Hyperion Blog Update: AmigaOS 4.1 Classic Video

[HammerD]

There is a new Blog entry on the Hyperion Blog showing a video of AmigaOS 4.1 for Classic Amigas in action!

Check it out at http://blog.hyperion-entertainment.biz

[nicholas]

I'm shocked at how slow the icons and gadgets are drawn to the screen!

I'm not impressed at all.

[TheDaddy]

Somehow it looks faster than my 1.8GHz G5 PPC iMac...weird.

[mfilos]

It looks indeed very fast. Just have to wait for the released version to check on 300+ MHz
It really sux though that still it doesn't support BPPC's SCSI... Oh well... better than 4.x though anyway.

[Akiko]

I never thought I'd see smooth compositing on classic Amigas, looks nice I'm impressed

[Fransexy_]

I'm shocked at how slow the icons and gadgets are drawn to the screen!

I'm not impressed at all.

Are you conscious that is running on a sub 300 MHZ (pentium I like performance) CPU?

[Franko]

I'm shocked at how slow the icons and gadgets are drawn to the screen!

I'm not impressed at all.

I'm saying nowt ere, cos Karlos thinks what I say about OS4.0 is rubbish and looking at that I'd better keep my opinions to meself...

[tone007]

Looks usable, probably more than I'd expect to see from a ~200MHz system.

[spirantho]

Looks very quick for me, especially when you consider:
CS-PPC is 233MHz - that's a Pentium class.
No L2 cache - that makes a large difference
These icons are not the same icons as you had on WB 2.0! They're full colour ones.

Very good work, if you ask me.

[A4000_Mad]

WoW! That's made my Amiga Xmas thanks

:drink:

[DCAmiga]

Wow, I am gotta say it looks and operates well for being on a classic!

[Franko]

Hmm... I don't get what all you guys are getting excited about here, for one thing it's running on a PPC604 & Radeon GFX card of some kind...

Now my BlizzardPPC is only a 603 and I have no GFX card, so just how many of you guys are using a 604 PPC and Radeon GFX card on your A1200s, and how many folk out there have such a set up to run this on, not many I would think.

Wonder how many copies Hyperion expect to sell !!!

Methinks you'll be sorely disappointed if you see it running on a 603 & no GFX card just like OS4.0 was disappointing on such a set up...

[A4000_Mad]

Hmm... I don't get what all you guys are getting excited about here, for one thing it's running on a PPC604 & Radeon GFX card of some kind...

Now my BlizzardPPC is only a 603 and I have no GFX card, so just how many of you guys are using a 604 PPC and Radeon GFX card on your A1200s, and how many folk out there have such a set up to run this on, not many I would think.

Wonder how many copies Hyperion expect to sell !!!

Methinks you'll be sorely disappointed if you see it running on a 603 & no GFX card just like OS4.0 was disappointing on such a set up...

Hiya Franko, Sorry that your experience of OS4 was disappointing as you were lacking a GFX card

It looked like OS4.1 would never be released for the Classic and it's been over 3 years now since I was able to buy OS4.0 in December of 2007, so it's quite easy to get excited when seeing screenshots and a YouTube video of OS4.1 running on an A4000

I'm using an A4000 with CSPPC 604e at 233Mhz. The Radeon card looks really great but to use one I would also need a Mediator PCI 4000Di daughterboard replacement shown here.........


http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=35&products_id=517

But I think it safe to assume that OS4.1 would support cards like the Picasso IV and Cybervision 64/3D which are supported with my current OS4.0 Classic

:drink:

[spirantho]

Hmm... I don't get what all you guys are getting excited about here, for one thing it's running on a PPC604 & Radeon GFX card of some kind...

Now my BlizzardPPC is only a 603 and I have no GFX card, so just how many of you guys are using a 604 PPC and Radeon GFX card on your A1200s, and how many folk out there have such a set up to run this on, not many I would think.

Wonder how many copies Hyperion expect to sell !!!

Methinks you'll be sorely disappointed if you see it running on a 603 & no GFX card just like OS4.0 was disappointing on such a set up...

OS 4 was never meant for running without a graphics card...
I'll probably keep my Voodoo III rather than the Radeon because I want to use 3.9 sometimes too.

Seriously though, if you want to run OS 4 at its best you need a graphics card: remember OS4 dates from a few years or so ago, your A1200 has a graphics chipset that was slow 18 years ago!

[Buzzfuzz]

The speed comes from the Radeon 9250, not the CS PPC.
Which means you have to add a Prometheus board or Mediator board and that means going towered, cool by me, but some might say: Yuk!