CGX supports Radeon

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Theres no point in CGX for AOS, because AmigaOS4 will have retargetability built in. No need to patch one in after.

Interestingly Elbox have announced that their 2D drivers for the GeForce 2 are nearing completion.

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but won't you still need the driver?

The driver would be pretty useless under AOS4, because AOS4 won't have CGX compatible RTG. Thats just life. Presumably as AOS4's RTG is based on P96, it wouldn't be hard for people who have written P96 drivers to convert them for AOS4 (if they need to at all, that is).

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 disagree but for different reasons. People who shelled out $40USD+ for CGFX4 shouldn't be shafted with no future upgrades. I mean if you pay good money for a RTG system you shouldn't be left out in the cold.

But they're not. They'll be able to go and buy MorphOS and use CGX5 on that, if they like. In fact, I'm sure CGX5 integrated into MorphOS will be very nice.

However, native AOS4 RTG would be much better than CGX5 patched-on to AOS4, for the simple reason that AOS4 RTG would be built into the graphics libraries. This is how it should be, and should have been in 1994 :-)

Also, people who bought CGX4 got just what they paid for, CGX4. They shouldn't expect to get CGX5 thrown in.

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Well i never said free. My point is who would buy an app if they knew it was a dead end? It's kind of like "CGFX5 is for MOS only, but CGFX6 will be for TOS only", there would be some unhappy MOS customers

Presumably people who bought CGX4 bought it to use their GFX card under OS3.x? They can do that quite happily from now till the end of time if they like!

But, I DO understand exactly what you are saying,  i just don't see why anyone would want to install CGX5 on top of AmigaOS4 even if they could. Not because CGX5 is bad (i'm sure its lovely), simply because any patched-on system would be less efficient than the native one already there.

Its like buying a car and strapping a new engine on top of the bonnet, and disconnecting the old one from the wheels  :-D

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Why are you so bitterly disappointed that AOS is using P96? Have you ever used P96?

Both RTG systems are very good, and both can use programs written for the others API.

Theres really not all that much between them, in their current versions.