@Rogue:

One test metric that is often done for "industrial strength" software is uptime. My field of knowledge is email servers, so in my case that would mean putting up a mail server online, signing up a few hundred people on it, and letting it run for a month while measuring how many times it falls over and how long it takes to get it back up again (that sort of testing is the "five nines" that you see sometimes on Windows Server ads - the server is advertised to be available 99.999% of the time). I don't know how one would do this for an OS, but I'd imagine it would be taking some task that exercises a lot of the system (eg streaming a movie from a remote machine over and over again) for say a month and measuring how many times it falls over and how long it takes to get it back up again. Have you guys done this sort of testing? Having a study like that done would help a lot towards securing enterprise customers - "OK, so we're not Windows compatible, but this study from the University of Berlin shows that we can achieve 99.9997% uptime in a ten week period, under average load conditions. As long as you're not going to run Word, why not take our OS for a test run?"

@Hans-Jörg Frieden

Happy to read your doing floppy support! I know there are other devices to move data but what if you get a lot of floppies from people with data on it. And the A1 is the only machine? And no floppy support. That's a bummer then. And NO I do not want to have a dual boot system with Linux on it. An OS needs to have floppy support, period. And why? Because I said so.

Anyway, floppy support get's you a two thumbs up sign from me! Too bad there is no USB support on the pre-release. But by the time I get my cd it sure is up there for download. And floppy support maybe too. Hey! A positive thing about being the last one getting the cd!

Coder

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Well, at least you are getting it. Quit yer bitchin. lol

My laptop came with no floppy drive but it booted fine from a usb drive once I got the usb drive set up as a boot drive. Booting from a pocket usb drive is cool.

Great work guys!

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Good work Hyperion and thanks for the update.

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This material will in due course be released for download to registered users of the Developer Pre-release on our web site

Not only Hyperion is doing an EXCELLENT job, but they're even going to made their progresses available for download... (I mean, they weren't supposed to do so, were they?)
Well done guys!!!

This is great news in deed but as I'm one of those with PPC equiped classic machines I'm still very much in the dark and would like to see some info for these platforms aswell... planned timeline from A1 full OS4 release to the classic line will have OS4, some solved compatibility issues for clockport hardware and such things.

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Thank you for the detailed repot, Hans-Jörg!

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Further improvements of the kernel include support for the Altivec unit.

That's very good to hear!

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Great news!

But tell me why you think Moovid is "the well-known media player". It was absolutly useless in previous OS releases (OS 3.9) with really really disgusting GUI btw.
(I hope you tell me now the Moovid is just old name but completly new program ...that even doesn't look like "well-known" Moovid)

If you ask me about well-known Amiga player I would imagine Frogger coz it support many many video formats and actually works.

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Suitably impressed

LOL, you are even reserved when it comes to praising!

Luckily your following comments showed more enthusiasm heh heh heh.
I was beginning to think we would have to give you an adrenalin shot to the heart to get you going :)

Great work Hyperion, at this rate OS4 release will be a shoe in for later this year.

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Thanks for the update.

PS - Great work !

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@Exie

MooVid is a fantastic program, i use it registered on my 1200, it is fast and it supports a lot of codecs! Maybe you should retry it Frogger always crashed on all my Amigas.

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HJF is talking about the AmigaOne. You cannot use the 68k serial.device from a Classic Amiga on the AmigaOne.

Ross;
that almost answers the question. but how do you ocnnect with an external serial modem to telephone dialup if there is no serial device? as i noticed hjf said they are still working on serial device for Aone. Anyone got a clue?

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@Exie:

the only format that Frogger plays that I'd like to be able to play with Moovid is MPEG. The times I've tried Frogger I have been quite dissapointed with it because it's damn slow and crashes a lot. On MOS I prefer MPlayer.

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@ GregS

Aye! Damn living in Oz!

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The things missing/not yet complete in OS4 is just what you (Rogue) mentioned in the status-update? Testing, optimizing mainly, or?

Also, since you didn't mention 68k JIT emulation in your update, what does that mean exactly? Is it finished, is it being tested or has it been cancelled for whatever reason?

Sincerely,

-Kenneth Straarup.

(Oh, and as I will admit to not reading everything here, if I missed information about the 68k JIT emulation somewhere else, kindly point me to the thread or news item).

@ Crumb

Yes and MPEG will be supported by Moovid 1.7 for OS4.

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@Bodez

What? Pervert! Go wash your mouth out!

tony

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LOL I meant by the time OS4 gets 'ere!

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