[News] SciTech Software Inc. announcement | ANN.lu |
Posted on 18-Feb-2003 21:36 GMT by Gareth Knight | 195 comments View flat View list |
SciTech Software Inc. and Hyperion Entertainment VOF are pleased to announce they have enterered into a strategic partnership which will see SciTech's SNAP(tm) technology integrated into AmigaOS 4.x which is currently under development by Hyperion for PPC based systems.
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SciTech Software Inc. announcement : Comment 62 of 195 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Seehund on 19-Feb-2003 00:34 GMT | In reply to Comment 50 (Max): > Well it's clearly a marketing oriented announcement to try to keep people
> attracted by OS 4 so they'll wait for it.
Well, all announcements are marketing, there's not much use in making announcements about your commercial products otherwise. :) Nothing inherently wrong with that really.
> So yes that's garanty OS 4 to support ATI and NVidia chips (maybe as I doubt
> that NVidia gave anything else than binary elements to Scitech, so that their
> drivers are only working under x86).
SNAP seems to be 2D drivers only, and there are already open sourced 2D nVidia (and ATI, but that goes without saying) drivers available (Linux, XF86, and in contrast to SNAP those already exist in PPC versions).
Personally I'd prefer to see an initial support of the most commonly available and popular cards - if that means an earlier release of OS 4.0 - rather than introducing what looks like a drastic change of core OS components (either SNAP or P96 or both and God knows what) in order to support a boatload of ancient and/or obscure stuff in addition to what people actually use and want. Have a look at that list. MGA Millennium? IBM VGA compatibles? 176 chip-sets? 2D only? Big woop. :P
Again: Is this change planned for 4.0, or a later revision? |
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