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Announcing AmigaOS 4.1
« on: July 12, 2008, 03:22:58 AM »
Antwerp, Belgium - 11 July, 2008.

Hyperion Entertainment is very pleased to announce that Amiga OS 4.1 has gone into final testing and is scheduled for release mid-Q3/2008. Building on the solid foundations of Amiga OS 4.0, Amiga OS 4.1 introduces a wealth of substantial new functionality which is a prerequisite for the deployment of industry standard applications on the Amiga platform.

State-of-the-art applications such as modern web-browsers, productivity software or digital imaging software typically operate on large datasets with a corresponding memory footprint which rapidly outstrips the physical memory of any computer system. Amiga OS 4.1 offers intelligent memory paging and uses transparent disk based memory - but only when you need it.

Read the full announcement.
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Re: Announcing AmigaOS 4.1
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2008, 03:40:27 AM »
Awesome news!
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Re: Announcing AmigaOS 4.1
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2008, 07:04:07 AM »
Is os4 even finished? (Yeah I know its for sale but only just.) I was expecting OS4 to be updated, specially for the classic miggy.
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Re: Announcing AmigaOS 4.1
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2008, 07:15:35 AM »
the info says you need amigaone for 4.1. Perhaps someone smartypantsy could write a thingy to trick os4+ to run on other things like how lightrave tricked lightwave to work without the video toaster. maybe a secret insider job inside hyperion could leak such a thingy. :-O
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Re: Announcing AmigaOS 4.1
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2008, 09:28:20 AM »
This is really something, but where is the hardware for AmigaOS4? Does Hyperion think that we all are living in each bubbles never be able to think outside of that bubble? I mean.. Available for AmigaONE only is what says on Hyperion site.

If Acube is going to sell AmigaOS v4.1 then why not launch it for Acube's PPC motherboard? Why not for PegasosII, EFIKA or even mac hardware? How many got AmigaONE?

Bah.. Well.. Good luck Hyperion ;) Though, I think that MorphOS 2 is way more slick than AmigaOS 4 for now. Hyperion should help out porting games for MorphOS and even AROS also. The community should help it. People like jach who have made Wookiechat for all kinds of AmigaOS related OS's is what we need more of. We know that AmigaOS, AmigaOS4, MorphOS and AROS isn't Linux or Windows, so we need to have developers creating programs using AmigaOS enviroment. Not X11 apps etc...

I hope that Hyperion change someday... so that I can get hold of AmigaOS 4 and at the same time beeing able to run Hyperion games on my MorphOS 2 setup,...
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Re: Announcing AmigaOS 4.1
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2008, 10:54:04 AM »
@AmiDelf,

Because they dont have a license to ship it with the Acube (or any other) hardware!!!

Sheesh some people just dont think things through do they!  :-(
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Re: Announcing AmigaOS 4.1
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2008, 11:05:31 AM »
Would it not be possible at this stage to port OpenOffice or Mozilla to AmigaOS4.x?
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Re: Announcing AmigaOS 4.1
« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2008, 11:20:40 AM »
@LoadWB,

It could be done, but they would both be very big tasks and I think that there are no competent coders left with enough free time to do it  :-(

Although there is OWB for OS4 (and hopefully Sputnik if they guy can get round to porting it), but OS4 does still lack modern Office Software.
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Re: Announcing AmigaOS 4.1
« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2008, 01:24:46 PM »
Woo Hoo! an update to a OS that only a handful of people can run! Sweet!

Serious though, they must have some kind of future hardware plans. Why would they keep putting all this work into this?
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Re: Announcing AmigaOS 4.1
« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2008, 01:46:10 PM »
Multiple choice answer

They're:

A) Evil Geniuses with a master plan

B) Walk a fine line between dedication and futility

C) Believe in the vision of the Amiga concept to a fault

D) Live in a relatives basement coding away, when they could be working for a fortune 500/ Siicon Valley giant with a comfortable life, but chose to code in exile on the Amiga platform.

E) All of the above

Whatever the reason, hats off, nice list of features for a ".1" release. Release it for Playstation 3 and you'd have a mega hit.
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Re: Announcing AmigaOS 4.1
« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2008, 06:25:01 PM »
AmiBoy,
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Because they dont have a license to ship it with the Acube (or any other) hardware!!!

Sheesh some people just dont think things through do they!

In that second sentence, are you referring to Hyperion?
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Re: Announcing AmigaOS 4.1
« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2008, 07:27:49 PM »
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Poster: spihunter  Posted: 2008/7/12 7:24:46

Woo Hoo! an update to a OS that only a handful of people can run! Sweet!

Serious though, they must have some kind of future hardware plans. Why would they keep putting all this work into this?



Odds are, they're trying to update it, to remove any code still owned by A.I.. Think about it from a legal standpoint. Hyperion's gotta prove that the codebase is entirely their own. I'm sure that certain areas of the code are still 68k. Once all that "legacy" code is removed, AOS4+ will be like the various flavors of Linux.

"Yup. It looks like the AmigaOS, but it's not. It's been re-written from the ground up."

They're going the route of MorphOS and AROS.

More power to them. Now, I just need a major AROS update to be happy.

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Re: Announcing AmigaOS 4.1
« Reply #12 on: July 12, 2008, 09:38:09 PM »
I am sure they have a version of this which runs on SAM. Give us that instead, and Sam will sell loads  :-D
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Re: Announcing AmigaOS 4.1
« Reply #13 on: July 12, 2008, 11:17:54 PM »
Hmm, my AmigaOne has a Prophet II graphics card, but the new OS 4.1 requires a Radeon card.

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Re: Announcing AmigaOS 4.1
« Reply #14 on: July 12, 2008, 11:27:41 PM »
@Methuselas

Oh sure, lets see them argue that it's a clean room implementation.
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