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MorphOS R300 3D Graphics Driver Development Has Been Fast-Tracked
« on: September 14, 2012, 01:03:44 AM »
Thanks to a very generous donation from the recently new MorphOS user "Fraggle", the development of 3D drivers for Radeon R300 chipsets (found in Mac PowerBooks for instance) has now been Fast-Tracked!

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Thanks to an unusual and generous financial contribution from William "Fraggle" Morris, Mark "bigfoot" Olsen has announced plans to fast-track the development of a 3D graphics driver for AMD/ATI's R300 chipset which is built into various Powerbook models and available on user-replaceable extension cards.

Mark confirmed to MorphZone exlusively: "I am happy to announce that Fraggle has made good on his offer and is sponsoring the R300 3D driver development with the generous sum of 2000 euro."

The MorphZone Team would like to thank all involved parties for their participation and hopes for a speedy release of the new drivers so all MorphOS users with compatible hardware can benefit from them.


Source: http://www.morphzone.org/news/1961.html
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Re: MorphOS R300 3D Graphics Driver Development Has Been Fast-Tracked
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2012, 11:34:14 PM »
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Good news, so ... when can we expect 3D for PBs?

Cheers,
Dragster.


When it's done?

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Re: MorphOS R300 3D Graphics Driver Development Has Been Fast-Tracked
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2012, 03:20:02 PM »
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Re: MorphOS R300 3D Graphics Driver Development Has Been Fast-Tracked
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2012, 09:37:45 AM »
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Any info about any new PPC HW being made for MOS use?


Nobody has produced viable PPC Desktop/Laptop HW since in 2005/2006 or so, when Apple sent the last ones out of their door. PPC is a completely dead architecture today when it comes to Desktop/Laptop markets, but for MorphOS, that doesn't matter much at the moment, since the supply of cheap and powerful machines is anything else but a problem; you want tiny but powerful? Get a Mac Mini! Want a big box that's expandable? Get a PowerMac! Want a full-blown Laptop? Get a PowerBook! Ibook is going to be supported soon as well. So there is a whole flora of cheap, high quality, easily obtaine HW out there, that is highly viable for MorphOS! So, hardware is currently the least of problems...

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