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CGX redirects here. For the proposed US cruiser line, see CG(X)
CG(X)

The CG is a US Navy program to replace its 22 Ticonderoga class cruiser cruisers after 2017. Original plans were for 18-19 ships, based on the 14,500 ton Zumwalt class destroyer destroyer but providing ballistic missile defense and area air defense for a carrier group....
. For the commercial printer, see Consolidated Graphics
Consolidated Graphics

Consolidated Graphics is a national, commercial printing company based in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1985 by Joe R. Davis, the company has grown to over 70 locations across 26 states and is known as the leading sheetfed, web and digital printing company in North America....
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CyberGraphX (pronounced "cybergraphics"), is the one of the standard retargetable graphics API available for the Amiga
Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation. Development on the Amiga began in 1982 with Jay Miner as the principal hardware designer....
 and compatible operating systems. It was developed by T.Sontowski and F.Mariak and later adopted by phase5
Phase5

Phase5 Digital Products was a computer hardware manufacturer that made boards for the Amiga computer. Their most well known products were accelerator boards which replaced the CPU with a faster model....
 for use with their graphics cards. Many other graphics card manufacturers who offered hardware for Amiga and compatible systems used it as well.

latest version is CyberGraphX V5 used in MorphOS
MorphOS

MorphOS is a computer operating system . It is a mixed proprietary software and open source OS produced for the Pegasos PowerPC -processor-based computer, most models of PPC-accelerator-equipped Amiga computers, and a series of Freescale development boards that use the Genesi Firmware, including the EFIKA and mobileGT....
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CGX redirects here. For the proposed US cruiser line, see CG(X)
CG(X)

The CG is a US Navy program to replace its 22 Ticonderoga class cruiser cruisers after 2017. Original plans were for 18-19 ships, based on the 14,500 ton Zumwalt class destroyer destroyer but providing ballistic missile defense and area air defense for a carrier group....
. For the commercial printer, see Consolidated Graphics
Consolidated Graphics

Consolidated Graphics is a national, commercial printing company based in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1985 by Joe R. Davis, the company has grown to over 70 locations across 26 states and is known as the leading sheetfed, web and digital printing company in North America....
.

CyberGraphX (pronounced "cybergraphics"), is the one of the standard retargetable graphics API available for the Amiga
Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation. Development on the Amiga began in 1982 with Jay Miner as the principal hardware designer....
 and compatible operating systems. It was developed by T.Sontowski and F.Mariak and later adopted by phase5
Phase5

Phase5 Digital Products was a computer hardware manufacturer that made boards for the Amiga computer. Their most well known products were accelerator boards which replaced the CPU with a faster model....
 for use with their graphics cards. Many other graphics card manufacturers who offered hardware for Amiga and compatible systems used it as well.

Versions

The latest version is CyberGraphX V5 used in MorphOS
MorphOS

MorphOS is a computer operating system . It is a mixed proprietary software and open source OS produced for the Pegasos PowerPC -processor-based computer, most models of PPC-accelerator-equipped Amiga computers, and a series of Freescale development boards that use the Genesi Firmware, including the EFIKA and mobileGT....
. Its features include:

  • Altivec
    AltiVec

    AltiVec is a floating point and integer SIMD instruction set designed and owned by Apple Inc., International Business Machines and Freescale Semiconductor, formerly the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola, , and implemented on versions of the PowerPC including Motorola's PowerPC G4, IBM's PowerPC 970 and POWER6 processors, and P.A....
     accelerated
  • Display Data Channel
    Display Data Channel

    The Display Data Channel or DDC is a digital connection between a computer display and a Video card that allows the display to communicate its specifications to the adapter....
     support
  • Hardware accelerated
    Hardware acceleration

    In computing, hardware acceleration is the use of hardware to perform some function faster than is possible in software running on the general purpose Central processing unit....
     operations for alpha blending, tinting
    Tint

    In color theory, a tint is the mixture of a color with white.Tint may also refer to:* Tint control, an adjustment to correct for phase error in the picture color on a NTSC television set...
    , gradients, stretching
  • PowerPC
    PowerPC

    PowerPC is a RISC instruction set architecture created by the 1991 Apple Inc.?IBM?Motorola alliance, known as AIM alliance. Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded system and high-performance processors....
     native, with support for AmigaOS
    AmigaOS

    AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. It was developed first by Commodore International, and initially introduced in 1985 with the Amiga 1000....
     drivers


AmigaOS version is no longer actively maintained and CyberGraphX V4 was the last Amiga release so far. AROS
Aros

Aros may refer to:Aros-Eros-Cupid-AmorIt is believed that the origins above led Saint Valentines enthusiasts to appoint the Roman god Cupid as the patron of Valentine's day -- that is the story of Lupercalia and the love and romance associatied with the St....
 implements CyberGraphX V4 compatible API. There is Picasso96 (a rival RTG system) which is used in AmigaOS4 and implements CyberGraphX V4 API with some CyberGraphX V5 API extensions.

Subsystems of cybergraphics.library

  • cgxsystem.library
  • cgxbootpic.library
  • cgxdither.library
  • cybpci.library
  • ddc.library


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