@all

The next video in the "Saving AmigaOS" series is out now. It covers how we could modernize the OS while still being able to run old Amiga software. And, do it all on a tiny budget.

This is exclusive to the Kea Campus' Amiga corner, which you can join by clicking here. You'll be able to watch the entire series which covers all my thoughts on how AmigaOS (4.x) could be turned around and become great again in all aspects: business, technology, etc.




Hans

@smarkusg

Look at the MemCopy tests. Those are the only ones that are affeced by G3 vs G4. Normally, a G4's memcopy results would be roughly 2x that of the G3, because the altivec instructions can move data in 128-bit blocks instead of max 64-bit like the FPU. That makes a big difference with PCIe.

On QEmu, it depends entirely how the altivec instructions are translated to the host machine's CPU (and how good the machine's PCIe controller is).

Hans

Hey @DigitalDesigns - haven't heard from you in a month, am just checking in as I'm very interested in this project :)

@balaton
Quote:
I don't know if I tested it correctly. I used the system as usual with apllications. I did not notice much difference.
Dry tests are -> https://hdrlab.org.nz/benchmark/gfxbench2d/OS/AmigaOS/Result/2941
I have no idea what values for cpu g3 would be significantly better.

Such a Fun game and a THINKER and Puzzler as well.

My 1st go at Glubble.

Did you all see the smoke coming out of my noggin on this one?

Played on my AmigaOne X5000 with AmigaOS 4.1 via RunInUAE.

TJ

@joerg

Something must have changed. When I tried "setenv stdout" it said "can't delete stdout". When I tried "setenv stdout vga,serial"
it said "error inserting variable errno 22". It wouldn't let me change it. Oh well. It works.

Thank you!

honestly, I didn't think I was going to be able to play with my humble pegasos-II but I was wrong, all 4 games work surprisingly well, I put video in case someone with a slow machine has doubts about the performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UT8a-33z2o

great work!

real capture video from Pegasos-II G4 1Ghz + radeon 9200se.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY5ktfyiK7o

is fully playable

@kishigo
You can use "setenv stdout vga,serial", "saveenv" to get that result as well.
To delete an U-Boot variable, which will reset it to it's defaults, use "setenv stdout", "saveenv".

Doesn't matter much for "stdout", but it's important for example for the ethernet MAC address(es), the included SD card has it set (at least on my X5000 that was the case), resulting in all X5000 systems using the same value, which is a problem if you have more than one X5000 in the same LAN. If you delete it ("setenv ethaddr", "saveenv") the default is to read it from the hardware which should have a different MAC address for each system.

@kas1e
There is a small problem. I checked last week after seeing the material from @mufa on the acube-systems website for sam460LE availability.
There was one the motherboard to buy. Currently - Not available.

@joerg

Thank you. But how should I set that? Should I do setenv stdout vga,serial or is there a way to tell U-boot to use default environment settings?

IMHO, FPU in Tabor and all issues coming with, make the SAM looks much better choose. Together with fact that Acube do support their older customers for long (like 440 update with new uboot). And there also "soon" to be released drivers which support GART on SAM, making 3D be faster in compare with how it now in public.

If only Tabor cost 200$ then yeah, that can be taken into account, but as of now, imho again, for any newcomer best way is SAMs or X5K, and nothing else.

@balaton
Quote:That's something the gfx experts (Hans?) have to answer. I only know that it's enabled by default in the DEVS:Monitors/xyz ToolTypes, the p96Config of classic Amigas, and that it's somehow related to the 1-8 bit planar screen modes used by original Amigas (OCS/ECS/AGA chip set, A1000-A4000) where it was useful, but either it's not needed on CLUT 8 bit, Real-/High-colour 15/16 bit and True-colour 24/32 bit screen modes, or maybe it's just too slow to emulate it on gfx cards and disabling it doesn't cause (much) problems.

@kishigo
Default should beThat way you get the output on both the monitor and the serial port.

@thread

Hi folks! I'm looking to purchase a specific set of English issues of Amiga Future magazine, specifically issues 67 through 82. I already have the PDF versions but am looking for printed copies. If you have a lead, please let me know. Thanks!

-- eliyahu

@smf

Yeah it turns out I had to set stdout to serial. It must have changed at some point.
Anyway. I saw what I needed to see.

Thank you.

I wonder how one could keep track of which icon belongs to which window.

The most obvious idea would be to have the path name as the icon name.. but that would look horrible and impossible on the workbench.

unless an option in Workbench prefs is added to "shorten" the icon names (which would come handy in other scenarios as well), and the full icon name could scroll in the name field or imposed on top, when the mouse pointer is over the icon.

I wonder, if it just would be easier to implement a navigational file manager all along instead. Maybe an option in Workbench Prefs to switch between navigational and spatial metaphor. ;)

In the meantime FastHide from ZTools is rather handy. But I do use a combination of "DepthMenu" and the default keyboard shortcuts "alt-up" and "alt-down" with "Close Parent automatically" when I need it.


Also "Open Drawer.." in the context menu is very handy. I use it all the time

@mufa

thanks

@MigthyMax

I am trying with a compatible USB RS232 converter (I have checked the vendorID)

I get a crash when plugging device to Sam460.

P.S.: You said have a patched Termie. Can you share it for testing the driver ? Or what is the best way to test the driver ?

Symbol info:
Instruction pointer 0x01831620 belongs to module "kernel" (HUNK/Kickstart)

Stack trace:
native kernel module kernel+0x00031620
native kernel module kernel+0x00031620
native kernel module kernel+0x00034420
native kernel module ramlib.kmod+0x00001144
native kernel module ramlib.kmod+0x0000123c
[usbfd/usbfd_function_run_function.c:682] DEVS:USB/fd/pl2303.usbfd:_usbfd_function_RunFunction()+0x2bbc (section 1 @ 0x7A8C)
native kernel module kernel+0x00054c94
native kernel module kernel+0x00054d0c

PPC disassembly:
01831618: 7d2903a6 mtctr r9
0183161c: 4e800421 bctrl
*01831620: 813e001a lwz r9,26(r30)
01831624: 7fe3fb78 mr r3,r31
01831628: 7fc5f378 mr r5,r30

System information:

CPU
Model: AMCC PPC460EX V1.2

@nubechecorre

Iconification like this would be a bit similar to the system tray of Windows