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New RadeonHD Driver Release
« on: November 17, 2013, 04:34:52 PM »
New RadeonHD Driver Release

Cardiff, 15th November 2013

A-EON Technology is pleased to announce that Version 1.0 RC2 (0.57) of the RadeonHD driver for AmigaOS 4.1 is now available for free download for AmigaONE X1000 and other registered customers.

Registered customers: http://www.a-eon.com/?page=download&os=amigaos
New customers: http://www.a-eon.com/?page=radeonhd

The new Version 1.0 RC2 (Release candidate) adds a few new features and bug fixes which improves card initialisation and solves intermittent boot problems which affected some Sapphire RadeonHD 6570 cards. The fixes and improvements include:-

    Golden register initialisation code added (golden registers are a table of registers supplied by AMD's hardware engineers to be initialised on startup)

    Improved the VGA (UBOOT/CFE screen) shutdown code for Evergreen+ chipsets. This solves the intermittent boot problems which affected some Sapphire Radeon HD 6570 cards. (and possibly others)

About the RadeonHD driver: The driver supports 2D and Compositing under AmigaOS 4.1 with a wide range of RadeonHD graphics cards including: the X1300-X1950 series, HD4000 series, "Evergreen" HD5000 series, "Northern Islands" HD6000 series and "Southern Island" HD7000 series RadeonHD cards. The RadeonHD driver development was commissioned by A-EON Technology for its ground breaking AmigaONE X1000 computer.

Please visit AmigaKit's website to obtain compatible RadeonHD graphics cards: http://www.amigakit.com

About the developer: Hans de Ruiter is an electrical & electronic engineer and leading AmigaOS developer and Amiga enthusiast. His website - HDRLab - details various projects, many of which are AmigaOS related. The biggest of these is the RadeonHD driver for AmigaOS, an ambitious project that aims to deliver modern graphics capabilities for the AmigaOS platform.
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Re: New RadeonHD Driver Release
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2013, 06:17:51 PM »
Alright!

So where is the 3D driver...?
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« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2013, 06:29:35 PM »
This is not for MorhOS :(
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Re: New RadeonHD Driver Release
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2013, 06:44:22 PM »
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This is not for MorhOS :(


Um, that's MorphOS.

And yes I have noticed as I was considering buying an Acube system, but unlike MorphOS, there isn't a 3D driver for later video cards (not even the Radeon 9800).

Wouldn't it be easier if the Frieden brothers asked for some help?

Development might go faster with more than two people working on it.
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Re: New RadeonHD Driver Release
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2013, 08:05:42 PM »
@thread

This is a positive step but I have to take issue with the hyperbole in the statement that the X1000 is a ground breaking computer. What ground would that be? Did someone drop it and leave a divot in the ground?

For goodness sakes, it performs on par with a Pentium class system from 2004 and now has 2D compositing, a feature that many systems have been capable of for over 20 years. Excuse me for not getting excited.

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Re: New RadeonHD Driver Release
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2013, 08:31:19 PM »
Is this any better than the driver that was banned recently?
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« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2013, 12:59:46 AM »
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For goodness sakes, it performs on par with a Pentium class system from 2004 and now has 2D compositing, a feature that many systems have been capable of for over 20 years. Excuse me for not getting excited.

A minor point of information: the Radeon HD driver has supported 2D compositing on all supported cards for a long time now. This release fixes some initialisation problems with certain cards. That's even less exciting... unless you have one of those cards.

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Is this any better than the driver that was banned recently?

A driver got banned? :confused:

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Re: New RadeonHD Driver Release
« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2013, 05:45:01 PM »
Any plans to add P96-PIP Overlay compatibility (even if it's emulated using GPU) or 3D support?
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Re: New RadeonHD Driver Release
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2013, 08:46:28 PM »
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@thread

This is a positive step but I have to take issue with the hyperbole in the statement that the X1000 is a ground breaking computer. What ground would that be? Did someone drop it and leave a divot in the ground?

For goodness sakes, it performs on par with a Pentium class system from 2004 and now has 2D compositing, a feature that many systems have been capable of for over 20 years. Excuse me for not getting excited.

Its pretty bad when I keep finding myself agreeing with a guy o usually take do not get along with.

But he has a point, 2D compositing? Not exactly revolutionary.

Although, the PPCs used in OS4 hardware are quite a bit more powerful than Pentium class hardware.
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Re: New RadeonHD Driver Release
« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2013, 09:16:07 PM »
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A driver got banned? :confused:

Because some idiots decided that having even less development in the Amiga community would be a good thing, apparently.  :bitch:
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Re: New RadeonHD Driver Release
« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2013, 09:54:50 PM »
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Because some idiots decided that having even less development in the Amiga community would be a good thing, apparently.  :bitch:


I have to admit this is the first time i have heard of a driver being banned. What driver was banned? What is the story behind the banning?
 

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« Reply #12 on: November 18, 2013, 10:03:39 PM »
I wonder if Vox will get this update?  I seem to remember him saying that Hyperion had banned him from receiving updates for his X1000, but IIRC this driver has nothing to do with Hyperion so I hope he does get it.
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« Reply #13 on: November 18, 2013, 10:07:49 PM »
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I have to admit this is the first time i have heard of a driver being banned. What driver was banned? What is the story behind the banning?

Elbox allegedly threatened Ratte for developing a 68k Radeon driver that was better than theirs.

Typical dickish move from them.....
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Re: New RadeonHD Driver Release
« Reply #14 on: November 18, 2013, 10:48:11 PM »
This is an AEON product.

Every X1000 customer can have free access to this RadeonHD driver.
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