Elbox has released a new version of their Mediator CD software, version 2.6. It appears the pci.library is updated as of October 2019, the sb128.audio driver as of January 2019, and the MedConfig program also as of October, 2019. Elbox doesn’t elaborate on what has changed, unfortunately.
You can download it here:
http://elbox.com/downloads_mediator.html
Brussels, March 17, 2019
Hyperion Entertainment CVBA is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the first-person shooter game Shogo: Mobile Armor Division for AmigaOS 3 (WarpOS) and AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition from the direct downloads section of our website.
Customers can now buy this amazing game as a purely digital version at a price of only EUR 14.95 incl. VAT* for download from our restricted download area. The downloadable content consists of an image of the original CD for AmigaOS 3 (WarpOS) and an archived game drawer for AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition.
The excellent port to AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition was done by Frank Menzel, who was already responsible for the just as excellent ports of Gorky 17and Descent: Freespace.
Customers who already bought the boxed version will be able to download the AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition version free of charge after registration of their copy.
* may very depending on your local taxes
Just a quick note, comments should now be working properly, no longer overlapping.
Due to the huge amount of spam that comes in, I still have to leave comment approval in place. Otherwise you would just be seeing junk. There will be a delay before seeing your (valid) comment show up. It’s a manual process so please be patient.
Also, you will notice that the site theme has changed. I’m not sure if I am 100% happy with it, so you may see adjustments or an entirely new theme at any time, as I toy with things to make it look the way I want it to look.
And again I apologize for not keeping the site fresh with updated news. I will try to post things as I think they are worthy – other sites are good at posting news. I will keep the historical and most important information online for users who need it, specifically for AmigaOS 4.1 Classic, Amithlon, and Remote Desktop.
I hope this helps you guys!
Darren
Hyperion Entertainment has released the horror conspiracy game Gorky 17 as a digital download. Visit Hyperion’s website to purchase and download Here is the press release below:
http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz/index.php/news
Gorky 17 available as digital download Brussels, March 20, 2017Customers not being able or willing to buy a physical copy from an Amiga dealer can now purchase this purely digital version from everywhere in the world at a price of EUR 24.95 incl. VAT*. The downloadable content consists of an archived game drawer including all languages and manual. Just extract and run… “AmigaOS style” 🙂
Purchasers of course also get a serial number by email to register their purchase at our website in order to get access to our restricted download area for possible updates and backup copies of the game archive as well as the original ISO.
For existing customers of Gorky 17 we also made an updated installation script available from our restricted download area, which fixes installation issues on Update 1 of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition.
Gorky 17 is a horror conspiracy game mixing elements of strategy and RPG gameplay. You, the player, command a small group of NATO soldiers who must reveal the mystery behind the sudden appearance of hybrid creatures in a small Polish city named Lubin. The game was originally released in October 2015 for AmigaOS 4 by Hyperion Entertainment CVBA.
* may very depending on your local taxes |
In case you haven’t heard, the bankrupt company phase5 – a premier Amiga Accelerator and hardware add-on maker from the 1990’s – is coming back under new ownership/management.
phase5 was famous for making great quality (really, the best) hardware add ons including 68060 accelerators, combo ppc/68k cards, scsi add ons, graphic cards such as the CyberVision PPC, etc…they even had ambitious plans for a full PPC computer. This is potentially great news for Amiga users who remember those amazing times in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s when phase5 was at it’s peak.
Check out all the info on their facebook page!
Enterprising user jack3D has discovered a new 68060 accelerator buried inside an ultrasound machine! It actually is attached to a real A4000T motherboard. Check it out at his website:
http://jack.untergrund.net/2016/12/07/tekmagic-4060t-aka-ultrasound-accelerator-en/
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Hyperion Entertainment has a new Facebook page. Here is the link. Make sure you check it out!
https://www.facebook.com/HyperionEntertainment
Hi everyone, the site was hacked due to a javascript exploit in one of the WordPress themes. I have fixed it now but if you run into any issues please let me know.
Wow, I have finally managed to move the site to a new server and successfully copied over the content! I am in the process of verifying all links and adding back some photos.
The site should be much faster now and the links (finally!) should start to work over the next few days. Remote Desktop, Amiga Hardware, and Amithlon tabs are finished – all links should work there.
I still like the design of the site so I haven’t changed that. If you have any suggestions let me know.
Thanks for all of your patience!
Note: much of the text on this page is in the “past tense”, so it will remain that way for historical significance.
This is a support page for all those owners of Amiga 4000Ts with Quikpak 68060 accelerators installed. Since purchasing my board I have had some problems and questions. Others out there may be in the same boat. If you are, I hope this page will be able to answer some of your questions. For those of you who do not own the 68060 accelerator, you may find this page useful as well. Through some investigation I have found out that the 68060.library was licensed from Ralph Babel, and the 68060 board design from Jeff Boyer (Boyer Inc.) Some of you may know Ralph Babel’s name from his work on several Amiga Books and also the GURU ROM for GVP scsi controllers. I am not sure of the exact relationship of the license, but it seems that only the 68060.library and 68040.library stub were licensed. The CPU060 command is not Ralph’s work. Also, Quikpak (or perhaps Jeff Boyer) did not license Ralph’s new math library, that would work in similar fashion to phase 5’s CyberPatcher utility. I would encourage all of you our there to E-mail Quikpak and ask if they will license Ralph’s math library for their 68060 products. Also please contact me if you have any further information about the Quikpak 68060 card. Please keep checking back to this page in the never several weeks and days. I will add performance benchmarks and other information.
