28-Mar-2024 17:41 GMT.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Anonymous, there are 313 items in your selection (but only 113 shown due to limitation) [1 - 50] [51 - 100] [101 - 150] [151 - 200] [201 - 250] [251 - 300] [301 - 313]
[Web] Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans!ANN.lu
Posted on 07-Nov-2002 05:12 GMT by Scott Pistorino313 comments
View flat
View list
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans only at AmigaSource! AmigaSource! is pround to anounce what hopes to be the first of many interviews with the big names in the Amiga Community. Drop on in and read the exclusive interview with Ben Hermans of Hyperion Entertainment!!!
Thanks
Scott Pistorino
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 201 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by DaveW on 07-Nov-2002 21:13 GMT
In reply to Comment 197 (Frodon):
Hmm Ive heard of sandboxes mostly being used in terms of a place where you
can play and the damage is limited.
For example:
* the ODE build environment after running mksb
* protected address spaces in VM ( as in virtual memory ) based systems.
* Test laboratories
etc...
Another good example of an overloaded term.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 202 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by DaveW on 07-Nov-2002 21:25 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (CodeSmith):
Took me a while to spot this so sorry CodeSmith.
Umm it kind of means in this context that IF Hyperion GOT a board they *COULD* have
taken advantage of knowledge that there were BUGS and erm, leaked the news to
a gleeful bunch of supporters.
Now Im not suggesting that Hyperion are even remotely less than ethical
or would do such a thing but if I had a board that didn't work the last thing
I would do is expose myself to the competition regardless of NDA.
Make hay while the sun shines means "take advantage of a situation". I think
its English but its probably just translated from Normandy French and really means
something entirely different like "see you down the pub chaps for a spiffing
knees up".
However I already knew that Pegasos had serious problems from actually
reading an interview properly with Bill Buck which most people seemed
to have failed to register properly.
No doubt I have to go to the headmasters office again ;-)
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 203 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 07-Nov-2002 21:36 GMT
In reply to Comment 145 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion):
Oh come on, please tell us again the exact number of Northbridges bplan has! ;-P
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 204 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Daniel Miller on 07-Nov-2002 22:20 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (fleecy moss):
Fleecy typed:
> as you well know, all hardware must be certified to run AmigaOS4.0 and
> an OEM copy must ship with each board/machine. This requires a licence,
> which is available from us. Giving a pegasos board to Hyperion will
> not get AmigaOS4.0 on to it.
Is there some reason you don't want Hyperion to have a Pegasos?
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 205 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Daniel Miller on 07-Nov-2002 22:32 GMT
In reply to Comment 81 (fleecy moss):
fleecy typed:
> which means a certified AmigaOS hardware solution that ships with OS4.
> This prevents Peter Pirate from buying the Pegasos with AmigaOS as a
> legal solution and then giving all his buddies the OEM CD to copy onto
> their Linux running Pegasos machines, leaving us with one sale and
> fifty users. If you want AmigaOS, you buy an Amiga solution.
Isn't this piracy argument just a smoke screen to disguise the fact that
you want this license in order to get a big chunk of cash out of Thendic-
France every time they sell a computer, just like Microsoft does with PC
manufacturers?
I mean, every Amiga OS since 1.3 has been sold in an off-the-shelf version
(2.X, 3.1, 3.5, 3.9) so why change now?
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 206 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 07-Nov-2002 22:40 GMT
In reply to Comment 205 (Daniel Miller):
Afaik you can even get MacOS X seperately.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 207 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by JoannaK on 07-Nov-2002 22:55 GMT
In reply to Comment 205 (Daniel Miller):
Come on.. give Mr Fleecy a break.. It's not every week that he hears his favorite project to be shut down. I bet this Sendo mobile thing was important...
Talking about Sendo.. They have quite interesting idea on their developer are:
http://www.sendo.com/dev/index.asp
They are offering Refund to developers cause the project did not happen... Makes me wonder how much can we expect (and when) from AmigaInc?
