AmigaOS 4.x to support about 180 Graphics card chips

[hnl_dk]

Taken from www.amiga-news.de:

Hyperion Entertainment Pressemitteilung
In der nachfolgenden Pressemitteilung gibt Hyperion Entertainment bekannt, dass sie eine Lizenzvereinbarung mit der Firma SciTech Software Inc. bezüglich deren SNAP(tm)-Technologie getroffen haben. Dabei handelt es sich um ein Grafikkarten-Treibersystem. Das Besondere an diesem System ist, dass es faktisch alle aktuellen Grafikkarten unterstützt. Lesen Sie im Anschluss die komplette englischsprachige Mitteilung.

CHICO, CA, USA - February 11, 2003

SciTech Software Inc. and Hyperion Entertainment VOF are pleased to announce they have enterered into a strategic partnership which will see SciTech's SNAP(tm) technology integrated into AmigaOS 4.x which is currently under development by Hyperion for PPC based systems.

SciTech SNAP, SciTech's leading edge graphics device support, allows for the rapid development and deployment of embedded solutions across multiple platforms and currently already supports well over 170 different graphics chipsets including all the latest offerings from industry leaders ATI, nVidia and Matrox.

A full list of supported chipsets can be found here.

"We are very excited about SNAP as it offers us out of the box support for a huge and ever growing number of graphics cards and effectively allows us to redirect resources away from device driver development and cut down on time to market", said Ben Hermans, managing partner of Hyperion. "We are convinced that prospective customers of AmigaOS 4.x will appreciate the high-performance, low footprint graphics card technology that SciTech has developed over many years."

"SciTech shares in the vision of the Amiga platform and is excited to play a key roll in the further development of the original multi-media OS." said, Andrew Bloo, Director of Marketing, SciTech Software Inc. "By adopting SciTech SNAP Graphics as the core graphics architecture for the Amiga OS, Amiga can now offer a level of performance and compatibility equal to that of any mainstream OS".

SciTech and Hyperion are set to broaden their cooperation to encompass 3D graphics support and support for other PPC based operating systems.

About SciTech Software Inc.
SciTech Software Inc. is a leading developer of next generation multi-OS device driver development tools for embedded, industrial and enterprise systems. SciTech Flagship product, SciTech SNAP Graphics, is a robust display driver solution, with full 2D acceleration on more than 180 graphic chipsets. SciTech SNAP Technology enables hardware manufactures to cut costs, speed time to market and reduce long-term support issues. Additionally SciTech SNAP provides hardware venders with the ability to explore the emerging embedded markets through a powerful, OS agnostic device driver abstraction layer. Enterprise customers benefit from the SciTech SNAP technology through the unified chip drivers, which allow IT managers to roll out a single display driver across an entire enterprise, drastically reducing associated test matrices and long-term support costs. SciTech also provides leading edge development tools for the embedded and industrial markets. These tools allow developers to quickly add support for new and or emerging OS'es and with the SciTech SNAP architecture instantly gain access to more than180 supported graphic chip sets. Founded in 1994, SciTech Software Inc. is a privately held company, backed by the original investment of its founders and the ongoing sales of its leading edge solutions. SciTech Corporate offices are located in Chico, California.

For more information please visit: http://www.scitechsoft.com.

About Hyperion Entertainment VOF
Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian-German company, founded in March of 1999. The company specialises in 3D graphics and the conversion of top-quality entertainment software from Windows to niche-platforms including Amiga, Linux (x86,PPC) and MacOS (OS 9/X). Hyperion Entertainment has undertaken contract-work in the field of 3D graphics for companies such as Monolith (www.lith.com) and has developed a mature, fast, small foot-print technology to bring 3D graphics to low power digital devices such as PDA's and STB's.

Hyperion is currently working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC native incarnation of the groundbreaking OS introduced by Commodore in 1985. (ps)

http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2003-02-00190-DE.html :-D  :-o  :-D

[seer]

@hnl_dk

Damned... Just submitted it as news  ;-)


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Hope they support Matrox Parhelia "soon"..
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[z5]

This is surprising and very good news.

Keep working Hyperion and OS4 dev team. The harder people say "you will fail', the harder you should think "we will show you"!!!

[hnl_dk]

@Seer

I also did that ;-) ... but it takes a lifetime for the news to apear ... so I thought it would be for the best to make a quick thread :-D

[KennyR]

Hyperion might well make the finest OS in the world, but if they don't release it soon, no-one will be left to use it.

[jd997uk]

Hehe, that's a right kick in the teeth for naysayers. This might not see the light of day 'tomorrow', but it does show that things are still active.

I absolutely love it when stuff like this happens - all the idiots look _really_ stupid and have to scurry off elsewhere, licking their wounds. Trouble is, they come back with some other bulls**t, in a vain attempt to discredit Hyperion/Eyetech.

-john

[MarkTime]

oh really

how about this, OS 4 isn't released, this is another announcment.

If the last unfulfilled promise isn't enough, make another promise.

The fact that another announcement was made isn't surprising....there have been announcements from the various owners for going on 10 years now...the fact that yet-another-announcment makes it all better for some people, is simply astonishing.

Now that is some great news.
Wooottttttt!!!!!

That's what I've been saying all along.

Instead of making partnerships with people to bring new products....

Make partnerships with people to make what's already available to the pc world available to us.

I hope people don't take this news too lightly.

That's freakin' wonderful news.

YESSSSSS!!!!!

Go Hyperion!
You got the goods!

[zacman]

Who will develop the drivers/port SNAP? Hyperion?
What about the Forefront Radeon drivers? I was
under the impression that they wanted to provide
Radeon drivers and will sell them?

[teo]

Hahaha, go KennyR, i neither agree or disagree with you, but your record seems to be scratched???

Man, somebody slap me.

I must be freakin' dreamin' again.

I think I might hold on to my money for a good while now.

mmmmmmmmm.............

Wow!

The binding tie man...
The binding tie.

[Hammer]

@hnl_dk

Sounds good...

[Paul_Gadd]

Hehe, that's a right kick in the teeth for naysayers.

For years and years these magical announcments have turned in to lies and betrayel,  so what makes this announcement special?

Next thing you guys will be telling us Amiga inc is a honest respectable company :-).

Hey...

Head on over to thier site and read up on some of the projects these fellows have.

Might be a little more to this story than meets the eye.

Go Here

[KennyR]

If you want an original answer from me, teotwin, show me an original thread. This is just more pseudo-news to keep us following until they finally do release, and you and I both know it.