27.Oct.2024
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News from AmiWest 2024, AmigaOS 4.1 FE Update 3 announced
At AmiWest, which took place this weekend in Sacramento (USA), Steven Solie
and Trevor Dickinson were again present to give presentations and answer
questions about AmigaOS 4 related products. Just like last year, no Hyperion representative was
attending. Instead Bill Borsari from the organizing team announced
during the opening speech that Hyperion “plans” to release an update 3 for
AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition.
According to Borsari's announcement,
Update 3 includes the following improvements:
- Updated version of AmigaInput which fixes some bugs with certain types of controllers
- Latest and stable single core kernel for all hardware platforms including CyberstormPPC/BlizzardPPC for Classic Amigas.
- New set of backgrounds from Martin Merz (Mason Icons).
- Updated versions of several C commands
- Updated datatypes (AIFF, JPG & PNG)
- Several updated system libraries
- Several Prefs updates (such as URL, Time, Font and Workbench)
- Renewed USB stack including:
- USB Stack is more stable and handles "quirky" & "stubborn" USB devices better
- Support for gamers (now a lot of multiple keys at once are supported)
- Bootkeyboard & bootmouse drivers
- HID drivers
- Improved EHCI Asynchronous hardware driver
- Improved OHCI hardware driver with improved cache handling
- Updated USBInspector
- A lot of bugfixes and improvements in general.
- Other system components updates i.e. SObjs, Find system tool, Utilities
Dickinson and Solie were very cautious with other statements. According to
the A-EON owner, a second batch of A1222+ motherboards will be produced,
Solie announced an updated A1222+ kernel with “faster CPU cache”, and an
updated version of the boot media (a USB stick) will be released.
In the subsequent Q&A session, the audience asked about LibreOffice and the
multicore support in the AmigaOS kernel that was announced years ago. The
port of the office suite - which was announced in 2012 - “mostly” works, but there are "a couple of major problems" with C++ exceptions and the rendering of the graphical user
interface. The team consists of Hans-Jörg Frieden, Dickinson and “maybe”
Solie (“I don't do much...”) and they are looking for volunteers who want to
work on the project. The source code is available in a private Github
repository.
The multicore support in ExecSG, which Solie had already stopped mentioning
last year, is “not functional”, but the team is “getting closer every day”.
The plan is to write a kernel-level debugger to get to the bottom of the
problem: Multicore support is running, according to Solie - but they are having problems
getting it to "stay running". (cg)
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