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Re: New hardware: PPC-Motherboard A1222 "Tabor" by Acube/A-eon Posted on 7-Nov-2015 20:45:20
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I really hope that Tabor will costs really not much to support all that too expensive cpu thesis  Also to support all that problems related to non standard FPU...
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Re: New hardware: PPC-Motherboard A1222 "Tabor" by Acube/A-eon Posted on 8-Nov-2015 3:10:15
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Tabor's cost is all up to A-eon's BOM, their sunk costs in design, and the margin they need. It could be fairly low, but its not going to be on par with a cheap X86 system.
It can't be because of the economies of scale.
And if software authors work around the fpu issue, then OS support becomes secondary.
I didn't intend to make this all seem like gloom and doom.
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Re: New hardware: PPC-Motherboard A1222 "Tabor" by Acube/A-eon Posted on 8-Nov-2015 5:11:21
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Tabor seams to have a little bit of punch :)
If Tabor is sold for 300 EURO came with decent GFX card, HD, 8GB mem -then maybe ..
To SUCCEED Tabor needs alot of software.
3 or 4 new Release games on Tabor BlitzBasic port (for Basic game Programming - not Hollywood sorry) as standard C programming suite with SDL Assembler Suite Office suite Music Edit record Suite with tracks, mods etc Midi composing Video Tutorials how to use AmigaOS for beginners
Webcam Software with draw tools Kids love karaoke cute backgrounds / themes New OS features - 'WOW factors'
Amiga 3D game FRAG events, with leader-boards online
If only it looks stylish, like white Macs that looks cool in any room ...
Give it a chance, lets see what we get ...
When people see what this system can do - that is FUN or is an educational tool it would sell like hot cakes !
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Re: New hardware: PPC-Motherboard A1222 "Tabor" by Acube/A-eon Posted on 8-Nov-2015 6:36:41
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That's impossible for G4 and PA6T, since SPE instructions use space from the Altivec opcode space (and some from the "string" instructions; here even G3s might be affected). |
Can be done with JIT, as that sort interpreter with a compiler stage. However, I don't won't give people fall hope, it’s a lot of work.
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Yes, but it kills the "integer" performance too...
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well..on integer that board seems REALLY faster than Sam460ex...nice! |
It was expected. The SAMs had an old PowerPC.
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Thanks. It seems that E-UAE is also compiled for SPE, albeit I doubt that the JIT is able to directly generate SPE instructions instead of the regular PowerPC/FPU ones. |
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Re: New hardware: PPC-Motherboard A1222 "Tabor" by Acube/A-eon Posted on 8-Nov-2015 9:45:18
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Blitzbasic is written in asm, you cannot port it to PPC |
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Re: New hardware: PPC-Motherboard A1222 "Tabor" by Acube/A-eon Posted on 8-Nov-2015 10:41:45
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Re: New hardware: PPC-Motherboard A1222 "Tabor" by Acube/A-eon Posted on 8-Nov-2015 11:12:55
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No spe just regular powerpc instruction. I dont think the gcc optimize it for spe during building _________________ I love Amiga and new hope by AmigaNG A 500 + ; CDTV; CD32; PowerMac G5 Quad 8GB,SSD,SSHD,7800gtx,Radeon R5 230 2GB; MacBook Pro Retina I7 2.3ghz; #nomorea-eoninmyhome |
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Re: New hardware: PPC-Motherboard A1222 "Tabor" by Acube/A-eon Posted on 8-Nov-2015 11:16:12
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BlitzBasic port (for Basic game Programming - not Hollywood sorry) as standard |
For game programing I think we need something else. Writing a game from ground up, takes a lot time, if you're only few people working on project, it might better to spend less of that time coding, and more of that time working on ideas, and graphics.
Most games this days are made in some kind of game maker, or game engine, people are spending less and less time in making games from ground up.
Something like Backbone for 680x0 might nice start.
