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[News] AmigaOS4 status updateANN.lu
Posted on 09-Sep-2002 10:46 GMT by Elwood84 comments
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As shown at the French Amiga show this week-end, here is the status update of the AmigaOS4 project. - exec will be finished this week.
- ramlib is done
- dos is done
- intuition is 95% done. The new sys-i class still needs to be added. Work scheduled for completion end of the month. The prefs program is done at 80%
- graphics is done
- layers is done
- utility is done
- iffparse is done
- cia.ressource
- audio.device
- timer.device done at 99%
- keyboard.device done at 99% (a few lines of ASM code left)
- input.device done
- keymap.library done
- lowlevel.library done
- utility.library done
- clip handler
This is the very first release of the cliphandler, i.e. the CONCLIP: device, that provides clipboard support on the level of the dos stream I/O. It also provides a simple library for applications that cannot call the dos.library directly.
- queue handler done
- shell, features added, bugs fixed
- cdfs is done
- FFS2 is done. Plugin feature added allowing (plugins can be added to some partitions for encryption, caching, mirroring....)
i.e. you can write a plugin that allows you to encrypt automatically all files copied into a partition.
- AmiDock is done. One of the so many features are the Dockies.
These are plugins that allow the user to add active content into the dock like a running clock or a lens that displays the area under the mouse pointer, or ... whatever you want ! Who will write a demo in a Docky ? :-)
- GhostScript is added. It allows to create/display PostScript or PDF. Also a port of xPDF will be added.
- USB stack (with Subway/Highway/Thyclacine support)
- Soundblaster Live drivers!
- MUI
- Ibrowse 2.3
- PPC native datatypes
- Reaction (95% finished)
- MediaToolbox
- PartitionWizard
- ft2.manager, diskfont.library. You'll now be able to open all sort of font formats...

Items still outstanding for OS 4:

- SCSI driver
- Remaining Intuition/Reaction work (5%)
- Roadshow GUI completion
- 2D driver completion (5% remaining)
- 68K emulation integration
- AmigaInput (nearly done)

Best regards,

Ben Hermans
Managing partner Hyperion Entertainment

AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 1 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Elwood on 09-Sep-2002 08:49 GMT
I wanted to say again that the OS4 modules I've shown at the Amiga show were running on my A1200 with 060 and AGA chipset. So it was damn slow and very ugly.
If someone wants to buy me a GFX card, please do ! :-)
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 2 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by o1i on 09-Sep-2002 09:03 GMT
So what is this? An official announcement/status report?
Not much of use, if you don't know, what "done" means. Could
mean, that it
- compiles on 68k
- runs on 68k
- heavily beta tested on 68k
- compiles on old Amiga PPC HW
- runs on Amiga PPC HW
- heavily beta tested on Amiga PPC HW
and yes, could even mean, it runs on the AmigaOne..
Integration of the 68k emu seems to be a quite big task left. And if this
has not been done so far, not a single old 68k program has been tested
under OS4!?
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 3 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Graham on 09-Sep-2002 09:13 GMT
Ah! Finally a decent update of where things are currently with OS4.
So hopefully by the end of September all that will remain to be done is the completion of the 68k emulator integration? I wonder how long this would take to do?
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 4 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 09-Sep-2002 09:19 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (o1i):
Yes, you caught them red handed, it's not finished yet. Even though many things are done, you were too smart for them to trick you into thinking it's complete and tested. They couldn't fool you. Stay on your toes and keep on guard for more of this trickery, we need all the sharp wits like you on the lookout!
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 5 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 09-Sep-2002 09:33 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (Anonymous):
Luhu-seher.
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 6 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Elwood on 09-Sep-2002 09:36 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (o1i):
>So what is this? An official announcement/status report?
Yes it is.
"done" means compiles on 68k, runs on 68k, is actually beta tested on 68k.
But don't tell me, a lot of work is needed to convert it to PPC !
> not a single old 68k program has been tested under OS4!?
You mean into the emulation I think. How do you think Petunia (the emulator) is being done if no software is executed inside it ??? But yes, Petunia is not yet in beta-tester hands if it's what you meant.
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 7 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by o1i on 09-Sep-2002 09:45 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Elwood):
Thanks for the clarification. That was the reason, why I asked,
not to catch someone, Mr. Anon (4) ;).
How much work it is, to port to PPC is up to the quality of the sources,
that's up to you, to judge that. On the other hand, if everything
still runs on 68k, it is not much effort to release OS4 for xxx-thlon,
at least technically.
