@phoenixkonsole

I think this is great, however I wish we had a single AppStore (there is the AmiStore also).

As a user I would prefer a single app store for all compatible platforms (OS4/MorphOS/AROS/Classic).

@trixie

Are you speculating that they have "Lost motivation" or do you know something we don't ?

In my Classics (on AmigaOS 4.1 Classic) I use a CyberVision PPC and Radeon 9250. Sometimes Voodoo 3/4 when testing also.

On my X1000 I use a RadeonHD 6850. I have an X1950 as well but wasn't able to get that to work on the X1000.

On my MicroA1 I use the onboard video (Radeon 7000) and a 9250 in the PCI slot (that is beta testing machine).

On my Peg-2 I used a Radeon 9000, but my Peg-2 has a broken CPU card currently.

I also have a GVP Spectrum, Merlin, and Picasso IV, but I just use those under OS 3.x or just quick testing for AmigaOS 4.1 Classic install to ensure they still work :)

@yescop

Thanks that fixed the startup...downloads still not starting though even though the download window pops up (eg. if I try to download something from OS4depot.net).

@kas1e

Hey kase1e, sorry if this has been answered before, but when I start Odessy, it says "please insert volume RANDOM:" in any drive, then it makes me assign it to something...why is that?

Also, downloads don't work at all on my system (X1000 with Update 6). When I go to download something from Odessy the download window pops up but nothing actually downloads!?

Thanks for your work on the browser :) Much appreciated!

@kas1e

Thanks for the Oddessy port. I just wanted to let you know that I've had a fair amount of freezes and also a GR while trying to save prefs. I'm using A4000's (so very low memory situations), but usually I still have enough memory but Odessy freezes enough that it is really not usable unfortunately. If I get the GR again during a preferences save I'll send it to you...with the freezes there is no crash per-say, but the mouse pointer is frozen and I have to reboot. I'll also check on serial to see if anything comes up.

Quote:

Usability is fine on Blizzard/Cyberstorm PPC for the OS itself. It's the larger apps like timberwolf, blender and most ported games that suffer from the lack of horse power and memory (especially on Cyberstorm with a max of 128MB ram, half of which is consumed just to boot the OS). Otherwise smaller normal apps and even IBrowse is fine. Natively compiled apps tend to work better.

Well other than ghash, not really.

But there are other ways to play youtube videos...

trust me the rest of the stuff is crap flash advertising you don't want anyway... :-/

I've finally moved to a modern website for HD-Zone. It's my Amiga Blog site that has information on:

-AmigaOS 4.1 Classic
-Classic Amiga Hardware including 060
-NG Amiga Hardware (coming)
-Amithlon (coming)

Lots of new AmigaOS 4.1 Classic content on there. The older content will quickly come back online and in updated form.

Take a visit: http://www.hd-zone.com

thanks for looking! :)

@Chris

The recommended specs are listed in the Install Guide (included) and also a comprehensive hardware FAQ is on the CD.

But basically it's Blizzard PPC or Cyberstorm PPC with at least 128MB memory, although it will run with less.

Also a graphics card is highly recommended.

The optimal configuration is with a Mediator, Prometheus, or Firestorm and either a Radeon, CyberVision/BlizzardVision, or Voodoo. But also other graphic cards are supported like Picasso IV, Merlin, Spectrum, etc...

A4000 users would benefit from a ZorRAM or DKB 3128 or swap partition.

There is also PCI SATA controller support which we forgot to put on the Press Release :)

Free sex and beer?

But seriously, I don't know ;)

Hopefully some surprises! :)

@328gts

The video bus on the original sam really is slow...not much better than classic ;)

@Mrodfr

It means that it's probably as fast as you can get for a memory interface for that CPU.

It has a minimum number of "wait states" for the cpu to wait while it accesses memory.

The entire focus of this accelerator was to have the fastest memory design possible, AFAIK.

@328gts

There is a 56MHz version coming out shortly after the 28MHz version, afaik.

@m3x

Cyberstorm PPC 366MHz Amiga 4000, OS 4

5.Workbench:> ramspeed -b2 -g1 -m1
RAMspeed (UNIX) v2.3.0 by Rhett M. Hollander (Alasir Enterprises), 2002-04

