OS4 compatibility list

[tokyoracer]

That's my 1200 out of the equation with it's Blizz SCSI. Then again as it's only a 030 might as-well stick to 3.9. :lol:

[TiredOLife]

Does anyone know if Elbox plan to release updated drivers for OS4?

Have just emailed them so will see what happens.

[redrumloa]

Terratec 128i PCI     Prometheus/Mediator     YES

 :-o

Is this verified?

[pVC]

A4000_Mad wrote:

who would put a Zorro II GFX card into a PPC Amiga ??

A madman like me I guess :lol: I've had a CV64, a CV64/3D and a CyberstormPPC 604e in the same A4000 for months  :-D

Those cards support (CV64 even requires) the Zorro III bus found in A4000.

[amiga92570]

I agree its a shame the blizzard SCSI and onboard SCSI for 3000/4000 are not supported. Sometimes its handy to have an external port without buying a lot of expensive SCSI hardware. I have external 68pin scsi devices on one of my 3000D's but it cost about $250.00 for all the cables, terminators, external case. It keeps the load off the standard power supply, but it would be easier to be able to plug in an external 25pin cd to install the OS on a 3000D with out all the hassle. Maybe they will come out with drivers later, right now I have three machines set up ready to go with OS 4.0. More if it works well.  :-)

[xeron]

redrumloa wrote:
Is this verified?

Everything on the list is verified; thats how the list was made. OS4 betatesters reported their actual findings to ACube.

[Crumb]

@CLS2089

GREX4000 does not work. In fact, it has to be actively ignored. I doubt a lot that grex+permedia is seen as CyberVisionPPC but you may try. I guess it won't work.

@AndrewBell
Prometheus support is more or less as good as Mediator.

[Dwyloc]

xeron wrote:
Use an 8029 instead of 8139 card if you don't want to use PCMCIA. Its not like the 8139 ever went much faster than 10Mb/s in a Mediator 1200 anyway.

Dose it work with the Mediator a1200 bus boards under OS4? as the hardware list only says "Realtek RTL8029AS PCI     Prometheus     YES" not mediator?

I would really like to now as that's the network card I have plugged into my mediator at the moment, and after ditching my old Eye-tech MK1 tower last year I can no longer use my HydraPCMCIA network card which is not on the harware list.

[jj]

@ Crumb

As you seem to be be a beta tester how does the emaultion of classic apps and system friendly games compare to the real thing.

I have a 603e/175mhz what sort of speeds compared to native could i expect.  Though I suppose dual boot would be the way to go

[jj]

Oh and does anyone know if Z4 busboard is supported

[Crumb]

@JJ

It feels faster than 680x0 based systems, including 060. Of course, if you have a 040 you will notice your system has become very very fast :-)

Keep in mind that even if your 603e is not the fastest one, the rest of the OS runs native PPC code so even if Petunia couldn't match a 060 in some parts, you probably won't notice it because all the rest is running much faster.

I think Classic release is polished and well finished.

Keeping an old OS3.x for old stuff like WHDLoad is a good idea. I also have one with MOS so I can enjoy all amiga-like flavours :-)

Anyway Xeron has published a list of 68k demos compatible with OS4. In some cases you may get more speed if the demo is more or less system-friendly.


-edit- I didn't have much time to test an A1200 with ZorroIV but I think it will work as Zorro cards were listed correctly. I couldn't test it more, sorry.

I think ZorroIV board is more or less "clean" and probably will work correctly. Anyway keep in mind that some zorro2 card drivers may be more sensible than others to timings so most of cards probably will work but others could have problems.

[jj]

Yeah was thinking would need to keep os3.9 for games.  Have you tried EUAE on it?  I would imagine it would suck

[Crumb]

@JJ

I haven't tried it as I focused in hardware compatibility more than software. I guess E-UAE will be slow, it's slow on a G3/600 with L2 cache and SDRAM so I guess it will be unusable on a 604e. You can run the real games directly at perfect framerate with perfect timing, blitter/copper effects... there's no need to run E-UAE in such a system.

I tested my BasiliskII port and it worked correctly with Voodoo3 at 32bits. I didn't run any app inside it, but I think running basiliskII on the 060 would be much faster.

[jj]

Im confussed now.   Obviously games that boot off floppy will still work, but HDD games and whdload games will not run will they.

Which games are we talking about ?

[Reflex]

I'm pretty confused... I waited OS4 to use my spider USB properly as Poseidon doesn't support it anymore but it seems that it's not a good choice...

Moreover I don't see any fastlane support and that's really a shame for someone that doesn't want to mix SCSI2 and SCSI3 peripheral on the same chain...

[rwo]

@Reflex

For usb you need a Zorro/Clockport version, as standard pci UHCI/OHCI/EHCI cards uses DMA and that won't work with Mediator1200

I don't know about the Fastlane, if its not on the list don't mean that its not supported only that its not tested.

RWO