I think, there is a difference, if petunia runs on OS4 or on another
host system. If you test a 68k program in an emulator that calls
original 68k libs, or if you have the 68k running on a emulator
which calls PPC libs. But I might as well see problems, where there
are none ;), maybe I have been to long in SW development..
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 8 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Björn Hagström on 09-Sep-2002 09:51 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Elwood):
Few months to go then. Ohh well, hoping for the product formally known as Amithlon to be realeased in the mean time then.
/Björn
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 9 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by anarchic_teapot on 09-Sep-2002 10:03 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Elwood):
Elwood wrote:
> "done" means compiles on 68k, runs on 68k, is actually beta tested on 68k.
> But don't tell me, a lot of work is needed to convert it to PPC !
Back in June, one of the Freidens said they expected ExecSG alone to take a week.
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 10 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Bandaren on 09-Sep-2002 10:13 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (Björn Hagström):
Wouldn't bet on "Amithlon2" before PPC-OS4... something is funny here with the holdback on it.
It would make sense for Amiga Inc to "get rid" of OS 3.9 and Amithlon v1 as a product out there. Leaving the "mess" with H&P and so on. With OS4.0 they should have total control over the OS on "every platform" running AmigaOS in the future.
Probably we will see something like: Amiga OS4.0 PPC and Amiga OS 4.0 for-Amithlon2? To my knowledge OS4 is in much sense OS3.9 but rewritten in C and some new features added to it. Anyway.. I think atleast there will be some sort of "compabillity" between the new amithlon2 and OS4 there simply have to be.
Bandaren
Perhaps I will add something really lame here in the future.
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 11 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Björn Hagström on 09-Sep-2002 10:39 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (Bandaren):
Well, yeah, speculation is lots of fun isn't it.
/Björn
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 12 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 09-Sep-2002 10:40 GMT
It is good to see a detailed status report like this. Facts are better
than speculation any day. Thanks to Ben for releasing it.
IIRC the upgrade from OS 1.3 to OS 2.0 took about the same time.
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 13 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Bill Hoggett on 09-Sep-2002 10:57 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (Bandaren):
That's quite some flight of fantasy there. :)
The delay of "the product formerly known as Amithlon 2" has nothing to do with Amiga Inc. or AmigaOS 4.0, nor is there any connection between the product and AmigaOS 4.0 at all.
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 14 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Timofonic on 09-Sep-2002 11:20 GMT
and AmiSSL v2.0 ?
Utils as... YAM, Simplemail, Newscoaster.... ?
and how to put Delfina Flipper on amigaone ? i dont like sound blasters, i check it live and audigy and SUX, y prefer delfina flipper hehe
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 15 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Bandaren on 09-Sep-2002 11:48 GMT
In reply to Comment 13 (Bill Hoggett):
"nor is there any connection between the product and AmigaOS 4.0 at all"
Well if that is true, I think it's very sad.
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 16 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 09-Sep-2002 11:48 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Elwood):
Again, this time also for Elwood's benefit: OS 4 is nearly 100% source-code compatible with OS 3.x.
Provided a coder uses GCC (and nearly all OS 4 components are already migrated to GCC) the change to OS 4 will be trivial.
Bottom-line: GCC based source-code compiled for the 68K can be compiled for PPC (OS 4) quite easily.
This will not take months, rather days.
How does this work with hooks, input handlers and interrupts?
Hooks and input handlers are just 68k code that is called from PPC. No
special precaustions are needed, the emulator will catch instruction
reads from illegal code segments and just assume they are 68k.
For interrupts, there's a different mechanism. Interrupt code is called
through specialised hooks (struct Interrupt), which contain a full
struct Node (including type). There are now two types that actually
define an interrupt, NT_INTERRUPT, which is an old 68k interrupt, and
NT_EXINTERRUPT, which is a PPC native interrupt.
> They must be 68k code or else old 68k apps could not run at all. If you
> compile your app for PPC, all code will be PPC -> problem.
That's the usual bullshit, and that's the prime reason for the exception
based cpu switches: With our approach, there is *NO DISTINCTION* between
68k code and PPC code. All code is _assumed_ to be PPC, and is jumped to
accordingly. But PPC code is only loaded into specific virtual segments
(these are flagged as executable). If the CPU tries to fetch
instructions from a non-execute segment, an exception is triggered, and
the emulator will pick up. Likewise, the emulator know which segments
contain PPC code, so if a 68k program wants to jump into PPC code, the
emulator just transfers control to the normal operation.