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C programming suite with SDL |
We have SDL1.2, work is ongoing to make it faster. SDL2.x at moment is as high priority.
Allegro4 we have. Allegro5 is under development.
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GCC comes with AS, a program to compile assembler.
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We have Google Docs, and abiword, and we have spreadsheets. and I know Terminals is working on updating a old office suite.
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Music Edit record Suite with tracks, mods etc |
We have bars and pipes, OctaMedStudio coming soon, ProTracker, HivelyTracker. Quote:
We have good Midi support. Quote:
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We have some nice blogs. And there is the AmigaOS wiki pages. Quote:
Webcam Software with draw tools |
We have no webcam support, last time I checked.
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We don't have that, can be done, we can record audio using AHI.
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Just install Candy. Nice background you find everywhere, Amigaworld has download aria. Quote:
New OS features - 'WOW factors' |
we need to focus on getting features you expect in modern operating system into AmigaOS, like full UTF8 support, SMP and memory protection, better TCP/IP stack whit IPv6 support, then after that we talk about taking over the world after that. 
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I'm getting too old for that, but you play whit other kids on other platforms.
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If only it looks stylish, like white Macs that looks cool in any room ... |
I think most Amiga users are happy if looks like it did back in 1990 
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Re: New hardware: PPC-Motherboard A1222 "Tabor" by Acube/A-eon Posted on 8-Nov-2015 11:25:30
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No spe just regular powerpc instruction. |
Unfortunately there's little information in the screenshot, but I've seen an "E-UAE_JIT_1.0.1_powerpcspe" icon on the desktop, so I thought that this binary was compiled with SPE support. Quote:
I dont think the gcc optimize it for spe during building |
GCC optimizes for the SPE unit, and of course it does when the project is built. But you have to specify proper options for it. |
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Re: New hardware: PPC-Motherboard A1222 "Tabor" by Acube/A-eon Posted on 8-Nov-2015 11:27:17
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so I thought that this binary was compiled with SPE support. |
What does that help when, the JIT compiler generates, normal (integer) PowerPC machine code.
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GCC optimizes for the SPE unit, and of course it does when the project is built. But you have to specify proper options for it. |
It depends on version of GCC, how well it optimize for special features, you can't have too old GCC. I most cases when I tell GCC to unroll loops, it not able to, you need to help GCC.Last edited by NutsAboutAmiga on 08-Nov-2015 at 11:32 AM. Last edited by NutsAboutAmiga on 08-Nov-2015 at 11:31 AM.
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Re: New hardware: PPC-Motherboard A1222 "Tabor" by Acube/A-eon Posted on 8-Nov-2015 11:40:27
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so I thought that this binary was compiled with SPE support. |
What does that help when, the JIT compiler generates, normal (integer) PowerPC machine code. |
UAE itself uses floats, so the SPE unit can be directly used in this case, avoiding the unnecessary trap & emulate operation for FPU instructions.
It means that, since E-UAE doesn't seem to JIT 68K FPU instructions, the SPE unit is used for the 68K FPU emulation.
