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Re: New PowerPC Platform for OS4 Posted on 10-Sep-2006 9:29:37
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Hello all!
I would like to inform you all that our negotiations with Amiga Inc failed. It took about a month before they even answered our AmigaOS 4.0 license inquiry and when they did they were not interested.
They said it was too risky to work with a startup company - even though we have secured business angel investments. The investments cover both an initial production run and a highly skilled full-time programmer. We exchanged a few e-mails, trying to explain our situation and that our finances are as much in order as they can be for a startup company. They were not intested and the only explanation we got was that it was --too risky for them to work with small startups--.
We have decided that AmigaOS 4.0 is not worth all this trouble and we will use a customized Linux distribution for our PowerPC platform instead. Our current Linux system fits on a 32 MB solid-state IDE flashdrive and we will try to keep it that way.
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Yeah right. I'm not that stupid.
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Re: New PowerPC Platform for OS4 Posted on 10-Sep-2006 9:48:26
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ironfist wrote: :'( Another evidence á la AHT about Amiga Inc's fscked up licensing scheme.
For everyone's sake I really hope Troika, Adam and the Italians have been granted a license since Troika -- to say the least -- is a startup company.
I wish Rickard R all the best in his venture. Startups and small companies are the motor of any country. Multi-billion corporations don't do that much for a country, really. They just wait for the right time to outsource everything.
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Considering that this whole story started with a hoax ("We're halfway through booting OS 4" while shoing a crashed firmware updater and never having contact with Hyperion at all) I think it is pretty safe to say that it ended with a hoax, too._________________ Seriously, if you want to contact me do not bother sending me a PM here. Write me a mail |
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Re: New PowerPC Platform for OS4 Posted on 10-Sep-2006 9:52:52
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| @rickardr who said Quote:
I would like to inform you all that our negotiations with Amiga Inc failed. It took about a month before they even answered our AmigaOS 4.0 license inquiry and when they did they were not interested. |
LOL. So many people (inc Hyperion!) were wise to your obvious hoax (the PPC processor was not even compatible with OS4), that you now decide to try to make a face-saving exit. Seems like this hoax was intended to do as much damage to OS4 as possible. I wonder who would want to do that?
Sigh. I didn't bother reading most of this thread (why bother?) but I hope that those who believed them have learnt a lesson :-/_________________ Author of the PortablE programming language. It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue... |
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Re: New PowerPC Platform for OS4 Posted on 10-Sep-2006 10:04:51
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LOL..
Rouge told the tread that OS4 worked on PPC405 so you are telling the truth |
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Re: New PowerPC Platform for OS4 Posted on 10-Sep-2006 10:34:13
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Re: New PowerPC Platform for OS4 Posted on 10-Sep-2006 10:44:10
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Considering that this whole story started with a hoax ("We're halfway through booting OS 4" while shoing a crashed firmware updater and never having contact with Hyperion at all) I think it is pretty safe to say that it ended with a hoax, too.
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Is Troika NG hoax? I'm asking because it might be better idea wait for Troika board because Samantha and PV boards lack Kryptos sound system.
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Re: New PowerPC Platform for OS4 Posted on 10-Sep-2006 10:45:29
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| ChrisH: Jepp, Listen to mr.calibra you should. AmigaOS 4.0 has been ported to the 405 CPU.
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Re: New PowerPC Platform for OS4 Posted on 10-Sep-2006 10:52:02
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I think this is very likely, I'm just waiting for the news that the pulling out of the Big Bash or can't show a prototype (wouldn't be the first time). |
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Re: New PowerPC Platform for OS4 Posted on 10-Sep-2006 11:31:38
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dan.hutch wrote: @itix Quote:
I think this is very likely, I'm just waiting for the news that the pulling out of the Big Bash or can't show a prototype (wouldn't be the first time). |
Troika have already stated that they still won't be able to present a working prototype.
Personally, I can't get too excited about having a non-working mainboard/prototype at the show. I mean, if somebody blows up his Mac G3/G4 and brings it to the show would be basically the same: A non-working PPC mainboard with no confirmed OS4 license which doesn't even boot Linux. |
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Re: New PowerPC Platform for OS4 Posted on 10-Sep-2006 11:44:16
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That is not bad, to have Linux on it. Even NetBSD is ok!!!
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Yeah right. I'm not that stupid.
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You'd better behave yourself.
You should support AROS which is in the Amiga spirit and OSS. If you go with closed source->it is your mistake.
AInc and Hyperion are companies, they work for themselves, not for you. How much time do you need to understand it? They are the reason for the unavailability of Amiga platforms. BBRV told it repeatedly.
If you go their way you would never see a working Java or .Net developer environment. Calm down, think reasonably.Last edited by tomazkid on 10-Sep-2006 at 07:08 PM. Last edited by FithisUX on 10-Sep-2006 at 11:45 AM.
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Re: New PowerPC Platform for OS4 Posted on 10-Sep-2006 11:50:00
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yes! don't get exited over non working prototypes. Richard R did show a working mainboard anyway..
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Re: New PowerPC Platform for OS4 Posted on 10-Sep-2006 13:04:54
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| Lots of hostility here! How can anyone say for sure Rickard R is a hoax? Do you know him? I know I don't. People slam us blue when we don't believe Troika and Adam..
Then a third developer with probably his best intentions show up and he gets slammed right from the start by said people.
Rickard R showed us a picture of a working motherboard. He even told you all where the design came from, yet you kept slamming him. Neither Troika nor Adam has ever showed any working proto- types nor pictures. Adam promised to show a prototype and cancelled in the last minute, twice. Very funny for people travelling for hours just to see absolutely nothing. And yet you cheer him and Troika like they were Gods.
