Hyperion - you guys do deliver. I'm amazed by your achievements so far, especially considering the competitors you are up against.

Best wishes for 2008!

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...with heavy cardboard box, dedicated emergency floppy and glossy Quick Start manual, brought professional production values back to the Amiga platform which have not been seen since the demise of Commodore.

Oh really? What about OS3.5/3.9? Were these not professional productions?

@DJBase

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Oh really? What about OS3.5/3.9? Were these not professional productions?

I think the answer is in the first line of your Quote:

...with heavy cardboard box, dedicated emergency floppy and glossy Quick Start manual,

OS3.5, and 3.9, although very good, were only CD's.

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Oh really? What about OS3.5/3.9? Were these not professional productions?

If only the people behind it would have been professional ...

and Swoop .... I have a 3.5 cardboard box ...

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I think the answer is in the first line of your Quote: ...with heavy cardboard box, dedicated emergency floppy and glossy Quick Start manual, OS3.5, and 3.9, although very good, were only CD's.

Wrong, OS3.5 was boxed with a thin manual, OS3.9 was in a Jewelcase with also a thin manual and option of a manual book. So if these were not professional productions OS4 isn't one either.

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professional production values back to the Amiga platform which have not been seen since the demise of Commodore.

Errr... Professional production values like a few hundred OS4 Classic compared to thousands of OS3.5 and OS3.9 boxes?

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GOOD YEAR To YOU ALL!
And GOOD WORK on OS4!!!!!

So we can get A1OS4 update for jannuary? :)
Hope so... :P

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re professional production values:

It's all in the emergency boot floppy.

Could you load OS3.5/3.5 on a vanilla machine? Could you boot from an appropriate floppy rescue disk if needed?

iirc 3.5 and 3.9 had no emergency rescue disk: you had to create one as you went along?

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Great to see that development continues on OS4. Can't wait to see what's in store for us in 2008. The more I use OS4 on my µA1, the more I like it - especially with the release of more and more OS4 software (Digital Universe & Yam 2.5 to name just a couple of recent additions to the fold). Thanks & Happy New Year to Hyperion, the OS4 developers and to all other developers out there. I don't care what kind of a box you deliver it in - just keep developing!

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iirc 3.5 and 3.9 had no emergency rescue disk: you had to create one as you went along?

3.9 did, the installer created one, copying all the necessary drivers.

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I couldn't have said it better myself.

Unfortunatley, the more I try to explain/comment on posts the more derision I get.
I suppose there's a New Years Resolution in that.

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What about OS3.5/3.9? Were these not professional productions?

AmigaOS 3.5 / 3.9 can at best be described as software bundles and more fairly quick hacks. The actual OS enhancements were so small bumping the version number was totally uncalled for.

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AmigaOS 3.5 / 3.9 can at best be described as software bundles and more fairly quick hacks. The actual OS enhancements were so small bumping the version number was totally uncalled for.

And OS4 is then a port of OS3.9 with a few new software bundles and hacks?

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It's all in the emergency boot floppy. Could you load OS3.5/3.5 on a vanilla machine? Could you boot from an appropriate floppy rescue disk if needed? iirc 3.5 and 3.9 had no emergency rescue disk: you had to create one as you went along?

So it all belongs to the boot disk? I don't remember about 3.5 but 3.9 can create such a disk if needed. I don't see the point why OS3.5/3.9 is no professional production. Maybe Hyperion should take less drugs.

Create, not have one straight out of the box.

How do you create a rescue/boot floppy half-way through an installation routine you can't run because you don't have a boot floppy?

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Now they really made me curious what the targeted hardware and the drasticly expanded features are going to be.

All the best wishes for hyperion in 2008 and everyone else here too ofcourse

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Roll on 2008!

It can't be any worse for 2007 for Amiga users, let's hope some good news is just around the corner!

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