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Vojin Vidanovic

Posts 770
30 Oct 2017 15:52


A1200 coder wrote:

AmigaOS 3.1 with fixes should still run smoothly as before on an 68020/AGA/2MB, as there are lots of classic Amiga users still around. Therefore the changes should be made conservatively, and indeed just bugfixes as a starter is a good idea.

Fixing much of the OS 3.1 flaws, and inclusion of free app pack like AmiKit 8 would be nice starter pack for emulation and Vampire purposes. I wonder why they havent exploited that before. Then again, it can be included in AmiKit and Amiga Forever, and happines is mutual. And surely much more cheap $30 licenses would come that way, and not OS 4.1, be it in emulation packs.



Tim Trepanier

Posts 132
30 Oct 2017 16:18


As long as the update natively supports creating, booting from and using >4BG drives, i'm happy.

Any behind the scenes drama or politics won't affect my ability to enjoy my Amiga.


Steve Ferrell

Posts 424
30 Oct 2017 16:46


ExiE CZEX wrote:

Mallagan Bellator wrote:
Botom line, let Apollo team do the hardware, and Hyperion do the software, let’s hope everyone will be able to hold hands, and the future of the Amiga will be good ;)
 

 
  Are you crazy??????? Let Hyperion do it and you can wait forever.
  I don't even like the phrase "Hyperion is working on OS3.1 update".
  Olaf and Thomas do. I wonder if they are at least paid for their work, or it is just their hobby and free time...

You're absolutely correct.  Hyperion has been promising SMP and an office suite for about 10+ years now and OS4 hasn't seen any upgrades of any significance since it's inception in 2003.  They still don't have drivers for the onboard audio and NIC hardware on the X1000 or the X5000 which forces users to buy add-on cards to get sound and network access.  OS4 is like an operating system Frankenstein...held together with an ever increasing number of patches disguised as point releases and half-@assed fixes that never seem to work properly.  I was never able to get USB 2.0 to work in a stable fashion and forget about USB 3.  Nine years after USB 3 is released and still no USB 3 support either.  This is what you get when you allow a software company to be run by an attorney.



Thierry Atheist

Posts 644
30 Oct 2017 16:59


HYPERION is a GREAT company... They helped bring AMIGAS to an NG status!!!!!!

And this is EVEN BETTER STILL!!!!!

Buy this upgrade, and should they sell enough of them, then it is GUARANTEED that they make a SPECIAL EDITION with Apollo Core 68080 enhancements!!!!!!!!!!

This is a "MUST HAVE" alliance!!!!!!!!


Thierry Atheist

Posts 644
30 Oct 2017 17:13


A1200 coder wrote:
No bloats here please.. the AmigaOS is a microkernel type solution, the kernel needs to be kept small and efficient, whatever it takes. It doesn't work like a Linux kernel anyway.

Hi A1200 coder,

I have to agree with you there, but I attribute AOS4.x's BLOAT mostly toward PPC RISC's failures AND not having a CUSTOM PROPRIETARY chipset, like the AMIGA has with OCS/ECS/AGA.

When AOS4.x loads up, it has tons of stuff that deals with modern day chips on the motherboard, increasing the size of the OS drastically.

The Vampire will still have (hoping that Hyperion continue in the Amiga tradition, tight coding) HUGE ADVANTAGE over modern day "SUPER COMPUTERS" and their SO-CALLED "advanced os's". HA HA HA HA!!!!!!

AOS (Hyperion) + VAMPIRE (AMIGA) F.T.W.!!!!!!!!


John William

Posts 563
30 Oct 2017 17:31


Thierry Atheist wrote:

HYPERION is a GREAT company... They helped bring AMIGAS to an NG status!!!!!!
 
  And this is EVEN BETTER STILL!!!!!
 
  Buy this upgrade, and should they sell enough of them, then it is GUARANTEED that they make a SPECIAL EDITION with Apollo Core 68080 enhancements!!!!!!!!!!
 
  This is a "MUST HAVE" alliance!!!!!!!!

WOW! You are serious!?? @_@ Now you lost all credibility of being excited with truth or even valid reason!


Steve Ferrell

Posts 424
30 Oct 2017 17:34


Thierry Atheist wrote:

HYPERION is a GREAT company... They helped bring AMIGAS to an NG status!!!!!!
 
  And this is EVEN BETTER STILL!!!!!
 
  Buy this upgrade, and should they sell enough of them, then it is GUARANTEED that they make a SPECIAL EDITION with Apollo Core 68080 enhancements!!!!!!!!!!
 
  This is a "MUST HAVE" alliance!!!!!!!!

