package Mini-Migs into Joysticks, D64 style, sell them at Fred Meyer and be happy!!

Please, Amiga, use your skills for this instead of the other crap.  You'll actually make money, get some real street cred, and even make money for your partners.

THAT would be a great Christmas surprise for everyone, Amiga!
 

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Re: Is anyone surprised AMiga Inc has not released their OS as promised?
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2007, 05:22:46 AM »
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 I guess famed oS 5.0 is the most popular vapourware as it is rapidly evaporating... ok that was silly...




As it stands, I *STILL* think Duke Nukem Forever has them beat for most popular vaporware.


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Re: Is anyone surprised AMiga Inc has not released their OS as promised?
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2007, 05:23:44 AM »
@Tron,


Hey Mate,

Did you ever get compensation for all the BS you went through?? o_O
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Re: Is anyone surprised AMiga Inc has not released their OS as promised?
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2007, 05:35:04 AM »
Nah. Same old story.

Even if it did exist it would just be some bog-standard Linux distro with an Amiga desktop theme (done really badly as well).
 

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Re: Is anyone surprised AMiga Inc has not released their OS as promised?
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2007, 06:22:16 AM »
Its too bad there was a lawsuit -  Hyperion is the only one that has actually come out with anything!
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Re: Is anyone surprised AMiga Inc has not released their OS as promised?
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2007, 08:15:29 AM »
I dont think A.inc is going to release anything for us anymore, after so many disappointments we just cant trust them anymore.
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Re: Is anyone surprised AMiga Inc has not released their OS as promised?
« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2007, 08:24:05 AM »
You trusted them? :inquisitive:
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Re: Is anyone surprised AMiga Inc has not released their OS as promised?
« Reply #8 on: December 16, 2007, 08:30:58 AM »
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Tron2k2 tried:

Seriously, do Amiga think people are just going to stop using their iPhones and FLOCK OVER to Amiga's GREAT NEW CEL PHONE HIJINKS?!
:roll: Dude, for the record, and if you read Amiga, Inc's announcement again, Amiga never said they had a contract to put AmigaOS on a cell phone.  They said it had been for a product that would sell in numbers surpassing the iPhone.

That product may or may not have been a cell phone; we cannot conclude that it was one, as you have done.

;-) °º(And also for the record, I'd love to see Amiga OS on a cell phone....)
 

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Re: Is anyone surprised AMiga Inc has not released their OS as promised?
« Reply #9 on: December 16, 2007, 08:31:11 AM »
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I dont think A.inc is going to release anything for us anymore, after so many disappointments we just cant trust them anymore.


Do you really need them and their :mickeymouse: IP anymore? :roll:

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Re: Is anyone surprised AMiga Inc has not released their OS as promised?
« Reply #10 on: December 16, 2007, 08:35:50 AM »
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Do you really need them and their :mickeymouse: IP anymore? :roll:

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Not when we have AROS.  ;-)
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Re: Is anyone surprised AMiga Inc has not released their OS as promised?
« Reply #11 on: December 16, 2007, 09:52:13 AM »
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dammy wrote:

Do you really need them and their :mickeymouse: IP anymore? :roll:

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Not when we have AROS.  ;-)


No we dont need them anymore, but it would be nice if someone could come out with some new hardware that supports Hyperions OS4  :roll:
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Re: Is anyone surprised AMiga Inc has not released their OS as promised?
« Reply #12 on: December 16, 2007, 10:33:01 AM »
Not surprised at all. We probably get an announcment before
christmas about their unability to realease it before the
lawsuit with Hyperion is out of the way. (( nice excuse )

AROS is most definetly the ONLY sane way forward.
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Re: Is anyone surprised AMiga Inc has not released their OS as promised?
« Reply #13 on: December 16, 2007, 10:49:31 AM »
I'd be very much surprised if the did deliver. :-P
 

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Re: Is anyone surprised AMiga Inc has not released their OS as promised?
« Reply #14 on: December 16, 2007, 10:50:55 AM »
I don't remember them saying that they were going to release it... I remember them saying that they were going to release information on it...

And as much has I don't think it's gunna happen.. They do still have 15 days... Although that should give them more than enough time to make up some fake screenshots and info :p
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