[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 12:01 GMT | In reply to Comment 57 (Peg2): This is nothing about personal opinion. It's about facts. You can't simply port an OS from one architecture to another architecture and claim API compatibility when you start promoting this type of Interfacing. To provide API compatibility you need to guarantee API compatibility and not start getting 'creative' here. The Amiga community is still big enough and still has a lot of capable developers. You can't simply fuck up an existing and proven API because of your own CASH FLOW interests (Hyperion). You can't simply blow up an entire OS and still sell it as something same to the customers and telling them 'here does the AmigaOS continue' while the resulting OS is everything else than what Amiga makes Amiga. I am a lucky person and was able to play with OS4 as well as MorphOS and was able to play with a lot of sources from both sides (3rd party stuff) and I can tell you that OS4's API haxoring is far to much. If you want to go to something new then I have to agree with Fabio Alemagne here. You should have created something new and wrapped the old Interface correctly and then slowly migrated to something new. The same way MorphOS did this correctly by offering their ABOX and API compatibility and then one day continue with their QBOX which then will be something new but still Amiga from spirit. I am sick of this 'here a bit glue, there a bit glue, there a bit hack' and then call it AmigaOS4 while it has nothing in common with what Amiga was. Using dynamic linked libraries (share libraries) is insane and has nothing in common with Amiga spirit. The Amiga way was and still is shared libraries as we knew it. What OS4 offers now are 3 halfassed ways of dealing with libraries which is a huge mess. Interface API is a mess.
This has nothing to do with blaming OS4 as such, as project, as idea.
I only blame Hyperion for being the wrong people for doing this. And I am quite curious how the future of this OS will look once the first developers start puking. Things like SNAP etc. they have nothing in common with Amiga. |
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