PowerPC (powerUP) support via licensed SuperView-Library
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    [ Please see ReadMe_REGISTER for where to find pricing information ]


    Concept
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    The most time-consuming routines of certain modules of SuperView-Library
    have been ported to native PowerPC code and perhaps will profit a lot
    from the presence of an installed powerUP system.

    These "native modules" are located in a new subdirectory of LIBS:
    called "svppc/", with subdirectories for each of SuperView-Library's
    module types.

    If any "native modules" are present, these will be used whenever applicable.
    Should none of these modules be available, then this does not matter, since
    the plain 68k code (which may be optimized for a certain 68k CPU, though)
    will be used instead (fallback option).

    Note, that SuperView-Library's native modules won't replace any of the
    existing libraries or modules as such - they only do supply specialized
    routines in native code for certain tasks.

    When running any PowerPC code, you should have made sure, that there's
    enough RAM on the powerUP board available - at least in an A4000 the
    RAM interface from the CPU card (e.g. A3640) to the mainboard is so
    slow, that even a 68040 could not access Fast RAM with full speed,
    so possibly a PowerPC would suffer from the same problem.

    You should take care, that there's still enough "fast" Fast RAM available,
    even if all the libraries and code have been loaded: usually the graphics
    are loaded at last - a 1024x768 graphics in 24 Bit will just take 2.4 MB
    and in a dithered version again around 790 K.

    If there's enough "fast" Fast RAM available, you can expect high speed
    increases with most basic operations, especially when internal representation
    conversions do take place.


    (See the documentation of the single modules for further information.
     PowerUP support usually is marked separately, on top of the
     module documentation.)


    Availability
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    NONE OF THE PPC MODULES ARE FREEWARE - THEY WON'T APPEAR ON AMINET.

    More than 20 modules are made available in a special powerUP PPC plugin
    module package, which e.g. can be bought by registered SuperView/SViewNG
    users or will be included with some commercial programs.

    Also, there will follow some PPC modules, which will only be available
    for exclusive shipment with some commercial programs (as also are the
    concerned SV modules).

    This is high end software, and it's development must be financed
    - so you have to pay for it to help ensuring further development.