AmigaOS 4.1 Classic version will be available to buy and distributed by AmigaKit before the end of this year.

Good news for the Amigans still having working BlizzardPPC or CyberstormPPC board.

Excellent news for AmigaOS 4 developers, that they can ditch AmigaOS 4.0 and develop for 4.1 only, without ignoring the classic users.

Personally I feel my microAmigaOne is starting to age and getting slow, so can't wait for the AmigaX1000. Sold my Amiga 4000 two years ago.

I don't wish to imagine how would it be doing modern computing on PPC turbo board from 1997, connected to a computer from 1992, but for the fun of doing it, it is acceptable.

AmigaOS 4.1 Classic version will be available to buy and distributed by AmigaKit before the end of this year.

Cool
Then I can get these Blizzard and Cyberstorms to do something real :roflmao:

...I don't wish to imagine how would it be doing modern computing on PPC turbo board from 1997, connected to a computer from 1992, but for the fun of doing it, it is acceptable.

I have probably the fastest CSPPC board over the world. (604/400MHz with 060/66MHz). Believe me it's really fast. Enough fast for use every day

For example, CPU 68k&PPC speed test by SysSpeed:

For 68060/66MHz:
 MIPS - 86.53
 MFLOPS - 32.62
 
For PPC 604e/400MHz:
 MIPS - 581.89
 MFLOPS - 400.01
 
UW-SCSI SCA 36GB with SFS:
 CreateFile 22.59 MB/s
 WriteFile 28.45 MB/s
 ReadFile 24.98 MB/s
 RawRead 28.74 MB/s

Looks very nice isn't it?
So I think the new OS4.1 for my classic Amiga will run on it smooth enough

Having bought Classic OS4.0 when it first came out for use with my Blizzard060/PPC 60Mhz/240Mhz and being sorely disappointed with the speed at which it ran, I can only hope the OS4.1 has had some major speed improvements made to it to make it useable.

I not getting my hopes built up though as I very rarely use 4.0 due to the speed issues and also the fact that the one and only update for 4.0 was way back in June 07, when purchasers of Classic OS4.0 were left in the lurch when support for it seemed to be abandoned.

So I will warily keep my eye on it this time to see what others think of it first...

Ah, excellent. Fingers crossed for ZorRAM support. At the very least, swap space support will make the system far more usable.

I personally would like to see support for the BlizzardPPC scsi controller which was one of the weakest points (if not the weakest) 'cause due to this the IDE controller made the CPU to waste cycles for disk access/transfers on the Amiga1200...
 
We'll see. I think this is a good move for hyperion, I don't think compiling OS4.1 for the classics would have needed too much effort anyway, they will get extra cash to continue improving the OS and so all hardware platforms and users (sam, peg, a1, etc) will benefit from this.
 
Cheers,
 
Dragster