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Title: New AmigaOne Dealer and ATI Radeon 2D driver Developers
Post by: Rodney on May 29, 2002, 09:30:54 AM
Forefront Technologies, Inc. (http://forefronttechnologiesinc.com/News/?item=2) has agreed to develop the ATI Radeon 2D video card drivers for the next Amiga operating system. AmigaOS 4.0 will arrive with Amiga's first new system hardware in almost a decade, the AmigaOne*. The ATI Radeon will provide the highest graphics performance available for the new AmigaOS out-of-the-box..Forefront Technologies, Inc. has also become an official AmigaOne dealer

Title: Re: New AmigaOne Dealer and ATI Radeon 2D driver Developers
Post by: Hammer on May 29, 2002, 12:35:18 PM
That’s good to hear…  

Title: Re: New AmigaOne Dealer and ATI Radeon 2D driver Developers
Post by: JetFireDX on May 29, 2002, 02:41:45 PM
Would be better to hear that the companies that produce the cards were actually interested in developing drivers for their hardware for Amiga. Won't happen as most of them don't even develop for Linux, but it would still be nice to see a company put real faith into the Amiga.
Title: Re: New AmigaOne Dealer and ATI Radeon 2D driver Developers
Post by: anarchic_teapot on May 29, 2002, 04:01:47 PM
JetfireDX:
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Would be better to hear that the companies that produce the cards were actually interested in developing drivers for their hardware for Amiga. Won't happen as most of them don't even develop for Linux, but it would still be nice to see a company put real faith into the Amiga.

As long are they're prepared to provide the all the info needed for somebody to write a driver, it's a step in the right direction. :-)
Title: Re: New AmigaOne Dealer and ATI Radeon 2D driver Developers
Post by: D@n on May 29, 2002, 05:44:28 PM
what about 3D drivers?
Title: Re: New AmigaOne Dealer and ATI Radeon 2D driver Developers
Post by: Radfoo on May 29, 2002, 06:54:56 PM
Hyperion do the 3D drivers.

Does anyone know the correct link for Forefront Technologies as the one above does not work?
Title: Re: New AmigaOne Dealer and ATI Radeon 2D driver Developers
Post by: jj on May 29, 2002, 07:05:20 PM
the one at the top of the page works fine ?
Title: Re: New AmigaOne Dealer and ATI Radeon 2D driver Developers
Post by: Herewegoagain on May 29, 2002, 07:43:17 PM
Wow, the site looks really professional.  Hope they do as good a job on the drivers.  The Radeon 8500 is what I'll be putting into my A1.

Good to see a dealer on my side of the coast too!  (There are a couple of them now)
Title: Re: New AmigaOne Dealer and ATI Radeon 2D driver Developers
Post by: Rodney on May 29, 2002, 09:28:18 PM
Sorry guys, i left out this link to their annoucement of the AmigaOne Dealer thing! :)

Linkage (http://forefronttechnologiesinc.com/News/?item=3)
Title: Re: New AmigaOne Dealer and ATI Radeon 2D driver Developers
Post by: redrumloa on May 29, 2002, 10:44:53 PM
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* Forefront note: We were so excited to hear about the new Amiga, Forefront is developing the ATI Radeon video drivers which will be included in AmigaOS4.


WHICH WILL BE INLUDED IN OS4.0!

Sounds like the driver wont be a separate commercial product but INCLUDED in the OS!!! YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAH!!!!! (http://www.plauder-smilies.de/bounce/anim-jjd.gif)
Title: Re: New AmigaOne Dealer and ATI Radeon 2D driver Developers
Post by: Joshua on May 29, 2002, 10:56:20 PM
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Does anyone know the correct link for Forefront Technologies as the one above does not work?


Sorry about that, we are in process of moving our website and it may be occasionally unavailable/slow.
Title: Re: New AmigaOne Dealer and ATI Radeon 2D driver Developers
Post by: Etho on May 30, 2002, 03:04:34 AM
It is indeed good to hear. But I have to agree with D@N and ask what about 3D Drivers. What is the current situation with Warp 3D?

I remember hearing it will take about 2 years to bring it up to level the same as DX8.

Don't want to sound like a miserable sod, but if AmigaONE is to succeed then we need top of the range games aswell as Apps.
Title: Re: New AmigaOne Dealer and ATI Radeon 2D driver Developers
Post by: spiffydinosaur on May 30, 2002, 09:08:42 AM
That's great!

The more the merry-er!   :-)

Spiffy
Title: Re: New AmigaOne Dealer and ATI Radeon 2D driver Developers
Post by: System on June 01, 2002, 01:11:49 PM
>It is indeed good to hear. But I have to agree with D@N
>and ask what about 3D Drivers.

This is of course an obvious question, and I'm suprised
it wasn't addressed on the web site. There will of course
be 3d drivers for Radeon for OS4.x. There's discussions
ongoing as to some details, but they will be available.

Bill Toner
bill@prodatasys.com