AmigaOS 4.0 Beta?

[Stargazer]

I don´t now if this is the right forum for this but i´ll post it here anyway: Just before christmas there was an an announcement that all AmigaONE owners were about to get a beta version of AmigaOS 4.0 in january.

I haven´t seen or heard anything since then and now a big part of january has past. Anyone heard anything more about that?

[Coder]

Hi,

Actually it should be out already around x-mas last year. Last thing I heard is that the "master" cd is ready and being tested now. To be honest, I believe when I see it. Since it is always just around the corner. I think that the x-mas deadline was just missed. Since we are this far in January I wonder how to define that "just missed". Maybe the same when my gf asks if I have been drinking and I will say: just one bottle.

Coder

[Framiga]

Hi Stargazer

AFAIK delayed within the first quarter 2004

Ciao

[ikir]

I think that the x-mas deadline was just missed

No it was not official. The official release date for the beta is January :-)

[Coder]

@ikir

No it was not official. The official release date for the beta is January

First, did you not had February there? :-) Second, I remember always x-mas as the deadline.

Coder

[patrik]

@Stargazer:

Nice avatar .

Inte varje dag man ser folk från Umeå i det här forumet om vi säger så.


/Patrik

[moood]

The original announcement says:

...to be distributed to all current AmigaOne owners shortly after the New Year.

You can find the announcement here:
"AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release" CD announced for early 2004

My guess is that the OS4 team currently are working there asses of to finish this pre-release. Either that or they have got the flue.  ;-)

[reflect]

You have to look at the wording of the announcements,it wasn't promised for december, it was a "we hope that.. " kinda thing cause you can never promise to deliver something that is still in development (you never know what might happen).

[ikir]

it wasn't promised for december, it was a "we hope that.. "

Yes, it is right.

Hope to play with OS4 beta soon.... :roll:

[Warface]

Amiga dictionary 2003/2004.

Promise - No such word exists. Refer to "hint".

I'm curious about what justifies the "hinting" of OS4 being almost ready (mark my word, it was always about the full product, not like now about a pre-release) for far more than a whole year now. If I count the Haage und Partner version, then for almost four whole years.

The latter had a proper release date as well, 2001 august, which was later delayed to 2001 november.

So, what is the reason for hinting and keeping ppl in a state of expectation, providing them with false hopes?

Being somewhat "bluish" by community standards, even I believed the hints from time to time, with the reasoning: so much time passed by, there must be something ready. It can't take forever.

Admins are free to edit my post if it offends anyone. :-)

[Karlos]

Patience. A virtue...

[ikir]

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2897&forum=14&25

[Warface]

@ikir:

To be honest, I'm sorry for Rogue, and his brother. They rarely behind the hints/promises (even they are subject to it, but it's simply human to err), but they receive most of the negative feedback.

It's not exactly him I "targetted" at.

[TheMagicM]

look at it this way.. at least they're showing progress.  It IS going to get done...just be patient.

[B00tDisk]

Coder wrote:
 Last thing I heard is that the "master" cd is ready and being tested now. Coder

This isn't directed at you Coder but...frankly...what a frigging load.  As if these were the days when a "master" CD had to be hand-crafted on some godawful dedicated piece of hardware and duping CDs was an all-day process after which the disks had to be sent to a plant to get produced.  Oh please.

In an age when I can use my current OS of choice to drag and drop as many megabytes of data as needed onto a drive and within seconds have an ISO9660 disk with 100% integrity and then start burning off flawless copy after flawless copy... :roll:

I swear, the excuses used by everyone ever associated with anything Amiga make the ravings of collapsing 3rd world governments about to lose popular elections sound like the gospel truth.

"Those votes were invalid because of the type of truck they were delivered on."

"We did not count the votes from that province because of the criminal activity there."

Hey - maybe ol' Baghdad Bob aka Comical Ali can get a job as a spokesperson within the Amiga community?

"I swear by God himself that the OS is finished and I am using it as I type this.  Microsoft has committed suicide at the gates of our corporate headquarters.  The graphics API is not just running on the PPC, but on a gallium/arsenide substrated based CPU that has just been invented, I swear it by Allah!"

And the real beauty of this is that when it's released (HAHAHAHAHAHAHA) it'll be to "special" people only and it'll be a beta.  Whee.

So what's the projected date now?  2005?  2166?  10168 A.D.?  Oh, wait - When it's ready.

(PROTIP: IT WILL NEVER BE THE FRIG READY)