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.
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).
So for now you may get better results with -cpu g3 or some other G3 variant that don't use AltiVec
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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.
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
"Physical reality is consistent with universal laws. When the laws do not operate, there is no reality. All of this is unreal."
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