Please note that this page has no affiliation with Quikpak, phase 5, Boyer Inc, or any contract developers that may work for those companies.
Software Support
Here is what I have determined to be the latest version of the support software for the Quikpak 68060 accelerator:
| Software/Disk | Current Version download |
|---|---|
| Install Disk version 1.0 | (DMS Format) and Lha Format |
| 68060.library | 2.2 (July 26, 1996) – included in Install Disk |
| Manual, XP version Manual, Tower version |
060 XP Version Manual ZIP format |
Recently it has come to my attention that a different version of the 68060.library has been shipping with the Quikpak A4060T systems. This version is the one from Coenobium Developments. It is unknown why the change was made (perhaps it was a mistake?). So far attempts to contact Quikpak have failed, but we will try to get to the bottom of the situation…
New: Installation disks for other 68060 cards can be downloaded from Gregory Donnor’s page.
Hardware Support
The Quikpak 4000T 68060 accelerator runs at 56.75Mhz and will support EDO ram. If you can get your hands on EDO ram I would recommend it. I have tested the board with and without EDO ram installed. EDO ram gives an astonishing 15 to 18% speed increase in memory access. With EDO ram installed the board is close to 2x as fast as phase 5’s Cyberstorm MK-II 68060 card!
Desktop Version
Quikpak also offers version of their 060 card that fits in an Amiga 4000 Desktop, although this card was also sold with the Amiga 4000T that Quikpak produced. The desktop model sports a UW SCSI controller as optional equipment! Here are some photos of the Desktop board:
Known Issues
| Problem Description | Solution/Comments |
| When using Shapeshifter and the serial port with TCP/IP the hard disk locks up and the light stays on freezing the machine. | Make sure your SCSI devices are properly connected and terminated. If the problem still persists, try turning off scsi fast bus or synchronous mode. If that does not solve the problem it may be a 68060 related problem or timing/DMA issues.Partial Solution: Run Shapeshifter off the IDE controller of the A4000T. There seems to be some problem with the SCSI controller. I am still getting some lockups on ShapeShifter. It seems that I can not find a 100% stable solution. |
| Prepareemul does not work | Use the prepareemul A1200 switch |
| Rendering is slower on my 68060 than on my friend’s phase 5 accelerator | Non-phase 5 68060 cards do not include a Cyberpatcher utility. This fpu patching is required because some instructions are missing from the 68060’s fpu. Oyxron, a demo/coding group, is releasing a commercial product named OYXpatcher that will work on all 68060 cards. For more information go to their page by clicking here. |
| The V-lab Y/C framegrabber card (from Macrosystems) when used with the QuikPak 060 board does not always grab a complete video frame, instead only grabs one field and keeps previous 2nd field in its buffer, thereby interleaving two different images. Curiously, when we switch back to the original 68040.library (thus slowing the machine way down), we don’t have a problem with V-lab. For more information contact Bob Richardson. | No solution yet. |
| Some Fujitsu hard drives do not seem to work with the A4000T. (Note: this is probably a general A4000T problem) | I have tested both 1.0 and 1.3 gig Fujitsu hard disks on the A4000T. Both were not recognized properly (or not at all) by the Amiga. Keep this in mind when shopping for an IDE drive for your A4000T. |
| FUSION is generally unstable and does not work (freezes after awhile) when dialing out to an internet connection. | This general problem with Mac Emulation and the Quikpak 060 hardware is still unresolved. We are attempting to find a solution. |
Performance
Machine configuration:
Amiga Technologies A4000T
Quikpak 68060 card installed
32 meg EDO 60ns local 060 ram
18 meg of motherboard ram (60ns Fast Page Mode)
Picasso 4 Graphics Card with Picasso 96 1.13
1.06 gig seagate medalist hard disk
BusSpeedTest 0.19 (mlelstv) Buffer: 262144 Bytes, Alignment: 32768 (bustest fast rom)
| Memtype | Cycle | Bandwidth | |
| fast | readw | 44.8 ns | 44.6 meg/sec |
| fast | readl | 71.1ns | 56.6 meg/sec |
| fast | readm | 73.1ns | 54.7 meg/sec |
| fast | writew | 44.8ns | 44.7 meg/sec |
| fast | writel | 89.8ns | 44.6 meg/sec |
| fast | writem | 89.0ns | 45.0 meg/sec |
| rom | readw | 44.8ns | 44.7 meg/sec |
| rom | readl | 69.9ns | 57.2 meg/sec |
| rom | readm | 73.0ns | 54.8 meg/sec |
Memspeed Benchmarks (Memspeed Copyright 1996 Frank Wille)
Ram type: 60ns Fast Page Mode (FPM) vs. 60ns EDO Ram (EDO)
| Type | FPM Read | EDO Read | % Change |
| Chip Ram | 4617 kB/s | 4617 kB/s | 0.0% |
| Fast Ram | 46492 kB/s | 54545 kB/s | +17.3% |
| Rom | 46586 kB/s | 54545 kB/s | +17.1% |
| Type | FPM Write | EDO Write | % Change |
| Chip Ram | 6969 kB/s | 6968 kB/s | -0.01% |
| Fast Ram | 38927 kB/s | 44055 kB/s | +13.2% |
| Type | FPM Copy | EDO Copy | % Change |
| Chip Ram | 2777 kB/s | 2777 kB/s | 0.0% |
| Fast Ram | 22470 kB/s | 26716 kB/s | +18.9% |
As you can see from the table above, the EDO ram has a significant impact on both the read and write speeds of Fast ram, with an upto 18.9% performance boost over FPM (fast page mode) ram.
