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[News] Fake OS 4 betaANN.lu
Posted on 28-Nov-2002 11:28 GMT by Ben Hermans/Hyperion29 comments
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Fake potentially dangerous OS 4 beta circulating We have been informed that there is a fake OS 4 beta circulating supposedly produced by HYPErion (!) which contains "amusing" commentary such as "x megabytes leaked but OS 4 will have virtual memory anyway". It is possible that this archive contains malicious code and we therefore urge users not to download and run it.
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 1 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by elektro on 28-Nov-2002 10:41 GMT
where can i download it?
hehe :D
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 2 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 28-Nov-2002 10:42 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (elektro):
may be from ftp.elbox.com since everything nasty seems to come out of there :)
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 3 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by Peter Gordon on 28-Nov-2002 11:01 GMT
How pathetic :(
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 4 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by 4pLaY on 28-Nov-2002 11:02 GMT
Someone is trying to be funny it seems! then again my search for the file ended in no result! maybe i should have looked deeper.
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 5 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by catohagen on 28-Nov-2002 11:02 GMT
How did it leak out ?
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 6 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by themoose on 28-Nov-2002 11:21 GMT
> Fake potentially dangerous OS 4 beta circulating
If you run it on a Pegasos it formats your hard drive!
Honest.
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 7 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 28-Nov-2002 11:30 GMT
guess it shows, when the pressure is rising, enemies will use dirtyer tricks
stupid question, is the leaked os4 demo 68k or ppc ? :)
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 8 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by catohagen on 28-Nov-2002 11:30 GMT
In reply to Comment 7 (Anonymous):
forgot name
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 9 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 28-Nov-2002 11:31 GMT
Question to the author(s) of fake beta: How lame can you go?
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 10 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by Nowee on 28-Nov-2002 12:00 GMT
damn, I want my very own copy!!!!
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 11 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by Hans-Joerg Frieden on 28-Nov-2002 12:09 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (catohagen):
It didn't leak. It's a fake. The two "rom" files are actually JPEG images of Steffen and Ben, and lamely enough done with Photoshop (come on, do these kiddies have no guts left to do it on the Amiga?). The rest just outputs garbage, and displays a blatant lack of knowledge in calling the ABI "Server 5" instead of "System V", and using the text that is usually quoted before vgr.com news messages as copyright...
Dear kiddies who did this, my name is "Hans-Joerg", nor "Jans-Joerg". You could at least spell my name right :-)
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 12 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 28-Nov-2002 12:18 GMT
In reply to Comment 11 (Hans-Joerg Frieden):
http://groups.google.fr/groups?hl=fr&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22Server+V%22+Steffen+Haeuser&btnG=Recherche+Google
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 13 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by ServerV on 28-Nov-2002 12:19 GMT
http://groups.google.fr/groups?q=%22Server+V%22+Steffen+Haeuser&hl=fr&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=08000206542760416557%40BIRDLAND.es.bawue.de&rnum=1
Blatant lack of knowledge ?
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 14 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by Chris Hodges on 28-Nov-2002 12:19 GMT
... now come, this completely harmless *joke* is more than three weeks old... ;)
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 15 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 28-Nov-2002 12:19 GMT
First cowards from Elbox then this, what a load of bollox.
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 16 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 28-Nov-2002 12:21 GMT
at least there is a release
lol
now i can say os4 is not vapor
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 17 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by Hans-Joerg Frieden on 28-Nov-2002 12:28 GMT
In reply to Comment 14 (Chris Hodges):
How are we supposed to know? For all I know this *could* contain some harmful code, so its only fair to warn people.
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 18 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by Hans-Joerg Frieden on 28-Nov-2002 12:31 GMT
In reply to Comment 13 (ServerV):
Was that my posting? No.
Next time please if you want to make fun of me (by putting my name all over the place) please use the mistakes that I made, or the display of lack of knowledge from myself, not that of others.
Thank you.
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 19 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 28-Nov-2002 12:43 GMT
In reply to Comment 18 (Hans-Joerg Frieden):
strings run_kernel
...
- joytest: joystick tests, written by Steffen Haeusser
...
Hi! Welcome to joytest to test PSX joypads! This program is for
OS4 ONLY. Not for PowerUP or MorphOS which are not plain C code but
code written by Ralph Schmidt and using Server V (note: I have nothing
personal against Ralph Schmidt).
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 20 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by priest on 28-Nov-2002 12:43 GMT
Resistance is futile.
AmigaOS4 (the real one) will rule!
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 21 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by Jacek Piszczek on 28-Nov-2002 12:44 GMT
For all who want a very own copy of this little gag I cached it on my homepage (http://dreamolers.meanmachine.ch/priv/os4_beta.lzx). As far as I know (tested this on several machines, incl my Pegasos) it's completly harmless.
Have fun!
Ps
1. I'm only caching this stuff ;)
2. Don't take this stuff too serious
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 22 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by Hans-Joerg Frieden on 28-Nov-2002 12:52 GMT
In reply to Comment 21 (Jacek Piszczek):
I don't know this stuff, it *could* be potentially dangerous, that is why we posted the warning.
It's not as if the authors wrote me a mail say "it's completely harmless" :-)
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 23 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by foo on 28-Nov-2002 13:00 GMT
Maybe it'll be the only OS4 that will ever come out.
I need to have it in my s/w archive - lest we forget
about the historical effort :)
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 24 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by Felix on 28-Nov-2002 13:15 GMT
GREAT WORK JANS JOERG!!!
Its real stable on my machine, especialy the full featured
HW3D Accelerated workbench, with all the real 3D windows that
can be rotated in any direction etc..
Great work Hyppp Erion !
;-)))
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 25 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by brotheris on 28-Nov-2002 13:15 GMT
In reply to Comment 21 (Jacek Piszczek):
Thanks for caching. Text in picture was funny, but when I've read run_kernel insides, it almost costed me my tea :-D
Someone please make some pictures (or anim) with ANN posters inside ;-)
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 26 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 28-Nov-2002 14:22 GMT
In reply to Comment 24 (Felix):
It's comments like these that almost make me glad OS4 took so long. All the impatient, immature, uninspired, tunnel-vision clones out there will have been weeded out, leaving more True Amiga systems for those more deserving.
Ignore twerps like this guy, Hyperion/A Inc. They'll either shut up or turn into complete ass-kissers when they discover the competition isn't on par with the best.
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 27 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by Jacek Piszczek on 28-Nov-2002 14:33 GMT
In reply to Comment 26 (Anonymous):
Take a break, mr anonymous. You took this comment too serious. Download this OS4 fake, launch it and maybe then you will understand...
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 28 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by Felix on 28-Nov-2002 15:28 GMT
In reply to Comment 27 (Jacek Piszczek):
Yes, i was just kidding arround :-))
I didn't even download or see the archive,
i was at my work having a fun day, and i
thought it was fun to post this useless
information.
The fact people are making fun stuff about
something, also shows people are interested
in it.
Bye
Fake OS 4 beta : Comment 29 of 29ANN.lu
Posted by Gingerbread Man on 30-Nov-2002 20:57 GMT
I'm starting to think someone ought to make an updated version of the Amiga OS even though there isn't any new hardware being developed. It probably won't end up going anywhere but it's nice to have as many alternatives to windows as possible.
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