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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: AmigaPapst on March 21, 2006, 02:38:28 PM
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Hyperion Entertainment VOF announces that it has licensed its 3D driver technology for ATI Radeon 9000 chipsets to Smiths Aerospace LLC (UK) .
Hyperion's 3D driver technology is OpenGLtm ES compatible and was originally developed for Amigatm OS 4, Hyperion's multi-media centric, small foot-print embedded OS. Smiths Aerospace has adapted Hyperion's 3D drivers to comply with DO-178B standards and has incorporated a 2D version into its current display technology. Smiths Aerospace has the future capability to incorporate Hyperion's 3D driver technology for use in wide area displays intended for use in civil and military aircraft.
About Smiths: Smiths Aerospace, a part of Smiths Group, is a leading transatlantic aerospace systems and equipment company, with more than 10,000 employees and $2 billion revenues worldwide. The company holds key positions in the supply chains of all major military and civil aircraft and engine manufacturers and is a world-leader in digital, electrical power, mechanical systems, engine components and customer services.
About Hyperion VOF: Hyperion Entertainment VOF is a privately held Belgian-German company founded in February of 1999. The company specialises in 3D graphics and 3D driver development, firmware development for embedded systems, IT consulting and the conversion of high quality entertainment software from Windows to niche platforms including Amiga, Linux (x86,PPC) and MacOS. Since November of 2001 Hyperion Entertainment has been working on AmigaOS 4.0 for PowerPC powered devices, the latest incarnation of the multi-media centric, small-footprint operating system originally launched by Commodore Business Machines (CBM) in 1985.
http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz
http://www.smiths-aerospace.com/
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Smiths Aerospace will receive a working copy of the drivers in 2 more weeks. :-D
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Great development!
I read that a Canadian aerospace company that creates the new generation of "Canada Arm" had bought Pegasos ODW and may use the embedded PowerPC boards on the device.
I hope someday Smith Aerospace's products with Hyperion driver will be used on ISS / other space missions.
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in few words, another "Star Wars" episode!
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Nice to hear they do get some return of their year's long work.
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:-)
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A good move on hyperions part.
I sadly doubt this will affect OS4 though and the current lack of hardware situation..
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What "3D technology" exactly?
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:-D yeah great news for Hyperion!! :-D
Well done lads have a :pint:
you deserve it. (and did before too)
now if only the Hardware thing gets sorted
I can throw some cash at you. :-)
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What "3D technology" exactly?
I would imagine its an OpenGL ES compatible driver for Radeon 9000 series cards, that was originally developed for AmigaOS4. I can't imagine where I get that notion from... hmmm... where could I have got that idea? Hmmmmmm.... Oh yes. The news item at the top of this very page!
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I would imagine its an OpenGL ES compatible driver for Radeon 9000 series cards, that was originally developed for AmigaOS4.
And a company would *pay* for an AmigaOS driver for a non-Amiga OS for what reason?
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so they dont have to write their own ?
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@mdma
Maybe they *paid* for a *portable* OpenGL implimentation with Radeon drivers.
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Some good news for a change - nice one! :pint:
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Could Eurofighter pilots be using 3d displays courtesy of Hyperion? Sounds too good to be true!
"Hyperion - military spec, coming to a desktop near you..."
I'm suddenly having nightmares....
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Congratulations to Hyperion on this deal. Good to see some of their hard work bearing fruit.
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That it would be their 3D drivers that would bring in some revenue at last is...unexpected not to say the least ;-)
Still, congrats for pulling it off.
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Maybe they *paid* for a *portable* OpenGL implimentation with Radeon drivers.
And the xorg driver is unsuitable because?
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And the xorg driver is unsuitable because?
Probably RAM issues. They focus a bit on "embedded| in the press release. Xorg isn't exactly "light weight" when it comes to memory footprint, and then iirc, you have zero 3D acceleration for any board above 9500 (with their "radeon" driver, not sure what the situation is with their "ati" driver).
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@mdma
Why are you so desperate to find something wrong or stupid with this? Clearly the fact of the matter is that Smiths Aerospace saw something of worth in Hyperions driver software and purchased it. Maybe they didn't want an open source driver? Maybe they have tight memory requirements? Maybe they don't want to run an X based display?
Why don't you e-mail Smiths Aerospace?
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eh
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mdma, what is your problem? You're acting like "Interesting" at a Genesi announcement.
This is a positive development for Hyperion, debatable whether it makes an iota of difference (or is even relevent) to OS4's current status, but still a positive development.
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Why are you so desperate to find something wrong or stupid with this?
I'm not. You should visit the local site a bit less.
I want to know what it is that they have sold. PR speak is not exactly reknowned for details.
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mdma, what is your problem? You're acting like "Interesting" at a Genesi announcement.
By asking questions about a dodgy press release from a company who operating system I use nearly every day of the week?
:-/
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eh
I agree!
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well I still think it's great.....
I would love to know more and we all know how forth coming the military if with high detailed reports of thier hardwar. :lol:
but maybe we could know this.....
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By asking questions about a dodgy press release from a company who operating system I use nearly every day of the week?
How is it any more "dodgy" than the thousands of other press releases made that day?
What does it matter what OS you use and who it's made by? Seems like a knee-jerk defence to an accusation never made.
It comes across that either you get your jollies from pissing off a certain section of people, or you have some odd need to find something negative in anything related to the aforementioned group of people.
BTW what is your obsession with AW.net? Why do you have to bring it up over here every 5 mins? Why do you think that as Amiga.org users we give a flying {bleep} what goes on at AW? Perhaps you just think you're incredibly clever for thinking up the LoG joke.
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How is it any more "dodgy" than the thousands of other press releases made that day?
It isn't. All press releases are dodgy. I am still in the dark about what they have actually sold.
It comes across that either you get your jollies from pissing off a certain section of people, or you have some odd need to find something negative in anything related to the aforementioned group of people.
How is wanting to know what exactly I'm supposed to be excited about, regarding something that financially affects a company I have invested money into, considered negativity?
You have issues it seems.
Perhaps you just think you're incredibly clever for thinking up the LoG joke.
I don't think it, I am. Salary and IQ to prove it! :-P