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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
  • 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.
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.