@saimo

Cool & smooth! Rest up your arm Simone so you can use these great effects in your next demo

Howdy,
This post just came up Mastodon. Might be helpful

https://infosec.exchange/@harrysintonen/116014239892796851

Dave

++count(pleasedWithHeadings);

And Thanks again for you work, both with the news and with their presentation.

Best regards,

Niels

Final Part of This Journey!

I put the new Bios Chip with the latest Uboot from Acube into my AmigaOne 500/Sam 460ex. Works great. I did find out that to have the A-eon AmigaOne Keyboard work right with the new Uboot you have to have the USB in uboot set to ohci not ehci for that keyboard to work.

Well, the upgrade is complete and I cannot believe it. To watch HD movies, play 3d games, emulators perform better, etc on this super old AmigaOne 500 is amazing. I am not even sure why I bought an A1222+ (but I do not regret buying it lol). Not sure how long this computer is going to last since it is aproaching 15 years of continuous use but it is the best Amiga I have ever owned and I love that fact that I can still upgrade it after all these years (Reminds me of my Amiga 3000 my second best Amiga I ever owned).

My recommondations would be this for anyone else wanting to upgrade: Enhancer Package V2.2 for A-Eon, along with the Warp Nova Bridge software and the Radeon HD V5 and of the cards I have tested which include Radeon HD 7770, Radeon R7 240, and the Radeon RX 550, I recommend the Radeon RX 550. It seems to give the best performance and is very stable. Only downside, you have to put it into High Power Mode using the A-eon Power Prefs program manually. It doesn't automatically go into High Power for some games. I heard this will be fixed in the next update of the Radeon RX driver.

Thanks Everyone For The Help,

Yogi

@Capehill

Can you check the status of the memory when you get the crash? It seems that memory is full
And from the crashlog i can see:

[RAMLIB] LowMem_Expunge: Beginning Expunge Cycle....

@afxgroup

This tool is very important - thank you for porting this.

I have been trying this with some of my old repos (for example, ScummVM) that stopped to work with sgit.

There are occasional crashes during fetch that seem to point towards memory allocation. Managed to get a stack trace from serial:

New experiment with PTDQ: dual playfield with both layers scrolling freely.



As usual, available from https://retream.itch.io/ptdq.

Fun fact: the foreground buffer is triple-buffered, but that's a complete waste as no graphics rendering is performed; the reason is the initial 5% was made months ago, but I got around to make the rest only now that my right arm is immobilized due to injury: it was just too much of a chore to write more code and to create more assets using just the left hand - and I'm not even left-handed (even just typing this is driving me nuts)!


LAYERS

Common:
* PTDQ system
* RGBWa color model
* 320x256 visible dots
* interleaved bitplanes
* horizontal and vertical scrolling

Background:
* 336x336 dots
* maximum 256 colors

Foreground:
* 672x576 dots
* maximum 81 non-transparent colors
* triple buffer


NOTES

* Both the layers reside in CHIP RAM.
* The layers use 6 bitplanes in all.
* If the foreground had not used 100% transparent dots, its maximum number of colors would have been 256.
* The triple buffer was implemented for glitchless rendering of graphics, but eventually no rendering was added.
* The 24-bit palettes for the cycling of the foreground colors are pre-calculated at startup; the effects are obtained by writing each frame a whole palette to the COLORxx registers with the CPU during the vertical blanking.
* The CPU is idle most of the time. The Copper is idle most of time unless the staggered lines are on. The Blitter is idle.
* YouTube's encoding degraded the quality.

@sailor

clib4 is generic for all machines. There are no specific machines so if you want for example an optimized version compiled with -maltivec you need to compile it yourself using that switch.
But since we are creating libraries automatically also for SPE maybe we can also create the altivec version

@jPV
Quote:On AmigaOS 4.x something similar to the MorphOS -mresident32 is -fbaserel (32 bit, R2 based, replacement of the 16 bit R13 based -msdata).
As Piro wrote "Replacing fork() is doable", but requires individual solutions with additional work for each program, unless is's a simple fork() + exec*() which can be replaced by vfork() + exec*().
But implementing fork() in a C library for any AmigaOS-like OS which does everything automatically isn't possible, especially the "Any malloc() memory and local variables and structures that are used by the child must be cloned" part isn't: local and static variables are no problem (check the elf.library/CopyDataSegment() autodoc), but malloc()ed memory is and an automatic fork() implementation, which works the same way as on BSD and SysV Unix systems, would have to duplicate it, with the same virtual addresses but different physical addresses and content in parent and child and switching MMU tables on each task switch between parent and child.

Thank you! As always, it's really nice to have these roundups!

As for the headlines idea, it works very well imho! Please keep this :)

@Chris

The Sam440ep-Flex is not really worth equipping with a Radeon RX or HD graphics card. Most games that require OpenGL ES–level graphics do not run at a playable speed, even when the original CPU requirement was only a 166 MHz PowerPC processor. At the same time, a large portion of games that rely on MiniGL stop working altogether.

While this setup can be experimented with, the required software is expensive enough that the overall experience ends up being a major disappointment. I ended up reinstalling a Radeon 9250 graphics card in my Sam440ep-Flex system.

@ktadd

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Yep, that and downloadrates are the payment for our Amiga Software . Here is my result:
post #24 @ amigans.net

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I get the shadows to work...but everything else will be ignored..

