Hyperion completes the AmigaOne firmware based on the GPL’ed PPCBoot project.

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Without wanting to sound depressing, remember this is only the BIOS for the AmigaONE they have finished, not OS4.

On the bright side, the people who were doing the BIOS can now go back to helping with OS4 which should speed things up a little.

That is one they can strike off this list:

Current work centers around Intuition and Reaction, 2D/3D drivers, A1 Bios, additional kernel functionality (virtual addressing and page-based memory handling) and the integration of the 68K emulation into the system.

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This sounds quite promissing...those guys are breaking the silence and it seems we are quite near.

I just hope they'll get JIT working/integrated asap.

I hope they'll add some extra bonus to OS...that will show to the others that AmigaOS is very fast and elegant OS  :-)

It would be surprise to see AmigaDE implemented already. (At least early version of it) ;-)

I can hardly wait (This time friendly) Guru Meditation appear when I'm running those old hardwarebanging demos!  :-D  

Of course getting the tested product to the market is the main thing to do!

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Does anyone know if it boots Graphicaly or does it have that PC bios boot look?  Please let it be graphical!!!

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anarchic_teapot wrote:

Oh please no, no, NO. I hate eye-candy and I like fast boot sequences.

I agree that it should be FAST booting.  Just because it isnt graphical doesnt mean it will be fast booting.  I have worked with many-a-pc that boot slow even with that crappy looking MSDOS'ish looking BIOS.  Plus I dont think that adding a simple graphic to cover over the tests and inits would slow the boot process down (most DELLs do this).  There is no real reason why I should have to watch the POST test on a daily basis or for that matter the complete "Newbie" doesnt want to see it either.  It scares them away!   Yes there should be a way to disable the graphic for diagnostics and setup but I think it is time for all of these BIOS's to get with the times.  

The Amiga has always had that "completed" look from bootup to shut down (flick the switch off). Why cant it still look like that and not sacrifice speed (for any computer for that matter)?

Plus part of the original draw for the Amiga was that EYE CANDY......It was all eye-candy back in the 80's compared to the PC.  Thats what drew most of us to it...Eye candy...ear candy...ease of use candy...my candy...your candy!!!!!
Just my opinion though, Retarded as it may seem!