8. Development information
The VEGA package was originally developed to run with AmigaOS using its
graphic interface. Now the GUI was totally rewritten to work with all Windows systems and
takes the advantages of the OpenGL graphic API.
8.1 Hardware for beta
testing
In this section, you can find the hardware platforms used to develop
and test VEGA:
- Silicon Graphics INDIGO2:
R4400 @ 200 MHz, IRIX 6.2, 64 Mb Ram, Solid
Impact Graphics card, 10 Gb HD, CD-Rom drive, 4 Gb SLR tape.
PC IBM compatible: Intel Pentium III @ 500 MHz, Windows 98 SE, 128 Mb
Ram, Matrox Millenium G-400 32 Mb AGP card, 13 Gb EIDE HD, EIDE DVD drive, Iomega ZIP-100,
SoundBlaster Live!.
PC IBM compatible: Intel Pentium II @ 400 MHz, Windows 98/Redhat 6 Linux, 256 Mb
Ram, Matrox Millenium G-200 8 Mb AGP card, 8.4 Gb HD, CD-Rom drive, SoundBlaster 16, PCI
Ethernet card.
PC IBM compatible: AMD Athlon @ 1200 MHz, Windows 98 SE / Windows 2000, 320 Mb Ram,
Matrox Millenium G-450 32 Mb AGP card 5.1 Gb UltraATA-33 HD, 9.1 Gb UltraWide SCSI HD,
2x30 Gb UltraATA-100 RAID, Iomega ZIP-100, Ultra SCSI CD-Rom drive, SCSI CD-Writer, SCSI
DSS-2 tape, UltraWide SCSI controller, SoundBlaster Live!, USB scanner.
PC IBM compatible: AMD Athlon @ 1000 MHz, Windows 2000, 256 Mb Ram, Matrox Millenium
G-450 16 Mb AGP card, 2x30 Gb UltraATA-100 RAID, CD-Rom drive, PCI Fast Ethernet card.
Amiga 1200 Tower: Motorola 68030/68882 @ 50 MHz, AmigaOS 3.1, 2 Mb Chip Ram, 32 Mb
Fast Ram, 1080 Mb EIDE HD, EIDE CD-Rom drive.
8.2 Development tools
- For Amiga systems:
Gcc 2.7.2 for Amiga, Cygnus Editor Professional V3.5, Enforcer V37, MungWall, Voyager
2.91, Mopac 5.0 for Amiga, Babel 1.6, BioDock 1.3 for Amiga.
- For Linux systems:
Gcc for Linux, Nedit, Rasmol, Netscape Communicator 4.5, BioDock 1.3 for Linux.
- For Silicon Graphics systems:
IRIX 6.2 development toolkit, Nedit, Rasmol, Netscape Communicator 4.6, Cosmo Player, MSI
Quanta/CHARMm, Mopac 6.0, Babel 1.6, Rasmol, BioDock 1.3 for IRIX.
- For Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000 systems:
Borland C++ Builder 1.0/4.0, Cygnus Gcc B20, Inno Setup Compiler, Lcc-Win32, Mopac 6.0,
RasWin, WinUAE, BioDock 3.0 Orion for Windows.
No endorsement of any hardware of software
should be inferred