@Valiant

my favorite SuperStardust, Microcosm and Pinball Illusion

SoccerKid CD32 version nice full screen animation etc

http://ninjaw.ifrance.com/cd32/games.html

Please add this link to the left table:

http://os4.hyperion-entertainment.biz

It is the Amiga OS 4.0 site from Hyperion.

Thanks.

@Alkaron

Heh, no way i would keep an OS4 betatester away from their
work...

Thanks for the infos, maybe a dev will be able to jump in
and fill the gaps

Would it be possible to categorise the hardware images into the different models eg: 4000 3000 1200 etc.
When the gallery grows it will be harder to find what image your looking for.

@Sister Rita

No info on dates.

FWIW, I know better than to ask for hard dates from developers.
I know these guys are all working hard on projects with no money
(and little promise of future mountains of money).

Under real world conditions and those limitations, schedules are
the first thing to slip.

But look at the flip side, even MicroSloth blew their schedules by
what? Two Years? And they had a bajillion times the resources
to plow into a substantially sloppier target.

c'est la vie,

PJS

@All

The information presented in that table is simply what I boiled down
from all the PUBLIC information I could find. Some of it is even
confirmed with some of the hardware developers.

I have attempted to present no whatsoever claims regarding licensing
- that's for the developers and Amiga Inc to announce. The table
just reflects the announced intent of these developers to run Amiga
OS and (even) to get licenses.

@tonyw

Geez... I'm sorry for the Troika typo... Looks like there's my first
revision for an upcoming v1.4 of the table!

@RomanceClip

No proprietary information is divulged in this table.

Thanks all,

PJS

The hardware details have been announced by the manufacturers themselves (both on websites and in IRC discussions), and are not private. The manufacturers have (probably) released the details in order to get prospective customers interested.

Amiga Inc have said that they have had discussions with some manufacturers about licenses, although they are non-committal about the results. You might be forgiven for thinking that these hardware details have been made public in order to increase the chances of a manufacturer gaining an OS4 license from Amiga Inc.

There were quite a few News items and other announcements on amigaworld.net in September. Here is a list of them. You might find some interesting data in there, but take it all with a pinch of salt, a lot of the announcements are optimistic, to say the least.

Also in September, Bill McEwen of Amiga Inc answered a set of 20 questions posed by people at amiga.org.
Bill McEwen's responses.

Stick around

Hello, I just stumbled upon this site by happy accident!
I'm guessing this site is exclusively orientated towards OS4? I hope so because I'm sick of what seems like an orchestrated campaign being waged against OS4 on other sites. Hope I can stick around

Quote:

Please can you try and keep threads on topic. If you want to ask seemingly irrelevant questions, it would be much preferred if you could start a new thread - there isn't a thread shortage, you can start as many as you like.

This isn't the first time you've been seen to throw a thread off on a tangent, and I appreciate your topics are Amiga-related, but it is easier for everyone if the discussion relates to the thread title. If it ceases to do so, a new thread should be created. I have no qualms in using my limited moderation powers to ensure this is the case in future.

Chris

Quote:

I'm confused as well.

I was advised that the only board licensed for OS4 by Amiga Inc. is the Eyetech AmigaOne (which I believe, sadly, is no longer manufactured).

Shouldnt we wait for an official announcement by Amiga Inc. before we discuss these issues?

Isn't it rather disrespectful to Amiga Inc to be discussing, what are probably, company confidential matters.

Nice one, Paul.

That makes it so much easier to compare than reading several pages of forum posts. Thank you.

[You might just want to correct the spelling of "Troika" in the column heading]

cheers
tony

Hello pjs, thank you very much for compiling this wealth of information, it is exactly what I was looking for.

I have searched for this information on the world wide web for some time, but a lot of things that I read on webforums were rather confusing.
I reckon from information that ssolie provided to me that the release of the SAM440-Amiga is planned for the first quarter of 2007. Do you have any information about the plans of the other hardware projects? Thank you again!

@Mikey_C

Given some games were a little tricky to install on the A1 (Quake 2 and Exodus), could we have a software install section (hints) to cover some of these trickier installs. For instance installing Exodus required aspecific patch but most users were trying another.

Also, I was reading another thread regarding playing Real Audio files on the classic, I didn't know that could be done so a section detailing just what the A1 (or new boards) can play and what software is required would be most helpful.


ace

You have to ask a betatester for that.. The guy I spoke with (Ryu) didnt say anything about CVPPC..

Hi guys,

Over the last few months a number of pieces of hardware have been
proposed and/or shown for use with OS4. I have compiled all the
information I could find into a (Work In Progress) Table of
Comparison, which should be attached to this post.

I hope this helps in seeing what is/might be coming soon and how
things stack up with each other. Please let me know if you have
any suggestions, modifications, more information, etc.

Thanks,

PJS

AOS4-NewHardware-v13.pdf

@Alkaron

Hmm, ok, thanks for the info...

...but you said, that P96 will be emulated for cards that
don't have (or get) a native driver...but CVPPC neither
has a P96 driver nor will get a native one (BVisionPPC will)
...so, no support for the CVPPC, at all?

@RWO

Exactly!

PPC-written drivers or programs

You know that its possible to write a driver for OS4 in 680x0. Its even possible to write a 680x0 driver that only works on OS4 and not on Classic.

I started do that with some of my usb drivers...

If you ask me Native means PPC code if you are talking about OS4.

RWO

Well!

Aos4 emulates classic 680x0 programs .. and drivers. Native modes means that there are drivers written directly for OS4.

The 680x0 is shut down during the use of Aos4