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Re: Trevor's Amiga Blog
Posted on 22-May-2016 14:20:49
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@Yasu

Quote:
MorphOS team showed their OS running on the X5000


Gets frustrating, does it old friend?

I'd like to try OS4, and the X5000 seems like an ideal platform.
But I would probably spend more time using MorphOS and Linux on one.

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Re: Trevor's Amiga Blog
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X5000 was running AOS 4.1 It was running partial desktop, sometimes all, sometimes only the 2d demo from Hans. The tabor board was running a linux distro.

Quote:

by Yasu on 22-May-2016 13:43:28

They where indeed at Neuss, but the only thing new they showed was Gorky 17. A-Eon showed the X5000 running some demos but not AmigaOS 4 (at least not the desktop). They also showed the Tabor mother board (only the board, no software). MorphOS Team showed their OS running on the X5000.

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Re: Trevor's Amiga Blog
Posted on 22-May-2016 22:59:19
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@iggy

Quote:
A truly compact OS requires something a little more creative than a UNIX clone.


And a relevant, actively-supported OS needs a solid foundation.

We're cursed by this incessant demand for efficiency and the "not invented here" syndrome.

Kernel optimization is a limited concern for a platform that has a dwindling user base and limited software development.

A prominent developer who evaluated the AmigaOS code years before any of it became public told me it was "magic." That was great 25 years ago but being elegant and tightly-coupled to dead hardware today makes it a liability.

We can't continue to keep moving sideways.

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Re: Trevor's Amiga Blog
Posted on 22-May-2016 23:01:34
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Of course they attended and sponsored the Amiga 30 event In Neuss...

But I think it's off-topic


Good, the optics from the outside suggest that A-EON and the FriendOS contingent had more of a presence.

And that make it's especially relevant.

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Re: Trevor's Amiga Blog
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@ne_one

Yes, and we wouldn't be different if we had a Linux base.

I would actually like to see a smaller kernel than has been used in the past.
Not larger.

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Re: Trevor's Amiga Blog
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@Antique

I only saw the demos, and sometimes the movie Jurassic World running. I do guess it was running under AmigaOS 4, but of the entire day I was there I never saw the actual desktop running. I guess he must have showned the working parts of the desktops to those who asked. I never got the chance as Trevor was having a blast talking to people. I may have issues with AmigaOS 4, but Trevors enthusiasm and friendly spirit is something I admire.

As for Tabor; I only saw a glimpse of it not running so I assumed it didn't run at all. My bad.

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Re: Trevor's Amiga Blog
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Since nobody is doing it...Update time!
http://blog.a-eon.biz/blog/

@Trevor, If I'm not mistaken it is "Bil Herd" and not "Bill heard".
Kamelito

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Re: Trevor's Amiga Blog
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@kamelit0

Thanks for posting!


Croatia is nice country with well chosen national colours.

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Re: Trevor's Amiga Blog
Posted on 21-Aug-2016 15:07:25
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@iggy


Most of kickstart on AmigaOS4.1 is hardware drivers, as more hardware is support the size of kickstart can only get larger.

As for the size of kickstart modules, they are compiled C code, not hand optimized 680x0 assembler, the PowerPC instructions are also fixed to 4 bytes per instruction because it makes sense for memory alignment, cache. In addition debug information might be include in ELF format to help located bugs, in case the software crashes. This also increase the size of programs.

Now days you don't optimize for size, you optimize for speed, this also some times increases the file, as small loops are unrolled.

It be really tiny if you don't need hardware drivers, but also totally useless.


