| [News] New Executive Update | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 25-Nov-2000 13:35 GMT by Christian Kemp | 64 comments
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Bill McEwen has posted a new Executive Update, where he hints that there might be a strong possibility of an AmigaOS 4.0, if sales of 3.9 are good enough, and announces that there will be more details and announcements at the Amiga World show in Cologne next month.
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| Comment 1 | Jim Ross | | 24-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT |
| Comment 2 | Chris | | 24-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT |
| Comment 3 | Jaeson Koszarsky | | 24-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT |
| Comment 4 | Carlos | | 24-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT |
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| New Executive Update : Comment 5 of 64 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Nabs on 24-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 4 (Carlos):
How do you figure that it was a "trick"?
The original line was unless 3.5 sells well, there won't be a 3.6.
3.5 sold reasonably well, but less than the required 20,000 units. Since AmigaDE
was pending, there was no point in continuing with Classic OS development
anyway. But, as Bill says, they listened to requests for continued development,
and now we have OS 3.9.
So, one way or another, we got another Classic OS release. If 3.5 had sold
-really- badly, like a few thousand units, we would never have seen 3.9, no
matter how many people petitioned Bill/AInc. So it does make sense to buy 3.9.
3.9 is like any piece of software for the Amiga has been for the last 5 years:
support the developers, or don't expect the developers to stick around, and
forget any new versions. It's not like MicroSoft, or any other big software
house, who will release new versions no matter what. 3.9 may be backed by Amiga,
but that shouldn't be taken as any guarantee. AmigaDE is a completely different
entity.
To those who say it's just Aminet stuff, there are significant bugfixes,
including longstanding ones (ie. those not fixed in BB1).
Everyone should stop their whining. Why does everyone in the Amiga market want
everything without any effort on their behalf? A PPC version of the Classic OS
has been our Holy Grail for years. If getting to it (ie. v4.0) means spending
£40 on 3.9, then cough up (however IMHO, we will never see a PPC-based Classic
OS from Amiga; the development time/cost is not worth it, when they will have a
much bigger market in the AmigaDE).
Stop expecting something for nothing.
Nabs.. |
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