Hyperion Entertainment: Clarification of Current Situation

[itix]

It would be great from a developers point of view if OS 3.x was keeping pace with OS 4.1 in development terms as it would make porting a lot easier.

Would it help if I ported OS4emu to Os3? It would not run OS4 native software of course but would make porting OS4 software easier.

[itix]

This is an interesting concept but what exactly does OS4Emu emulate?

It does not really emulate anything, it is just an API wrapper for OS4 calls so you can run OS4 software in MorphOS natively. It includes AmigaInput, new DOS, Exec and Gfx calls and full P96 wrapper to CGX.

What's making my life a bit hard work at the moment, is the real heavy lifting stuff, Compositing , advanced reaction features,

What is missing is CompositeTags() call (for rotating and alpha blending) and I have planned to create Reaction to MUI wrapper. So far I have not invested time on it anymore.

band width limitation that make certain double buffering tecniques trivial on an NG machine but slow on Classic RTG.

WinUAE and NG Amigas are certainly fast enough to run any AmigaOS software.

Certainly OS3 can be made on par with OS4. It is just that nobody is investing time to improve OS3.

[itix]

The problem lies elsewere: The problem is that, on such a machine, programs would be required to distinguish between logical and physical addresses, and would be required to use Os interfaces properly. Or interfaces that are close to the Os. Or whatever you all them.

What OS interfaces you use when there is none? AmigaOS is a low level operating system with very little abstraction.

[itix]

There are.... at least as far as memory remapping is concerned.

Uhm. .. like what?