Edited: no namecalling please. Last edited by tomazkid on 10-Sep-2006 at 06:57 PM.
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Re: New PowerPC Platform for OS4 Posted on 10-Sep-2006 13:33:30
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Considering that this whole story started with a hoax |
WOW! Just for a second I thought you were talking about Troika, but then I read the quoted portion.
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Re: New PowerPC Platform for OS4 Posted on 10-Sep-2006 14:02:04
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Rouge told the tread that OS4 worked on PPC405 so you are telling the truth |
And, as Rogue also told the thread in post 163, OS4 for PPC405 is locked in a sub-dungeon somewhere in Belgium and has only been seen by a small cabal of wizards.
-er, I mean, it's never been released, so nobody but Hyperion (and its contractors) has a chance to get a working OS4 on PPC405. As Rogue also stated several times in this thread, Hyperion was not contacted by rickardr, so no OS4 for this device._________________ Tony T.
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Re: New PowerPC Platform for OS4 Posted on 10-Sep-2006 14:28:03
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Lots of hostility here! How can anyone say for sure Rickard R is a hoax? Do you know him? I know I don't. People slam us blue when we don't believe Troika and Adam.. |
The difference is that Rogue and Entilzha vouched for Troika and Adam.
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Then a third developer with probably his best intentions show up and he gets slammed right from the start by said people. |
You really can't say "probably his best intentions" as you stated above "I know I don't (know him)". You don't have enough information to determine what his intentions are.
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Rickard R showed us a picture of a working motherboard. He even told you all where the design came from, yet you kept slamming him. |
I can show you lots of pictures of working motherboards that will not run OS4. Try a Google search on "Asus" or "Via" (or "minimig").
BTW - define "working". The picture shows a "crashed" motherboard.
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Neither Troika nor Adam has ever showed any working proto- types nor pictures. Adam promised to show a prototype and cancelled in the last minute, twice. Very funny for people travelling for hours just to see absolutely nothing. And yet you cheer him and Troika like they were Gods. |
Again, Troika and ACK are vouched for by people who would actually have a clue about where OS4 is possibly going to run. These same people have stated they've never heard of rickardr.
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ditto. Why do you vehemently defend someone you don't know, whose project was announced in his first post -ever- at AW.net, who hasn't shown anything but a uboot crash, and who has never contacted the people who control OS4 (unlike ACK and Troika)? You shouldn't take the criticism of rickardr so personally.Last edited by tomazkid on 10-Sep-2006 at 07:11 PM.
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Re: New PowerPC Platform for OS4 Posted on 10-Sep-2006 15:21:03
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Troika have already stated that they still won't be able to present a working prototype. |
LOL
The rollercoaster never ends!
FFS seriously, why are they even bothering to show up? _________________ - Ronald
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Re: New PowerPC Platform for OS4 Posted on 10-Sep-2006 15:25:03
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Why do you vehemently defend someone you don't know, whose project was announced in his first post -ever- at AW.net, who hasn't shown anything but a uboot crash, and who has never contacted the people who control OS4 (unlike ACK and Troika)?
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My suspicion is that it's because that gives him a chance to shoot at HW designers more credible than rickardr(*) (from ironfist's last post) ->
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Neither Troika nor Adam has ever showed any working proto- types nor pictures. Adam promised to show a prototype and cancelled in the last minute, twice. Very funny for people travelling for hours just to see absolutely nothing.
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and offend the people around here that think differently from him ->
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And yet you cheer him and Troika like they were Gods.
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It saddens me to see this behaviour in each and every thread... but - I have do admit - at least it fits perfectly in this one
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edit: (*)OK, before I'm attacked and another run of the circle is started, let me explain - as done by others already - why Troika and ACK are more credible: simply because they, unlike rickardr, have never been openly and firmly declared "not credible" by the people working at AOS4 (see the relevant posts in this thread).
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Re: New PowerPC Platform for OS4 Posted on 10-Sep-2006 17:09:46
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Huh? No they aren't.
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Re: New PowerPC Platform for OS4 Posted on 10-Sep-2006 17:20:36
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Lots of hostility here! How can anyone say for sure Rickard R is a hoax? Do you know him? |
No, I don't know him which is part of why I believe it is a hoax. Why? Because if anybody was porting AmigaOS 4.0, I would damn sure know about that.
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Rickard R showed us a picture of a working motherboard. He even told you all where the design came from, yet you kept slamming him. |
All you could see on the picture was a crashed AmigaOne firmware updater, nothing else.
Let me recap, there are two possibilities:
- Rickard R did indeed work on getting AmigaOS 4.0 to boot on his prototype, which means he was circumventing Hyperion and everybody else involved in the project and trying to hack it.
- Rickard R was just pulling everybody's leg
Both alternatives do not look very promising to me. Take your pick. Personally I think option 2 is MUCH more likely since I cannot see any reason why a hardware manufacturer interested in getting OS 4 on his platform would not contact Hyperion before the actual hardware is built.
Add to this the fact that he never ever replied to me when I asked him DIRECTLY about this.
So yeah, sorry, I am 100% sure this is a hoax._________________ Seriously, if you want to contact me do not bother sending me a PM here. Write me a mail |
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Re: New PowerPC Platform for OS4 Posted on 10-Sep-2006 17:22:45
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Rouge told the tread that OS4 worked on PPC405 so you are telling the truth |
Yes, it was, but
- the port was never published - the port was for a device that does NOT use U-Boot - the port assumed a certain hardware platform and was hardcoded for that platform_________________ Seriously, if you want to contact me do not bother sending me a PM here. Write me a mail |
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