Hyperion Entertainment unveils dedicated AmigaOS4.0 Website

[pjhutch]

A couple of things:
1. OS4 is for Amiga hardware not Mac hardware and due to Apple's. Second, Eyetech make Amiga hardware not Hyperion.

2. Mac Mini is too slow is because they haven`t provided enough memory. 256MB is bare minimum, up grade it to 512M or even 1GB to best of Mac OS X.

3. Now that a web site is up, I hope Hyperion has a date in mind to finally release OS4...

[Seehund]

I agree with what most people have said so far; a very nice site, but it doesn't answer the most obvious questions of any end-user:
"Where and when can I buy it, how much is it, and what hardware does it run on?"

I thought this was pretty funny:
"13. It's cheap to run.

Because AmigaOS4.0 has such a small "hardware footprint" - that is to say that it runs extremely well on even very basic hardware - it is extremely cheap to run. [...] End users shouldn't feel left out either; every day you use AmigaOS4.0 you save money. The low power consumption of the hardware Amiga OS4.0 is designed to run on means you could save as much electricity as switching to energy saving light bulbs. AmigaOS4.0 is better for your wallet, and better for the environment too!"

Heh. No wonder the word "AmigaOne" can't be found anywhere on the site! One would have to use the currently allowed PPC hardware for decades if one thinks one is going to make up for its ridiculous initial price on the electricity bills!

[Seehund]

@pjhutch

1. OS4 is for Amiga hardware not Mac hardware and due to Apple's. Second, Eyetech make Amiga hardware not Hyperion.

You ARE being sarcastic now, right? No?
In case you didn't discover it during the last few years, then the new AOS4 website that this news item is all about should help you: The OS is for whatever hardware it's ported/adapted to, and for that to happen a hardware vendor needs to get a licence. There is no Amiga hardware in any meaningful sense of the word.
Buy a licence for selling Terons to AmigaOS users and Terons are "Amiga hardware".
Buy a licence for selling Macs to AmigaOS users and Macs are "Amiga hardware".
...

Crash course in "Amiga hardware" for the newbie.

[puppy]

well done! God exists, now sell Amys in Christmas in big Stores across the world with shown OS 4.0 (Media Markt and so on ...) and conquist the world again!

[Glaucus]

I still refuse to buy ANY PPC based hardware. Port OS4 to Intel chips and I'll be happy to invest in the Amiga once again. Until then, forget it.

As for the website, I like it but they might wanna get someone to proof & edit it. Just skimming it I noticed some grammatical errors. Also, it would be nice if one could click on those images to get a blown up view. Otherwise, it's fairly polished and professional.

  - Mike

[redfox]

I like this new website.  I think they have done a good job with the nostalgia part and they've shown lots of screenshots of Amiga OS4.

I liked the part about short bootup and shutdown times.  Sure beats the heck out my networked Windows 2000 pc at work :-P

---
redfox

[Louis Dias]

...boots is seconds...
...can boot from flashram...

sounds like it could boot from a qoob chip equipped Gamecube to me...

[Matt_H]

Excellent website, I think. It's very detailed and makes a great sales pitch; the target audience is clear - current users, former users, users looking for a change, and OEMs - and the site caters well to all of them. It's nice to see the Amiga going on the attack again!

OEMs would be complete fools not to invest in OS4.

And yes, I agree that they should have used the old Italic font :-)

[Lando]

Very nice looking website!  I was pleasantly surprised.

If only Eyetech's and Amiga Inc's sites looked so good. :-D

[Lemmink]

As for the fishing for OEMs part: No they do not try to convince anyone to buy AmigaOnes.
They are looking for people that have their own board or are developing one and need an OS for it. Hyperion will be very happy to adapt OS4 to any Hardware an OEM with have under it's arm.

Due to some stupid licensing problems the OS will not be called AmigaOS 4 on that targethardware anymore. More likely it will be called "The damn Software that powers our machine" OS, but that doesn't matter as it will still be the same OS.
Developments made for some OEMs might even find its way back to the "publik" AmigaOS4

[mpiva]

GREAT SITE!  Hopefully this is a good sign that Hyperion is getting ready to reveal their fantastic product to the public. "When it's done" may finally be just around the corner.

  However, there was one thing I was really disappointed in.  In the "20 features" I thought they were missing one of Amiga's greatest features... AREXX.  Perhaps this is because the future of AREXX is a little uncertain at the moment but it is still a VERY IMPORTANT feature of the OS, part of what makes the OS so great.

   Also, I would like to see an AmigaOS tutorial section for newbies.  There are a lot of great Amiga features that would not be obvious to the AmigaOS newbie such as hidden menus, keyboard shortcuts, keyboard mouse control, the Workbench Startup Drawer, screen dragging, and especially an "Overview of the Enigmatic Program names in the Prefs Drawer."

  Sure there maynot be many AmigaOS4 newbies for a while but a know lots of people who may decide to "demo" AmigaOS by getting WinUAE of AmigaForever and the basics are going to the same.

[Karlos]

Very impressed with the site, nice and professional indeed :-)

Damn, I need to get some free time to play with OS4 again, it's not fair. I'm getting so out of the loop now it's silly.

@mpiva

Did you not read #7 - "Scripting" in the 20 features then?

[mpiva]

@ Karlos

   Thanks, I missed that.  I have to admit, I was in a rush so I only skimmed through it and did not read all 20 Features thouroughly (I've been using AmigaOS for over 20 yrs so I wasn't looking to be educated).  I was looking for AREXX & must have glanced right by it.  Ooops!  Good to know it's there though.  And it was interesting to find out that it's official that we're moving to Python (last I remembered hearing that was still up in the air)  Not sure what I think about that; I'm not to familiar with using Python.  I liked Rexx though.  I just hope old programs with ARexx ports will be able to easily communicate with new programs with Python ports.


@ anyone

   BTW, what ever happened to SHEEP?  :inquisitive:  Just a question... please don't start a flame war over this.)

[Kronos]

@Lemmink

As for the fishing for OEMs part: No they do not try to convince anyone to buy AmigaOnes.
They are looking for people that have their own board or are developing one and need an OS for it. Hyperion will be very happy to adapt OS4 to any Hardware an OEM with have under it's arm.

And why would anybody who allready has a working HW favour an obscure closed-source OS made by a tiny obscure company and controlled by ..... over readily available and sometimes even free solutions ?

Before you answer, there are Linuxes with smaller footprint better features and easier (complete) APIs then any Amiga(like)OS.

If Hyperion (or someone else) could offer a complete solution for any given problem, they might have a chance (like "give me an STB that can
do this and that and sent the 1st 1000 units to Wladiwostock on January 6....").

Due to some stupid licensing problems the OS will not be called AmigaOS 4 on that targethardware anymore. More likely it will be called "The damn Software that powers our machine" OS, but that doesn't matter as it will still be the same OS.

It's not just the name that was licenced, but also the IP behind the OS. It might be there isn't a single line of 3.x-code still in there, but thats not enough to get out of the contract.

Unless you insist that they would just use the comatose status of the IP-holder to ignore them.... but than why did OS4 got started in the 1st place  :crazy:  :-P  :lol:  :-o

[HyperionMP]

As it stands a much larger company than you can imagine has already licensed parts of OS 4.0.

So you are wrong, as per usual.

[JoannaK]

HyperionMP: With the all BS you've been spreading during years.. I'd rater wait until I see the *partner* announce this deal on their site..