A1 now booting OS4 straight from hard drive

[Rogue]

Give you another ten years and you might even get funny....

Or grown up :-)

[sicky]

@ TallAmigan

"Like that avatar....
But then are you 5'6" or 5'9"
Looks like you might be slouching a bit..."

Actually I'm 1/4" short of 6ft, that image is a 4 layer image (constructed with ArtEffect 4) made from 1: silk screen (background), 2: height chart made up in Draw Studio, 3: Me 4: Prisoner number board (was actually holding an old copy of Amiga Format)! There are several members with the "usual suspects" theme on the SEAL website here http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk/members.html

BTW, how tall is a TallAmigan? :-)

[Karlos]

sicky wrote:

Coffee/tea and doughnuts will be available (free of charge) for the thirsty and hungry!
See you there

Whoa! Free doughnuts?

(sound of rapid footsteps, a door slamming, car door slamming...)

[redrumloa]

@Hans-Jörg

Hey if you ever release a 68K OS4, I got a stack of A500s I want to bundle it with;-)

[Tesral]

For anyone out there who doesn't live far away, the demonstration is tonight.

Sigh, just not up to swimming the Atlantic tonight.  But thanks for the invite.

Yes, A1 ready and waiting.

[Rogue]

Hey if you ever release a 68K OS4, I got a stack of A500s I want to bundle it with

Oh yeah, the A500 version... That will be right next on the list after the C-128 version is out ;-)

[Kronos]

CannonFodder wrote:


Nobody has been working on OS4 for 3 years.

Only 1 Year.

Allmost exactly 2 years (if we only count the Hyperion-effort,
and not AInc's daydreams prior to that).

Rebuiulding an OS aint easy man!

Well anybody who said that in the beginning was cruzified for it.

(just to counter all those "someone has to eat his words"-remarks
that seem to have gotten so popular lately).

[Cyberus]

Why is there always someone wanting to bring people down?
Just think about someone who might think to themself "Ooh, I wonder if the Amiga is still going" - they do a google search, they see this site, read the threads with people at each other's throats, and decide they're better off with their PC if, this is what the Amiga 'community' is all about?

[sicky]

@ Cyberus

"they do a google search, they see this site, read the threads with people at each other's throats, and decide they're better off with their PC if, this is what the Amiga 'community' is all about?"

You're right there, people should just grow up, if they do not agree with someone elses opinion then... so what!

There are too many self-righteous people here :-(

[that_punk_guy]

Supporting Positivity in the Amiga Community

I think if enough good-natured people like ourselves show that we're sick of this, maybe it will end :-)

[Acill]

It will be nice when it goes on sale at last. I just hope they get computer stores and dept stores as well to sell them like in the past. Remember the days of walking into Sears ans looking at C128/64 and Amiga 500 systems....

How close are we to a release date?

[pixie]

Rogue wrote:

Oh yeah, the A500 version... That will be right next on the list after the C-128 version is out ;-)

What should be noted on this potential 68k release it's not that it would be intended to buy by Amiga classic users, as it is obvious, but for the ones who have Amithlon Amiga Forever or former Amiga users with UAE, there's a market as already proved trough Amithlon & Amiga4ever, so while not being on your priorities list you should think at it at least if you could release such a beast on par with 4.1 for example.

 It could bring you more developers, and a native virtual processor that most developers know well...

[that_punk_guy]

I think at this point it would be better for the emulation solutions to start supporting the PPC, that way moving forwards instead of dragging everything backwards.

[Tomas]

RedWarrior wrote:
Hooray.  3 (or more?) years waiting for Amiga OS and they're up to the stage where it boots.

Stay tuned folks, give them another ten and OS4 will be internet-ready...

troll....

[takemehomegrandma]

pixie wrote:

What should be noted on this potential 68k release it's not that it would be intended to buy by Amiga classic users, as it is obvious, but for the ones who have Amithlon Amiga Forever or former Amiga users with UAE,

Who would make the license arrangements with Amiga Inc and pay the fees? Abit? Asus? Bernie?

there's a market as already proved trough Amithlon & Amiga4ever, so while not being on your priorities list you should think at it at least if you could release such a beast on par with 4.1 for example.

 It could bring you more developers, and a native virtual processor that most developers know well...

Your thoughts are good, it would make sense in many ways, at least for Hyperion. And so would a Mac port, and a Pegasos port. But if Amiga Inc would have been interesting in getting their OS widely spread in these ways, then they would have gone that road long time ago, don't you think?

I believe that they look at the "Amiga One" as one entity, a product consisting of hardware from MAI/Eyetech, an operating system from Hyperion, and trademarks from Amiga Inc.

[Glaucus]

Who would make the license arrangements with Amiga Inc and pay the fees? Abit? Asus? Bernie?

Who ever makes the emulator, if indeed they do need a license. Generally, I would say they wouldn't need one because they would simply emulate existing hardware, but they may need a license to support the AmigaOne BIOS. Not sure that's required, but if it is, then they would need a license for that. Not a big deal though, no different from AmigaForever's included ROM's.

  - Mike