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 17 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 09-Sep-2002 11:49 GMT
In reply to Comment 14 (Timofonic):
>AmiSSL v2.0
Done since quite some time.
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 18 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 09-Sep-2002 11:52 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (anarchic_teapot):
What Thomas Frieden said was that to adapt Exec SG to different hardware will take around 1 week and a half.
Exec SG contains most of the hardware dependencies of AmigaOS that are still relevant today (as opposed to say, graphics.library which is superseded by P96).
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 19 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 09-Sep-2002 12:02 GMT
No mention of Workbench? Has DOpus been rewritten for PPC?
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 20 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by priest on 09-Sep-2002 12:33 GMT
In reply to Comment 19 (Anonymous):
IIRC, DOpus will appear in 4.1 or in BB (or it will be sold separately...)
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 21 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by kriz on 09-Sep-2002 12:54 GMT
nice to see it is progressing. great work hyperion!
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 22 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Frank Gutschow on 09-Sep-2002 13:18 GMT
@ Ben Hermans:
What about the important 2D and 3D-Drivers for ATi-Radeon
Graphiccards? Will the actual Radeon 9000-Series (up from 100 euros,
great value) being supported?
Greetings
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 23 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by anonymous on 09-Sep-2002 13:37 GMT
Excellent news!
For the naysayers, take a look at the breadth and depth of the work being done here.
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 24 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Timofonic on 09-Sep-2002 13:49 GMT
is interesant including utils on the os such as... mail clients, news clients...
jabberwocky...
do i can put my amiga keyboard on amigaone ? i hate PC keyboards :P
News amiga keyboards ? not PC keyboards ¨drawed¨...
And a util for upgrade your amigaos 4 ? and a location for the ¨boing bags¨ example...
i have on a cd the boing bags... im installing the system...
or, execute the installer... upgrade... and automatically upgrading drivers and boing bags, the program get it the lha/lzx files and...
no such as SUX windows upgrade
a good system and fiable
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 25 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by priest on 09-Sep-2002 13:57 GMT
In reply to Comment 22 (Frank Gutschow):
I bet some 7x00 and 8x00 versions are supported and 9x00 & Matrox Parhelia support will appear later... as well as the new warp3d support for 3d effects beyond Voodoo3.
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 26 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Vidar on 09-Sep-2002 14:06 GMT
In reply to Comment 25 (priest):
I just hope they don't waste time by extending Warp3D to support vertex and pixel sharders,
but rather support OpenGL2.0 (or the MESA equivalent) when it's released.
Vidar
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 27 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Me on 09-Sep-2002 14:20 GMT
In reply to Comment 16 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion):
Thanks for that background. It sounds like a clever way to achieve the goal, and also gives me much confidence that the 68K apps integration will work very smoothly.
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 28 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by José on 09-Sep-2002 14:26 GMT
That all very cool. 2 things come to mind: Drivers for Matrox Pahrnelia, and Radeon cards status? And what about that bridge that was being done by Escena that to connect an A1200 motherboard(I know it's not directly related but still...)
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 29 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Kolbjørn Barmen on 09-Sep-2002 14:37 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Elwood):
So, since this is all 68k anyways the obvious question arise:
Any chance we'll see 68k OS4, or at least a frigging big BB for OS3.9?
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 30 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Chris Y on 09-Sep-2002 15:45 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (anarchic_teapot):
>> "done" means compiles on 68k, runs on 68k, is actually beta tested on 68k.
>> But don't tell me, a lot of work is needed to convert it to PPC !
>Back in June, one of the Freidens said they expected ExecSG alone to take a week.
Surely it just needs recompiling for PPC? Back in June it was stated that porting the entire OS to a different platform (to the AmigaOne most likely) would only take two weeks.
Chris
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 31 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Chris Y on 09-Sep-2002 15:52 GMT
In reply to Comment 16 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion):
> If the CPU tries to fetch
> instructions from a non-execute segment, an exception is triggered, and
> the emulator will pick up. Likewise, the emulator know which segments
> contain PPC code, so if a 68k program wants to jump into PPC code, the
> emulator just transfers control to the normal operation
That's very clever. Could the same approach be used to add eg. AGA emulation in the future?
Chris
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 32 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 09-Sep-2002 16:18 GMT
In reply to Comment 31 (Chris Y):
I'm not a developer but I do know that Exec SG has an excellent and flexible system to handle MMU set-ups.
A MMU set-up could be used to catch programs trying to bang the chipsets and redirect.
It's clear however that this is not a priority for us at this time, especially in view of the fact that for chipset banging programs a specialised version of UAE is the way to go.
