[News] OS4 progress since pre-release | ANN.lu |
Posted on 08-Jun-2004 21:47 GMT by Peter Gordon | 228 comments View flat View list |
Hans-Jorg Frieden has posted a detailed status update on the progress of OS4 to Amigaworld.net.
Brief summary:
· Picasso96 and MUI PPC native
· Kernel supports PPC performance monitor and Altivec
· Moovid (released with OS3.9 as "action") is now running native, and can play DivX and other common formats
· GCC 3.4.0 is ported
· The C libraries are much faster. As a result AmiPDF is up to 60 times faster.
· Serial and floppy drivers coming soon
· USB is working and supports HID devices like keyboards and mice as well as HID joysticks and steering wheels, and USB mass storage devices like USB sticks, flash card readers, 7-in-1 card readers and cameras
· A1 IDE device now has working UDMA support. Also, interrupts are no longer polled but delivered properly. This means that the device does not require any CPU time for transfers.
This material will in due course be released for download to registered users of the Developer Pre-release on our web site at:
http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz
There is more detail in the original AW.net posting.
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Posted by Anonymous on 09-Jun-2004 09:44 GMT | In reply to Comment 28 (Don Cox): See Don Cox, this is exactly the point. There are a lot of Applications who use MUI and CGX because they are better than P96 and Reaction. Reaction is basicly a NEW Toolkit and needs to gain acceptance in the OS4 world first. Not to mention that Developers need to reeducate to use it.
That's why I think that MorphOS will always be leading here and always have the nose in front with their technology and Amiga spirit. They have the people who initially brought all this stuff to Amiga, these things are not lost.
How do you think Stunzi feels if the OS4 people go with Reaction mainstream, it's like saying MUI sucks or something. While the MorphOS people honour MUI as the Toolkit. A lot of real inplementations can be found on MorphOS while on OS4 the people went over to alternative solutions because they couldn't arrange themselves with the other party.
It's a bit hard to describe. Also the usage of *.lo (ld.so) shared libararies is more UNIX'ish than true Amiga'ish. This has nothing to do about bashing OS4 and hyping MorphOS or something, this has something to do with the clear spirit of the Amiga and how the things are meant to be. It's ok that Hyperion owns the legetime license to hack on OS4 but the question is, will OS4 still be the OS everyone was waiting for all the years ? Will it still be Amiga'ish in 2-4 years ? |
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