Directory "SYS:Kickstart" on Sunday 21-Aug-16
sb600sata.device.kmod 85056 ----rwed 22-Nov-14 23:00:00
Kicklayout 5363 ----rw-d 10-Oct-14 00:25:23
RadeonHD.chip.54 1588776 ----rw-d 21-Nov-12 18:13:12
sb600ide.device.kmod 84732 ----rw-d 30-Nov-12 15:53:26
sii3112ide.device.kmod 84876 ----rw-d 19-Feb-12 22:05:30
sii0680ide.device.kmod 85992 ----rw-d 19-Feb-12 22:04:42
lsi53c8xx.device.kmod 82872 ----rw-d 19-Feb-12 22:02:22
it8212ide.device.kmod 84144 ----rw-d 19-Feb-12 22:01:44
usbsys.device 110736 ----rwed 21-Nov-12 17:36:15
usbresource.library 11032 ----rwed 21-Nov-12 17:36:15
timer.device.kmod 68636 ----rwed 17-Sep-14 20:53:10
RadeonHD.chip.debug 1763692 ----rwed 21-Aug-14 21:18:20
shell.kmod 129164 ----rw-d 11-Nov-13 22:29:48
petunia.library.kmod 1164004 ----rwed 13-Nov-13 17:30:26
rtg.library 858572 ----rwed 18-Dec-12 21:55:22
uhci.usbhcd 61516 ----rwed 21-Nov-12 17:36:15
strap.kmod 13972 ----rwed 21-Nov-12 17:36:15
SmartFilesystem 202976 ----rw-d 21-Nov-12 17:36:15
ramlib.kmod 16792 ----rwed 21-Nov-12 17:36:15
ramdrive.device.kmod 10744 ----rw-d 21-Nov-12 17:36:15
ram-handler.kmod 34128 ----rw-d 21-Nov-12 17:36:15
newlib.library.kmod 574912 ----rwed 22-Nov-14 23:00:00
keyboard.device.kmod 18000 ----rwed 16-Mar-14 03:50:00
layers.library.kmod 70560 ----rwed 04-Jun-14 19:03:24
massstorage.usbfd 157812 ----rwed 02-Feb-14 22:19:00
sii3512ide.device.kmod 84876 ----rw-d 19-Feb-12 22:07:06
sii3114ide.device.kmod 85704 ----rw-d 19-Feb-12 22:06:18
ohci.usbhcd 67940 ----rwed 21-Nov-12 17:36:14
nonvolatile.library.kmod 10900 ----rwed 21-Nov-12 17:36:14
loader.of 93056 ----rwed 21-Nov-12 17:36:14
keymap.library.kmod 69108 ----rwed 21-Nov-12 17:36:14
graphics.library.kmod 1084444 ----rwed 08-Oct-14 22:52:58
intuition.library.kmod 850220 ----rwed 03-Sep-14 21:35:16
kernel 712856 ----rwed 10-Oct-14 23:03:22
kernel.debug 1186116 ----rwed 10-Oct-14 22:44:50
xena.resource.kmod 5891 ----rw-d 29-Nov-12 20:08:28
JXFileSystem 207448 ----rw-d 21-Nov-12 17:36:13
input.device.kmod 14412 ----rwed 21-Nov-12 17:36:13
hunk.library.kmod 67264 ----rw-d 21-Nov-12 17:36:13
hub.usbfd 71136 ----rw-d 21-Nov-12 17:36:13
gameport.device.kmod 9440 ----rwed 21-Nov-12 17:36:13
dos.library.kmod 553956 ----rwed 30-Jun-14 08:39:40
FileSystem.resource.kmod 4848 ----rwed 13-Feb-11 00:37:40
gadtools.library.kmod 64392 ----rw-d 05-Jul-13 17:10:02
elf.library.kmod 53568 ----rw-d 27-Mar-13 22:51:54
FastFileSystem 159852 ----rwed 21-Nov-12 17:36:13
env-handler.kmod 20764 ----rwed 21-Nov-12 17:36:13
ehci.usbhcd 67388 ----rwed 21-Nov-12 17:36:13
diskcache.library.kmod 18500 ----rw-d 21-Nov-12 17:36:13
diskboot.kmod 10728 ----rw-d 21-Nov-12 17:36:13
diskboot.config 426 ----rwed 21-Nov-12 17:36:13
console.device.kmod 163876 ----rw-d 22-Nov-14 23:00:00
con-handler.kmod 77468 ----rw-d 22-Nov-14 23:00:00
CDFileSystem 77576 ----rwed 20-Sep-12 21:13:52
ATIRadeon.chip 170988 ----rw-d 21-Dec-12 19:20:34
bootmouse.usbfd 6392 ----rwed 21-Nov-12 17:36:12
bootmenu.kmod 54864 ----rwed 21-Nov-12 17:36:12
bootkeyboard.usbfd 14652 ----rwed 21-Nov-12 17:36:12
bootimage 138988 ----rwed 21-Nov-12 17:36:12
biosversion.resource.kmod 66864 ----rw-d 21-Nov-12 17:36:12
battclock.resource.kmod 5528 ----rwed 21-Nov-12 17:36:12
RadeonHD.chip 1622060 ----rwed 03-May-15 18:54:15
cfide.device.kmod 32172 ----rwed 22-Nov-14 23:00:00
PCIGraphics.card 80380 ----rwed 21-Aug-14 21:58:44
Kicklayout.backup 5378 ----rw-d 19-Dec-12 20:14:16
3DLabsPermedia2.chip 27844 ----rwed 21-Nov-12 17:36:12
3dfxVoodoo.chip 96836 ----rwed 21-Nov-12 17:36:12
67 files - 14M bytes - 30541 blocks used