Radeon drivers are being worked on by Forefront Technologies.
They won't hold up the release of OS 4 for the current PPC hardware.
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 33 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Ole-Egil on 09-Sep-2002 16:23 GMT
In reply to Comment 29 (Kolbjørn Barmen):
Hiya, dude.
I'm beginning to think the same thing. Maybe there IS hope for AOS4 for m68k (would make xxxithlon a LOT better ;-) )
Only time will tell, I suppose. Personally, I think ppc is more important, though. When AOS4 is ready for the planned platforms I'll start bugging people about RS6k support ;-)
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 34 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 09-Sep-2002 16:24 GMT
In reply to Comment 30 (Chris Y):
>that porting the entire OS to a different platform (to the AmigaOne most likely) >would only take two weeks.
I think you misunderstood.
Porting Exec SG to different PPC hardware would only take two weeks.
Porting the entire OS to a different CPu architecture (especially one that is little endian) would prove to be quite a challenge.
It can be done ofcourse given sufficient resources and money.
But then, few things can't be done given sufficient resources and money.
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 35 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 09-Sep-2002 16:37 GMT
In reply to Comment 33 (Ole-Egil):
Hyperion doesn't have a license for 0S 4 68K so don't look at us.
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 36 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by AMIGA_IS_DEAD on 09-Sep-2002 16:51 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Elwood):
Sorry but this weekend I was also at the French Show called Alchimie. Eyetech was there showing 2 AONE. The first one which has a CPU included in the mainboard was running Linux (very ugly as a kind of Slackware), the other board with a separated CPU wasn't running at all.
About the AOS4 new features, there wasn't any A4000 showing parts of AOS4...
>:-(
OK, Mr Redhouse was presenting the new features of AOS4 but nothing could been seen... it was just chitchatting and nothing more. Not very serious.
By the way, Mr Hermann, didn't Mr.Redhouse tell you that he shown nothing during the french show? It seems that you miss some communication inside your team ;-)
Hope that next time it will be more serious.
A VERY DISAPPOINTED USER WHO PAY A LOT TO GO TO FRANCE AND SEE NOTHING
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 37 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 09-Sep-2002 16:56 GMT
In reply to Comment 36 (AMIGA_IS_DEAD):
Hmm, considering that there are some screenshots of the demo of the OS 4 components, I fear that you are mistaken.
Again, I certainly did not welcome the fact that they were shown on a AGA A4000 which certainly was not the intention but last minute technical difficulties prevented anything else.
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 38 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Bill Hoggett on 09-Sep-2002 17:04 GMT
In reply to Comment 33 (Ole-Egil):
As Ben has said, Hyperion don't have a license for 68k, and no one else has access to the code, so there's no chance of OS4 on anything but PPC in the forseeable future. I'm sure you know that, anyway.
Some parts developed by third parties will be available separately for 68k AmigaOS, but not OS4 itself.
I thought *everyone* knew this by now?
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 39 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by anarchic_teapot on 09-Sep-2002 17:41 GMT
In reply to Comment 36 (AMIGA_IS_DEAD):
> The first one which has a CPU included in the mainboard was running Linux
>(very ugly as a kind of Slackware)
Dear troll, Linux is not a kind of Slackware. Slackware is a distribution of Linux.
In any case, it was SuSE PPC 7.3, with the fvwm2 window manager. It may not be eye candy (which rots the brain), but it's not a bad approximation to the sort of performance you should get with AOS4. Presumably you didn't bother to look too closely
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 40 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by strobe on 09-Sep-2002 18:22 GMT
To whomever was talking about the Radeon video cards:
IIRC the Radeon 9700 is AGP 8x which is only backward compatible to AGP 4x
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 41 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 09-Sep-2002 19:18 GMT
In reply to Comment 40 (strobe):
It can work with any AGP slot, without using the "turbo" stuff.
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 42 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Bandaren on 09-Sep-2002 20:41 GMT
In reply to Comment 38 (Bill Hoggett):
Since I somewhat started or atleast contributed with the "will OS4 run on amithlon2" subject in another thread, I might explain and perhaps clarify my thoughts here... :)
My point or question is not if the future Amithlon will have a versionumber saying OS 4.0 or something like that. I will try to be pretty clear about thisone.
My question to Amiga Inc that pops up in my head when I see things like the latest executive update is: Will the new and exciting Amiga Laptops running the next generation Amithlon with features that knocks my feets of or whatever run and take advantage of the new features presented in "new" modules in OS4 ? Or will we pretty much be left in the back with 3.9 ?
