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[News] Hyperion Entertainment officially endorses Amiga 's OS 4 strategy.ANN.lu
Posted on 11-Apr-2001 07:31 GMT by Christian Kemp8 comments
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Ben Yoris/Hyperion wrote: In the aftermath of the recent announcement by Amiga Inc. that the Classic Amiga OS would be ported to PPC, many users have asked us to comment on the technical merit of Amiga's OS 4 strategy and what it would mean for games and 3D graphics.
News: 10-April-2001: Hyperion Entertainment officially endorses Amiga 's OS 4 strategy.

In the aftermath of the recent announcement by Amiga Inc. that the Classic Amiga OS would be ported to PPC, many users have asked us to comment on the technical merit of Amiga's OS 4 strategy and what it would mean for games and 3D graphics.

Prior to Amiga's announcement, senior software engineers of Hyperion Entertainment identified the key bottlenecks in the Amiga OS which hampered the performance of our games: the slow 68K based filesystem, the 68K based RTG system, the lack of virtual memory and the dual CPU architecture of the current PPC boards which generates performance-crippling context switches.

Amiga OS 4 will address all these issues and do much more.

We can confidently predict that with Amiga OS 4, users can look forward to performance levels never before seen on the Amiga.

Hyperion Entertainment has therefore signed on to develop the 3D API for Amiga OS 4 and provide a fully featured OpenGL™ implementation through Mesa 3.4.

All our current and future game-titles will take full advantage of everything that OS 4 has to offer.

Unlike some who unashamedly claim that « games don't play an important role anymore in the current Amiga market », we are committed to once more make the name « Amiga » synonymous with top-quality entertainment software.

Senior staff-members of Hyperion Entertainment will continue to work with Amiga Inc. to ensure that Amiga OS 4 will provide everything game-developers need to accomplish the goal of putting Amiga back at the forefront of gaming and 3D graphics.

*Amiga is a registered trademark of Amiga Inc. All other trademarks are owned by their respective owners.

Hyperion Entertainment officially endorses Amiga 's OS 4 strategy. : Comment 1 of 8ANN.lu
Posted by Christophe Decanini on 10-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT
Hi Ben,
Look two post before yours ;)
Hyperion Entertainment officially endorses Amiga 's OS 4 strategy. : Comment 2 of 8ANN.lu
Posted by Ben Yoris/Hyperion on 10-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Christophe Decanini):
I perfectly know.
But one part of my job is to post official press releases.
Bye,
Ben
Hyperion Entertainment officially endorses Amiga 's OS 4 strategy. : Comment 3 of 8ANN.lu
Posted by Lawrence Owen on 10-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT
Are Hyperion intending to compile their future games for the Amiga OS (4.2+) directly or for AmigaDE? Is there expected to be much of a performance difference between the two for this kind of software?
Hyperion Entertainment officially endorses Amiga 's OS 4 strategy. : Comment 4 of 8ANN.lu
Posted by Ben Yoris/Hyperion on 10-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Lawrence Owen):
In the close future, our games will be compiled for OS 4.x.
When DE is here, we will have another alternative.
Our contracts says "the AmigaOS by Amiga Inc." so it includes both AmigaOS 4.x and AmigaDE.
So we have choice.
Hyperion Entertainment officially endorses Amiga 's OS 4 strategy. : Comment 5 of 8ANN.lu
Posted by Christophe Decanini on 10-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Ben Yoris/Hyperion):
I know but we knew it was true as the link goes directly to Hyperion web site.
Anyway good news !
Bye, Christophe.
Hyperion Entertainment officially endorses Amiga 's OS 4 strategy. : Comment 6 of 8ANN.lu
Posted by Ben Yoris/Hyperion on 10-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Christophe Decanini):
OK no prob on that.
Just want to post officially in the name of Hyperion so that everything is fine.
Hyperion Entertainment officially endorses Amiga 's OS 4 strategy. : Comment 7 of 8ANN.lu
Posted by Poxy on 10-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Ben Yoris/Hyperion):
Hi Ben,
So I guess you showing interest in MorphOS should not be seen as any official action on Hyperion's behalf?
Hyperion Entertainment officially endorses Amiga 's OS 4 strategy. : Comment 8 of 8ANN.lu
Posted by Ben Yoris/Hyperion on 10-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 7 (Poxy):
Yes, as an ordinary user, I take some looks at Morphos to see how performant it is, and if I need/want it. This is Ben Yoris' opinion as a user.
As for Hyperion Entertainment, we already stated that we won't support it, unless, one day perharps, it becomes an official part of the Amiga OS efforts. And this for economical and contractual reasons as we already said several times.
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