Alternatives:
XMOS SDK
xena.resource
Xamos

(once we have XMOS SDK truly ported over to AOS4, I think AmigaKit should/could start selling xmos devkits for Amigans (+others) to play with)

/me spying...
(me hoping to be able to set up dual monitor on my SAM440ep-mini one day)

"G4 systems or SAM 460 will become a low end"

Forgot the netbook?

Friedens will have hard time in optizing Timberwolf in order to help the AOS4 licence sales (via netbook sales).

my thoughts:
- I should donate a few eur because magella should be free to use nowdays, and people could fix it's bugs and make it run stably on more platforms (also on AOS4, in more compatible 68k binary form).
- But at the same time I should donate a bit more towards Filer so that we could have decent filehandling on AOS4 beside native Dopus4 (Dopus4 might be too "oldschool" for modern people).

(I must check who are behind Dopus4 nowdays... the best file tool I have so far.)

I want it for AOS4, if it's faster than AmiPDF.

AmiPDF is unusably slow on SAM667Mhz, for example when reading Freescale P1022 reference manual (7MB in size).

I'll be donating.

Quote:

Timberwolf is a hobby project.
AOS4.2 is his work.

And perhaps his work for 4.2 is already done?

@Hans
I thought the card was this:
http://www.virtuavia.eu/shop/pci-32-b ... pci-express-adapter-.html
"Supporst PCI 32 bit 33MHz bus "

IIRC the bridge chip works on PCI 33Mhz speed.
Have you found any working 66Mhz version?

Any USB based GFX card or sound card working yet?

@Rigo

Thank you for continuing the work with extremely important tool!

(I wish there was (bigger) team behind it. Many things develop so slowly in Amigaland... )

Some article + video about limebook:
http://liliputing.com/2009/01/limepc- ... owered-netbook-video.html

Just found this thread, very much a wanted application.

In future this tool might be able to co-operate with viruskillers to detect worms in AOS files?

For performance estimations, MOS running on Efika should be pretty 1:1 indication of (possibly 400Mhz) netbook performance.
MOS+Efika at youtube.
OWB on Efika.

Is there a PPC440ep optimised version?

As it seems with both dvplayer and mplayer I get 100% CPU load (667Mhz SAM), I imagine the playback could benefit from DSP instructions being used.

Anyone done any study on using DSP instruction of PPC440?

The building of a support for PowerBook in MOS has been ongoing about four years (since the first demo), still no release.
If it takes 5 years to get MOS to another HW, I wonder if Hyperion manages to do similar job in less than a year....

"The LimePC Z9 is an 800 MHz PPC with 512 megs of RAM."

It's not 800Mhz. It's 800MIPS. (IIRC PPC440/667 does 1200+MIPS)
(PPC+DSP+3DGPU in one chip)

Max RAM is 1024MB. I hope AOS4 version comes with 1024MB.

If miracle happens and we get 800Mhz netbook, it would be with Verisilicon (PPC460+3DGPU integrated) or ChinaChip SoC. But the only existing solution uses MPC5121e.

No news.

I imagine the porting is a little bit harder than for higher performance HW. Need to do a lot of optimizations before showing the result, otherwise the showing just puts off interest towards the system.

Some progress report / update would be nice, though.

Actually, Emerson Network Power seems like (one of the) biggest PPC customers today. They have a lot of HW with PPC.

I think there's hundred thousand PPC440 also in NSN manufactured products, etc... (NSN uses also other PPC chips in current production models, same thing also with other Telecom companies)

HTC IDEOS x5 (Android 2,2) works.
Internal flash memory can be seen as USB mass storage.
(so far not tested more)


(it would be nice to be able to share network connection via USB and use the touch screen in sketchblock and as a midi keyboard, use Android via VNC, etc, etc...)

If the netbook is a variant of limebook, it can be built with 1GB RAM, IIRC.

But little miracles need to happen to make timberwolf fast on it. Timberwolf might be good benchmark for optimizations.