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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Announcements and Press Releases => Topic started by: Rodney on May 21, 2002, 09:33:26 PM
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Released to Amigart.com (http://www.amigart.com/) this is a short interview (http://www.amigart.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1189) and by the sound of it, maybe the last before we see AmigaOS4 because it sounds like they havn't got far to go. Ben states once again, to be patient and wait for the best AmigaOS ever.
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i believe this interview has been posted here already one or two weeks ago.
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I cannot remember reading it before. Maybe the same questions were asked to one of the Frieden brothers. So it might look familiar.
Coder
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We already have fully functional Soundblaster Live! drivers for AHI (developed by Martin Blom)
Nice!
Thats something i can maybe yank out of my pc for my Amiga in the future :-D
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i believe this interview has been posted here already one or two weeks ago.
Heres the one from a while ago.
Ben hermans Interview Exhibit 1 (http://www.student.oulu.fi/~jniemima/interviews/ben_hermans.html)
Its similar but not quite the same.
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If they have AHI-drivers for SB Live! it shouldn't be too hard to make drivers for other Emu APS-cards, right? I'd prefer to have drivers for my SB Audigy Platinum Ex. What about latency and stuff on the AmigaOne + AmigaOS4? I can have 2ms latency on my current PC using Asio drivers, which makes softsynths etc extremely playable from my synth keyboard. These are topics very interesting to me.
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Nice!
We are almost there it seems. This is the painful part now, almost but not quite here! Kind of like down loading a huge file as it gets near the end........ almost finished .....c'mom c'mon!! :-o
The last bits are the hardest to wait for!
I'm pleased at what seems to be a very solid effort by Ben et all, we shall see.
Bob C.
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I agree with Coder about having already heard much of the stuff before.
It'd be so much easier for everyone if the interviewers remembered to put a date on their interview. The readers would have an idea of how fresh the news is, and it would cut down the flamewars and speculation a bit.
Still, it's encouraging. SB Live! eh?
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If anyone's interested, I have a interview with Martin Blom coming up soon. Stay tuned.. :-D
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the need to support the onboard sound becomes less urgent.
HUH!?
This goes right against the philsophy of the Amiga IMHO. :-x
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We are almost there it seems. This is the painful part now, almost but not quite here! Kind of like down loading a huge file as it gets near the end........ almost finished .....c'mom c'mon!!
So near and yet so far! I know the feeling!
@gnarly
I have to admit I found that strange too, afterall, I thought the point of Eyetech putting the audio on the board was so that you didn't have to buy a sound card straight away. Keeping costs down when buiilding a system. OK you should be able to get better sound from a Live! card (less interferance from the mobo and better quality chips) but even so! Hmmm :-?
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Looks like its not long until os4 is ready for cyberstorm but sigh....... looks like we have to wait a while until its ready for amigaone :cry:
Which then makes the aone even more fuc*ing outdated.... I was planning to buy one, but now when it looks like the OS wont be ready anytime soon....
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If anyone's interested, I have a interview with Martin Blom coming up soon. Stay tuned
Yeah definately interested. What I can't understand is why no-one has tried to Interview Olaf Barthel. He's been the main pillar of support in getting the OS updated thru the last few years, yet he seems to be a bit of an enigma; we know what he can do, but don't know nothing about the man, his thoughts/ideas etc, etc. AFAIK, it was his relentless campaigning that got OS3.1 updated in the first place, so it seems about time he was nailed down and forced 'to spill the beans'. ;~)
-john :-D
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I suggest you read the interview with Alan Redhouse in Total Amiga.
I think you will find that the AmigaOne specifications have undergone some dramatic improvement.
BTW: What I tried to say with respect to the issue of support of the onboard AmigaOne hardware is that we will certainly cater for this but we are not going to hold back release just because the soundchip on the mobo is not yet supported.
I'm sure I would get killed many times over if I tried to pull off a stunt like that.
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Good to hear that, makes me a little bit more calmer
:-)
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But anyway, can i expect to have an amigaONE with os4 running before end of this year???
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Yes.
Unless something really, really bad happens.
Like one of our people being run over by a car or a major financial calamity.
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I hope you touched wood.
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Yes.
Unless something really, really bad happens.
Like one of our people being run over by a car or a major financial calamity.
WoooHoooooo! Thanks Ben! I'll be yanking that SoundBlaster Live! right outta my PC and put the old Monster Sound 400MX card back in there. AmigaOne will get the SBLive! (The Audigy should work with the same drivers right? Except for it's firewire port)
Can you tell us if the ATI Radeon (8500) drivers will be in 4.0 or later on? I don't know why, but this is a burning question in my mind. I'm also anxiously waiting to hear what the improvements are to the A1.
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Infact gnary, as everyone should know, Amiga Inc have updated the so called "Amiga Philsophy". It now says, more or less, we dont give a crack about hardware anymore. :) - Theres nothing exceptional about onbarod sound and graphix. And its very not Amiga, to have graphix and sound on board now :)
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WOW
Amiga here we come :o)
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Maybe,
But - I bet that the onboard sound on the AmigaOne board from Eyetech is supported under Linux using open source driver, so it's a matter of short time until either hyperion or someone else will port the driver from Linux to OS-4 once it's out.
I belive it was done the same using the Sound Blaster live driver (emu10k1) from Linux to AHI. By the way - the CVS version of emu10k1 in Linux already supports quite well the Audigy card.
Hetz (HeUnique)