Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1193 from 2003/2/24
From: Helsinki, Finland
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However, OS 4.0 development was now taken by Hyperion,
It could also be noted that some time before that there were negotiations about making MorphOS AmigaOS4. But the negotiations failed for many reasons (for example Amiga inc. demanded some big changes, such as changing CGX to P96, MUI to reaction etc.)
Maybe those failed negotiations (and the decision to keep on developing MorphOS) launched the "Get Legal" -FUDcampaign.
At that time MorphOS was lacking many programs that Classic AmigaOS had, but had it become the official AmigaOS, it could have used the files from AmigaOS3.x via emulation (well it could do that, but obviously those files could be only distributed with "AmigaOS" which MorphOS didn't become)
Instead, the development team created similar programs "from scratch". MorphOS still lacks some less important utilities present on Classic AmigaOS (most of which most users consider useless anyway)
MorphOS still hasn't got full arexx support (which you can get by replacing one file in MorphOS installation by same file from AmigaOS3.0 installation)
(It should also be noted that if MorphOS had become official AmigaOS, the arexx support would still have had to be rewritten, as there's no valid license for it, even for 3.x releases!)
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2004 was also the year when the first OS 4.0 release finally made it on the Amiga one, before it "just" run on the PPC equipped Amigas.
Only official betatesters had/have access to AmigaOS4.0 for Classic Amiga. 2004 was the year when AmigaOS4 beta was made available to EVERYONE who had bought A1.
