CyberGraphX is the standard ReTargetable Graphics

ReTargetable Graphics

ReTargetable Graphics is device driver API mainly used by 3rd party graphics hardware to interface with AmigaOS via a set of libraries. The software libraries may include software tools to adjust resolution, screen colors, pointers and screenmodes...

 API

Application programming interface

An application programming interface is a source code based specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other...

 available for the Amiga

Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers that was sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s. The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities...

 and compatible systems. It was developed by Thomas Sontowski and Frank Mariak and later adopted by Phase5

Phase5

Phase5 Digital Products was a computer hardware manufacturer that made boards for the Amiga computer. Their best 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 an Amiga-compatible computer operating system. It is a mixed proprietary and open source OS produced for the Pegasos PowerPC processor based computer, PowerUP accelerator equipped Amiga computers, and a series of Freescale development boards that use the Genesi firmware, including the...

. Its features include:

• AltiVec
  AltiVec
  AltiVec is a floating point and integer SIMD instruction set designed and owned by Apple, IBM and Freescale Semiconductor, formerly the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola, , and implemented on versions of the PowerPC including Motorola's G4, IBM's G5 and POWER6 processors, and P.A. Semi's...
  
   accelerated
• Display Data Channel
  Display Data Channel
  The Display Data Channel or DDC is a collection of digital communication protocols between a computer display and a graphics adapter that enables the display to communicate its supported display modes to the adapter and to enable the computer host to adjust monitor parameters, such as brightness...
  
   (DDC) and gamma correction
  Gamma correction
  Gamma correction, gamma nonlinearity, gamma encoding, or often simply gamma, is the name of a nonlinear operation used to code and decode luminance or tristimulus values in video or still image systems...
  
   support
• Hardware accelerated
  Hardware acceleration
  In computing, Hardware acceleration is the use of computer hardware to perform some function faster than is possible in software running on the general-purpose CPU...
  
   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* Tint , an album by Merzbow...
  
  , gradients, stretching
• PowerPC
  PowerPC
  PowerPC is a RISC architecture created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM...
  
   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 release for that platform so far. AROS

AROS Research Operating System

AROS Research Operating System is a free and open source multi media centric implementation of the AmigaOS 3.1 APIs. Designed to be portable and flexible, ports are currently available for x86-based and PowerPC-based PCs in native and hosted flavors, with other architectures in development...

 implements CyberGraphX V4 compatible API. Alternative RTG APIs are Picasso 96 and Enhanced Graphics 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
• cgxvideo.library
• (cybpci.library)
• ddc.library
• cgx3drave.library

External links

• Selection of CyberGraphX drivers at the Unofficial phase5 Support Page