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Re: It's time to join the forces... part...? Posted on 8-Jul-2021 11:27:11
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OlafS25 wrote: @Raffaele
calling other people "donkeys" is not really nice
the problem with many "donkeys" is that they know what is possible and what is not possible
we have four camps now, 68k (using old and new 68k based hardware or emulation), AmigaOS, AROS, MorphOS
all platforms are different already and use different components
For example RTG every platform uses different implementations, the same for USB and so on
So all NG platforms (developers) have to agree on one standard in many cases giving up the own implementation.
Theoretically they would only do that for making more money than staying on its own. I do not see them agreeing on that. Also all camps would need to agree on one direction. I do not see that either. All have different ideas.
Making a "join forces" thread every year might be fun but does not change anything
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It's a chaotic mess that mirrored the pre-DirectX era e.g. I attempted to run Diablo Amiga and I later found out it needs Vampire but it's labeled Architecture: m68k-amigaos. f**k that.
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Re: It's time to join the forces... part...? Posted on 11-Jul-2021 21:31:27
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Diablo Amiga is supposed to gracefully degrade when it detects it's running on an '060 or fast '040. It doesn't require a Vampire unless you want full frame rate. |
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Re: It's time to join the forces... part...? Posted on 12-Jul-2021 8:04:26
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I downloaded Diablo Amiga from http://aminet.net/package/game/actio/DevilutionX
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Re: It's time to join the forces... part...? Posted on 13-Jul-2021 3:54:16
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That's the version I was referring to. It is supposed to work on an '040+ though there are optimizations to take advantage of the '080 if present. |
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Re: It's time to join the forces... part...? Posted on 13-Jul-2021 9:18:21
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| In a way I kinda like how Amiga community has explored nearly every option for the OS even if the Ip holders didn’t agree, the big problem is none of them have really had huge resources and split community doesn’t help either.
I doubt we will ever rejoin up all behind one project, it is kinda shame as I look at the talent each platform has and think if they did all work together on one Os and developed apps for that one product we be in a much better situation than we are in.
Never mind I look forward to reading “it’s time to join forces…part billion”
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Re: It's time to join the forces... part...? Posted on 14-Jul-2021 2:27:28
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It’s long past due for the Amiga community to come together and heal. Time to swallow some pride and put to rest the differences that have splintered the community into the 3 camps. I think that making amends falls on the shoulders of the influencers to rally everyone. The Amiga platform can still be diverse with AOS (3.x and 4.x), MOS and AROS continuing to innovate and delivering what their end-users expect. However, the Amiga community needs to collaborate for the betterment and survival of the platform so it may live on for many years to come. It can be done and Amiga could show the world that computing is still fun! _________________
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Re: It's time to join the forces... part...? Posted on 14-Jul-2021 5:07:22
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It’s long past due for the Amiga community to come together and heal |
That's not really possible. Take a look at this poll:
What you think is actually blocking the Amiga Take off?
There's no consensus.
What's probably going to happen is someone is going to win in court, and someone is going to lose. Whoever wins is going to set the direction, and some people will like it, and some people won't.
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Re: It's time to join the forces... part...? Posted on 14-Jul-2021 5:54:41
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It needs RTG for hardcoded 640x480 8 bits color display mode. It's not like other SDL ported games from NovaCoder.
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Re: It's time to join the forces... part...? Posted on 14-Jul-2021 8:28:49
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It needs RTG for hardcoded 640x480 8 bits color display mode.
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What does that have to do with "needs Vampire"?
AGA can to 640x480-8bit "RTG" using the Native P96 driver, have you tried that?_________________ B5D6A1D019D5D45BCC56F4782AC220D8B3E2A6CC |
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Re: It's time to join the forces... part...? Posted on 14-Jul-2021 16:26:16
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Amiga, in my opinion, needs modern software/apps more than it needs to run on another platform. If Amigans aren't using the OS due to a lack of apps, then few others will either. Maybe joining the SteamPowered network may help.
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Re: It's time to join the forces... part...? Posted on 14-Jul-2021 22:12:04
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Amiga, in my opinion, needs modern software/apps more than it needs to run on another platform. |
It needs both. PPC is no longer competitive on the desktop, so the hardware price of entry is really high.
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Re: It's time to join the forces... part...? Posted on 14-Jul-2021 23:02:48
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It needs both. PPC is no longer competitive on the desktop, so the hardware price of entry is really high.
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ARM is not competitive on the desktop but the price of entry is really low. ARM hardware is cheap because of mass production from selling into the embedded market. A-Eon has not ignored the embedded market though. They use old embedded market PPC CPUs for the desktop market. Only Amiga makes it possible.
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Re: It's time to join the forces... part...? Posted on 15-Jul-2021 15:02:55
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ARM is not competitive on the desktop but the price of entry is really low. |
True, that. I think ARM would be a great way to go, since it could be used now in entry level systems, and will probably be more competitive on the desktop in the future.
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Re: It's time to join the forces... part...? Posted on 16-Jul-2021 4:54:05
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Hammer wrote:
It needs RTG for hardcoded 640x480 8 bits color display mode.
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What does that have to do with "needs Vampire"?
AGA can to 640x480-8bit "RTG" using the Native P96 driver, have you tried that?
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I have tried the following 1. native P96 driver with https://aminet.net/package/driver/video/Picasso96 https://aminet.net/package/driver/moni/Native P96 version 2.0. I found P96 version 2.1 somewhere on the internet.
Native P96 driver is not a real P96 driver since it doesn't present a valid RTG Display ID for 640x480 8 bits.
I haven't tried P96 version 2.3 from AmigaOS 3.9/Amithlon CD.
2. CGX 4.4 install with CGX AGA native driver. Currently installed and doesn't work. https://aminet.net/package/driver/video/CGX-AGA
FYI, NovaCoder has enough SDL functions ported for AGA. Extra work would be needed to merge NovaCoder's SDL AGA work with hardcoded RTG SDL ports.
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Re: It's time to join the forces... part...? Posted on 16-Jul-2021 13:53:53
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