Wonder what it means to the average Amigan though?
It means absolutely nothing to the average Amigan unless SAM runs OS4. At the moment it doesn't look it for 2007 and ACube isn't even capable to release OS4 for the CyberstormPPC althought they already made some advertising for it.
Yes, but it doesn't look as if the lawsuit will be finished in this year. Without a court decision, Hyperion and ACube will not be able to do anything. And even if the court decides, it is not clear if it decides in favour of Hyperion.
To be honest, the chance that we will see OS4 on SAM this year is very small.
Do you know when SAM will be available for normal consumers? I am not sure if they have already sold some boards to any peoples!?
There are reasons for the delay of the classic version, but not what you might think.
If the reasons for the delay are only that it is not yet finished, then GREAT! Even if that might sound strange after 6 years of waiting. I was afraid that it is not released because of the legal stuffs. That would be sad because the bl**dy lawsuit might still take some time and I can't wait anymore! Excuse my ignorance but I thought that it was nearly finished because there were already talks about the packaging and other things in some interview.
Do you already have an ETA for the CD-pressing of the CyberstormPPC versions? Keep up the good works!
Wonder what it means to the average Amigan though?
Hi Mikey_C,
How did everyone overlook this and how exciting is THIS!????
AND check out this (pages 4, 20) PDF!!! (It's only 1 Meg.)
They say that the 440 has an FPU, is that different than Altivec? This is a HUGE blow to lose Altivec.
Support Amiga Fantasy cases!!! How to program: 1. Start with lots and lots of 0's. 10. Add 1's, liberally. "Details for OS 5 will be made public in the fourth quarter of 2007, ..." - Bill McEwen Whoah!!! He spoke, a bit late.
@Raziel No, Altivec allows certain kinds of operations to work on many items of data simultaneously. So called SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data). It is very handy for processing/decoding sound, images & video.
But programs need to be designed & compiled with Altivec in mind.
On OS X is also used to accelerate quartz making the system very responsive.
I didn't know this. So what do they use now with the Intels? Is there something similar to Altivec? Because OS X is still very fast on Intels.
On X86 you have MMX and more recently SSE. If OSX didn't run fast on multi Ghz multi-core processors something would be very wrong, multimedia extensions or not.