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Re: AmiWest 2012 News?

Posted on: 2012/10/30 21:00 #121

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mbrantley wrote:
No worries or sense of betrayal from me that Warp3D is not announced for the 4000 series cards like the 4850 that I bought with my X1000. It was never promised and anyway I already upgraded to a RadeonHD 6850 as soon as I learned the newer, better cards were going to be supported by the 2D driver.

I also bought a couple of 4000 series cards for my X1000. I have since upgraded to a 6850 and have been quite happy with it. I suppose I should be in some web forum complaining as well.

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Re: AmiWest 2012 News?

Posted on: 2012/10/30 20:51 #122

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vox wrote:
Once on subject, when we will know what should be new elements of AmigaOS 4.2? No release date promised.

As we discussed at AmiWest, I plan to publish an AmigaOS road map of sorts at some point which will include a list of features we want in 4.2 and future releases. I still need permission from the stakeholders but I think they will agree to the idea.

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My gentle suggestion is that Hyperion / A-EON / Acube could have someone that would communicate politely, with much patience and culture to community - press releases or forums. You guys do have both much work to do and heavy stance that your choices are simply the best that allow no room for any second opinion.

That is what I have been trying to do for a couple of years now. The developer blog has had regular updates and when I can I share information. What else do you want?

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...Some idea of system requirements would be nice. Better who is doing the development (one person, team ...) and is any public release planned for first year of development?

Officially Libre requires 512MB RAM.

I can understand why system requirements would be nice to know. I also understand the desire for a release date. I really don't understand why you need to know who is working on it.

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God thanks the Warp3D software emulation that allows SAM 460 and X1000 users to have some joy.

I'm no expert on religion but I don't think an omnipotent entity that spans both time and space gives a rats ass whether a Warp3D driver works on a 4000 series card or not.

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Re: SVG datatype/library linked pthreads problems

Posted on: 2012/10/30 20:23 #123

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Some minor problems, but the new libxml2 works without error.

So does this mean there really is no problem with pthreads or did you just built it without threading support?

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Re: AmiWest 2012 News?

Posted on: 2012/10/29 21:52 #124

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IMHO it is difficult to know whether it would be contributing to a (hypothetical) Kickstarter project for 4000 series Warp3D drivers UNLESS we know how long the way for the Gallium3D stuff is. i.e. Long wait = contribute, but Short wait = no contribute.

But I doubt Hyperion will be giving out that info (assuming they even know for sure how long it will take) until it is basically finished anyway. Catch 22, kinda.

I'll probably be shot dead for saying this but... wouldn't it be a lot cheaper and easier if you guys just purchased newer graphics cards?

I know. Crazy talk.

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Re: Floats with DebugPrintF

Posted on: 2012/10/29 21:06 #125

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I took a look into this recently. I couldn't easily figure it all out but I hope to get back to it when I find some time.

In the mean time you'll need to snprintf() into a buffer, etc. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Re: SVG datatype/library linked pthreads problems

Posted on: 2012/10/29 20:58 #126

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I've been poking the drawing.datatype this weekend and it's now in a basic working state where the majority of what libsvgtiny does can be pushed up to the superclass. So, I set aside the DR2D datatype and wrote an SVG one instead.

I'm very curious about this "drawing.datatype" and whether you would like to consider contributing it to AmigaOS so it becomes an official component?

Do you have any documentation, etc?

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Re: SVG datatype/library linked pthreads problems

Posted on: 2012/10/29 20:52 #127

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I vaguely remember this one. There was something about pthreads which was causing issues. At the time we didn't have access to the source code, etc. so it was difficult to move forward on it.

Well, times have changed. This may be a good time to revisit the issue.

We'll need as simple a test case as you can make for starters.

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Re: AmiWest 2012 News?

Posted on: 2012/10/25 4:10 #128

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Also is netbook alive as concept would be needed clarification, and is it scheduled after announced projects or some work will be done paralelly.

These kinds of comments just bug me. Yes, work is done in parallel as it always has been done and always shall be done. There is more than two guys working on things. Don't worry about these kinds of things. That is my job.

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Re: AmiWest 2012 News?