I hope you're being sarcastic and not being serious...having owned an NG Amiga I really tried to find something to like about OS4 on my NG Amiga but simply couldn't.  OS4 was/is slow and woefully lacking in software.  The lack of multi-user capabilities, lack of useful software and the lack of security made it impossible for me to use it or recommend it for anything more than a curiosity to folks in the IT industry and I'd never recommend an NG Amiga and OS4 to a casual home user period.  OS4 has rough feature parity with Windows 98 but at least Windows 98 has a large library of apps and games.

It's hard for me to even consider NG Amigas to be Amigas....they're more like severely crippled PPC Macs than any of the Amigas I once knew.  Hyperion severely bungled things with OS4 and lately it seems that bungling is all they're good at.  I got tired of waiting for Hyperion to deliver on all their unfulfilled promises (10 years and counting on some of them) and took my money elsewhere. I'll never purchase another product from them.


Mallagan Bellator

Posts 393
30 Oct 2017 17:47


ExiE CZEX wrote:

Mallagan Bellator wrote:
Botom line, let Apollo team do the hardware, and Hyperion do the software, let’s hope everyone will be able to hold hands, and the future of the Amiga will be good ;)
 

 
  Are you crazy??????? Let Hyperion do it and you can wait forever.
  I don't even like the phrase "Hyperion is working on OS3.1 update".
  Olaf and Thomas do. I wonder if they are at least paid for their work, or it is just their hobby and free time...

Don’t ever call me crazy, I will threaten your mail box with potato salad! ;)


Mallagan Bellator

Posts 393
30 Oct 2017 17:48


Olaf Schoenweiss wrote:

there will be no substantial improvements, just bugfixes and some changes both already have on their harddisks but were not allowed to integrate. Additionally, 3.X not includes network stack, not includes USB support, not includes RTG, not includes AHI...
 
  Both developer will not start real development for 68k again, Thomas clearly stated that money is not his first problem, skilled devs have their fulltime jobs and I assume like everyone else private life. How much do you think is needed to get development for commercial reasons, it is simply unrealistic, even if Vampire/Apollo becomes a real success in amiga terms.

This could also be just the beginning


Steve Ferrell

Posts 424
30 Oct 2017 18:11


Mallagan Bellator wrote:

 
Olaf Schoenweiss wrote:

  there will be no substantial improvements, just bugfixes and some changes both already have on their harddisks but were not allowed to integrate. Additionally, 3.X not includes network stack, not includes USB support, not includes RTG, not includes AHI...
   
    Both developer will not start real development for 68k again, Thomas clearly stated that money is not his first problem, skilled devs have their fulltime jobs and I assume like everyone else private life. How much do you think is needed to get development for commercial reasons, it is simply unrealistic, even if Vampire/Apollo becomes a real success in amiga terms.
 

  This could also be just the beginning
 

 
 
Trust me....it isn't.  Amigas are a retro-geek hobby.  Any talk of the Amiga rising from the ashes to take the world by storm is simply  delusional.


Vojin Vidanovic

Posts 770
30 Oct 2017 18:25


Steve Ferrell wrote:
 
  Trust me....it isn't.  Amigas are a retro-geek hobby.  Any talk of the Amiga rising from the ashes to take the world by storm is simply  delusional.
 

 
  Surely, but there should be something in between.
 
  Like few nice apps and old ones updated, game or two and OS updates. Something like you have
  seen an the event, but more and more frequent >:-)

Steve Ferrell wrote:

  It's hard for me to even consider NG Amigas to be Amigas....they're more like severely crippled PPC Macs than any of the Amigas I once knew. 

My x1000 is NOT like Mac! Mac can run decent Linux with 3D! *not to mention MacOS X


Steve Ferrell

Posts 424
30 Oct 2017 18:32


Vojin Vidanovic wrote:

 
Steve Ferrell wrote:
 
    Trust me....it isn't.  Amigas are a retro-geek hobby.  Any talk of the Amiga rising from the ashes to take the world by storm is simply  delusional.
 

 
  Surely, but there should be something in between.
 
  Like few nice apps and old ones updated, game or two and OS updates. Something like you have
  seen an the event, but more and more frequent >:-)
 

 
True, but nothing like that will be coming from Hyperion.  Hyperion is the antithesis of innovation and progress.  Hyperion is more than happy to keep an OS frozen in time (2003) on CPUs that perform like it's 2003 also.
 
Most of the patches and updates for OS3 that they're talking about now are already available on the net.  They just want to charge you a premium for the packaging.  Just think ApolloOS with Hyperion's trademark stamped all over it.


John William

Posts 563
30 Oct 2017 18:43


Steve Ferrell wrote:

Vojin Vidanovic wrote:

 
Steve Ferrell wrote:
 
    Trust me....it isn't.  Amigas are a retro-geek hobby.  Any talk of the Amiga rising from the ashes to take the world by storm is simply  delusional.
   

