New XTools - supports X5000

Currently in the os4depot upload queue, there's a new version of the Xena XTools available. These should now work on the X5000!

I've also updated Gabrielle (more on the backend side of things, so nothing fancy, but you need to upgrade). So download both and give it a go! They should be available here soon:
- os4depot: dev/misc/xtools
- os4depot: dev/misc/gabrielle

I might try and get some more examples up on my blog. I have an example that uses the localbus, but it only supports X1000 so far. But I think I should be able to get the X5000 comms working too.

Anyways, have fun!

what can you use it for?

@NinjaCyborg
Anything and nothing… I have the prototype board which I’ve been thinking of doing something with. But it’s all kind of gimmicky tbh — perhaps some buttons and leds.

With the localbus comms working you could possibly stream some audio to it and process it, without requiring any extra hardware.
I’ve thought about getting an Amiga parallell port, but I doubt I’ll ever get that running.

@jaokim

I know it is OT.. but cand you try to use clib4 to finish Java runtime for OS4?

And BTW, thanks for the tool. Do you think it can be used to accelerate SSL via xena?

@afxgroup
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Been wanting to resurrect my OpenJDK efforts. Might try and get that somewhere.

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Don’t really know, but I do want to get something running that tries to do some processor off-loading. Its indeed an interesting idea.

I’ve got a repo with some examples here: https://sourceforge.net/p/xena-examples/code/HEAD/tree/

It not very well documented but also not overly complex. If you have XTools and Gabrielle in path they should build out of the box.

- stack shows a simple stack kind of thingie. You can put data to Xena to some sort of stack/list, and you can get it back. Mostly to show how interfaces in .xc works.

- optimusprime starts three threads on Xena to calculate prime numbers using three different algorithms. You can then get back into on how long they took from the Amiga side. Should probably also do the same fully on the amiga side to get an idea of what speeds one can expect? An assignment for anyone else?

Oh and yeah — these only work on X1000 now. The localbus.c isn’t adapted to X5000 ways of doing the localbus. (Of course it’s different. It’s better they say, but none the less different.)

@Jaokim

Thanks for the update and for not giving up on getting it working on the X5000.