Hyperion pre-announces OS4.1

[takemehomegrandma]

Hyperion has pre-announced OS4.1 to be released sometime mid-Q3, with several enhancements to previous versions:

http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz:8080/news/2008-07-11

[yakumo9275]

JXFS file system? hmm cross between JFS and XFS?

[Matt_H]

I wouldn't really call that a "pre-announcement". It looks like a plain ol' announcement to me.

Funny that it comes hot on the heels of MorphOS2 and adds similar functionality. Brings back memories of Microsoft's announcement of the imminent release (which of course slipped) of MS-DOS version-something in order to cut sales of competitor DR-DOS.

Still no functional "Preview" button in the cumbersome GUI Prefs, I see.

If this helps dodge legal issues, though, then they have my full endorsement.

[AmigaMance]

@yakumo9275
"Amiga OS 4.1 introduces an all new filesystem, JXFS, the fastest and most robust filesystem available for the Amiga platform, with support for drives and partitions of multiple terrabytes."

 Sounds exiting!

[Dragster]

Nice, any updates on OS4 for the so-called "classics"?

AHI and BVPPC?CVPPC drivers should be fixed...

Cheers

[Darrin]

Great!  All I need is something to run it on.   :madashell:

I wonder if there's any chance of someone releasing new hardware for OS4.1 before I drown in my own drool.

[Plaz]

Good for Hyperion. Now some one get us enough documentation that we can start building underground mother boards in our basements, garages and spare bed rooms so we have some thing to run it on!!!

Plaz

[redrumloa]

takemehomegrandma wrote:
Hyperion has pre-announced OS4.1 to be released sometime mid-Q3, with several enhancements to previous versions:

http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz:8080/news/2008-07-11

Interesting timing indeed, kind of a moot point with the legal problems and no available hardware though.

[Phantom]

How about the new SAM440EP-Flex? As they say in their site Acube Systems will distribute AmigaOS 4.1, so why not? ;-)

[Plaz]

How about the new SAM440EP-Flex?

Too well known. Amiga Inc would be all over that with the lawyers. If Amiga Inc isn't going to give us an approved hardware vendor then we need some thing more open sourced.

Plaz

[Phantom]

So AmigaOS 4.1 will be an update to the old AmigaOne or MicroAmiga users right? So why we bother? :-o

[ZeBeeDee]

Can't run it on my hardware, so won't be buying.

Such is life ...

[Hans_]

Phantom wrote:
So AmigaOS 4.1 will be an update to the old AmigaOne or MicroAmiga users right? So why we bother? :-o

I'm sure that they expect to get it running on more hardware eventually. There's no point in sitting around and doing nothing until then.

This is great news.

Hans

[Plaz]

So why we bother?

My guess is that it's a move to leverage their position in the law suit and any negotiations. Amiga Inc has little or nothing while Hyperion is moving on to 4.1. That's got to annoy some one over at A.I.

Plaz

[AeroMan]

Now we are back at that famous point: Hardware to run OS4 is rare and expensive.

Point for Morphos ! At least we can buy a new Efika and it is not too expensive, even considering it is not exactly state of the art...

It seems to me that it would be a nice investment to both companies to hire someone to develop new hardware to run these OS'

A small company could probably do a board design cheaper than their investment in software development.

Seems to be that we amigans are going to be extinct before this day  :getmad:  :boohoo: