In the last few days I've been in contact with Paolo and asked if he'd be willing to port VGP2 or VGP3 to OS4 if we were to provide him with suitable hardware.

He told me that it might be difficult for him to retrive the sources for VGP2 but said that if we have OpenGL 2.1 VGP3 should be possible although he has limited time at the moment.

I let him know about GL4ES and here is his response posted with permission.

What could I say... from the "I like the idea" point of view it could be great to do a port of the VGP3 engine for OS4! The only problem is that I'd do it in my spare time and at the moment I'm a bit short of it... but yes, it could be done! The good news is that the VGP3 engine is written in a very portable C++, and in its latest installment it even uses SDL2 to interface itself with the OS... so, IF everything works as expected, I'm not saying that it will be a simple "recompile it for a different target", but... probably... it won't require TOO much work to port it to OS4 (hopefully)..

The hope would be to get an X5000 sytem out to him since this is the only OS4 capable hardware currently available to purchase.

The current options for sourcing the hardware are;

Amedia. They sell complete systems but the HD5450 would need to be replaced with a more suitable video card.

Relec. They sell complete systems and and it seems that an R7 250 is suplied.

GGS Data. They sell the motherboard only, leaving us to source the rest of the components.

Ideally the system shoud have an RX560 or better and we also need to factor in the cost of Enhancer 2.x as well, and maybe we can get A-EON to provide the latest stable non public components.

Anyhow, now it's time to open a discussion on funding platforms and any other considerations.

@rjd324

The only card listed as incompatible in that range is the 7790 so you should be fine.

@Evillord68

Not if you intend to use to use a PCIe card since you have to disable IDE DMA and USB on a "fixed" AmigaONE XE. Alan Redhouse advised against applying the fix warning there may be unforseen consequences. This is the unforseen consequence.

@samo79

At one time Paolo Cattani was offering to port VGP2 if he was provided with OS4 hardware but now with GL4ES on OS4 VGP3 could be a candidate for porting.

@samo79

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I was trying to remember that one when I saw the thread title because the author made some more games that can be downloaded from his site.

http://www.nic.fi/~varsa/games.html

@eliyahu

Frontier: Elite II under EUAE since there are plenty of videos on youtube making it fairly easy to guage emulation speed compared to other systems.

@sicky

Welcome back.

The Wii U page is no longer blocked.

@Antique

I think you need to change the power management settings to high or max or whatever.

Maybe a candidate for an OS4 port.

In this repository you'll find the fully reversed source code for GTA III (master branch) and GTA VC (miami branch).

It has been tested and works on Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, on x86, amd64, arm and arm64.
Rendering is handled either by original RenderWare (D3D8) or the reimplementation librw (D3D9, OpenGL 2.1 or above, OpenGL ES 2.0 or above).
Audio is done with MSS (using dlls from original GTA) or OpenAL.

The project has also been ported to the Nintendo Switch, Playstation Vita and Nintendo Wii U.

We cannot build for PS2 or Xbox yet. If you're interested in doing so, get in touch with us.

https://github.com/td512/re3#readme

@328gts

The X1000's audio is built into the SB600.

@NinjaCyborg

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One that's confirmed to be working with the configuration you have. geennaam tested an MSI R9 270X Gaming and Spectre660 said the VisionTek Radeon 7750 SFF worked in his Sam440 so if you can track down one of those and use the same adapters it should work for you too.

@Gregor

It looks like it.

Availability: No delivery date or availability confirmed

https://amigakit.amiga.store/product_info.php?products_id=1303

https://amigakit.amiga.store/product_info.php?products_id=1121

@white

Compositing is for Radeon 7000 (R100) and above.

@Templario

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It retailed at the equivalent of $3000 dollars so there was definitely room for a $700 Amiga 500 if Commodore had made a serious push in the Japanese market.

@arfcarl

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It should be at least 50 since Acube have said before that is the minimum size for a production run of their hardware.

@blmara

You can get extension cables for whatever connection type you need.

@TiredOfLife

It's not been publicly announced but the Southern Islands cards will have UVD support in OS4 too. The SI cards don't support 4K decoding but unless you already have or intend to get a 4K monitor you should be fine with the HD7770.

I was told about this by Matthew back in February when I visited AmigaKit. I thought it was important to mention it here and now since you might have ended up spending money on an RX5x0 card only to find out later that you didn't need to.

@TiredOfLife

Wait until Enhancer 2 is released before considering to change the 7770 for something newer. It might turn out that you don't need to.

@K-L

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The RadeonHD driver.

@LiveForIt

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I made no reference to the video showing hardware decoding on the A1222.

At the bottom of the wiki page I linked to.

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