@ktadd

I am very pleased you are enjoying the benefits of the Enhancer Software. The team works hard to produce the best software we can within our resources.

With respect to the crashes, please backup and delete the file Libs:VA/RadeonHD_drv_video.library

Try again and let me know if this solves the problem.

@khayoz

We indicated it would be coming soon as a download.

However there are a few tweaks which have been made in the last week to prepare it for digital download.

@imagodespira

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Spencer works perfectly on my machine with all Enhancer Software components. We have not had any bug reports filed to indicate otherwise. Feel free to file report and we will look into it:

www.amiga.org/developer/bugreports

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In your proposal where does the OpenGL ES 2.0 lib, Power Prefs, Power libraries, Sensor API, VA libraries, Warp3D Nova go- in the Enhancer Software or your proposed "Radiance" package? Many components in the Enhancer Software package would have to be reproduced in the proposed "Radiance" package and then you would have lots of customers complaining they are paying twice for components because they need to buy Enhancer Software too. This is why all these developments are converging towards a single future distribution. The components require each other as dependencies.

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This is a misunderstanding and simplification of the work that has been done in the Enhancer Software over the last six years. It contains some drivers but the array of libraries and components form a complete graphics sub system. Warp3D Nova, VA Library, Power Management, OpenGL ES Library are huge bodies of work- collectively much larger projects than the video driver work.

@eliyahu


A reminder that you can install as much or restrict what you install in the Enhancer Software 2.2- it is up to the user and down to personal preference. I have had correspondence with dozens of users who have installed everything and are very happy. Just take a look at users Workbench screenshots on here and other websites. You will most often see X-Dock, Clock and Calendar installed and running.

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Just some clarification before I explain yet again what I have written here several times before.

The commands are wholly paid for by AmigaKit Ltd and are written by an author that just loves creating commands. It is a good match for us. No resources (money or man power) are diverted from the Enhancer Software team to create or update the commands. Furthermore, the commands are a contribution from AmigaKit Ltd and they do not add any cost to the Enhancer Software retail price. It would be exactly the same cost as if they were not included. So consider them a bonus if you wish to install and use them.

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Deficons is not included in the Enhancer Software 2.2 or any other public release.

Exhanger was written 5 years ago and offers several enhancements over the basic Exchange utility. No notable investments in development time have been made since so I am not sure why this is being used as an example.

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Well, if you like what OS4.1 already provides, then this is more a request for Hyperion then, not A-EON, and shouldn't be directed to me. Wasn't the Snap 2D drivers and Gallium 3D on the Hyperion development roadmap? If so consider our work an interim solution whilst you wait for the official solution from their developers.

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Archiver, MultiViewer, MultiEdit, InfoWB, X-Dock, AK-Datatypes, Ringhio Notifications - please try these Enhancer Software components and let me know if there are marginal enhancements. I would suggest they are notable improvements on their counterparts.

Compare and contrast Toolbar Gadget vs Speedbar, Shared Image vs Bitmap IC, Tabbed Gadget vs ClickTab, ListViewer vs ListBrowser, Select vs Chooser GC etc. You will find there are large improvements in functionality. Yes, they are not as mature as the older classes, but we respond quickly to bug reports, update and release frequently.

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The benefits of reimplmentation from scratch are:

- clean room implementation free from royalties, legal problems etc
- ability to update and release when we want at the pace we want. This enables us to be agile in response to customer bug reports and feature requests.
- define our own development roadmap in response to customer needs
- use in self-booting future projects

Please take into consideration that the next tranche of development work involves the complexity being raised and a greater diversion from the "pure" OS4.1 ISO. This is the price to pay for more features- you cannot have it both ways. In fact a self-booting Enhancer Software will be a necessity to gain these new features.

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I was replying to Imagodespira's post, who is a commercial publisher and developer of software (not a general customer).

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Maybe this viewpoint is relevant when using an older machine with limited resources such as Classics. However we are talking about the Enhancer Software being bundled with the X5000. A powerful machine with many resources. Customers expect to utilise some of that power at least. Otherwise what it the benefit of getting more powerful hardware?

Incidentally, MultiViewer uses GPU Shaders to render graphics through Warp3D Nova. That is going to be much faster than MultiView displaying the same graphics.

Archiver, MultiEdit, X-Dock, InfoWB are all examples of Enhancer Software components that give more than the stock OS4.1 install.


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The Multiviewer Version 1.x was sold separately. We are now a further five years on with development. MultiViewer Version 3.x is part of the Enhancer Software now. This latest version is now reliant on other important components of the Enhancer Software: Warp3D Nova, AK-Datatypes and the many advanced classes included in the Enhancer Software.


