OS4 on classic updates

[jahc]

Any updates now we know its coming? What im asking about is software not hardware compatability. IP stack? DVD player? Browser? anything else?

It's funny you mention those particular things, because they're catered for. OS4 comes with a TCP/IP stack, an OEM version of DVplayer (to play dvds), and an OEM version of IBrowse. DVplayer is restricted to not be able to change skins or play AVI files, and IBrowse is restricted in some way I believe. I think it may be restricted to one browser tab. But there are no demo timeouts.

[jahc]

Why would it be emulated? This is OS4 for CLASSIC, i.e. amigas that have a 68k cpu. In fact since it's for CLASSIC and requires a PPC chip there must be a 68040 or 68060 on board the PPC accelerator as well.

No, the 68k cpu IS emulated. I think they said something about "turning off" the 68k, as it made the PPC even faster. I'm not sure about the technical details though.

--EDIT: I've been informed on IRC that this is actually quite silly. I think the quote I half remembered was actually referring to the lack of context switches between 68k and PPC.

But the 68k emulation is reportedly very fast. Usually faster than an 060 on a CSPPC.. (of course speed will vary between different applications).