Great news :)

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@Amiga 4000 users

It is well worth investing in one of those ZorRAM devices from AmigaKit as a very efficient and fast (bearing in mind the Zorro 3 bandwidth) expansion of your 128 MB maximum memory.

These devices will be used transparently as swap devices (to the best of my understanding).

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@Rogue and Hyperion

Awesome guys! This is exactly what was needed. Thank you. Very encouraging progress on classic version and hopefully after that X1000 and OS 4.2 :)


@hammer

Nice writeup.. i'm jeoulous of your setup.

@fairdinkum:

The beta version has been available for a long time, the Friedens are waiting for full release status (its a huge update, FF has been getting loads of grief in most recent times for being bloatware) ; which Mozilla expect in January. As the brothers have already stated, although code is in a state of flux, some work can be done around it - perhaps they have done some work on giving TW an Amiga-feel?

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Excellent news, this is what we need! Thanks Rogue

Great initiative, Hyperion - kudos to everyone involved!

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A big step in the right direction from Hyperion to make public relation.
Please do more Hyperion in this direction!!!
A Website with all Informations about this great AmigaOS is argently needed inc. german site etc.
Look at the old Amiga International Website from H&P for example in the webarchives.

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A4000T CyberstormPPC 604e-200Mhz/060/128MB+CybervisionPPC 8MB + AmigaOS4
and anymore other Amigas...

This is a fantastic idea. This is exactly the sort of thing that you need to be doing Hyperion. It keeps an official feed into the real Amiga. You will have to endure the inevitable childish attacks that will come every so often. When they do - ignore them like the vast majority do.

Great news.

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about the additional memory, it only works with sata hard drive or also with normal ide hard drive

The driver for the internal IDE controller (scsi.device) is 68k assembly. As such, it lacks the ability to call the necessary Exec functions for locking memory (to make sure the pager does not accidentially trigger a pager action and thus deadlock).

Having said that, I've used scsi.device on my Amiga4000 for paging, and after extensive tests (that is, 5 million pager operations) it still worked. It's not guaranteed however, so we're not (yet) officially supporting it.

Support might come, depending on time and necessity.

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All opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily represent those of Hyperion Entertainment

I like this blog because it gives some of the beta testers a chance to show their enthusiasm for the platform and do the nice write-ups the main developers simply don't have time for.

Getting a preview into what is coming is icing on the cake.

@ Fairdinkem

We've put Timberwolf on hold for some time now since the latest beta versions of Firefox 4 (on Windows) had rendering problems with some of the boxes and containers. Since we didn't want to hunt phantoms when converting to the new code base, the effort was put on hold until such time as a working beta release came out.

Recently, with the new beta 7 arriving, the problem has been fixed and thus work has resumed.

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All opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily represent those of Hyperion Entertainment

Nice One.

Thank you very much.

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damn, really good news for classic-users. its a shame, that i sold my amiga1200t-ppc/bvision back in the days. so please hurry up with the sam460/x1000 versions of amigaos4.2 (or how it is called then). it would be nice to see some kind of kingcon functionality in the stock os. usb2 would also be nice. keep up the good work

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Will a Lynx version of the site be forthcoming?

*ducks

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Excellent news!

Thanx Hyperion and Merry Christmas to all amigans in the world.

cheers

g0blin

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@Rogue, EntilZha

LOL, as soon as the blog appeared, you have started to post blog-related information into the forums :)))

Great idea. Thanks, guys!

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@EntilZha

Very very good, actually we are very close to the official beta 8 (1 or 2 days left), it is already quite stable here (Windows XP)

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For A3/4000 users, the Cyberstorm PPC scsi (cybppc.device) will also work with paging...probably the best order (in terms of speed) for the paging is:

1) ZorRAM
2) cybppc.device (Cyberstorm PPC SCSI)
3) SATA hard drive on a PCI sata card on the Mediator

A good solution is probably a 256MB ZorRAM card then some space on your Cyberstorm PPC scsi drive as SWAP partition.

A1200 users with Mediators can use a PCI SATA card and a SWAP partition on that. Although the Blizzard PPC boards can use upto 256MB of physical memory...lucky dogs :)

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Really great to see this communication from Hyperion. Thanks.