ATI Technologies Joins Palm OS Ready Program
ATI Technologies has joined the Palm OS Ready Program. This means that future Palm OS handhelds can include ATI's Imageon graphic accelerator chip, which delivers high-performance advanced 2D graphics and hardware MPEG-4 decoding. Imageon chips have been designed to offer the highest performance and crisp images while saving power for longer battery life.
Graphic accelerator chips work alongside the CPU handling graphics decoding and allowing the CPU to handle other tasks such as audio decoding. This reduces the amount of power used, as well.
"ATI Technologies will help the Palm OS platform push the innovation envelope by enabling a new generation of handhelds and smart phones with high-performance multimedia capabilities and advanced power-saving technology," said Christy Wyatt, senior director of Worldwide Licensing at PalmSource, Inc.
This doesn't mean all future Palm OS devices will have ATI chips in them. Instead, by joining the Palm OS Ready program, ATI has done the groundwork to be able to be included. Palm OS licencees will have a choice of which processors to use.
Other members of the Palm OS Ready Program include Intel, Motorola, Texas Instruments, and MediaQ.
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Gah.
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i don't belive
you see, they have quake for pocket pc and so...it's a joke.
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ardiri.com is --> http://www.ardiri.com/palm/deity/
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yeah - for those who aren't gamers: Quake is a generation ahead of doom in terms of 3d engine technology. Quake II is a generation ahead of Quake. Doom is pretty simple by comparison. Still, Ardiri has done an amazing job - this thing works on a 20mhz palm V - almost playable except for the greyscale, trailing, LCD screen. The color version they have coming looks much more promising / playable. Now how about hi-res(hi-res+)?
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I can see it happening, though in this case it will be ATI vs. MediaQ, who is also part of the Palm OS Ready Program:
www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=3630
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See www.red-mercury.com/aifaq.html
and www.palmos.com/dev/support/docs/palmos50/
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ATI All-in-Wonder Pro 8500DV on the desktop with PVR (personal video recorder) which can scale down recordings for viewing on an OS5 device sporting an ATI All in Wonder Palm which not only can show these recordings from an SD card, but can pickup broadcast TV from an internal antenna. That would be cool.
On another topic, the discussion of who's making the browser and what features it supports is soo boring. Will it support RealOne, Quicktime, Media Player streaming content over G3 smartphones?
David in Pflugerville, TX
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But what IS new is the new ATI chip. I hope they put the same effort into that as they have their upper end graphics chips for PCs.
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Wow Ed - heck of a news week already
"Extraterestials Make Conact With Earth; To Use Palm OS 5 AS Embedded OS For New Generation Of Flying Saucers."
RE: Wow Ed - heck of a news week already
David in Pflugerville, TX
It's already on the PPC
imagine playin Q3 online on your palm. w00t
RE: It's already on the PPC
It IS on the PPC, you idiot.
RE: It's already on the PPC
2d not 3d
btw now that Be Inc is in charge of Palmsource, it is not too far fetched that there will be a 3D api if not opengl on future PalmOS versions
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(www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=2948) as well.
What a welcome addition ATI and Sega make for the Palm gaming community. The future for Palm looks more interesting every day.
Jim
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Are they going to makek a game API and make it available to all developers like Palm OS SDK,
or they are going to charge money?
Sega API
www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=2948
and here:
www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=3253
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But my question is really is Sega going to license
the API free to all developers, like Palm OS SDK?
or they charge money.
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The days when companies spent a lot of time and money making something then gave it away are over because most of the companies that did this are out of business.
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If you read the above link, you'll notice it says: "The game API will be integrated into future versions of Metrowerks' CodeWarriorTM development tools for the Palm OS platform. In addition, Sega Corporation will license the game API to developers."
So it won't be free, but YES, they will make it available to "competitors" - the sample games in the second link above were developed with another company in fact. Probably they will make the API free to developers BUT charge the licsense for actual use/distribution (based numbers of copies of app that uses API). This is what everybody does with their developer APIs.
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Palm OS Ready Program
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Motorola
Texas Instruments
MediaQ
ATI
Did i miss anyone ?
I love ATI... now ;]
Finally, after one year of fight with my Radeon 7200 ddr vivo I was able to make it work the capture on XP.
I know, I'm a bit OT but who cares? It works and I'm happy! ;]
Anyway, I think ATI will do a good work.
Happy capturing! ;]P
Who wants extensive graphis on a pda?
RE: Who wants extensive graphis on a pda?
And besides, you stated that you'll use a PC for movie watching etc, but you dont carry a PC in your pocket everywhere don't you ?
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