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 208 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Rob on 08-Nov-2002 00:42 GMT
In reply to Comment 206 (Anonymous):
You could also buy OS 3.1 for Amiga seperately. Would you have bought
a new A1200 just to run 3.1? No you wouldn't. Apple do not expect
user to buy a new IMac just to run OSX. That is why you can buy it
seperately.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 209 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by auiw on 08-Nov-2002 01:43 GMT
In reply to Comment 208 (Rob):
Conversely, you cannot run OS4 without an AmigaOne(tm), so Amiga Inc can expect you to buy new hardware to run it.
I think piracy is not as big of a concern as they are making it.
Most of the pro-MOS camp people are those that will make up the Pegasos customer base. That group is likely to stick to their guns and run MOS.
The AOS folk that DO buy a Pegasos will buy AOS... heck, they spent $50 for a vaporware tee-shirt.
That being said, I don't see the hold up.
Thendic could easily say "ok... we will flash Pegasos units ordered by dealers and distributors as "AmigaOne" systems with AmigaOneBiosCmosFirmwareBoot, then put a big red boing sticker on the box and ship it. The distributor can throw a copy of AOS4 in the box and away we go."
AmigaHyperionAminoTaoTmInc can say "okay... cool :) "
Amiga users can party.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 210 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Björn Hagström on 08-Nov-2002 04:01 GMT
Just for those who have missed the feature list of AOS 4 and for those spreading misinformation about it:
AOS4.0 Exec SG features:
Hardware abstraction layer (HAL)
Virtual addressing (for automatic stack enlargement etc.)
Page-based memory handling (less fragmentation and more efficient)
Virtual memory
New library interface
Resource tracking and management
Optional memory protection
WarpOS backwards compatibility
http://os.amiga.com/os4/OS4Features.php
And confirmed many times in forums like ANN and Amiga.org.
/Björn
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 211 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by CodeSmith on 08-Nov-2002 05:09 GMT
In reply to Comment 202 (DaveW):
@DaveW:
Don't worry about it - when I saw the usual flamefights had started I figured my comment would just get lost in the noise and smoke :)
I was curious because although I'm a fluent English speaker (been at it for ~20 years now) my native language is Spanish, and from time to time I hear some new expression I'd never heard before.
About the Thendic/Hyperion thing, I would've probably done the same thing too - I mean, even if the other guy is honourable, why risk it? ;)
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 212 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Raquel and Bill on 08-Nov-2002 06:05 GMT
@DaveW, CodeSmith, auiw, Daniel, Rob (and other future Pegasos users -- we hope!)
What is so obvious for you seems to be lost completely to others. If you five do decide to come to this "headmasters office" you can collect your marks: 10/10. Good work!
:-)
R&B
P.S. Nos podeis enviar un email, por favor!
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 213 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by DaveW on 08-Nov-2002 06:45 GMT
Well thanks for confirming that my/our guess over quite a long period were
on the nail.
Now its kind of behind everyone can you confirm or deny that the reason that
MorphOS was so delayed ( apart from the hardware bugs ) was to identify any
areas that *might be construed as* infringement on Amiga Inc IP and rewrite them? ( or similar? )
The development track just seemed to go *way* off the rails in about March and to me this is the most logical explanation.
Dave.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 214 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by cheesegrate on 08-Nov-2002 06:58 GMT
In reply to Comment 213 (DaveW):
weren't you sopoused to have left dave?
not flaming just wondering why u are back after those longwinded i am leaving posts..
;)
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 215 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by DaveW on 08-Nov-2002 07:04 GMT
In reply to Comment 214 (cheesegrate):
@cheese
Just one longwinded leaving post :-)
As explained before I popped back ( after having been tipped off by Ole in the
first place ) after reading some WOASE show reports and came here looking for
news and comment.
