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Re: SciTech releases Snap Graphics drivers for PowerPC
Posted on 2-Sep-2004 4:15:37
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| Thank you Friedans for there work. Scitech got this from Hyperion. Our AmigaOnes have this builtin.
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Re: SciTech releases Snap Graphics drivers for PowerPC
Posted on 2-Sep-2004 5:11:55
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| Are you sure? Scitech doesn't credit hyperion at all on their site. The don't even mention Amiga OS 4 as one of the supported PowerPC OSes, only Linux.
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sorry I just saw the post by Rogue. |
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Re: SciTech releases Snap Graphics drivers for PowerPC
Posted on 2-Sep-2004 6:05:40
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| yep...not really news but yes its cool to see everybody wanting to take credit  , wonder when we get the whole snap package.....that is like....most interesting.... (say it with a tad...feeble files voice)
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Re: SciTech releases Snap Graphics drivers for PowerPC
Posted on 2-Sep-2004 6:53:13
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| Ehmmm....wasn't the deal that SciTech port the drivers to PPC and Hyperion does 3D drivers for them?
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Re: SciTech releases Snap Graphics drivers for PowerPC
Posted on 2-Sep-2004 7:09:58
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| Something like that?
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Re: SciTech releases Snap Graphics drivers for PowerPC
Posted on 2-Sep-2004 8:42:01
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| @ Russ
We've got nothing to do with this.
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Re: SciTech releases Snap Graphics drivers for PowerPC
Posted on 2-Sep-2004 8:44:16
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| Ehmmm....wasn't the deal that SciTech port the drivers to PPC and Hyperion does 3D drivers for them? |
Actually, the deal is that we've licensed the SNAP driver technology from SciTech. Since this requires a port to PPC, SciTech, being experts in Linux, ported SNAP to PowerPC Linux.
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Re: SciTech releases Snap Graphics drivers for PowerPC
Posted on 2-Sep-2004 9:03:49
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| I feel the urge to correct this again here.
The emulator in U-Boot is the SciTech emulator, written by Scitech, not by Hyperion. SNAP on PowerPC Linux is done by SciTech, not Hyperion. We have nothing to do with it. We *are* in the process of porting SNAP to OS 4, but that is all our involvement.
If at all, the only credit we can claim is that we corrected one or two minor bugs in the emulator and extended one of the incompletely emulated opcodes to include additional functionality that we needed, but that is all. The emulator, SNAP and the SciTech IES are all SciTech's work!
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Re: SciTech releases Snap Graphics drivers for PowerPC
Posted on 2-Sep-2004 9:07:00
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| @all
I'm busy hiding my head in shame....
I think I lead everyone astray with my earlier posting on the "other thread"...
I will now go hide back under my rock now...
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Re: SciTech releases Snap Graphics drivers for PowerPC
Posted on 2-Sep-2004 9:43:20
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| @newbee , thats easy enough to do....i dont think anyone is mad....
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Re: SciTech releases Snap Graphics drivers for PowerPC
Posted on 2-Sep-2004 11:38:18
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| Ehmmm....wasn't the deal that SciTech port the drivers to PPC and Hyperion does 3D drivers for them? |
Actually, the deal is that we've licensed the SNAP driver technology from SciTech. Since this requires a port to PPC, SciTech, being experts in Linux, ported SNAP to PowerPC Linux. |
IIRC was it Steve Wendt from SciTech that made the port to PPC.
[edit] sorry... my fault... It was Olivier Singla, if I'm not totally wrong
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Re: SciTech releases Snap Graphics drivers for PowerPC
Posted on 3-Sep-2004 22:49:59
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| Testing, 1,2,3....
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Re: SciTech releases Snap Graphics drivers for PowerPC
Posted on 4-Sep-2004 0:16:17
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| Yep...
I'm a twit.... I did find the original referance I was thinking of and Hyperion ALWAYS said SciTech would do the porting...
Just in case anyone is interested:
Original Link
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| "SciTech is currently in the process of migrating SNAP to Linux PPC, which will take care of all the nasty endian problems we would have to deal with otherwise." |
Onother link
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| "SciTech successfully ported their SNAP 2D driver architecture to LinuxPPC and GCC." |
But I'm now intersted in seeing how accurate this prediction is:
Just to prove I'm not making it up...
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| "Once that process is completed, we expect to be able to integrate SNAP into AmigaOS 4.0 in a matter of no more than 2 weeks, based on the experience integrating SNAP into other operating systems." |
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Re: SciTech releases Snap Graphics drivers for PowerPC
Posted on 4-Sep-2004 3:01:58
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| I am glad that I have generated so much info by my mistake.
I was misinformed.
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Re: SciTech releases SNAP Graphics drivers for PowerPC
Posted on 4-Sep-2004 4:47:27
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| i want to see more OS4 screenshots...
i feel bad i didn't had my doze in few weeks..
os4 screenshot from allover theworld's site isn't updated enough..
if i don't have my screendoze soon, i may feel really bad,
i think i might colapse anytime now..
pleaaase gimme grabszzz...
i'm dying raaaah
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Re: SciTech releases Snap Graphics drivers for PowerPC
Posted on 4-Sep-2004 8:36:15
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| @newbee:
It will be impossible to tell from the outside how long Hyperion will take to port Snap to OS4, if they put the new video drivers in an update with other changes. Anything over a couple of days could be explained by the time it took to make the other changes. |
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Re: SciTech releases Snap Graphics drivers for PowerPC
Posted on 13-Sep-2004 20:51:04
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| Snap require quite a lot of time to be ported...
The developer think that it can be released also after OS4 (final) with an update then I think that there aren't elements to hold the breath...
Anyway, if the "other" drivers for the most used video cards by the "amigaoners" are as good as it seems... 
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