Posted on: 2012/10/22 18:40 #129

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@Rogue
I'll try and handle the usual barrage of questions. I just posted on aw first because that is where a majority of the more colourful rumours are starting from.

I'm travelling today so I will check in when I can.

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Re: Should I buy an AmigaOne 500 or an AmigaOne X1000?

Posted on: 2012/10/16 20:24 #130

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-Onboard SATA is not yet really supported and even if it would be, it would allow connecting just one device! (why ACube?)

The 460ex SATA driver fully supports all PIO modes. The only feature not yet implemented is UDMA support. As for the single SATA port, the 460ex chip only supports one port as can be seen in the datasheet.

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Re: AmigaOS 4 next sdk release?

Posted on: 2012/10/16 19:18 #131

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Is there something you need right now to complete some project? If so, just email me and I may be able to help.

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Re: 2012 AmiWest Show reminder - Who's Coming?

Posted on: 2012/10/2 21:10 #132

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I might show up.

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Re: Boing Ball Badges

Posted on: 2012/9/27 22:39 #133

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amigakit wrote:
Here is a quick pic I took this morning of the mouse mat on my desk...

I must have some... order placed.

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Re: Boing Ball Badges

Posted on: 2012/9/26 23:37 #134

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When can we expect the Boing Ball mouse mats?

I'm impatiently waiting for them

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/c ... info.php?products_id=1114

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Re: REBOL to become open source

Posted on: 2012/9/25 20:09 #135

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Seems I can finally finish my work on the AmigaOS host kit. Excellent.

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Re: AmigaOS4.1 update 5 bug.

Posted on: 2012/9/20 17:38 #136

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@all
Can't open tickets I'm not a beta tester.

The purpose of the support forum is to focus everyone (beta testers, developers and customers) all in one place free of the usual forum noise.

Beta testers are better able to notice bug reports in this environment and attempt to reproduce them. If they can reproduce the bug, they will then file a bug report on your behalf. Once they have reported a bug for you they will take care of providing more information, verification, etc.

You are free to use this or other web forums to try and report bugs. Just keep in mind there are not as many developers and testers around.

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Re: How remove a Timer's IO request inside a soft interrupt?

Posted on: 2012/9/19 20:26 #137

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ChrisH wrote:
@ssolie
Are you *sure* that BeginIO() is a good idea within an interrupt? The documentation specifically says "BeginIO() may allocate memory, wait or perform other functions which are illegal or dangerous during interrupts." I know that the audio & timer devices are supposed to be special cases, but I don't see any advantage over SendIO() for interrupts.

The point of the example was to demonstrate the rather subtle differences between SendIO() and BeginIO(). The example also shows you it is OK to start a timer from a soft interrupt. This is a special exception of course but something that was obviously under documented.

Please review Using a Device again. I added the "BeginIO() Side Effects" note.

I have also just added a section on using timer.device from interrupts in the Timer Device documentation.

I hope that is enough for now.

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Re: How remove a Timer's IO request inside a soft interrupt?

Posted on: 2012/9/18 22:51 #138

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You only changed one BeginIO to SendIO... there is still one BeginIO remaining.

I reverted the change. I just realized the point of the example is to show you the use of BeginIO() from within a software interrupt. My mistake.

Instead, I have added a note regarding BeginIO() here: http://wiki.amigaos.net/index.php/Exec_Device_I/O#Using_A_Device

That should clear everything up now.

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Re: How remove a Timer's IO request inside a soft interrupt?

Posted on: 2012/9/18 20:17 #139

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LiveForIt wrote:
I do remember something about quick flag, but can’t remember what it was; all I know is that it is something that is handled whit in the device itself.

Check this out http://wiki.amigaos.net/index.php/Exec_Device_I/O#Using_A_Device

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Re: How remove a Timer's IO request inside a soft interrupt?

Posted on: 2012/9/18 19:49 #140

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ChrisH wrote:
Something else I noticed is that I am using SendIO() as I saw used in Kas1e's interrupt timer example code, but the wiki shows BeginIO()...

Not any more it doesn't.

These functions are also explained on the wiki:
http://wiki.amigaos.net/index.php/Exec_Device_I/O#Using_A_Device

In the context of the timer.device the quick I/O mechanism makes no sense anyway. You have to wait for the reply...

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