If my experience is anything to go by my beef with the community was the constant infighting and bitching - mostly over the frustration waiting for new hardware.
So, given new hardware is being delivered and we are all peace@love ( for now ) expect to see a few more old faces return to the fold.
Dave.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 216 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by DaveW on 08-Nov-2002 07:08 GMT
In reply to Comment 215 (DaveW):
( at least I think it was just the one, I felt like throwing the towel a few
times ).
I notice that Mike Bouma is also back. Roll call anyone? ;-)
Actually it was more than the bitching and the infighting in my case, I couldnt
afford to wait for hardware to arrive any longer and had to nip onto another project which I have now completed and is going out the door as the 8th product
that I have worked on that is on sale!
Shame its not remotely Amiga related.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 217 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 08-Nov-2002 07:26 GMT
In reply to Comment 172 (strobe):
"Stop calling it the BIOS! Grr! "
But it is a BIOS. So far as I can discover it uses the standard
numbering for the basic calls to the hardware.
It's job is to boot the computer and provide enough hardware support
for an overlying OS to run. That's what a BIOS does.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 218 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Björn Hagström on 08-Nov-2002 07:56 GMT
In reply to Comment 217 (Don Cox):
More not so interresting info:
"Pronounced "bye-ose," an acronym for basic input/output system. The BIOS is built-in software that determines what a computer can do without accessing programs from a disk. On PCs, the BIOS contains all the code required to control the keyboard, display screen, disk drives, serial communications, and a number of miscellaneous functions."
http://www.pcwebopedia.com/TERM/B/BIOS.html
:o)
/Björn
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 219 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Amon_Re on 08-Nov-2002 10:27 GMT
In reply to Comment 199 (DaveW):
"Witness the rows over "firmware" and "hardware" on computing forums."
Ah i see you've met SG :-)
Amon_Re
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 220 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 08-Nov-2002 10:38 GMT
In reply to Comment 190 (Frodon):
>it's more an app that implement rewritten from scratch, natively and improved >AmigaOS APIs from legally and publicly available
Yes, like the one from Doctor Rupprecht.
What a joke.
I hope I'll ever find the time to drop Takis a note that just because you produce 30+ pages of legal jibberish it doesn't mean it isn't fiction.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 221 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by cheesegrate on 08-Nov-2002 10:52 GMT
In reply to Comment 220 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion):
the more bitter you sound the more we know how far you are behind mos in terms of development ;(
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 222 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 08-Nov-2002 10:54 GMT
In reply to Comment 221 (cheesegrate):
Bitter?
Not quite.
If that document is in any way representative of the level of quality we can expect, I'm not worried whatsoever.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 223 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by David Scheibler on 08-Nov-2002 10:56 GMT
In reply to Comment 220 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion):
Thanks God fiction is an element in law :)
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 224 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Nicholai Benalal on 08-Nov-2002 11:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 220 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion):
"just because you produce 30+ pages of legal jibberish it doesn't mean it isn't fiction"
The only fiction I've seen so far are the false allegations you make in public.
Discrediting the hard work of honest people (and as opposed to you, I know what is in the MorphOS codebase) like you do is really a shame for the community.
I have no problem with your OS4 project (except that I don't believe you'll manage to fulfill your promises). What I really dislike is your ethics.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 225 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by DaveW on 08-Nov-2002 11:02 GMT
In reply to Comment 224 (Nicholai Benalal):
Belief is one thing, analysis is another. Can you go into more details as
to why you have come to that conclusion about AOS4?
( no ulterior motive here, just interested )
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 226 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by André Siegel on 08-Nov-2002 11:05 GMT
In reply to Comment 209 (auiw):
You are wrong. AmigaOS4.0 is planned to run on ClassicAmigas equipped with BlizzardPPC/CyberstormPPC accelerators. In fact, Hyperion plans to sell this specific version via the usual retail channels as a stand-alone product. It would be absolutely no problem to add PEGASOS support to the retail version of AmigaOS4.0 once the first CD run was sold out and the OS was already ported to bPlan's PPC hardware.
