AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold

[alx]

Leuven, Belgium - April 16, 2004. Hyperion Entertainment and the Amiga OS 4.0 development team are extremely pleased and relieved to announce that after nearly 30 months of painstaking development the Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release has gone gold and will be sent to the duplication plant on Monday, April 19, 2004.

The Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release consists of a current snapshot of AmigaOS 4.0 for the AmigaOne platform with a straightforward HTML installation guide in English, German, French and Italian as well as the Amiga OS 4.0 SDK.

The Amiga OS 4.0 SDK will allow near effortless migration of existing Amiga OS 3.x source-code to OS 4.0 as well as the creation of altogether new content.

The SDK comprises the following material:

* Complete Installer for easy and painless installation;
* GNU C Compiler 2.95.3;
* GNU C Compiler 3.4.0 RC 1;
* vbcc 0.8f;
* GNU GDB Source-Level Debugger;
* System Includes V 50;
* System Autodocs V 50;
* PDF Documentation on GNU C compilers and GNU Debugger;
* PDF Guide "Project Migration to AmigaOS 4.0";
* Example programs with source (among others: Reaction, expansion library, Roadshow, FFS2);
* Newlib.library (experimential, shared C library);
* CLIB2 source code.

Users will be able to register their copy at a soon-to-be-launched portal site which will offer Amiga OS 4.0 related content for download.

Hyperion Entertainment and the AmigaOS 4.0 development and beta-testing teams wish to thank all of you for your patience.

Amiga OS 4.0 (c) 2004 Hyperion Entertainment, developed under license from KMOS, Inc. All rights reserved. "Amiga" and associated trademarks are registered trademarks of Amiga, Inc.

[The_Editor]

Roxx0r.


Well done to the "Crew"

[odin]

:hat:  :mickeymouse:  :banana:  :kitty:  :-)

[tormedhammaren]

Well done Hyperion! :banana:

[ikir]

:pint:

[Tomas]

great news indeed  :-)

[Panthro]

yeah (begins to start saving for an A1 8-) )

[Glaucus]

Good job boys!

Question: Why two versions of GNU C Compiler???

Also, can we get the OS 4 SDK seperately? The reason I ask is that I don't have an AmigaOne, and probably won't be able to afford one for some time. However, it would be cool if I could at least browse the new SDK and see what goodies lie within. And heck, some cross-compiling would be fun too.  :-)

  - Mike

[cecilia]

pleased and relieved

may be the understatement of the century.

and we all certainly feel the same way!
good luck to all! :-D

[Matt_H]

Words cannot express the excellence of this news.

[JaXanim]

That's put a smile onya face!



JaX

[Rogue]

Question: Why two versions of GNU C Compiler???

The 3.4.0 included is RC 1, i.e. a beta version of the current release branch. It still has some bugs left, therefore it is not recommended for "deployment" code.

can we get the OS 4 SDK seperately?

Dunno to be honest. We didn't think about this possibility yet.

[weirdami]

:banana:  :banana:  :banana:  :banana:
 :pint:  :pint:  :pint:  :pint:

[jj]

[color=0000FF]Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/color]


 :banana:  :banana:  :banana:

[DeQuevedo]

Im happy to ear this :banana:

:pint:  :pint:  :pint: