No, we are a bit overworked, but otherwise quite alive:-)
I regret the delays, but the next issue of The Oberon Tribune should go into
print still this year, although shipping might not make it until year's end.
In the new issue we'll discuss many things, from Direct-To-COM compilation,
Windows API interfacing, SQL database access, the new Portos real-time
operating system, the Denia cross-development extensions of Oberon/F for
developing Portos components, and we'll preview Release 1.3. We've become
more careful with release predictions; our plans are for a general beta
release in March and final release in June. Around the same time, a tutorial
book should be available as draft, to be published in print next fall. No
promises: but if this is desired, we may make a developer release available
around christmas, which would really only be for adventureous developers,
since the documentation would be largely inconsistent. The first two parts of
the book could also be made available then. However, we are a bit hesitant to
do it, because the feedback may be more than we can handle. If we don't
respond to feedback, we're considered dead or unfriendly; if we respond, we
may not find time anymore to do further development. Maybe someone can think
of a way to preprocess feedback so we can handle it more efficiently.
Cuno Pfister
Oberon microsystems, Inc.