Anyway, all of this is hypothetical.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 227 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Nicholai Benalal on 08-Nov-2002 11:14 GMT
In reply to Comment 225 (DaveW):
The aim of my post was not at all to analyse the OS4 concepts. On a sidenote, I think they seriously underestimate the compatibility problems that their design will lead to. They think they have passed the hardest part of the project. I think it begins soon.
Time will tell if they are right or not.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 228 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 08-Nov-2002 11:18 GMT
In reply to Comment 127 (Henning Nielsen Lund [Denmark]):
The first time I heard that the Pegasos BIOS can use PC cards, was when
the AmigaONE still used the Softex bios which some people claimed to be
fine at that time.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 229 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 08-Nov-2002 11:20 GMT
In reply to Comment 133 (Anonymous):
It actually ALREADY runs on AmigaONEs, Terron CXes, Terron PXes, PowerUP boards
and Apple support is planned, as soon as they find HW specs (or use the ones
in the Linux kernels).
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 230 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 08-Nov-2002 11:24 GMT
In reply to Comment 145 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion):
There was no immitation IMHO, it's the most logical thing to do, and both teams
did it.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 231 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Roy on 08-Nov-2002 11:31 GMT
Oh yeah! the flamewars are back!!!
How long was it peace&happiness in the Amiga Community????? 1 day? 2 days???
I really feel sad about this...
What a bunch of losers you all are...
I really won't mind if all the Amiga related forums are closing down till both the Pegagos+Morphos and A1+AOS4 are out.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 232 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Roy on 08-Nov-2002 11:33 GMT
In reply to Comment 231 (Roy):
Uhm.. I ment PegaSos ofcourse :-)
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 233 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by DaveW on 08-Nov-2002 11:34 GMT
In reply to Comment 231 (Roy):
Well I think thats a bit unrepresentative. Most of the discussion has been civil,
there has been a bit of flaming but much less than there used to be.
Compare this to the party on thread of a year back and the 600+ comment thread
which repeated the same argument 6 times.
I don't think that because we are all being nice doesn't mean an end to debate
or does it?
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 234 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 08-Nov-2002 11:38 GMT
In reply to Comment 233 (DaveW):
<flame> Cause samface suxxx.... We told him the same things 60 times and proved
what we said, and he always replied with the same stuff, sometimes contradicting
himself... </flame>
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 235 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 08-Nov-2002 11:42 GMT
In reply to Comment 224 (Nicholai Benalal):
A successful lawyer and good ethics simply don't fit together, you know? :)
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 236 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Roy on 08-Nov-2002 11:44 GMT
In reply to Comment 233 (DaveW):
Yes, you're right about that. There are numerous civil and informative threads on the forums, also the criticism is mostly contructive.
But I still don't understand what all the fuss is about in the Amiga Community. If I compare it with Linux forums or Mac forums or even M$-forums I think that the Amiga Community isn't showing professionalism with all the flame-wars, personal insults, "big" names who uses public forums to do their talk instead of the regular bussiness channels etc;) The idea behind it is that potentional future "users" may run away as soon as they read a few "dirty" threads. It's a shame...
Roy
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 237 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Just Bill on 08-Nov-2002 11:54 GMT
In reply to Comment 222 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion):
Hi Ben, we thought we were on to something good here? Can't we do without all this petty posturing? Raquel wants to know when you are coming to Paris to pick up your Pegasos?
...and Dave will you send me an email too?!
:-)
Best regards,
Bill
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 238 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 08-Nov-2002 12:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 237 (Just Bill):
Maybe he is just grumpy seeing MOS will steal (oh, such a bad word! :-) the
butter from his OS4 bread now.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 239 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Q on 08-Nov-2002 12:06 GMT
In reply to Comment 161 (Frodon):
The A-Box isn´t a Q-Box task. It´s a task started by SysInit on Top of the Quark Kernel. The Q-Box is a seperate Task started by SysInit.
