A-EON Technology and HDRLab are pleased to announce that AmigaOS 4 now includes full support for AMD Radeon HD series 7 graphics cards.
Version 0.54 of the Radeon HD driver, which has been exclusively funded by and licensed to A-EON Technology, will be available for download from the A-EON Technology website in the near future. A-EON's Trevor Dickinson commented, “This is a major achievement for AmigaOS 4.1 which now supports graphics cards throughout the Radeon HD range, including the latest series 7 cards. We are especially proud to have funded this development and wish to congratulate Hans on his outstanding work.” Developer Hans de Ruiter added, “It was a long and at times difficult development, but I am extremely pleased that AmigaOS now supports the latest in graphic card technology.”
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Registered owners of new AmigaOne 500 and selected Sam460 systems purchased directly from ACube can also download the driver.
If you own multiple AmigaOS systems you can now purchase additional licences through our website.
About the Radeon HD driver: The driver supports 2D and Compositing under AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 with a wide range of Radeon HD PCI graphics cards including: the X1300-X1950 series, HD4000 series, "Evergreen" HD5000 series, "Northern Islands" HD6000 series, and now the "Southern Island" HD7000 series. Version 0.54 is fully ready for 3D support to be added by Hyperion Entertainment. Please visit AmigaKit's website to obtain compatible graphics cards.
About the developer: Hans de Ruiter is an electrical & electronic engineer and leading AmigaOS developer and Amiga enthusiast. His website - HDRLab - details various projects, many of which are AmigaOS related. The biggest of these is the RadeonHD driver for AmigaOS, an ambitious project that aims to deliver modern graphics capabilities for the AmigaOS platform.
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Does this mean that 3D works in games now? i.e. will Quake 3 or any other 3D games work in hardware or do we have to wait for some other update from Hyperion as it seems to suggest from the announcement.
I have to say I haven't quite understood 3D support on the X1000. As I understand the Sam 440 and 460 can make use of 3D in games as their older Radeons are supported by OS4 for 3D but the X1000 having a newer Radeon was always left waiting for support.
Sorry - a bit confused
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Re: New RadeonHD Series 7 Support Posted on 10-Oct-2012 15:24:53
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From: Yorkshire Dales, United Knigdom
Apologies for what may seem silly questions but I never really understood what the 'missing' bit was that prevents the X1000 graphics card from supporting 3D.
Sure - Gallium will support 3D in the newer cards such as the RadeonHD in the X1000 but what about older software that isn't written with Gallium in mind? Will the drivers ever support 3D for older software such as Quake 2 or 3 on the RadeonHD in the X1000?
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Re: New RadeonHD Series 7 Support Posted on 13-Oct-2012 22:47:39
I've purchased the new Radeon drivers, just downloaded from AEon tehcnology site and installed on my 460ex, but, as already happened to sticky, they are the 0.53 version.
It should be the 0.54 version of drivers... any hint?
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