Leuven, Belgium - September 29, 2002
Hyperion is pleased to report that it has completed the AmigaOne firmware based on the GPL'ed PPCBoot project. Below you will find a description of the implemented hardware support and functionality. We want to thank everyone who has contributed to this project.
Hardware support for the following devices:
- Serial port
- USB UHCI
- USB keyboard
- USB storage devices
- PS/2 compatible keyboard
- i8259 interrupt controller
- 3com 3c920 ethernet with full busmastering
- VIA IDE controller (A and B revision)
- Real time clock (RTC)
Features of PPCBoot (as implemented by Hyperion):
- x86 BIOS emulator capable of initialising and using nearly all PCI and AGP graphic cards based on the chipsets of ATI, nVidia, 3DFX, S3, 3Dlabs (Permedia), Trident etc.
- Auto detection of SDRAM modules
- Auto detection of bus and CPU speed
- Support for PCI and AGP
- General ArtiticaS support
- General VIA686 southbridge support (686A and 686B)
- IDE support (harddisk and CD-ROM booting)
- Floppy support
- Booting over network
For additional information on PPCBoot, please visit: ppcboot.sourceforge.net
About Hyperion Entertainment VOF
Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian-German company, founded in March of 1999. The company specialises in 3D graphics and the conversion of top-quality entertainment software from Windows to niche-platforms including Amiga, Linux (x86,PPC) and MacOS (OS 9/X).
Hyperion Entertainment has undertaken contract-work in the field of 3D graphics for companies such as Monolith (www.lith.com) and has developed a mature, fast, small foot-print technology to bring 3D graphics to low power digital devices such as PDAs and STBs.
Hyperion is currently working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC native incarnation of the groundbreaking OS introduced by Commodore in 1985.
