[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 Steffen Haeuser on 09-Jun-2004 14:23 GMT | In reply to Comment 84 (Fabio Alemagna): >3) The "hackish" feeling of this "new way". Although I admit this is more of a >personal consideration, it can't be argued that there are cleaner solutions to do >what Hyperion has done. A true component model would have been way better, and >wouldn't have broken compatibility.
Well, to me it looks even less hacky than the old one. And the tools can generate me everything (includes,...) for a library automatically (if I'd liked to do a library with gcc under 3.x it would have been much harder). I can even pre-generate an "empty" library core for a library I want to port from OS 3.x to OS 4, so I "only" have to fill in the functionality then. That makes ports a lot easier.
>to use 68k libraries from PPC programs seamlessy (I sincerely hope so). I also >said that this was a minor point, among all the other ones.
Sure you can use 68k libraries from PPC programs seamlessy.
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