[News] AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold | ANN.lu |
Posted on 16-Apr-2004 20:09 GMT by Mikey C | 283 comments View flat View list |
Leuven, Belgium - April 16, 2004. Hyperion Entertainment and the Amiga OS 4.0 development team are extremely pleased and relieved to announce that after nearly 30 months of painstaking development the Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release has gone gold and will be sent to the duplication plant on Monday, April 19, 2004.
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Posted by Don Cox on 17-Apr-2004 18:02 GMT | In reply to Comment 163 (Interesting): "You know what Don? I can't understand how what looks like some good news, can create so much drama! This back and forth crap is just so sad to see."
Some people think that anything that is good for AmigaOS and AmigaOne must be bad for MorphOS and Pegasos.
I think they are completely wrong. The problems facing these products are:
1. Non-standard hardware with no obvious benefits
2. Not much software available
3. Shortage of hardware drivers
4. Shortage of filters/players for various data formats
1 is helped by there being more than one such product. If there were 20 PPC based boards on the market, it would be even better, as this would then become a recognised product category instead of a freak.
2 is helped by increasing the number of related platforms. It seems almost certain to me that the total sales of AmigaOne plus Pegasos is greater than either could achieve separately. That increases the market for application coders.
3. The same can apply to coders working on drivers; for example, it could be worth while to code a set of scanner drivers for both platforms where sales for one only would not justify the effort.
4. The same again applies to for example a Flash player, or a Word or PDF import filter for Pagestream.
The enemy is _not_ the other Amiga-like platform. It is the Mac, and the various versions of Windows. |
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