@rachy

No that?s not where nice

Looks like they are making big progress on IB3.0, at least there are more fixed problems then open issues

Development Radar
593 issues open (26 assigned) and 946 blown away

@Alkaron

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Hey there are almost tow great Amiga events in Sweden every year.

@Alkaron

I think it some did say that RAM speed did have big impact on OS4 speed.

@MikeB

I think it is safe to say now that we know the limitations of PS3, that AmigaOS4 will not get more games by going cell, but maybe we can get more developers and users that writes useful software for Amiga OS4.

@Jack

My understanding is that the SPE as they are called, can not be used as secondary processor in the same way a normal dual core CPU can, my understanding is that SPE do not have direct access to main memory but are used as generic DMA controllers that can be used for heavy calculations and algorithms, for example you can tell a SPE to do MP3 decoding while an other SPE is doing DivX decoding for example, in other words they are ideal for multi threaded games or maybe multimedia applications, my understanding is that you do not need SMP support to support SPE?s, generally the SPE?s replaces the need for AltiVec unit, the number of physical PSE?s are limited but can be extended by soft SPE?s.

@Severin

You do not really need to, we need new blood and the PS3 is way to go get new blood. Kids of to day how we do not see as Amiga fans or users, but might become if they can buy some cool game running on AmigaOS.

@mailman

Looks like interesting game for any one that likes SimCity.

@Valiant

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No it is not because you do not have any JIT support, it might do for playing your A500/A1200 games but that?s all, WinUAE is the best optimized Amiga emulator right now.

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OS4 native can possible take advantage of CELL and PS3 hardware in ways an Amiga emulator can not.

@MikeB

Way I think it?s a good Idea:

1) I think support the next generation of PowerPC is important in it self, and the Cell is a next generation PowerPC.

2) Get AmigaOS4 out to the public is important for it to be successful.

3) AmigaOS is designed for consuls from the where beginning, scale it down to the minimum and you have all you need to start a game, no need for full scale desktop.

4) AmigaOS is easier to use then Linux, think it might gain popularity once again.

5) We do not have the capacity to support all chipsets out there supporting one mass-produced game consol is easier.

Potential road blocks:

1) AmigaOS4 do not support Asian languages, Sony is Japanese company, this going to be where hard to capture Sony?s interest.

2) Sony already have game console operating system, they do not need ExecSG, driver support might be limited to the Sony hardware abstraction layer.

3) Sony might think Linux is has more potensial because of GPL foo, might for that reason have where little interest in supporting AmigaOS.

@Antique

Not really, remember I have a girlfriend and tow kids to take care of now, they can be where demanding.

@Antique

Hey I?m out of cash can you contribute for me?

@Outcast

Where interesting; hope to see some thing soon.

@afxgroup

If you need NTFS right now you can use the, NTFS Filesystem on Aminet, just remember to start the ND64Patch found on OS4Depot first.

Writing a Filesystem is big job, anyway there is some example code on OS4Depot for handler.

@ssolie

Cool, there is always some thing new and interesting there.

@afxgroup

Wow where cool, where do buy one

@joerg

Well not I have opened diskfont.library, and opened an outline font,

but I?m no expert on diskfont.library yet,I have not managed to render a glyphs yet.

I have looked throw the diskfonttags.h file in includes there really lots of stuff there.

@rachy

No autodocs for ft2.library

@joerg

Well maybe I have look at diskfont.library as well, its where important for me not to break forbids(), I?m writing a patch.

Well I need to be able to render all glyphs, not limited subset of glyphs.

@Helge

Now if they continue to invest they might get some control over Amiga Inc, now that?s a nice idea.