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MPlayer 1.5-rc2
VideoClipper 2.6
SimpleSub V2.0
ffmpeg 8.0

Inside my mplayer config I "unhashtagged" vo=comp_yuv
And this works on my Radeon HD7750/8740 R7 250E Card
The other card (dual setup) RV730 PRO/Radeon HD 4650 is as far as I know only capable to use the older Mplayer drivers...

BTW of course I am using RadeonHD.chip/Driver (V2.22) from Enhancer.

Testing synchronous editing of Tiklish Today List

I am getting close to a release candidate for Version 1.1, which will include cloud sync. Currently it was tested on

- FritzBox/DynDNS FTP Server (exposed to internet...)
- infinityfree FTP Server (free Webhoster plan)
- Reebex Tiny FTP Server (local Network)

However the above mentioned free webhoster want's me to publish a website...in order to use the free plain ftp server. Therfore, you will find all news/links about Ticklish and my other software on my blog over at infinityfree.com :

ticklish.free.nf

Back on topic: Cloud syncing is realized in two different ways:

1. Once a todo List file is "active"/opened in Ticklish, it will be locked for all other devices you are running ticklish on. You can edit a Todo list only on one device. Once you are done, it will be available for other devices as well (see the video linked in post #22.
2. When using the "Today list", it will be different. You can open it on every device simultaneously. All changes will be written directly into your server based today file. Changes can then be retrieved via reloading "Today" on other devices.

I fired up different VNC Servers on my X1000, iBook/MorphOS and started OS3.9 in WinUEA. Which enabled me to record an demo video on Windows. Of course Video Editing was done with VIdeoClipper and SimpleSub on my X1000 .



Links to executables for Betatesting will be published soon on above mentioned website plus here as well...

How could I 'deactivate' the Insert/Overwrite button (located above 'Del' button)? I press it very often accidentally when I write something, and start to overwrite my text... I would like to keep the 'Insert' mode permanently.

I know that I succeeded to do it some times earlier, but cannot anymore remember how....

Here's a detailed answer about ixemul.library and its capabilities regarding vfork() and fork():
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/ ... p?topic_id=14169&forum=12

@gerograph
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Always great to hear from someone using my software!

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What version of MPlayer and VideoClipper are you using. I added some support for MPlayer 1.5 (I beleive the latest on OS4Depot), to the lastest version of VideoClipper v2.6. Please make sure you are using those versions. I double checked on My X1000 using MPlayer 1.5 and the speed up and slow down MPlayer controls work fine. If you using the above versions, then what system are you running it on and what mplayer video output driver are you using? (-vo ?)

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.srt (subrip) files do not store all the global position, fontcolor, and size information.
To apply those to the video, you need to hard encode them into the video. I believe the features, like Bold, Italics, text size and color that you set when typing in a line and embedding the codes in the text will get rendered if you name the title file with a .ass extension. The global setting do not get saved in an .srt file. I'm looking at adding .ass export to create files that contain that information and Mplayer will use when the title file is put in the same directory.

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I assume this is when encoding with SimpleSub. Yes, you will see that message but if the requested font is encoded, then you can ignore this message. It has to do with how fonts are being handled by ffmpeg. I'm over riding the default to use my supplied fonts. You should only used my supplied fonts with SimpleSub, otherwise the font used will be unpredictable.

Hopefully this helps. If you need further help, just let me know.

@all

Sooo. My post in the FB group is still in stuck in "needs admin approval," and it seems that there are very few kiwis on this forum.

Any Aussies in the house that want an X1000? I think that they can ship it across the ditch without breaking it.

My biggest concern with shipping internationally is the chance that it arrives broken. Yes, I know there's shipping insurance, but a broken X1000 is still a broken X1000, even if we've been financially compensated for the breakage.

Hans

@ktadd
I created a video using your software:

VideoClipper:
worked great, thankyou...however speeding up the video doesn't work (using latest mplayer from os4depot - this one is not the one you mentioned....

SimpleSub:
I used the default settings...only changed fontsize to 16 and red fontcolor. Text placement is bottom/left aligned.

Plays great inside the preview out of SimpleSub. Once I put the srt file and the original avi into the same directory -> playing with mplayer (OS4) or VLC (Windows). I will get only white and centred text.... guess I have to render the whole thing again? An kick srt file?

When rendering...(I get a cli) output:
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null)

More VRAM would be nice but it sounds like it probably is minimal benefit for all the money and hassle. Thanks all, very interesting!

@Chris
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I have also mini-ITX Sam440ep and I have it without PCI card.
If you look to this article - see block diagram.

Generally, all cards mentioned in Sam440ep-flex gfx card article incl. your RX550 probably will work. Only they will be slow.
If you check block diagram - internal Radeon M9 is on 66 MHz PCI bus, but external PCI slot is behind the PCI bridge on 33 MHz bus.
Real measured speed on my Sam440ep:
internal M9: CopyToVRAM 40 MB/s, WritePixelArray 87 MB/s
PCI 9200 SE: CopyToVRAM 18 MB/s, WritePixelArray 60 MB/s
PCIe cards like RX550 will be even slower becouse of PCI-PCIe bridge latency.


So you can use RX550, but in practice all Warp3DNova or OGLES application will be terribly slow.

Only good reason why to use external card is, as joerg said, if you need more VRAM. For example, in article is screenshot with SysMon/System and in bottom you can see Radeon 9200 SE 128MB connected ( via PCI-AGP adapter ).