   
    Surely, but there should be something in between.
   
    Like few nice apps and old ones updated, game or two and OS updates. Something like you have
    seen an the event, but more and more frequent >:-)
 

 
  True, but nothing like that will be coming from Hyperion.  Hyperion is the antithesis of innovation and progress.  Hyperion is more than happy to keep an OS frozen in time (2003) on CPUs that perform like it's 2003 also.
 
  Most of the patches and updates for OS3 that they're talking about now are already available on the net.  They just want to charge you a premium for the packaging.  Just think ApolloOS with Hyperion's trademark stamped all over it.

BRAVO! BRAVO!! EXACTLY!!


Captain Zalo

Posts 71
30 Oct 2017 18:52


Thierry's post cracked me up. True story.
I think it's sad Hyperion doesn't open source AmigaOS. If they let the OS live on in the enthusiast community, it might actually have a future.


Wawa T

Posts 695
30 Oct 2017 18:54


John William wrote:

  WOW! You are serious!?? @_@ Now you lost all credibility of being excited with truth or even valid reason!

hes always been blatant hyperion and os4 fanboy. though, since he has been subsequently banned from all the sites he could praise it on endlessly, he apparently had to find an emotional substitute, which was natami and then vampire. good thing, its just talk without any consequences.


Wawa T

Posts 695
30 Oct 2017 19:00


one needs to be cautious with companies like hyperion. cooperating with them on any subject, not just os3 may lead one to have ndas and stuff imposed on him, with the effect that he might not contribute to an open alternative nor even release his own stuff, coded upon the gained knowledge of the sources they claim.
 
  there are notable exceptions from this assumptions, like salass00, who was still contributing stuff to aros alongside os4, but many seem to take the threat seriously. most prominently thor himself.


Renee Cousins
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 142
30 Oct 2017 19:01


Captain Zalo wrote:

Thierry's post cracked me up. True story.
  I think it's sad Hyperion doesn't open source AmigaOS. If they let the OS live on in the enthusiast community, it might actually have a future.

I agree 110%. What value is there in keeping it closed now.



Thierry Atheist

Posts 644
30 Oct 2017 19:09


Steve Ferrell wrote:
I hope you're being sarcastic and not being serious...

Hi Steve Ferrell,

I am 100% serious to the last letter in what I wrote in those two posts. ZERO sarcasm on my part.

Amiga Inc. were a bunch of morons, BUT selling the rights of AOS to Hyperion and working with Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) were their ONLY redeeming qualities, happening completely by fluke, I might add!!!!

I can see that some here have the mentally demented instability of anti-Trumpers in their hatred of Hyperion too. I visualise them like this!
EXTERNAL LINK 
Steve Ferrell wrote:
having owned an NG Amiga I really tried to find something to like about OS4 on my NG Amiga but simply couldn't.

I seriously doubt that. (See video above.)
In fact, I would call you a liar if you solemnly stand by that statement.
Steve Ferrell wrote:
OS4 was/is slow and woefully lacking in software.

It was NOT (very) slow. That's a fake assessment by yourself. YOU simply hate Hyperion.
And the fact that it was/is lacking in software is NOT Hyperion's fault at all!!!!
Steve Ferrell wrote:
The lack of multi-user capabilities,

Pretty much, for the most part, Amiga users don't care about that. I NEVER (<--yes, 100% accurate) will.

Steve Ferrell wrote:
lack of useful software and the lack of security made it impossible for me to use it or recommend it for anything more than a curiosity to folks in the IT industry and I'd never recommend an NG Amiga and OS4 to a casual home user period. OS4 has rough feature parity with Windows 98 but at least Windows 98 has a large library of apps and games.

Again, falling to "lack of software" which Hyperion Entertainment have NO control over.

As for security, while people want that, the cost of it is too high and leads to a debilitating framework when one of the core principles of AOS was a simple USER MANIPULABLE OS. For instance, the CURSED windos REGISTRY is one of many things that come about as a result of "security features" implementations!!!!!!

What was the DOWNFALL of their attempted re-entry into the mainstream computing scene was DISGUSTINGLY expensive hardware, and NOTHING ELSE but THAT!!!!!

Steve Ferrell wrote:
It's hard for me to even consider NG Amigas to be Amigas....they're more like severely crippled PPC Macs than any of the Amigas I once knew.

HA!!! PREPOSTEROUS! They're NOTHING LIKE MACS!!!!!!
Steve Ferrell wrote:
Hyperion severely bungled things with OS4 and lately it seems that bungling is all they're good at.

