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Monday, 14 July 2008 |
Hyperion announces AmigaOS 4.1. Link to the main page of Hyperion is here.
Antwerp, Belgium - 11 July, 2008.
Hyperion Entertainment is very pleased to announce that Amiga OS 4.1
has gone into final testing and is scheduled for release mid-Q3/2008.
Building on the solid foundations of Amiga OS 4.0, Amiga OS 4.1
introduces a wealth of substantial new functionality which is a
prerequisite for the deployment of industry standard applications on
the Amiga platform.
State-of-the-art applications such as modern web-browsers, productivity
software or digital imaging software typically operate on large
datasets with a corresponding memory footprint which rapidly outstrips
the physical memory of any computer system. Amiga OS 4.1 offers
intelligent memory paging and uses transparent disk based memory - but
only when you need it.
Sophisticated media content creation packages, multimedia applications
such as video players and 3D games have sparked a revolution in storage
technology with hard-drive capacities now reaching the terabyte range.
Amiga OS 4.1 introduces an all new filesystem, JXFS, the fastest and
most robust filesystem available for the Amiga platform, with support
for drives and partitions of multiple terabytes.
Graphics cards too have become increasingly powerful and versatile.
Amiga OS 4.1 implements 3D hardware accelerated Porter/Duff image
composition which is deeply integrated into the system. The upside is
not only that the Amiga OS 4.1 user-interface offers unprecedented
functionality and customization options such as transparent windows
with arbitrary shapes. The use of a compositing engine also results in
totally flicker-free screen-updates.
Building on this compositing engine is Amiga OS 4.1's implementation of
the "Cairo" device-independent 2D rendering library which has become a
de facto industry standard and is used in applications as diverse as
Firefox 3, Java/ClassPath's SWING and even Open Office.
With these new features, Amiga OS 4.1 paves the way for countless
exciting possibilities for the Amiga platform. Indeed, Amiga OS 4.1 is
not only the most advanced AmigaOS incarnation to date, it is also the
best way to reacquaint
yourself with times when computing was fun!
A non-exhaustive list of key new functionality of Amiga OS 4.1:
* Intelligent memory paging
* Hardware compositing engine (Radeon R1xx and R2xx family)
* Implementation of the "Cairo" device-independent 2D rendering library
* Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) support for greater digital camera compatibility
* JXFS filesystem with the support for drivers and partitions of multiple terabyte si
* Improved Workbench functionality
* New and improved DOS functionality (full 64 bit support, universal
notification support, automatic expunge and reload of updated disk
resources)
* Improved 3D hardware accelerated screen-dragging
* Reworked AmiDock with true transparency
* Reworked Warp3D Radeon drivers with new functionality
* And much, much more.
Required hardware: AmigaOne
Required graphics card for hardware compositing: Radeon 1xx or Radeon 2xx
Recommend graphics card: Radeon 9250
Amiga OS 4.1 will ship in a cardboard package (box preview) and will be
distributed world-wide by Acube Systems Srl. Details on pricing and
availability will be forthcoming.
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