It´s a small difference but it is one. It points clearly out that the A-Box is an environment provided by the kernel, not within the Q-Box.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 240 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by miksuh on 08-Nov-2002 12:25 GMT
In reply to Comment 50 (Jon):
I could not aggree more with you :)
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 241 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by miksuh on 08-Nov-2002 12:51 GMT
In reply to Comment 81 (fleecy moss):
I understand people here, but I do undrstand Hyperion and AmigaInc too. You can't think something is just black or white, good or bad. I understand those who would like to buy AmigaOne or OS4 separetely, but I have to say I think it's good idea to do things Amigainc/Hyperion way. Or maybe it's not good but it's best we can get whitout letting piracy kill new development.
I have to aggree with that. And I don't think OS4 will cost so huge amounts of money that we can't afford it, if we have enough money to buy AmigaOne :) There is so few of us that it's best for all of us if we accept some inconvinience which is not normal in mainstream world. If we can accept that now we can be more sure there will be future development too.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 242 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by miksuh on 08-Nov-2002 12:53 GMT
In reply to Comment 83 (strobe):
Dongle shipped with OS4 can ALWAYS be cracked. You just need to remove/modify the code which requires the dongle. So external dongle is not really reliable.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 243 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Frank on 08-Nov-2002 12:58 GMT
In reply to Comment 237 (Just Bill):
What should he (Ben H.) do with your Pegasos, so long you ignore the
OS4-licence-deal?
a: hang it up on the wall beside the window in his sitting room?
b: eat with tomatoes?
c: put it in a 40" container, ans ship them around the world?
;)
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 244 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by DaveW on 08-Nov-2002 12:58 GMT
In reply to Comment 242 (miksuh):
Why would you crack it if you couldnt get a compatible board without it?
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 245 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by David Scheibler on 08-Nov-2002 13:01 GMT
In reply to Comment 243 (Frank):
>What should he (Ben H.) do with your Pegasos, so long you ignore the
>OS4-licence-deal?
Doesn't he want one anymore? At least in the interview (to be on topic again)
he is angry that he didn't get a board yet.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 246 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by DaveW on 08-Nov-2002 13:11 GMT
In reply to Comment 237 (Just Bill):
Bill, you can e-mail me at blade_davew@yahoo.co.uk.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 247 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 08-Nov-2002 13:14 GMT
In reply to Comment 244 (DaveW):
You can very well get a TerronCX board from MAI.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 248 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by DaveW on 08-Nov-2002 13:16 GMT
It would be fun to do an irreverant website in the vein of Punch but aimed at the
Amiga market called "www.amigasauce.com". In fact every time I hear of amigasource
I think amigasauce.
You saucy chap!
Besides I dont read Ben as *angry* in the interview. Ill read it again.
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 249 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by darklite on 08-Nov-2002 13:20 GMT
In reply to Comment 23 (Don Cox):
>When people publish interviews on their web sites, could they please
>include the date?
>
>Otherwise somebody returning to the Amiga world and looking for
>information can be reading a year old interview and thinking it is up
>to date information.
Oh come on Don, it's not like much has changed the past few years in Amiga-land ;p
Exclusive interview with Ben Hermans! : Comment 250 of 313ANN.lu
Posted by Amon_Re on 08-Nov-2002 13:22 GMT
In reply to Comment 227 (Nicholai Benalal):
@Nicholai Benalal
Say, aren't you the dutch guy that used to wear that hat with boingballs?
Amon_Re
Anonymous, there are 313 items in your selection (but only 113 shown due to limitation) [1 - 50] [51 - 100] [101 - 150] [151 - 200] [201 - 250] [251 - 300] [301 - 313]
Back to Top