So, this is the best condition for running E-UAE, and for comparing the performance of Tabor with other boards running the same application, since there's no penalty for regular FPU emulation. Quote:
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GCC optimizes for the SPE unit, and of course it does when the project is built. But you have to specify proper options for it. |
It depends on version of GCC, how well it optimize for special features, you can't have too old GCC. |
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I most cases when I tell GCC to unroll loops, it not able to, you need to help GCC. |
That's only for "SIMD-like" code. However that's not the case for apps like E-UAE, where normal scalar FP code is executed, when needed. |
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Re: New hardware: PPC-Motherboard A1222 "Tabor" by Acube/A-eon Posted on 8-Nov-2015 13:55:43
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this is the G5 2.5 ghz euae jit

this is win uee on virtualpc on g5 quad
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Re: New hardware: PPC-Motherboard A1222 "Tabor" by Acube/A-eon Posted on 8-Nov-2015 14:01:11
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V8 Benchmark Suite - version 7
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Odyssey 1.23
Score: 29.3 Richards: 10.6 DeltaBlue: 7.18 Crypto: 51.9 RayTrace: 32.1 EarleyBoyer: 75.1 RegExp: 11.3 Splay: 60.8 NavierStokes: 84.3 ========================================= Sam460ex Ubuntu Mate 16.04 -
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Score: 91.3 Richards: 61.8 DeltaBlue: 34.8 Crypto: 108 RayTrace: 92.9 EarleyBoyer: 192 RegExp: 31.3 Splay: 246 NavierStokes: 151 ======================================== Tabor Debian 9 PowerPC32 non-smp kernel
Qupzilla 1.8.6
Score: 47.3 Richards: 47.7 DeltaBlue: 35.2 Crypto: 56.7 RayTrace: 22.6 EarleyBoyer: 241 RegExp: 42.0 Splay: 123 NavierStokes: 9.25 =============================================== Tabor Debian 9 PowerPC32 smp kernel
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Score: 69.6 Richards: 88.3 DeltaBlue: 74.4 Crypto: 117 RayTrace: 46.3 EarleyBoyer: 336 RegExp: 43.0 Splay: 115 NavierStokes: 9.29 ============================================= Tabor Debian 8 PowerPCSPE chroot non-smp kernel
Qupzilla 1.8.6
Score: 139 Richards: 97.0 DeltaBlue: 75.0 Crypto: 133 RayTrace: 163 EarleyBoyer: 339 RegExp: 41.4 Splay: 374 NavierStokes: 165 =============================================== Tabor Debian 8 PowerPCSPE chroot smp kernel
Qupzilla 1.8.6
Score: 158 Richards: 105 DeltaBlue: 90.7 Crypto: 143 RayTrace: 179 EarleyBoyer: 391 RegExp: 48.6 Splay: 422 NavierStokes: 198 ===============================================
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Re: New hardware: PPC-Motherboard A1222 "Tabor" by Acube/A-eon Posted on 8-Nov-2015 14:10:13
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Re: New hardware: PPC-Motherboard A1222 "Tabor" by Acube/A-eon Posted on 8-Nov-2015 14:16:03
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A chroot is an operation that changes the apparent root directory for the current running process and its children.From the Chroot environement you can run the powerPCSPE programs as if you had booted the powerpcSPE version of Linux .
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Re: New hardware: PPC-Motherboard A1222 "Tabor" by Acube/A-eon Posted on 8-Nov-2015 14:28:25
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Re: New hardware: PPC-Motherboard A1222 "Tabor" by Acube/A-eon Posted on 8-Nov-2015 15:43:47
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You got any source that this motherboard will be called "AmigaOne"? What's with that "Tabor" thing then?) |
Watch Trevor´s presentation from AmiWest. Tabor (motherboard) is named "AmigaOne A1222" on one of the slides.
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"A-EON Technology Ltd is pleased to announce that Tabor, a new powerful, low cost, entry level PowerPC motherboard", "The full system is designated the AmigaOne A1222."
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Re: New hardware: PPC-Motherboard A1222 "Tabor" by Acube/A-eon Posted on 8-Nov-2015 15:46:14
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Qupzilla, huh? A QT/Chromium based web browser?
OK, that one I like. Even if it isn't as portable as Webkit.
It works well and it is fast.
I'm going to switch to it for awhile.
Edit - Back to Chrome and Firefox. That version has issues with Youtube, even after updating Flash. Last edited by iggy on 08-Nov-2015 at 03:58 PM.
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Re: New hardware: PPC-Motherboard A1222 "Tabor" by Acube/A-eon Posted on 8-Nov-2015 15:52:34
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but the "One" is very very small, 1 pixel high  |
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Re: New hardware: PPC-Motherboard A1222 "Tabor" by Acube/A-eon Posted on 8-Nov-2015 15:59:03
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Now that IS funny! A straight line, eh? |
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