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Re: Trevor's Amiga Blog
Posted on 21-Aug-2016 15:29:19
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@Yasu

It's some time tricky to tell what is AmigaOS4.1, and what is well done skin for Linux.



Most of the time buttons and programs give it away. I have also seen pictures of Amiga like shell for Linux.


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Re: Trevor's Amiga Blog
Posted on 21-Aug-2016 22:23:55
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@kamelit0

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@Trevor, If I'm not mistaken it is "Bil Herd" and not "Bill heard". Kamelito


Correct and corrected. Thanks.

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Rob 
Re: Trevor's Amiga Blog
Posted on 22-Aug-2016 9:30:18
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@TrevorDick

Please tell me Kevin Saunders plans to make this into a game.

http://blog.a-eon.biz/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/PPaint1920x1200_ISO_04c.png

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Re: Trevor's Amiga Blog
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@Rob

Hi Rob, I can answer that for you :) The starting concept you see is indeed towards a game concept.
I have always been a big fan of Marble Madness, Spindizzy and so many other isometric games of the past.

The next question might be which Amiga platform Amiga Classic and or AmigaOS 4.1+

For the moment it will sit idle while I work on a few other active game projects for the Classics and other NG Amiga projects. I'm also looking also towards Vampire / NG Amiga opportunities in future.

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Re: Trevor's Amiga Blog
Posted on 22-Aug-2016 10:04:05
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@invent

New games for Classic/Vampire line; Great news

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Re: Trevor's Amiga Blog
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@invent

I'd love to see it for OS4.1 and at high resolution.

Vampire is offering higher resolution now too so I think the guys behind it would appreciate software that takes advantage of the new modes they've added.

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@TrevorDick

Waiting the 5040 when it done

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@Overflow

yes I'd love to get a Vampire for the 1200 :) it's bare bones vanilla at the moment.
Need to find programmers though ;)

@ Rob

True both AmigaOS and Vampire machines would be great :)

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Now days you don't optimize for size, you optimize for speed, this also some times increases the file, as small loops are unrolled.


I would have thought unrolling loops would have negative effect on the cache. Being they are of limited size and you want to execute inside it. Okay it's not exactly down to the bare basics of a 68010 one op loop mode but with multitasking and CPU's made to loop dynamically unrollng would seem unnecessary.

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@iggy

Quote:
Yes, and we wouldn't be different if we had a Linux base.


I have a tough time imagining that.

I have an even tougher time imagining how a smaller or faster kernel would be of greater value than one that is current and actively supported.

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@TrevorDick

" I would be driven around Brussels to my own Boing Ball destination! Only Amiga............."

Is your trip to Brussels about sprouts or Hyperion or both?
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