Hyperion Entertainment VOF Partners
with SciTech Software to Add Graphic Power to AmigaOS 4 and
Beyond
Chico, California -- (February 18,
2003) -- SciTech Software Inc. and
Hyperion Entertainment VOF are pleased to announce they have
enterered into a strategic partnership which will see SciTech's
SNAP(tm) technology integrated into AmigaOS 4.x which is currently
under development by Hyperion for PPC based systems.
SciTech SNAP, SciTech's leading edge graphics
device support, allows for the rapid development and deployment
of embedded solutions across multiple platforms and currently
already supports well over 170 different graphics chipsets
including all the latest offerings from industry leaders ATI,
nVidia and Matrox.
"We are very excited about SNAP as it offers
us out of the box support for a huge and ever growing number
of graphics cards and effectively allows us to redirect resources
away from device driver development and cut down on time to
market", said Ben Hermans, managing partner of Hyperion.
"We are convinced that prospective customers of AmigaOS
4.x will appreciate the high-performance, low footprint graphics
card technology that SciTech has developed over many years."
"SciTech shares in the vision of the Amiga
platform and is excited to play a key roll in the further
development of the original multi-media OS." said, Andrew
Bloo, Director of Marketing, SciTech Software Inc. "By
adopting SciTech SNAP Graphics as the core graphics architecture
for the Amiga OS, Amiga can now offer a level of performance
and compatibility equal to that of any mainstream OS".
SciTech and Hyperion are set to broaden
their cooperation to encompass 3D graphics support and support
for other PPC based operating systems.
About SciTech
SciTech Software, Inc. is a leading supplier of graphics utilities,
drivers, and tools for the embedded, industrial and enterprise
markets. SciTech's products include, SciTech SNAP Graphics,
a fully accelerated binary compatible graphic device driver
solution, SciTech GLDirect, an OpenGL to Direct3D driver and
SciTech MGL, a professional graphics library used to develop
some of today's most popular software programs. SciTech products
support the Windows, Linux, OS/2, DOS, QNX, and SMX operating
systems. SciTech is privately held and the company's web address
is http://www.scitechsoft.com
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
PDA's and STB's.
Hyperion is currently working on AmigaOS
4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC native incarnation of the groundbreaking
OS introduced by Commodore in 1985.
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