Rather then attempting to explain why it is that you don't like them (FAIL), it would be easier to say that you HATE them.... Don't know why, but you do.
Steve Ferrell wrote:
I got tired of waiting for Hyperion to deliver on all their unfulfilled promises (10 years and counting on some of them) and took my money elsewhere. I'll never purchase another product from them.

Yeah, that's okay too.

But, you should redirect your anger at the REAL culprits in this case.....

And, I'll tell you the story of what it is.....

The INCOMPETENT IDIOTS that are responsible for the disappearance of AMIGAS from mainstream computing are IBM and motorola/freescale.

IBM OWNED the microcomputer market, and then allowed clones to appear that took ALL of their sales away (so much for DIVERSITY, eh?). They were IDIOTS for NOT writing the OS for their microcomputer THEMSELVES that allowed for the creation of the monstrosity MICROPOOP that went on to create a TRAVESTY they refer to as an "OPERATING SYSTEM" called WIN-DOS!!!!

motorola(freescale), ABANDONED a PERFECTLY GOOD CPU architecture to make RISC based CPUs. Meanwhile, they were making ALWAYS more expensive CPUs because their production volumes were lower, and now they go out on a limb, expecting everyone that bought into 680x0 computers and software to just leap over to MORE EXPENSIVE STILL (because it's) new hardware AND being stuck with ZERO asset value for their massive software acquisition over time TOO..... KISS OF DEATH --- IDIOCY!!!!!

And in the end, they could NEVER mass produce OR deliver on time, their CPUs proclaimed to be faster than the CPUs that were made by intel AND WHOSE CHIPS WERE AVAILABLE to the market.

BUT, it mattered NOT, EVEN IF they had made the CPUs on time AND had them available in quantity AND they were faster BECAUSE they were MORE EXPENSIVE. And even then, the drawback (a serious one) was crazy inflated software sizes that came with the technology.

When Hyeprion came on the scene, they were a decidedly SOFTWARE company. They had to go with a CPU that didn't exist --->advanced 680x0 CPUs, or PPC, where there was a history established, or cold start on 80x86 CPUs where endianness was a BIG issue too.

They chose PPC. I was 100% opposed to that, but as there was NOTHING ELSE AVAILABLE, I nonetheless, supported the idea. I bought an AmigaOne XE when it came out. Never have I thought that that was the wrong thing to do.

While that motherboard had some technical problems, it is 100% NOT Hyperion Entertainment's fault... It was 100% NOT Eyetech's (Alan Brickhouse) fault either!!!!

The FAULT and BLAME lie DIRECTLY at the feet of motorola(freescale).

THEY want to sell 500,000, 1,000,000 or 100,000,000 CPUs and YET, they DID NOT MAKE IT POSSIBLE for a motherboard that WORKS to EXIST. They figured "hey, ya gots da CPU, now off you go, piece o'cake".... DIDN'T THEY LOOK AND SEE THAT NO ONE WAS MAKING COMPUTERS WITH THEIR CPUs?????

IF they wanted CPUs that they make to be sold, they should have DONE SOMETHING ABOUT IT! Like make it EASY to do! THEY ARE THEIR OWN DOWNFALL... and took AMIGA with them!!!!! :-( :-( :-(

Hyperion Entertainment and Eyetech KEPT AMIGA ALIVE!

But, I do blame them for a big mistake.

Amiga Inc. and Eyetech and Hyperion should have realised that the BULK (80% +) of AMIGA users, what they REALLY wanted was OLD AMIGA made ANEW.

They wanted the BoXeR, the NatAmi, the Apollo Cored Vampire.... AmiJoe even!!!!

I'm getting what I want... WOOO HOOO!!!!


Thierry Atheist

Posts 644
30 Oct 2017 19:41


wawa t wrote:
John William wrote:
WOW! You are serious!?? @_@ Now you lost all credibility of being excited with truth or even valid reason!

hes always been blatant hyperion and os4 fanboy. though, since he has been subsequently banned from all the sites he could praise it on endlessly,

That's an outright LIE, wawa t! You chose to say it like that, but it's beyond stretching the truth, too.

I was banned by AmigaWorld.Net, as it was because I CHALLENGED THEM on the ALLOWANCE of people posting LIES in their POSTS!

The administrators were ALLOWING PEOPLE TO LIE in what they were posting on that website.

I GOT SICK OF IT and said "THEY GO OR I GO", so, what happened? I LEFT!!!!!! (Yeah, they kept the liars!)

So, wawa t, what other messageboards was I banned from?


Wawa T

Posts 695
30 Oct 2017 20:08


werent you a member on aorg too? and most notably moobunny spammer? ;) also congrats on political aympathies ;)

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