Ben Herman's audio stream from Amiga Expo

[SlimJim]

Some interesting snippets of information could be made out on the rather poor audio stream:

- Screenshots of Amiga OS 4.0 will be published in the first part of April.

- Magic Menu and Birdie (among others) will be seamlessly integrated into the OS 4.0 interface.

- The new OS 4.0 GUI will look quite different (i.e it will not just look like a fast OS 3.9).

- Opus Magellan 2 has been licensed for OS 4.0 (details unknown).

- For the moment, the new printer system is not due to arrive until Boingbag/OS 4.1.

[Coder]

That is great news! Also because it has been said a lot it will be just OS3.9 but then PPC. But it will be not. :-)

Coder

[Kees]

Sounds good indeed ...

I've been listening to the audio stream for awhile now .. but there's nothing ... maybe later.

[System]

Yes!..

I was hoping that they'd team up with the developers of birdie,magic menu,etc... and put it all it in.

way-hey!


And I can't wait for the screenshots!....why can't they post them now ....awwww ;-)

~Betajaen

[Coder]

Did anyone record that sound part of OS4 talk? If so, well you know what to do. :-D

Coder

[System]

The sooner we get to see those screen shots, the better. Now all bill needs to do is to demo AmigaOS 4.0 on techtv's the screen savers!

[Coder]

Yep he should show it on the screen savers. He did an excellent performance with AmigaAnywhere. Bill sounds a bit like John Goodman to me. Anyone thinks that too?

Coder

[Kees]

I think he putt on some weight .. hehe ;-)

[Coder]

I did ment he sounds like John Goodman, not look like him. :-D

Coder

[SlimJim]

Some more stuff Ben said:

- The _latest_ MUI source code will be used
(there was a question about this)

- IBrowse2.3 will be quite some beast. It will be enhanced
for OS4.0. Not just some Aminet update. It will still miss
some features of Netscape/IE though. There is not time to
fix all to OS4.0. Flash is planned to be implemented. IB
will be _much_ more stable than it is now.

-The guy that did the Warp-datatypes seem to be doing the
new PPC-datatypes.

-The datatype system as a whole is to get a complete overhaul later.
There is not enough time to do that to initial release.

- An office suit (Open office if I remember correctly)
is being worked on. This is a 'high priority' for inclusion.
(although it was not clear to me if it would be shipped initially)

-The development of software -independent of company
size- is difficult to predict. But Mr.Hermans seems quite
confident of a end-user release in May.

I'll ponder some more to see if I can remember anything
else...;-)
.
SlimJim

[Coder]

Hi SlimJim,

I'll ponder some more to see if I can remember anything

Well, it's saturday evening and we are drinking beer. It's a miracle if we remember something.

Coder

[System]

ooh yeah....mui and a kick-ass ibrowse......

and b33r good. :pint:

~Betajaen

[Warrent]

quote-  The development of software -independent of company
size- is difficult to predict. But Mr.Hermans seems quite
confident of a end-user release in May. -unquote.


Wow, this is great news to hear.  I sure hope so.  The
lasts I had heard was from Bill on TechTV, saying,
the release would be this coming Summer.

Man, this is sounding better all the time.  Too bad
about the printing not making it this time, but at
least they are saying a BB4.1 :-)

[System]

when will audio be back? does anybody know?

[zacman]

>But Mr.Hermans seems quite
>confident of a end-user release in May.

For Classic PPC Cards or/and also AmigaOne (as said by A. Redhouse)?