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AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the powered-by-real-amigas dept.

David Doyle writes "Hyperion Entertainment and the Amiga OS 4.0 development team announced on Amigaworld.net 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. The Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release consists of a current snapshot of AmigaOS 4.0 for the AmigaOne platform with a straightforward HTML installation guide in English, German, French and Italian as well as the Amiga OS 4.0 SDK. The Amiga OS 4.0 SDK will allow near effortless migration of existing Amiga OS 3.x source-code to OS 4.0 as well as the creation of altogether new content. Full announcement and Amiga OS4 SDK feature list."

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  1. Good timing by flewp · · Score: 5, Funny

    Phew, just in time. I've been seeing reports that BSD is officially dead, so it's a good thing AmigaOS is here to fill the void.

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    1. Re:Good timing by Squareball · · Score: 3, Funny

      *whew* First Apple now BSD. At least I will have an OS to run on my PPC in the future ;)

  2. 30 months... by Kid+Zero · · Score: 5, Funny

    that's better than Microsoft is managing right now. :)

  3. Jesus Christ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I used to program professionally on the Amiga. I was part of the original Video Toaster team at Newtek back in the day. That was a decade ago!!!!For god's sake just die!!

    Evil Man

    1. Re:Jesus Christ! by Ziviyr · · Score: 1, Funny

      Amiga will die after BSD does. ;-)

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  4. Amiga's 'Sixth Sense' by Simonetta · · Score: 4, Funny

    Remember the movie 'The Sixth Sense'?

    Aren't the dead always the last to realize that they're actually dead?

    Do Amiga users ever find it, well,... strange that sometimes people in a crowd will walk right up to them and then right through them?

    Or are they too busy thinking up new features for the next operating system?

  5. duplication by selderrr · · Score: 2, Funny

    you mean, to all 5 users ?

    seriously, isn't a hardcopy a bit ridic here ? They barely sell a copy, so better not waste cash on duplication and offer a download instead.

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  6. Re:Not terribly useful to old-school Amiga fans? by JessLeah · · Score: 2, Funny

    That would be, what, 90% of them? :P

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  7. Re:More on AmigaOs4... by starphish · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's beautiful and elegant......just like CDE. The square edges, the dark grey windows, non anti-aliased fonts. Mac users will be switching in droves.

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  8. Re:Confused, Perflexed, Flumoxxed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well, I don't know what Amiga is but according to this slashdot parody it has something to do with linux...

  9. Re:More on AmigaOs4... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    hot damn, it's ugly. I'm having linux-8-years-ago flashbacks.

  10. Re:More on AmigaOs4... by Bingo+Foo · · Score: 4, Funny
    and it doesn't distract you like some other operating systems.

    You mean distract you with things like applications?

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  11. Re:Now by curne · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's why we need this ported to x86 hardware right now!

    [Bitchslap] Ow...!

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  12. Re:Shows how much you lot know by eclectro · · Score: 2, Funny

    Amiga users never died - there are still thousands of them.

    Boy, that truly is a scary thought.

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