@DDNI

The AmigaDeveloper Team do not have the CFE source code. If it is returned, we can take a look at updating it.

@imagodespira

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Unfortunately end-users buying a brand new A-EON machine such as the X5000 want more than a basic OS. It is a larger need than just the graphics sub-system.

The Enhancer Software is bundled with the X5000 to give them much more modern and satisfying experience than the basic OS4.1 ISO can provide.

Put yourselves in a customers shoes. Imagine you had just bought a brand new X5000 and switched it on for the first time. Would you prefer to use MultiView or MultiViewer, Notepad or MultiEdit, Unarc or Archiver, AmiDock or X-Dock, RAWBInfo or InfoWB ? Would you be satisfied with a very old Ringhio or would you want the latest Ringhio included in the Enhancer Software?

In the absence of real OS4.1 progression (not just bug fixes), the Enhancer Software is giving new users the chance to have better system software bundled with their shiny new X5000.

The Enhancer Software's raison d'etre is to offer the best software experience we can to users with the resources available. We work with the cards we have been dealt.

@imagodespira

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The concept and primary use of the Enhancer Software 2 is to be bundled with current A-EON hardware such as a the X5000 and future models. The Enhancer Software fills in the missing gaps with OS4.1 for customers who buy the X5000.

The RadeonHD is not a current graphics card sold in shops- it has been superceeded by the RadeonRX which is still available from shops. Therefore the latest RadeonRX driver is included on the Enhancer Software 2.2 to benefit the new X5000 users who receive it bundled with their machine. It is a necessity to have the RadeonRX driver in the Enhancer Software when a reseller is building a brand new X5000 with new RadeonRX card installed in the system.

Therefore RadeonHD is now considered a legacy graphics chipset. RadeonHD V5 driver costs many tens of thousands of Euros to develop so to recuperate some of these costs it needs to be sold separately. The money from sales gets reinvested into future software development.

VA Library (Video Acceleration) is built on top of Warp3D Nova so will not work without Nova being installed

So the Enhancer Software V2 is a prerequisite

@walkero

No discounts are possible, sorry - the reality of having a very small user base.

The costs of development have far exceeded the return from sales. That is with many of us working for free for literally thousands of man hours in the last year.

Enhancer Software 2.2 was a substantial development cost and that was given as a free upgrade to existing V2 users.

@ktadd

RadeonHD v3 doesnt support Video Acceleration.

Originally, we had an internal version of RadeonHD v4 which worked with the VA Lib.

A lot more development was done then adding GART and many other fixes and the result is the RadeonHD V5 driver. This is on sale now as a retail box item and a digital download in the coming week:

https://amigakit.amiga.store/radeonhd-driver-version-p-1107.html

Note that RadeonHD V5 driver is now machine specific. It does not support soft resets on the majority of RadeonHD graphics cards.

Today the following public releases have been made available to download on Updater utility:


AddDatatypes v54.10
AddBuffers v54.6
Assign v54.7
Copy v54.11
Dir v54.5
DT2ICO v54.2
Exchanger v54.4
InfoWB v54.11
List v54.15
MakeDir v54.11
SystemReboot v54.1
Version v54.15
ListViewer Gadget v54.25
Tabbed Gadget v54.455
RadeonRX Driver v2.11
RadeonHD_drv_video Library v1.11
RadeonRX_drv_video Library v1.11
VA Library v1.11

@nubechecorre

A fresh OS4.1 install - it doesnt need the updates necessarily.

@LiveForIt

That is good so far. We have spent a lot of time polishing (and polishing even more) this update so I hope we haven't missed any bugs. If you find some, we will try and fix them rapidly.

@walkero
@khayoz
@rjd324

Thanks!

Hello

The official wiki pages maybe some help:

http://wiki.amiga.org/index.php?title=SmartFileSystem

If you previously bought one of our machines direct from
us or second hand it should have come with an Emergency Boot USB. This contains all of the Enhancer Software files and bypasses all the shortcomings with the OS4.1 boot iso. More detailed information is here:

http://wiki.amiga.org/index.php?title=X5000_Emergency_Boot_USB

We always installed our X5000 with SFS2 for customers.

@nbache

I have strong feeling it will be a lot less than two weeks …

I use SFS/02 for all partitions including the System partition

You can find SmartFileSystem v2 exclusively on the Enhancer Software.

Copy command version 54.10 today has been released on Updater utility.


@LiveForIt @Raziel

Thank you both for your excellent beta testing. It is appreciated a lot.

Today the following public releases have been made available to download on Updater utility:

Copy v54.10

@VooDoo

Very sad news about Bill Clay. A friendly, soft spoken gentleman who loved his Amiga. Such a loss to SACC and the Amiwest community.