| Kirjoittaja | Viesti | ||
     Janne |
say a few things that would otherwise be asked at least 100 times  [19:37:33] Rogue I've got some good news and some not-so- good news... I start with the not-so-good one. [19:38:01] Rogue As you have probably already guessed, there will be no OS 4 release this year. There are reasons for that which I would like to explain [19:38:35] Rogue The main reason is the unavailability of hardware. As you all know, AmigaOne's are not available right now, so we are not in a position to offer an OS 4 with a matching hardware. [19:39:11] Rogue We DO think that once we release AmigaOS4.0, there will be a general interest in the news, in media, etc. We will get a lot of interest from people outside the amiga market, and they will ask where they can buy it. [19:39:44] Rogue If we tell them they cannot buy it right now and need to wait until the hardware is available, then this will take away a lot of momentum that the release will generate. [19:40:00] Rogue Hence we decided to postpone the release until such time as a hardware platform IS available. [19:40:08] Rogue *coughs* so much for the bad news. [19:40:25] Rogue Now the good news. First of all, since we don't have OS 4 out now as planned, there will be... [19:40:29] Rogue Update #4 [19:40:54] Rogue Update #4 will come out early january, and will be again a quite comprehensive update. It will include, among other things... [19:41:04] Rogue -> Petunia (the JIT) [19:41:11] Rogue -> Warp3D including the R200 driver [19:41:35] Rogue -> the latest Intuition, which has seen quite some overhaul (especially in ReAction) [19:41:57] Rogue ... and, well, everything else is included too. It's going to be an installable ISO again [19:42:14] Rogue It will be more or less what the beta testers have now [19:42:34] Rogue Secondly, one thing that was recently added to OS 4 is SCSI support. [19:43:07] Rogue Stephane Guillard has written a driver for LSI/Symbios based cards (53c8xx based). [19:43:44] Rogue Finally, you will wonder when new hardware is going to be available. [19:44:31] Rogue I'm afraid I cannot answer that question, BUT we are working with several hardware companies (Troika is one of them but not the only one) that want to provide hardware ofr AmigaOS4.0 [19:45:02] Rogue These companies will come forward as soon as they are ready for that. Projects will cover both the low-end and high-end market. [19:45:20] Rogue Alright, that's it from me. I'd say on to the questions. http://www.severin.f2s.com/transcript.html | ||
| Janne |
for OS 4. [20:41:11] Rogue There is an initial "cost" involved for a port, in fact, for any port of OS 4 to a different hardware platform. [20:41:44] Rogue On some occasions (like the hardware platforms mentioned in our introduction) we'Re working on that with the hardware manufacturer. [20:42:03] Rogue For the Pegasos 2, we would need to do that ourselves. We're currently not ready to do that. [20:42:16] Rogue That is the reason why there is no OS4 on the peg yet. Eikö lisenssin puute enää ole syy? Se olisi hyvä uutinen... | ||
| Janne |
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