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[mike-]

Weird?

http://www.osnews.com/story/20043/Amiga_OS_4_1_Announced

[codenetfx]

I am sure osnews.com is fed up with bogus announcements about AmigaOS 4/4.1

[jahc]

Which bogus announcements do you mean? the ACK and Troika hardware?

[weirdami]

I thought ACK was real. Or was it only real for like 5 minutes then something happened again?

[takemehomegrandma]

codenetfx wrote:
I am sure osnews.com is fed up with bogus announcements about AmigaOS 4/4.1

Maybe they will let it stay once the announcement is about an actual release, especially if normal people in the general public (or at least the osnews readers) can actually buy and try it, which is not the case today? As the situation is today, Amiga Inc (the owner of Amiga IP) has declared Hyperion's OS illegal and there is no way for anyone outside that same old small click of OS4 nerds who will have the chance of even testing this. I'm sure this has affected their decision as well...

[Hans_]

If it's been pulled, then why can I still access it?

Really, why submit to OSNews at all. Any Amiga news there is quickly derided and many are openly hostile.

takemehomegrandma wrote:

Maybe they will let it stay once the announcement is about an actual release, especially if normal people in the general public (or at least the osnews readers) can actually buy and try it, which is not the case today? As the situation is today, Amiga Inc (the owner of Amiga IP) has declared Hyperion's OS illegal and there is no way for anyone outside that same old small click of OS4 nerds who will have the chance of even testing this. I'm sure this has affected their decision as well...

Maybe that's all BS because it's on the front page of OSNews right now. :-P

I can see some OSNews admins wanting to pull it because they personally think that no-one cares (because they don't care). However, if OSNews is to be true to its name, then it should accept news about everything from Windows and Mac OS-X, through to Joe Blogs' personal OS that's being developed for kicks. If they only cover their personal preference, i.e., Linux and maybe SkyOS, then OSNews would be nothing but a bad joke.

Hans

[jorkany]

I thought ACK was real. Or was it only real for like 5 minutes then something happened again?

ACK the one-man "company" is (or was) real. The products he continually announced were not.

[yakumo9275]

osnews jumped the shark a long time ago. Most of their stuff is just links to other news aggregate sites now.

[mike-]

@Hans

Its popped back in again now, strange, exact same text which was removed sometime yesterday. Maybe someones {bleep} meeter went off when it read Amiga os and release

[LoadWB]

There may be factions within OSNews which believe Amiga to be irrelevant. If so, I find that interesting considering OSNews is where I've seen great articles on old systems like GEOS and GEM.

[weirdami]

jorkany wrote:

ACK the one-man "company" is (or was) real. The products he continually announced were not.

So he duped AI?

[mike-]

@weirdami

I think they are equally fraudulent, i dont think amiga had any intention of ever releasing any new hardware, just creating a PR buzz, as with the event center, hoping that an investor would come along with atleast the first millions... just look at their site, its constructed in such a manner that it seems like they came from heaven with new products and apps for amiga users since 1873, just to look good for investors basically.

To think that there actually was a time not that long ago when i really wanted to believe in these people. sigh...

[yetihw]

Realistically OS 4.1 should be seen as an update for a legacy embedded device more than a consumer OS. Until the availability changes its just weird talking about Amiga anymore. I think this trend will continue until Amiga is firmly in the retro classification.

[Belial6]

I would say that if we could get a good Kickstart/Workbench replacement, we would be good to go. We have new hardware. It may not be the fastest hardware in the world, but it is here now, and has lots of software for it. It is the MiniMig.

I keep hoping that the AROS Kickstart replacement bounty will get taken up, and eventually full Kickstart 1.3 compatibility could be achieved. If we could ever get that, we could cut the last lines to AI. In fact, at that point, complete, ready to run Amigas could be sold.

If we could get to that point, I would guess that future improvements to both hardware and software would be inevitable.

[ffastback]

weirdami wrote:

So he duped AI?

A one man company with no website in the computer industry, with a history of not-producing for the same exact market segment. Honestly, how can anyone in that position dupe AI? I can't claim to understand what went on there, but the theory that ACK duped AI seems nearly impossible.