Good News Is Here (OS 4.1&SAM440 amigakit.com)

[Gebrochen]

@ Hans:

Thankyou for the offering of help. I will let you knowin future, I believe first I should create a Demo on the Sam440ep to show it off a little!  :lol:

@ Fester:
The bounty total keeps changing, so I am not understanding why, first it was for 1 ps3, now for 2 ps3's?? Will it be 3 nextbefore they start the project??

@ All
Not sure if you all have alrady read this, but, just in case, here is a linkon a review on os4.1:
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/amigaos41-ars.ars/

Enjoy the read, I know I got upset again reading A.inc in there. I tink A.inc man Bill Mcwen should get a life, and leave Hyperion alone, after all, Hyperion has done more for the Amiga brand name than A.Inc. themselves have.

@ All Again:

I know many of you, if not everyone in here already knows about this, was just wondering if someone could tell me, if anything will ever happen with it?
http://www.discreetfx.com/amizilla.html

Cheers.

Thank you

And damn, I am still waiting for my Sam440ep and os4.1 to arrive, and I am getting anxious.

 :nervous:

[Gebrochen]

@ All

What do you people make of this?
OR
Maybe it is better asked liked this, what do you people think of this?

http://blogs.msdn.com/danlehen/archive/2004/06/01/146259.aspx

Cheers.

 :huh:

And, Do you thinkit were possible to get an pci card that has both graphics and memory, to be placed onto the sam board??

http://store1.sonnettech.com/product_info.php?cPath=22_32&products_id=46

cheers again.

 8-)

[DavidF215]

@Gebrochen

I'm not too sure about the pci card idea as I am not a electronics guru, but I would think it's possible.

Amiga has 3D abilities with TinyGL. It doesn't have the full feature set like DirectX, but some games have been created with it, so TinyGL is an option.

[Framiga]

@Gebrochen

"The bounty total keeps changing, so I am not understanding why, first it was for 1 ps3, now for 2 ps3's?? Will it be 3 nextbefore they start the project??"

what project? theres no AOS4 on PS3 project at all.

[persia]

TinyGL?  Surely OS4.1 could support the whole OpenGL library?

[DavidF215]

persia wrote:
>TinyGL?  Surely OS4.1 could support the whole OpenGL library?

I would think the capability is there. Whether it's entirely there is another matter. Nevertheless, TinyGL has enough to make some games and graphic software until the entire OpenGL library would be available.

[Hans_]

On OS 4.x it's called MiniGL, but yes, it is a subset of OpenGL. A full MESA port is planned that will support the latest OpenGL specification. However, that's going to take time. Nevertheless, MiniGL is more than good enough for a whole series of OpenGL apps/games.

Hans

[Gebrochen]

@ Hans:
What type of games we talking about here for example? PC?
 :-D

@ Framiga:
Here it is
http://www.discreetfx.com/RoguePS3.html
 :idea:

@ All, damn it, still waiting for the gear to arrive, might ring tonight and find out when the company sent it?

 :nervous:

[Andeda]

@Gebrochen

Did you order your sam from acube? According to vesalia we still have to wait for our os4.1 a couple of weeks (ETA: October 13, 2008)

[Gebrochen]

@ Andeda, yes I ordered my SAm from Acube, why??

And, If versalia said that too you,ten, perhaps this is the reason why my package hasnt arrived yet, as I ordered the board and the os4.1, and to be posted at the same time.


 :crazy:

[Andeda]

Gebrochen wrote:
@ Andeda, yes I ordered my SAm from Acube, why??

  Nothing special, im just curious.

And, If versalia said that too you,ten, perhaps this is the reason why my package hasnt arrived yet, as I ordered the board and the os4.1, and to be posted at the same time.

Thats what they say on their homepage. I ordered my OS4.1 from Amigakit but the delivery time should be the same there i suppose

 :-)

[Hans_]

Gebrochen wrote:
@ Hans:
What type of games we talking about here for example? PC?
 :-D

Quake III. You can find most MiniGL apps on os4depot by doing an advanced search with MiniGL in the requirements field. A few screenshots are available here. There is also more coming...

Hans

[Gebrochen]

@ Andeda :

It's ok, Acube Systems is going to email me when they have sent the post(system &os4.1) with the postage number!

He said next week he is expecting to recieve os4.1!
 :-D

@ Hans:

Das ist ja schön

OK, So what or which Quake III do I need to get, one specifically for os4.1??

ANd, is there another listing of games that have been ported?

Curious about it!

 :-o
Are all these for free??

[Mr_Capehill]

Q3 Arena is not free, but you can buy it cheaply on game stores or Ebay.

OpenArena is free, and is Q3-based. There are also some other Q3-based games (World of Padman, Urban Terror etc) but there is no *yet* stand-alone versions for OS 4.

[Hans_]

Gebrochen wrote:
@ Hans:

Das ist ja schön

OK, So what or which Quake III do I need to get, one specifically for os4.1??

ANd, is there another listing of games that have been ported?

Curious about it!

 :-o
Are all these for free??

All of the screenshots that I linked to are for open-source games/apps. There is no master list of games that have been ported. I suggest that you check out os4depot to see what kind of stuff is freely available.

Hans

[Gebrochen]

@Mr.Capehill:

So your saying I need the original PC disk, install it onto my os4.1, then download from os4depot, so I can commence to play it on my Amiga Sam with os4.1?

@Hans:
That's handy, I already have the full pc version of Battle for Wesnoth at home, I assume though, due to the download size on os4depot, that it is a fully ported version for os4 versus quake III that needs the original pc disk?

@Fester:
Looks like they are aiming for two consoles, what's next when this is achieved, three consoles?

Sorry, don't want to sound negative, but, I was getting excited over the porting to ps3 idea!

 :-D  :quickdraw:  :shocked: