AmigaOS 4.0 for Classic has gone Gold!

[AmigaPapst]

Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce that AmigaOS 4.0 for PowerPC equipped Amiga 1200/3000/4000's has gone gold and should be available for sale around 30 November depending on location.

Further information can be found here.

Prospective customers are once more encouraged to verify the (regularly updated) compatibility list prior to purchase.

AmigaOS 4.0 for classic Amiga's will be distributed worldwide by Acube Systems s.r.l..

http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz:8080/news/2007-11-22

[amigakit]

We hope to be selling this product through our webstore on date of release.

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=764

[Wilse]

Well done - a long time coming but welcome.

[amigagr]

Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce...   ...has gone gold...

sounds promissing but what exactly means?

[Akiko]

sounds promissing but what exactly means?

A term used when software has reached completion, is ready to be published and distributed  

[RWO]

Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce... ...has gone gold...

sounds promissing but what exactly means?

In this case it means no more bug fixes or changes and the ISO have been send to the duplicators

RWO

[InTheSand]

no more bug fixes

Yeah, right!!!! :-)

 - Ali

[RWO]

@InTheSand

I dident say it was bug free, just that time was up and the were not more time for Bug fixes if they wanted to keep the dead line.

An Operation System is never finshed but you got to release at some point. So when there are no more Show stoppers in the Bugzilla database then its a good time to release it.

RWO

[motorollin]

This is great news. Given all the stick Hyperion have got over the years, I think it's only fair that they are congratulated for finally getting this done.

Now, who wants to give me a CSPPC? ;-)

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moto

[cv643d]

Motorollin:
I have a BPPC and PPCvision for sale here for 550 euro I think.

I want to keep my CSPPC.

[motorollin]

cv643d wrote:
I have a BPPC and PPCvision for sale here for 550 euro I think

Thanks, but I don't have an A1200 (even if I could afford it :-) )

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moto

[hooligan]

Excellent. And only five years too late :-)

[Tomas]

sounds promissing but what exactly means?

I think that means that the code is now completely finished and that the master cd or whatever is about to be duplicated into consumer cds.

[bhoggett]

Usually, going "Gold" means you have reached a certain number of sold units (half a million?).

In AmigaLand, it means announcing that your product is nearly released.  :roll:

(Yes, I know about the so-called "Gold Master", but I'm not aware of anyone else announcing making one. Most people just announce the release.)


As for the actual product itself, excuse me if I don't wet my pants in excitement. Five years ago it might have mattered, but now?...

Actually, it might have bumped up the ridiculously inflated value of my mothballed A4000, assuming it still works, but aside from that it doesn't really matter in the greater scheme of things any more, which is meagre return for six years of promises and aloof arrogance from the Hyperion boys.

I can't believe people are having a court case over something that simply doesn't matter any more.
 :-?

[Matt_H]

Usually, going "Gold" means you have reached a certain number of sold units (half a million?).

In AmigaLand, it means announcing that your product is nearly released.:roll:

Going gold is a pretty standard phrase in the software industry, moreso with games, though. Blizzard (used to) use it all the time for their impending releases.

I think it's only the music industry that uses it to chart number of sales.