Best to post the full Press Release:

AmigaOS 4.1 for Classics imminent

Brussels - May 7th, 2011.

Hyperion Entertainment CVBA is pleased to announce that all materials comprising the AmigaOS 4.1 distribution for Amiga 1200/3000/4000 equipped with the appropriate PowerPC based accelerator card (Cyberstorm PPC or BlizzardPPC) have now been completed.

AmigaOS 4.1 brings Amiga1200/3000/4000 the wealth of new functionality which was made available to other supported platforms in August of 2008 - up to and including - Update 2 released on April 30th, 2010.

Hyperion Entertainment invites you to experience the most advanced version of AmigaOS to date and join the ranks of SAM 440/460, AmigaOne and Pegasos II users!

AmigaOS 4.1 will be distributed world-wide by AmigaKit LLC and will be available from your local dealer very soon. AmigaKit was also instrumental in funding the AmigaOS 4.1 update for the Classics.
Great care was taken to support the largest range of Amiga Classic third party add-on hardware to date.

AmigaOS 4.1 Classic specific features include:

Improved bootloader with large table MMU support
Updated kernel offering increased stability in low memory conditions
Support for virtual memory via harddisk paging
ZorRAM and DKB 3128 support as memory pagers
Improved (future proof) Mediator support with Radeon 9200 and 9250 using up to 256MB of video memory (correct voltage graphics card required)
Support for PCI sound card (ESS SOLO-1 based cards);
Warp3D hardware acceleration support for Radeon, Voodoo 3/4/5 and Cybervision / Blizzardvision PPC (stable beta version for Permedia2-based cards)
DDC automatic monitor detection for Radeon and Voodoo 3
Hardware compositing engine (Radeon only) with software fall-back
Native FastATA driver support.

Features and functionality not incorporated previously in AmigaOS 4.0 include:

Intelligent Installer for PCI / Zorro with automatic AGA fallback support
New classic styled Bootlogo and Backdrops
Improved bootloader with large table MMU support
Updated kernel offering increased stability in low memory conditions
Support for virtual memory via harddisk paging
ZororRAM and DKB 3128 support as memory pagers
Improved (future proof) Mediator support with Radeon 9200 and 9250 using up to 256MB of video memory (correct voltage graphics card required)
Support for PCI sound card (ESS SOLO-1 based cards)
Warp3D hardware acceleration support for Radeon, Voodoo 3/4/5 and Cybervision / Blizzardvision PPC (stable beta version for Permedia2-based cards)
DDC automatic monitor detection for Radeon and Voodoo 3
Hardware compositing engine (Radeon only) with software fall-back
Native FastATA driver support.

Hyperion Entertainment extends special thanks to Darren Eveland and Carl Moppett for their tireless efforts making AmigaOS 4.1 for the Classic a reality.

Hyperion Entertainment also wishes to thank ACube Systems for the superb job on the manual and packaging of AmigaOS 4.1 for the Amiga Classic

Please note that further free updates of AmigaOS 4.1 for the Classic are planned and may include any of the following features (in addition to bugfixes):

Improved Prometheus/Firestorm support
Native Deneb driver
Faster RAM handler
Totally rewritten scsi.device with support for disk paging.

Last edited by amigakit on 07-May-2011 at 09:23 PM.
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Good work!

Congrats and great work !



This version sounds really nice for all classic CyberstormPPC and BlizzardPPC + Mediator users.

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Great work to all involved

Now where are those newly made ppc cards

Nice news, congrats to all involved

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Good :)

But we need more PPC HW for classic amigas

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Now where are those newly made ppc cards :)

Makes more sense to design & manufacture Sam440s than PPC accelerators, even if it would be new PPC accelerators would be cool.

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SATA support through Silicon Image equiped PCI Cards is not mentioned.

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Making the OS 4.1beta on the SAM460 to final and Update3 are imho more importannt. I am a bit disapointed about Hyperion....

@Deschain

Congratulations to your new SAM460ex!

The list of changes above mentions this :-

"Improved Prometheus/Firestorm support"

I know what a Prometheus is, but what is "Firestorm"?

Anybody know?

Robert.

Good news for the Amiga users with the classic hardware now they can enjoy the last OS4.1 software although slowly.

great news

Great!

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I want both SAM and PPC accelerators for old school purpose

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I dont own a SAM460 and i will never buy that. I am very pleased with my both SAM440. I am only speaking for all SAM460 user.

@Deschain

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I dont own a SAM460 and i will never buy that. I am very pleased with my both SAM440. I am only speaking for all SAM460 user.

So you're saying that you are a psychic then?

In any case stop speaking for other people. Let those people speak for themselves instead of putting words into their mouths.

Quote:

Making the OS 4.1beta on the SAM460 to final and Update3 are imho more importannt. I am a bit disapointed about Hyperion....

It's been said repeatedly that OS4.1 development for classic amigas is done in parallell to OS4.1 development for other systems. Would you rather they delayed release of the classic amiga version just for the sake of releasing all versions at the same time?

@dave

Yes it wasn't mentioned on the Press release but you could add to it:

-Support for Silicon Image based PCI SATA controllers (3512,3112,3114)
-Support for the Silicon Image 0680 IDE PCI Controller (Firestorm only)
-Comprehensive Install Guide
-Large FAQ

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Yes, OK, you have OS 4.1 for SAM.

Its greatest advance of Amiga Classic so far!

GFX card and 128mb RAM, stick is put to a higher level
but Radeon greatly recommended ... and 256mb

Still, interesting low end, and proof that AmigaOS is lightweight
and can run on 160-200Mhz PPC CPU from 1996 and 128mb RAM,
well enough for some Android like strong PPC phone (with decent
touchscreen support).

Also, this means that all 603/604 hardware could also potentialy be hardware target, if equiped with 128mb RAM and Radeon.

G3,G4, EP440 and EP460 versions are already here

Also, was there any Linux beside APUS PPC made avail for ClassicPPC?

Yes, it would be nice to see some G3 + 256mb + Radeon 9250 integrated Zorro II/III expansion for A2000,A3000,A1200,A4000 and CD32 ... and Natami if having Zorro comaptibile slot or Zorro 2 PCI convertor for PC users

After all, modern concept is sell OS to all that can use it, and I would mind
PPC Macs and OS enabled Playstation 3 too ...

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