Many thanks for another great port Edgar!

thanks for this release. Verry great !!!

So many very good programms over AmiCygnix are ported, and all of this very welcome on Amiga. Only what is need it - speedup it and maybe recompile it as native ones with cygnix layer inside the binaries :)

@kas1e

More speed is needed, I aggree. Will have to improve the X server for this.
But there will never be a "Cygnix Layer". We have to live with the big base package.

@all

StarDict is one of my favourite AmiCygnix programs. I use it nearly every day. It's worth to have a closer look at it and on the available dicts!

@CygnusEd

This is a very nice piece of software, thanks!

If you are able to prepare a source code for the X server which compiles with the latest OS4 SDK "out-of-the-box", then perhaps a few other developers could look at adding hardware acceleration for graphics rendering, that would make a huge difference especially for moving windows and scrolling speed.

Yep, what COBRA said :)

I can do that, no problem. But only if someone is REALLY interested. I've created such packages several times for people who said, that they want to port AmiCygnix to other platforms. But after they recognized, that it is not a job for a few hours at the weekend, I never heard a word from them again. Maybe this sounds rough, but I wasted too much time for this.

Anyone REALLY interested?

@cygnusEd
I just think , that silince here after your post becouse of this fact, that almost all programmers who can try - already have many projects on which they want works for first. I am personally, pretty bad know system/drivers/etc coding, and also have some project which want to finish soon . And works on new one will be bad idea becouse better works on 1 project to make it good.

I think COBRA with all these WarpViews, DVPlayer and etc, have the same problem.

All what i (and i think cobra) want to point, that if open some sources, somebody (maybe of course) will have a look, and after some time spend some time on it (or maybe help with somethink).

But of course, in end, better if these improves will be done by author :) Becouse you already know your stuff and so on.

Porting to other platform must be much harder, if compare with adding hardware acceleration to make windowses works smooth/fast.

I do not know of course how your main programm (amyxyngix) structured, but for sure you have some fucntions like "open cygnix window", "open cygnix screen" ? For start, maybe need to try add to "open cygnix window" fucntion MiniGL stuff.. or some redirect to aos fucntion .. But of course, you already know all of this and time only is problem i think :)

For me personally "big base pakages" it's not problem at all. (they not so big in end). The main problem for total-everyday usage - speed. These slow (very slow) window movies just slowing down work with programms (which are pretty good on first look).

I just this if prepare for example this kind of pakage about cobra said, and put it in your subforum with topic like "devels, let's try to looks how we can improve speed", then step by step some one will add some ideas.

@kas1e
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Yes I aggree. There are too few active coders on the amiga. To the AmiCygnix sources: They are completely available on OS4-Depot! I have to admit, that they are not easy to compile with the latest SDK. They were compiled with V51.22 and so there might be incompatibilities.

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Yes, there are such functions, but only to open/close the window and to handle the amiga events. The complete rendering is done by the X code (which is complex and really hard to understand) and the window/bitmap is only used as a framebuffer. There is no function, which can be easily replaced by AOS functions.
There is a lot to do...