AmigaOS 4.x to support about 180 Graphics card chips

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HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!!

What a pathetic statement!

"We just got 100+ video chips supported!"

Take a look at this statement a bit closer:

SciTech Flagship product, SciTech SNAP Graphics, is a robust display driver solution, with full 2D acceleration on more than 180 graphic chipsets.

You read that right, 2D.  SNAP's vast majority of support is for 10+ year old VGA, EGA and CGA chip solution!  Way to go Hyperion, you just evolved AOS4 to support chipsets that can't even match OCS capabilities!

[downix]

Please check your facts first there Mountain_Myst.  Ben Hermans disagrees with your statement there, in his comments on ann.lu.  The drivers being ported are 2D only, with 3D to be added later.  This will add years to the design work.

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Crumb wrote:
@downix:

The drivers being ported are 2D only, with 3D to be added later.

mmm like MorphOS and the Radeons? :-P

Which would get done sooner, 3D support for 4 variations on a chip design, or 3D support for 60+ variations on 20+ chip designs?

My money is on MorphOS having complete 3D support for their 2D-only-for-now 3D cards than AOS4.

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@Crumb

Not saying that having support is bad, but that I am sick of people going "oooooo, 180+ chips, must be great."  It's not great, as AOS4 will never see a good portion of them.  Also, too many people don't read the fine lines, nor do their research into the supported chipsets.  My negativity is more a response to them than a FUD against SNAP.  I happen to use SNAP in my OS/2 partition and find it very nice (better than the 16-bit OS/2 drivers for my Voodoo).  But I also know the kind of support issues that it can and will bring to AOS4 and I do not envy Hyperion's position.

But this also brings up the second issue of AOS4 I don't like, inconsistancy.  Which API will coders have to use, P96 or SNAP?