Glest looks Awesome!

Great news! :)

On an unrelated (well...not much) note, let's also hope we get an update with USB 2.0 support soon.

@Lio

that's completely beside the point that MacOS9 brings much more "modern" and useful apps with it. That's what this is all about really.

@Mrodfr

don't go over 96-100gb/partition on SFS despite the docs stating 128gb/partition or you'll get read errors and maybe data loss by going beyond that threshold.

@LiveForIt
Yup, I know and thank you for that :) It's just that sheepshaver could add many "modern" apps at native speeds.

I just thought I'd bump this 1.5 year old thread and see if anyone's interested in looking into it again.

You see, we'd get a new host of applications if we could get that one. I know they're not the newest apps, but still we'd get some version of cinema4d, microsoft office, adobe apps (photoshop, premiere), some good games (shadow warrior, silver) and final cut pro 2.0 (for comprehensive video editing) and all that in native speed , as the powerpc is not emulated - not bad imo!

Any thoughts? Any takers? Would a bounty help?

edit:


homepage:
http://sheepshaver.cebix.net/

software for MacOS 7.x-9.x:
http://www.macintoshgarden.org

@cha05e90

thx for the suggestion, I'll try it as soon as I get home and see what happens (fingers crossed)!

edit:

did it, it worked fine, many thx man! :)

So, recently I've bought a nice cheap 500GB sata drive for my peg2. After looking what hardware OS4 and Morphos supports I ordered a sii 3112 based, 2-port sata pci controller to get my new HD running. And it works. The problem is that while under MOS I get a great 90mb/sec raw read, under OS4 I get a low 4mb/sec which is frankly less than 6,5mb/s my fastata on my A1200 does! And it's not like I rely just on a benchmark, it IS that slow in copying files and even reading big dirs - it's like I'm on a classic miggy all of a sudden! Also there are stutters when that particular drive is working hard, ie the mouse movement is not smooth, mp3 playing pauses regulary etc. What I'm thinking is that for some reason OS4 is reading the drive in PIO mode, but is that even possible for SATA??? I think not. But if that's the case, is there ANYTHING I can try to make it work at its proper speed? The hardware is fine as it works as intended under MOS.

Any ideas anyone here? Thx!

@hotrod

apparently other systems' usb stacks are configured to complain only once, while OS4's complains for as long as the conceived problems continue.

nice demo!

@ChrisH

thx for the tip Chris!

@ChrisH

glad to see you back working on RuninUAE!
one request I've also made in the past (if possible):
Could you add a menu entry to assign a joystick to the mouse port? Some games seem to get input from there and they change options like crazy. On a real amiga you need to plug a joy to port0 to get the job done. What do you think?

@alfkil


from memory, I think you may want to try and enable all scsi units by hand as I don't think the devices will be shown if you don't enable them. Also, iirc there was no specific software from p5 for the scsi controller, but I could be wrong. It's simple as starting hdtoolbox and selecting blizzppc.device. That's for hds though not cd-roms.

@rwo

good news that you're still interested in developing the driver further :)

@kas1e

thumbs up man! great job!

@ChrisH

great work Chris :)

@ChrisH

I second that suggestion.

I'll give it a spin too on my OS4.1, thx for your work1

@Valiant

man, of course we need it, it's one of my mostly used programs here! :)

@kas1e

tbh I have no idea if adding an extension automatically is possible with asl, I just assumed it would be and so I proposed it.