09.Sep.2002
Elwood on ANN
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AmigaOS4 Status Update
As shown at the French Amiga show this week-end, here is the
status update of the AmigaOS4 project.
- Exec will be finished this week.
- Ramlib is done.
- DOS is done.
- Intuition is 95% done. The new sys-i class still needs to be added.
Work scheduled for completion end of the month. The prefs program
is done at 80%.
- Graphics is done.
- Layers is done.
- Utility is done.
- Iffparse is done.
- cia.ressource, audio.device and timer.device done at 99%.
- keyboard.device done at 99% (a few lines of ASM code left)
- input.device done.
- keymap.library done.
- lowlevel.library done.
- utility.library done.
- clip handler
This is the very first release of the cliphandler, i.e.
the CONCLIP: device, that provides clipboard support on
the level of the dos stream I/O. It also provides a
simple library for applications that cannot call the
dos.library directly.
- Queue handler done.
- Shell, features added, bugs fixed.
- CDFS is done.
- FFS2 is done. Plugin feature added allowing (plugins can be added
to some partitions for encryption, caching, mirroring....)
i.e. you can write a plugin that allows you to encrypt automatically all files copied into a partition.
- AmiDock is done. One of the so many features are the Dockies. These are plugins that allow the user to
add active content into the dock like a running clock or a lens that displays the area under the mouse
pointer, or ... whatever you want ! Who will write a demo in a Docky ? :-)
- GhostScript is added. It allows to create/display PostScript or PDF. Also a port of xPDF will be added.
- USB stack (with Subway/Highway/Thyclacine support)
- Soundblaster Live drivers!
- MUI
- IBrowse 2.3
- PPC native datatypes
- Reaction (95% finished)
- MediaToolbox
- PartitionWizard
- ft2.manager, diskfont.library. You'll now be able to open all sort of font formats...
Items still outstanding for OS 4:
- SCSI driver
- Remaining Intuition/Reaction work (5%)
- Roadshow GUI completion
- 2D driver completion (5% remaining)
- 68K emulation integration
- AmigaInput (nearly done)
Best regards,
Ben Hermans
Managing partner Hyperion Entertainment
(ps)
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