Amiga Flame - News - AmigaOS 4.1 going through its Final Paces

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AmigaOS 4.1 going through its Final Paces
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In startling news from Hyperion Entertainment, it was announced that AmigaOS 4.1 has gone into final testing and is scheduled for release in mid-Q3 of this year.

The plans for AmigaOS 4.1 are to introduce a wealth of substantial new functionality which is a prerequisite for the deployment of industry standard applications on the Amiga platform. State-of-the-art applications such as modern web-browsers, productivity software or digital imaging software typically operate on large datasets with a corresponding memory footprint which rapidly outstrips the physical memory of any computer system. Amiga OS 4.1 therefore offers intelligent memory paging and uses transparent disk based memory - but only when you need it.

Amiga OS 4.1 also implements 3D hardware accelerated Porter/Duff image composition which is deeply integrated into the system. The upside is that the AmigaOS 4.1 user-interface offers unprecedented functionality and customization options such as transparent windows with arbitrary shapes. They also plan to implement the "Cairo" device-independent 2D rendering library which has become a de facto industry standard and is used in applications as diverse as Firefox 3, Java/ ClassPath's SWING and even Open Office. The inclusion of this library opens up the possibility that such applications might make their way to the Amiga platform.

A series of informal AmigaOS 4.1 presentations will take place over the next few months with events planned in the UK and Italy.

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