AmigaOS 4.1 for Classics imminent

[HammerD]

Could you clarify this time when you say "for Amiga 1200/3000/4000 equipped with the appropriate PowerPC based accelerator card" that this software is useless on such a machine without some form of RTG card as well...

Or is this unlike 4.0 (which I bought) and was not told that I would need an RTG card to make it usable along with my BlizzardPPC...

So is an RTG card required as well for 4.1 Classic or will it run at decent speed (unlike 4.0) on just an A1200 with a PPC card... thank you...

It will run on AGA, and in fact quite a bit of work was done on the Installation process to ensure ECS and AGA would work.

Having said that, the experience with ECS/AGA is nothing compared against the experience with any graphics card.  Therefore I would highly recommend a graphics card otherwise I think you would be disappointed.

[HammerD]

So, to run 4.1 I'd need to spend near a grand sourcing a PPC card and paying Hyperion?

Unfortunately no company has come to market with a new PPC accelerator for Classic Amigas.  If that were to happen I am sure efforts could be made to get AmigaOS 4.1 ported to it.

I personally think there is a market for a new PPC accelerator, but as I said, no company to date has offered one since DCE washed it's hands of all Amiga stuff.

[HammerD]

Will SerialATA PCI cards work with Mediator1200? My friends are interested on that due to OS4 lack of compatibility with AmigaOS scsi drivers.

Yes, sorry that was missed on the press release.  There is support for the silicon image 3512, 3112, and 3114 controllers and also the 0680 IDE controller (firestorm only).  

In the hardware FAQ that comes with AmigaOS 4.1 Classic it will tell you all the details.  There is also a handy file system reference chart to help you select the best file system to use, too.

[HammerD]

I bet 68k PFS5.3 will be the best on OS4.1 compared to any of the other filesystems.

PFS isn't included with OS 4.1 and recent news about it came out after the FAQ and Install Guide was written...but by all means give it a try I'd like to see some benchmarks!

[HammerD]

"imminent"? So, it's not out yet?

Come on, this is friggin ridiculous. Just another pre-announcement.

It's finished, should be available for sale next week or this week.  CD's are being duplicated now.  Check http://www.amigakit.com - should be showing up there in about 8 days for purchase.

[HammerD]

JurassicC has posted some additional details on AmigaOS 4.1 Classic.

Worth a read here:  http://www.amigans.net/modules/xforum/viewtopic.php?post_id=62077#forumpost62077