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Offline Wrangler

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Re: Sonnet crescendo 7200 and OS4.1
« on: May 04, 2018, 11:35:47 AM »
As I understand it, some significant changes would be needed to the OS4 kernel to support the Sonnet 7200 (or Rapture card) because the G3/G4 processor on the Mediator side cannot directly access the Amiga bus.  Therefore the Sonnet working on OS4 is not "in two weeks" but closer to never...
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Re: Sonnet crescendo 7200 and OS4.1
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2018, 07:46:19 PM »
Well, it all depends what you're interested in.  Quake 3?  Exult?  Lots of SDL conversions being worked on.

The G3/4 can access the Amiga chipset eg Paula at least indirectly via the 680x0.  I don't know the exact mechanism.  But you need a graphics card to use the mediator in the first place so RTG is going to be the choice over AGA...
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