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software Classic   software Classic : Amiga Kit Acquires AK-Datatypes
   posted by amigakit on 7-Sep-2019 10:52:45 (8603 reads)

Cardiff, 9th March, 2024

AmigaKit Ltd is pleased to announce an important software development for the forthcoming A600GS computer system. The new ARM Graphics Library is pre-installed accelerating the performance of AmiBench and 68K applications.

The ARMgraphics.library was created by AmigaKit's in-house developer to bypass the bottleneck of the 68K graphics functions. It accelerates graphics rendering performance in applications.

AmiBench is pre-installed on the A600GS computer system. It opens the desktop environment in high resolution 1080p with True Colour icons. Now it can use the new ARM Graphics Library for various purposes including faster rendering of windows, icons and backgrounds.

Third party developers can take advantage of this library by using it's powerful functions from their 68K application. It also offers an opportunity for 68K games developers to enhance their games with faster graphics rendering.

The library provides a link between 68K programs and the native ARM processor.

Further work is underway to patch 68K system graphics functions so older applications that are not written to use the ARM Graphics Library can benefit.

AmigaKit has developed AK-Datatypes, Picture Datatype and Datatypes Library over the many years for the Enhancer Software on X5000, X1000 and A1222+. These have been compiled for 68K to run on the A600GS, In addition these system components can also be accelerated by the ARM Graphics Library for extra performance.

The A600GS computer system is due for launch in the second quarter of 2024.

Additional Information about A600GS, AmiBench and it's components can be found on these websites:

A600GS: www.a600gs.com
AmiBench: wiki.amiga.org/amibench


    

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It's good to have an alternative suite of picture datatypes, but with WarpDT I'm just fine.

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Hey guys, prepare another 50 euros.

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WarpDTs are 20 Euros


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Why do I get the feeling there is more going on behind the scenes than they are letting on to.


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In times when i test it for classic amiga (it was a1200 with bpcc), warpDT datatypes was always better and faster than AK-Datatypes. Their prefs was cleaner, and things always works as expected, while with AK-Datatypes there was some issues.

In other words, no big interest. If only it will be futher developed and will be better than warpDT, but then, what there can be better ?:) It's already do what should do.


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One annoyance with "ak software" is that they typically rely on wizard.library from StormC, Haage&Partner. The akjfif package comes with way too many "variants" of jpeg datatype descriptors, easier to just have one that covers them all. I wonder if SView was "on the table" as well, that's a piece of software that despite being rather non-intuitive to use, still is a very powerful.


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One annoyance with "ak software" is that they typically rely on wizard.library from StormC, Haage&Partner. The akjfif package comes with way too many "variants" of jpeg datatype descriptors, easier to just have one that covers them all. I wonder if SView was "on the table" as well, that's a piece of software that despite being rather non-intuitive to use, still is very powerful.


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@kolla

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I wonder if SView was "on the table" as well


afaik it has been since 2014.

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@Futaura
A good price, 20 euros.

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I think increasingly time and money is spent on the wrong things.

Too little time and energy is spent: on development tools, and network support.
Too much time is spent on reinventing things we already have.


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Plus AmigaKIT and AEON own a lot software that has not been worked on and is collecting dust, it great if not only collected source code, but did something with it.


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@ NutsAboutAmiga

I have exactly the same problem. Double posts and when you edit your post, it just posts a new one instead!!!

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Quote:
I think increasingly time and money is spent on the wrong things. Too little time and energy is spent: on development tools, and network support. Too much time is spent on reinventing things we already have.


It is fine that the AK-Datatypes are developed, but I agree, is it priority ? Datatypes for the Amiga are everywhere and included in almost every Amiga-OS / Amiga-NG-OS.

@Amigakit
Any talks about Superview 5 ?
https://www.amigafuture.de/app.php/kb/viewarticle?a=3052

Also from AK.

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I welcome this, however I use WarpDT and are perfectly happy with them.

What I would really really like to see is a Visualbuilder IDE, that would make development a lot easier.


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And about EYE VIEWER SE for 68k
http://www.morguesoft.eu/Paginas/Software.htm

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Spending money to buy long-forgotten code written for a dead processor architecture, to bring development back to life, in order to get money from pointless enhancements, while open source alternatives have been available for years.



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That dead processor architecture happens to have the biggest user base.

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if they make it 68080 optimized i will buy it.
it would be the fastest datatype ever.

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