I don't know if you've ever heard of the game Catacombs Of Zarnok. Although I had an Amiga with PPC and BVision at the time, I had no idea about it and probably no one in Poland had heard of this project. The interview with the author is in English, so at least in the middle part of the film, you will avoid the not-so-perfect subtitles generated by AI.
At the beginning of the year, my friend lent me an AmigaOne A1222+ for testing. I took advantage of the opportunity to record two videos, the second of which I published on YT a few days ago. In it, I show several benchmarks, such as E-UAE, Hollywood or converting movies to FFMPEG, I compare it with the results of SAM 460. I also show which 3D applications work well and which do not. I encourage those interested in the subject to watch the video, the material is accompanied by English subtitles.
Update: AMIStore was crashing because I wasn't using a fixed IP, now it's working like a charm, this setting is preventing network related failures so far.
I am currently testing the A1222. I also had a problem with Amistore, swapping the driver from A-EON (A1222eth.device) with the one from Hyperion (p1022.eth.device) helped. Now Amistore also starts when DHCP is enabled
I would say that more or less everything has been said, to this I would add PTP for any eventual connections with cameras... the version in the Enhancer package will overwrite the original version of OS4, but in this case it is a real improvement that I recommend installing... if you need it of course!
It seems to me that the original from the system was able to copy both photos and videos. The version with Enhancer only photos, due to which I lost several videos from the camera when I formatted the memory card, being convinced that all files were copied. After this unpleasant experience, I reverted to the original version of PTP.
@Hans I think that there is nothing to set yourself up to compete with PC software. As a Youtuber, I also use PC software, of course, and I realize that if something for video editing was created on AmigaOS 4 by the strength of one man, it could not compete with Adobe or Corel programs.
Nevertheless, I would use it if only as an auxiliary tool, to create some short clips that are part of a longer movie edited on PC. Anyway, I do that now and sometimes insert Hollywood generated clips into my movies, even though this program is not a video editor after all.
I believe that the Amiga, which has a tradition in the video industry, has raised a lot of users who are into it, so the demand for such a video editor would be greater than, for example, ZitaFTP.
You need to think about creating not something that could compete with PC software, but something that could compete with free software on AmigaOS4. At the moment, probably the best video editor for OS4 is FFShop. It's not a very advanced tool, so the bar is hung low. If you were to create something similar (especially if you could introduce GPU video encoding and perhaps ExtMEM support), I would buy such a program for sure.
Threads like this one remind me that I wanted to write my own video editing software. Instead, I ended up being the graphics driver developer...
It would still be nice to write my own video editor. But, it's getting harder to find a gap in the market. There are already some very good editors available, both paid and free...
Just would there be enough computing power to encode longer HD and FullHD videos?
Here a question for you, since we have a driver that can decode video in players with the help of the GPU, would it be possible to reverse this process and encode video using the power of the graphics card, as is done in PC video editing programs?
Yes DOSBox works great, but it stops at the end era of MS-DOS so to 1997 - 1998. To go forward with PC emulation and have support for some newer software at a satisfactory speed we must have a JIT-enabled emulator that can run at least Windows 95 without problems.
Then there's PCem, which would be an interesting alternative to DOSBOx, because it also supports newer stuff developed for Windows. I have no idea how easy it would be to port it to AmigaOS 4. https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/index.html
@Raziel I have a problem with the game Gobliiins 5. I downloaded the demo from the official site on itch.io. I unzipped the zip archive, copied it to ScummVM, then added the game, which ScummVM recognized without any problem.
I would also add that in the saves directory I have a timestamps file, which was created back when I was using an older version of SCummVM, and it collects savegame information for various games.
When trying to start Gobliiins 5, a message pops up assign timestamps volume:, whether I assign anything or select cancel. Another message appears asking me to assign gobliiins5-1.999
Then I get the message
Error: Invalid attempt co create file /saves/goooblins5-1.999!
The game, of course, does not start. I will add that other previously installed games work ok.
I know you've already shown many great videos here, but I'll add my own. It is different from yours because it shows the differences between the games in the original version and the games in the MSU1 version.
For the first 6 minutes I tell you what MSU1 is, so you can scroll through it, although there are English subtitles (AI-generated, so not perfect). I'm still presenting games.
The Polish NG scene is very active (they even have their own print magazine dedicated to NG Amiga systems!) but they seem to keep to themselves a lot, rather than open up to the world. As a result we can miss much of what is happening there.
Unfortunately, I do not have the time or sufficient skills to create different language versions for my articles or videos. Fortunately, the AI is getting better and better. And experimentally, using AI software, we transcribed our film into English and German. This is an interview with Szymon Ulatowski, known perhaps not only in Poland as the author of Amiga games from the 1990s. He created games such as UBek and Boulder Dash 3D.
Let us know if the quality of the subtitle translation is good and what we are talking about is understandable. We have more interviews with Poles who have created even more recognizable titles outside Poland. Well, we don't know if it makes sense to post these transcripts in the future. So I'm waiting for your opinions.
Hyperion has had a new beta version for a year. This version is quite stable and has some new features, e.g. it works with some classic Amiga joystick adapters that do not work on public AmigaInput. I even appealed on the beta list to release AmigaInput via Amiupdate along with the release of Heretic II, because it's very nice to play Heretic and be able to use the crosshair and the left and right sticks independently. I remember that the developer working on the corrections in AmigaInput gave permission for this. Well, let's see what Hyperion will do.
@All Does anyone find some old 68k demos/apps which works now with new CIA stuff added ? Interesting to know if anything new working now as well.
I checked out SimCity 2000, and of course firing up the game is not that easy. I installed a patch from Aminet. Then I had to use the old Newmode program to promote the game to 640x480 mode in 8Bit. Then I still had to click 2 times on Ignore errors in GR. Only then does the game fire up, but unfortunately the graphics on my current Radeon RX 560 still display erroneously. I remember that 10 years ago when I still had the old Radeon HD 4770 it displayed fine. However, at that time, when I used CIAGent exclusively, the game did not make any sounds of itself, there was complete silence. Now, thanks to Nallepuh, there is sound.
@msteed I have also heard that not only the Polaris cards, but also some of the latest models in the R7 family do not soft reset. However, my Radeon Power Color R7 240 fortunately does not have this problem. Specifically, I bought this model:
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