[News] Thendic France comment on OS4.0 | ANN.lu |
Posted on 17-Aug-2002 19:55 GMT by cheesegrate | 165 comments View flat View list |
On an ANN thread Bill and Raquel comment on their attitude towareds AmigaOS4 and it's appearance on the pegasos.
"If AmigaOS4.0 is fully finished and running natively on a
PPC we will be happy for Hyperion and Amiga Inc. Undoubtedly, in this community
there will be more than one person who will copy a legally obtained copy
of the operating system onto the Pegasos. How will Amiga Inc. stop this?
We cannot control this and neither can they. If AmigaOS4.0 becomes what
it is claimed to be – great! We will sell a few more Pegasos machines.
Thanks Hyperion! We wish them our best. We have absolutely nothing against
this effort."
Personally I think that no hardware developers who don't licence the amiga
name will pay money for certification to get os4 running on their boards.
However because the pegasos and the amiga one share the same northbridge
and BIOS (atm), it should not be difficult for a developer to port os4 across
to the pegasos. The question is; Will Hyperion and Amiga Inc allow this without
wanting money from Bplan/Thendic France? And does it matter?
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Posted by DaveW on 18-Aug-2002 09:04 GMT | ...and no it doesnt matter, because as far as an Amiga market is
concerned pegasos is being sidelined by the political decisions
of the companies involved.
As fleecy said in response to Bill in the email that Bill posted in
public on ANN, "Linux is a hard sell" ( which you might as well go
x86 on ). Ability to run an Amiga-a-like OS and able to run archaic
OS3.9 apps is not going to be enough.
Does anyone really think that those wanting to continue on with the
Amiga who are going to buy a board with a replaceable CPU ( with
modules that who knows how much they will cost or when they will
appear - any other PicassoIV owners out there? ) that might, one day,
run a cracked version of AOS4 are going to be great significant
numbers?
No.
I reckon the A1 and upgrade scheme is going to be much more attactive
with AOS4.0.
Sure, there might be other markets than the Amiga market where Pegasos
and Thendic might do well. Go get them.
On the other hand, does anyone seriously believe that the Amiga
userbase will do anything but stay in the same numbers in 2003?
The Amiga market might not be a great loss to Thendic, but having
to run cracked copies of AOS4 on a Pegasos wont be a great loss
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