1Gb per pass mode

INTEGER & READING 1 Kb block: 1312.82 Mb/s
INTEGER & READING 2 Kb block: 1280.00 Mb/s
INTEGER & READING 4 Kb block: 1312.82 Mb/s
INTEGER & READING 8 Kb block: 1312.82 Mb/s
INTEGER & READING 16 Kb block: 1383.78 Mb/s
INTEGER & READING 32 Kb block: 1219.05 Mb/s
INTEGER & READING 64 Kb block: 95.34 Mb/s
INTEGER & READING 128 Kb block: 95.17 Mb/s
INTEGER & READING 256 Kb block: 95.34 Mb/s
INTEGER & READING 512 Kb block: 95.34 Mb/s
INTEGER & READING 1024 Kb block: 94.46 Mb/s
5.Workbench:> ramspeed -b3 -g1 -m1
RAMspeed (UNIX) v2.3.0 by Rhett M. Hollander (Alasir Enterprises), 2002-04

1Gb per pass mode

INTEGER Copy: 70.96 Mb/s
INTEGER Scale: 70.52 Mb/s
INTEGER Add: 79.34 Mb/s
INTEGER Triad: 76.30 Mb/s
---
INTEGER AVERAGE: 74.28 Mb/s

5.Workbench:> ramspeed -b1 -g1 -m1
RAMspeed (UNIX) v2.3.0 by Rhett M. Hollander (Alasir Enterprises), 2002-04

1Gb per pass mode

INTEGER & WRITING 1 Kb block: 1280.00 Mb/s
INTEGER & WRITING 2 Kb block: 1248.78 Mb/s
INTEGER & WRITING 4 Kb block: 1219.05 Mb/s
INTEGER & WRITING 8 Kb block: 1248.78 Mb/s
INTEGER & WRITING 16 Kb block: 1248.78 Mb/s
INTEGER & WRITING 32 Kb block: 1137.78 Mb/s
INTEGER & WRITING 64 Kb block: 54.82 Mb/s
INTEGER & WRITING 128 Kb block: 54.64 Mb/s
INTEGER & WRITING 256 Kb block: 54.70 Mb/s
INTEGER & WRITING 512 Kb block: 54.70 Mb/s
INTEGER & WRITING 1024 Kb block: 54.41 Mb/s
5.Workbench:>

@delshay

Nice scores for your blizzard PPC. Nice work.

on my 366MHz cyberstorm I put in a CVision PPC and got the following for video bus:

---> VIDEO BUS <---
READ: 5 MB/Sec
WRITE: 18 MB/SEC

I tried changing the ram to 60ns but it basically made no difference in the test results, about 1MB/sec faster on the L1/L2 cache but that's it.

Prometheus going over Zorro gets lame write speeds (due to Zorro crap bus) ;)

But the Voodoo still feels a bit faster than CVision PPC...probably way fater gfx memory on-board and faster gfx chip than CVision PPC...

@HammerD

Cyberstorm PPC with 366MHz 604e, A4000, Prometheus, Voodoo 3.

RAGEMEM v0.37 - compiled 11/06/2010

CPU: 604e 9.12546 @ 366 Mhz
Caches Sizes: L1: 32 KB - L2: none - L3: none
Cache Line: 32

---> CPU <---
MAX MIPS: 731

---> L1 <---
READ32: 1386 MB/Sec
READ64: 2769 MB/Sec
WRITE32: 1163 MB/Sec
WRITE64: 2209 MB/Sec

---> RAM <---
READ32: 98 MB/Sec
READ64: 98 MB/Sec
WRITE32: 56 MB/Sec
WRITE64: 56 MB/Sec
WRITE: 104 MB/Sec (Tricky)

---> VIDEO BUS <---
READ: 5 MB/Sec
WRITE: 7 MB/Sec

@Akiko

Cyberstorm PPC with 233MHz 604e, A4000, Mediator, Voodoo 3

(not sure why it picks it up as 235Mhz, but maybe slightly different cs ppc revision than yours). It's not overclocked.

RAGEMEM v0.37 - compiled 11/06/2010

CPU: 604e 9.4611 @ 235 Mhz
Caches Sizes: L1: 32 KB - L2: none - L3: none
Cache Line: 32

---> CPU <---
MAX MIPS: 469

---> L1 <---
READ32: 884 MB/Sec
READ64: 1767 MB/Sec
WRITE32: 740 MB/Sec
WRITE64: 1404 MB/Sec

---> RAM <---
READ32: 90 MB/Sec
READ64: 95 MB/Sec
WRITE32: 54 MB/Sec
WRITE64: 54 MB/Sec
WRITE: 87 MB/Sec (Tricky)

---> VIDEO BUS <---
READ: 6 MB/Sec
WRITE: 8 MB/Sec

@Daz

AMD SB600?

That is a fairly old southbridge.

@gerograph

Looks great, although on slower machines datatypes are really slow, so I wish for an internal decompression method.

Try out CybersShow or PhotoAlbum. They have internal decoding (not datatypes) and are extremely fast, even if 68k emulated.

I'm interested to register but i want to try it out first before I would pay for it.