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Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6223
18 Dec 2023 05:53
| Dear users,
we have prepared for you the new 9.5 CORE-RELEASE for the V4-Range.
The release will give you the following improvements:
KICKSTART improvements:
- harmless ghost sprite that sometimes appeared on screen, is gone
- all buttons are now visible on requesters
- Screen switch between PLANAR and CHUNKY screens is now possible with AMIGA-M
SUPER-AGA improvements:
- The SuperAGA chipset now supports DMA burst length of up to 256bit. (OCS=16bit/AGA=64bit)As you know Commodore always planned to add 3D features to the Amiga chipset. Super-AGA has done this. The Maggie chip is part of the Amiga chipset and provides nice 3D power. In this release Maggie got a number of nice improvements: - Maggie3D unit now supports a range of3 pixelscreen output formats.
(16bit/24bit/32bit)
- Maggie3D unit supports new Z-buffer modes
- Maggie3D performance was strongly increased
- Maggie3D unit supports cookie cut texturing. This very useful for displaying fences, zoomed 3D sprites. The new 9.5 Cores for all cards will be added to our Download section as they become ready. The first core for the V4 Standalone is available here:
CLICK HERE Here a preview of the new 3D games we are currently working on, that use these new Maggie3D features.
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DiscreetFX Studios
Posts 145
19 Dec 2023 17:51
| Sounds like an awesome upgrade! Thanx so much, the hard work is appreciated.
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Kristof C.
Posts 52
19 Dec 2023 20:26
| Thanks for your hard work and for describing new or improved features! I'm also looking forward to the new core for the Firebird and of course to the upcoming Apollo OS release.
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Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6223
23 Dec 2023 09:45
| Some Development updates We have improved the performance of the memory controller in the upcoming release. 1) BUSTEST Write now scores up to 700 MB/sec 2) We have added a new 64bit mode to the Amiga Blitter.
This mode makes the Blitter extremely fast.
You can use the Amiga Blitter for GFX rendering while the CPU computes something else.
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Amiga 4Life
Posts 102
23 Dec 2023 19:09
| Can asteroids be played in 3d and still be good as the 2d version... ?
If we can get something like this that would be insane... EXTERNAL LINK , EXTERNAL LINK ..... check out the lightning effects and asteroids on the back screen...Ps1.. EXTERNAL LINK ...
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Peeri the Sunlight
Posts 71
23 Dec 2023 19:42
| Great than you. I have not updated earlier any 9xxx build number.
It seems that my keyboard does not work any more, when it was earlier cores working prefectly fine (expect caps lock) Model is Lenovo model: SK-8821 (Scandinavic keyboard from year 2012)
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Tim Waite
Posts 42
11 Feb 2024 18:56
| My keyboard does work anymore either. I was told I am the only one of 10000 people having this problem.
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Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6223
11 Feb 2024 19:25
| Did you talk on Discord and got a new Core?
if not then you know what you need todo.
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John William
Posts 566
11 Feb 2024 21:28
| Gunnar von Boehn wrote:
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Did you talk on Discord and got a new Core?
if not then you know what you need todo.
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When are you going to implement ad add support for full disk drive for the accelerators?
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Tim Waite
Posts 42
12 Feb 2024 04:00
| Gunnar von Boehn wrote:
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Did you talk on Discord and got a new Core?
if not then you know what you need todo.
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I did and you gave me the core and worked with troubleshooting with me. It did and it not solve the KB issue. I use the approved AJAZZ keyboard. I am continuing to try to find a way to solve the KB issue.
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DiscreetFX Studios
Posts 145
01 Apr 2024 02:26
| When for the final?
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The team will post updates and news about our project here