Now I pretty much suspect that "amithlon2" will be compatable with the new features in OS4 because that is the future simple as that. To me as an enduser a OS 3.9 + OS 4.0 "new feature" modules compiled for x86 or 68k will be pretty much the same thing and that is what I think many people means when they ask for OS4 on 68k or "amithlon2".
And at last, I think "amithlon2" is important for bringing new users to the amiga platform in this stage, the actual Amiga One G3 is a dev-machine and for diehard amigans. Both are very important in my eyes and leaves roads open in the future if one way should close.
Bandaren
Someday I will put something really lame here.
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 43 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Bill Hoggett on 09-Sep-2002 21:35 GMT
In reply to Comment 42 (Bandaren):
@Bandaren
I see where the confusion is. You're assuming there is some sort of central control with a cohesive overall plan of action. Sadly, that just isn't the case.
AOS4 is effectively a Hyperion product. They make all design decisions, and they will decide how it gets marketed.
"version 2" (the product formerly known as xxxthlon 2) is Bernd Meyer's product. He makes all design decisions and will decide how it is marketed.
The observant reader will spot the lack of any connection between the two.
The laptops Amiga Inc were referring to are x86 machines with "version 2". They are considering selling these because there has always been an interest in running Amiga software on laptops, and at the moment there is no realistic prospect of any PPC laptop that would support AOS4. It's just a short term opportunity to make some cash, and who can blame them? There is no possibility of software written for AOS4 will run on these laptops, although some of the third party programs that will be included in AOS4 will also be released in 68k AmigaOS 3.x versions, and those will obviously run. (I'm thinking Roadshow, IBrowse, maybe others)
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 44 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Darrin on 09-Sep-2002 21:52 GMT
In reply to Comment 36 (AMIGA_IS_DEAD):
>>A VERY DISAPPOINTED USER WHO PAY A LOT TO GO TO FRANCE AND SEE NOTHING
Don't feel too bad - tourists do this all the time ;)
If you hang around the ports you may be entertained by French Farmers burning livestock imports despite the fact that their own livestocks are riddled with BSC/Foot & Mouth. Hang around other nations ports and you may be entertained by French Secret Service frogmen planting limpet mines on boats belonging to environmentalists (and they won't support action against Iraq!!!). :)
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 45 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Kal-L on 09-Sep-2002 22:31 GMT
In reply to Comment 36 (AMIGA_IS_DEAD):
You did not see anyhting? If you have made all this travel just to see some parts of OS4 (which were indeed demonstrated on A4000 AGA), then, yes you must have been disapointed since it lasted 20 mn maximum. But what did you except? AmigaOS 4 running on AmigaOne? It was not said anywhere that this was what should happen.
Nonetheless, you did not see anything else? Pegasos, MorphOS, Amithlon, a lot of Amigafans, Atarists, old/rare consoles, etc... And you said you did not see anything? Funny, I don't remember you in the assistance... Were you really here? So if you did not see anything, either you were asleep or you had s***t in your eyes (french expression, no insult).
--
Kal-L
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 46 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Kal-L on 09-Sep-2002 22:37 GMT
In reply to Comment 44 (Darrin):
Useless babbling against France has nothing to do in this thread. You don't like France is your point, no need to come here to shout it.
(By the way, if you want to talk about french geopolitics, try not to listen to medias and get informed by your own means).
--
Kal-L
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 47 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 09-Sep-2002 23:35 GMT
In reply to Comment 40 (strobe):
@Strobe
"To whomever was talking about the Radeon video cards:
IIRC the Radeon 9700 is AGP 8x which is only backward compatible to AGP 4x"
This is incorrect. The 9700 supports AGP x2.
http://mirror.ati.com/products/pc/radeon9700pro/faq.html#7
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 48 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Ole-Egil on 10-Sep-2002 01:36 GMT
In reply to Comment 47 (Anonymous):
nice page, but it doesn't mention AGP standards at all...
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 49 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Björn Hagström on 10-Sep-2002 01:48 GMT
In reply to Comment 48 (Ole-Egil):
Quote:
Q7: Is there a PCI version of RADEON™ 9700 PRO graphics card?
A7: RADEON™ 9700 PRO graphics card is only available in the Universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (2X/4X/8X).
/Björn
AmigaOS4 status update : Comment 50 of 84ANN.lu
Posted by Ole-Egil on 10-Sep-2002 04:13 GMT
In reply to Comment 49 (Björn Hagström):
Ah, there it is.
Notice how it says AGP3 only? Not a good sign, I would say...
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