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[Mikey_C]

Hyperion-Entertainment BPPC Survey

As Amiga OS4 for AmigaOne and CSPPC based machines nears completion, Hyperion is undertaking a survey to gauage demand for the BPPC version

Therefore if you are an Amiga1200 owner with a Dual Blizzard PPC card and would like to see OS4 ported to this machine, please send an email to:
timdg@hyperion-entertainment.com

Please note: Ensuring that OS4 will work on the BPPC is a momumental task which will require enormous effort in both Time and Money. Therefore only email us if you have every intention of purchasing OS4 for BPPC.

Your support is very much appreciated in this matter.

Ben Hermans.
Hyperion-Entertainment

[Targhan]

:-) Stop. Back up. Think "Elbox Shark," thank you. That's how I want OS4, served up with a nice tasty SharkPPC.

[Warface]

Please note: Ensuring that OS4 will work on the BPPC is a momumental task which will require enormous effort in both Time and Money. Therefore only email us if you have every intention of purchasing OS4 for BPPC.

You would like us to make a decision about a product purchase with the above conditions - about a product of which we know very little, not even a price estimation?

Never the less, I'd like to see OS4 on my BVPPC, but not at all costs and not without reaching up to my expectations.

If you provide a decent OS for a reasonable price - you will have my money :-)

[magnetic]

To Hyperion
I am very sure that there is a big demand for OS4 for Blizzard cars. From what I understand there are more in circulation.

Do you intend to eventually release OS 4 for SharkPPC? Do you even have any Elbox products to develope with?
magnetic

[odin]

OFCOURSE I want OS4 on my Blizz.

It's the only reason I'm holding on to this crappy Frankstein duct tapish machine.

Email underway :-).

[Mikey_C]

As far as OS4 for shark goes, it's gone very quite. Not just at Hyperion's end, but most importantly at the Elbox end? Where is it?

Warface.
If the survey is positive, OS4 for BPPC will have nearly all if not ALL the features that will come with the A1 or CSPPC machines.

As to the price, i'm not Hyperion, but I'm willing to put money on the fact that it will cost the same the A1 or CSPPC version.
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For everyone else's information, Ben Hermans has too much to do atm so I volunteered to post the announcements to various news sites and Mailing lists on his behalf.

For those of you who are not quite up to date with what Hyperion have said, they have stated in the past that they could do a relatively straight port to A1200 BPPC machines. The problem is the wide and vast range of peripherals/add-ons for the A1200 that make writting such a port a major headcahe

Thus why they are conducting the survey, they are aware of the amount of work required in incorperating all those gadgets. Before they start they want to make sure it's worth it.

Understandable don't you think?

Mikey C

[Pyromania]

I agree Targan 100%. Bring on the SharkPPC card Elbox please.

[Argo]

"Big Shark, Pretty Shark...."

Yeah, any news on that? Is Elbox still planning on producing it?

[JurassicCamper]

Fleecy mentioned it in one of his Q&A's over on miggyworld.

Apparently they have a "gentlemans agreement" about not speaking about elbox's plans.

My mediator has a spare pci slot waiting for a sharkppc.

OS4 SharkPPC please.

Money for you... Money for Elbox...
Work Together.
Both of you benifit.

[System]

What I want to know is, will the shark PPC be usuable in a PCI slot in my x86 box? That would be cool! I'd buy OS4 for that. I'd pay US$100 for it too.

[skipp604]

OFCOURSE I want OS4 on my Blizz.

It's the only reason I'm holding on to this crappy Frankstein duct tapish machine.

And I am totally against the BlizzPPC OS4. I'm not even so happy with the fact of OS4 being developed for CyberStormPPCs. Why? Because I have enough of this "Frankenstein" machines - sandwitch computers with 1,000 interfaces and converters (IDE, Keyboard, PCI, Zorro, DC supply...), cables wrapper around the mainboard which looks like some DIY-clone :-o . I think we need a fresh kick of soft AND hard, not a modern OS on a obsolete machine ( Come on! Buy yourself an A1 or Peggy and stop reviving the zombie over and over again... :-?

[Madgun68]

I sure wouldn't mind knowing what hardware will be supported or how much it's supposed to cost before I make any sort of firm commitment on this.

:roll:

[xeron]

@skipp:

What difference does it make to you what hardware people run OS4 on?! :-?

[bloodline]

For those of you who are not quite up to date with what Hyperion have said, they have stated in the past that they could do a relatively straight port to A1200 BPPC machines. The problem is the wide and vast range of peripherals/add-ons for the A1200 that make writting such a port a major headcahe

hmmm, I'm not sure it that makes sense... Lets run a thought experiement:

1. I have a BlizzPPC in my A1200 with x,y and z peripherals.
2. At the moment the machines runs AOS3.0 on the 68040.
3. Everything runs fine.
4. I install AOS4 (which is supposed to be compatible with AOS 3.1, right?).
5. The drivers for peripherals x,y and z are still in 68K code, but the hardware has not changed.
6. The PPC runs the PPC code, the 68K emulation runs the 68k code, and everything works fine...

Ok, where's the problem?
1. AOS4 isn't compatible with AOS 3.1? Which defeats the point.
2. AOS4's 68k emulation doesn't allow low level access? Which defeats the point.

Any other ideas?

[norm]

I have to aggree with skipp604 on this one . Amigan's stop being so tight! Buy a god damn A1. Throw away that old BPPC. I mean what's the point in porting OS4 to it. It's got a slow bus speed poor memory access and your stuck with AGA, Permedia 2 or PCI equivalent graphics chips.

Come on guys it's time to put your A1200's to bed and buy something a bit newer.