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From http://www.amiga.com/news/ Hyperion Entertainment and the OS 4.0 development team are pleased to announce that OS4 development has now sufficiently advanced for a comprehensive Developer Pre-release of Amiga OS 4.0 to be distributed to all current AmigaOne owners shortly after the New Year.

In view of the fact that quite a few of you reminded us that you do not have broadband internet access, the original idea to offer an initial version of OS 4.0 for download was abandoned in favor of an "easy to install", self-contained distribution on CD.

Whilst this will obviously entail more cost to Hyperion and require more time for duplication and distribution, the upside is that we will be able to provide developers with everything they need to start developing for OS 4.0.

The developer material will include sample source-code, an initial version of the AmigaOS 4.0 SDK as well as native OS 4.0 compilers (GCC 2.95.3, GCC 3.4 and VBCC) and cross-compilers for various platforms (Linux x86/PCC, Mac OS X etc.).

The Developer Pre-release will require an upgrade of the AmigaOne firmware which was bumped from U-Boot 0.1.1 to U-Boot 1.0 and which is currently undergoing final testing.

Further details will be announced shortly.

Hyperion Entertainment and the OS 4 development team would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your continued support and patience.

The fact that you are still here, 10 years after the demise of Commodore, has been a tremendous encouragement to us during these 2 years of laborious development.

Make no mistake: your patience will finally be rewarded with the fastest and most powerful incarnation of AmigaOS ever.

Merry X-mas and a prosperous 2004 to all of you!
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New Years greetings from Hyperion : Comment 32 of 36ANN.lu
Posted by Kjetil on 28-Dec-2003 17:31 GMT
In reply to Comment 31 ([JC]):
You might be right about the BIOS being replaced by Uboot or OpenFirmeware, or maybe an other type of boot init code, Energy Start BIOS and other BIOS types have done the job quite good in the past, they only lack some imagination, they are quite standard, config save, and use, I think Uboot provides more power even so, I have not used the uboot any other way then the standards bios, whit the exception of setting up boot args for Linux, so one might say that uboot provides an combination of lilo and BIOS features, combined whit an where simplistic shell,
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