Overview Features Coding ApolloOS Performance Forum Downloads Products Order Contact

Welcome to the Apollo Forum

This forum is for people interested in the APOLLO CPU.
Please read the forum usage manual.
Please visit our Apollo-Discord Server for support.



All TopicsNewsPerformanceGamesDemosApolloVampireAROSWorkbenchATARIReleases
The team will post updates and news about our project here

AROS 68k for 68080page  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 

Wawa T

Posts 695
14 Nov 2017 15:46


sigh.. because michel didnt commited anything back to aros repo..
what does it mean "relatively" well? still random problems?


Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
14 Nov 2017 15:53


Yes, sometimes it does not detect CF card and with the faster cores it is even more uncertain. But I could say that it is usable compared to the nightly builds.


Marko Oette

Posts 11
14 Nov 2017 16:51


Love to see this progress.

Seems I‘ll have to get another 500V2 to play with this as my current one is burried deep in my working machine ... as is the sd2ide ;)


Nixus Minimax

Posts 416
14 Nov 2017 17:05


Olaf Schoenweiss wrote:
 
  I just uploaded a new version with WHDLoad added
 
  Lure of the temptress included in the new extras directory where I will include everything as far as possible
 
  Screenshot:
  EXTERNAL LINK 

This looks good, thanks!




Olaf Schoenweiss

Posts 690
14 Nov 2017 17:49


new screenshot with different icons:

EXTERNAL LINK


Niclas A
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 219
14 Nov 2017 18:23


Olaf Schoenweiss wrote:

new screenshot with different icons:
 
  EXTERNAL LINK 

Clean i like it :D


Gregthe Canuck

Posts 274
14 Nov 2017 20:48



Looks good!

Is kalamatee doing any AROS work lately?



Thierry Atheist

Posts 644
14 Nov 2017 21:41


Pak Rat wrote:
Cyber Gorf wrote:
Gunnar von Boehn wrote:
We should not today demand SMP!
SMP is complex today for AMIGA OS.
But AMP can relative easily be done.

I prefer AMP over SMP any time.

One CPU to rule them all, One CPU to find them,
One CPU to bring them all and in the system bind them


Hi Pak Rat,

Love it, love it! BRILLIANT!!!! (--->LoTR ref.)

Pak Rat wrote:
While SMP on AOS/AROS sounds functionally impossible without breaking compatibility, Gunnar seems to suggest that we may be able to AMP the hell out of it. ;) If you put the Amiga checkmark in front of AMP, you get what looks like VAMP,  or Amiga Asymmetrical Multiprocessing. A nice little Amiga/Vampire inside joke, if we could legally use the checkmark. There are many ways to skin a CAT(5) when it comes to multicore parallel processing. ^^

Love it, love it! BRILLIANT!!!! (Word crafted perfectly. :-))) )

Being inconspicuous like that, GENIUS!!!!
"The ^ of v/AMP"
Marko Oette wrote:
Love to see this progress.

Seems I‘ll have to get another 500V2 to play with this as my current one is burried deep in my working machine ... as is the sd2ide ;)


Hi Marko,

Personally, I'm resigned to needing THREE of them, myself.

EVEN THOUGH the premise of AMIGA is MULTI-TASKING.... it's still a necessary luxury to have some dedicated machines in play as well!!!!!

1) For instance for work, independent for security and also, computer program development, that can often lead to software malfunctions you wouldn't want to affect other processes running on your machine.

2) Dedicated media player allowing for other people's access to AMIGA as well as yourself.

3) For everything else, including games that may often not allow for background activities taking place to work properly.

* * * * * * *

IF a unique AOS3.x dedicated to the 68080 "CPU" isn't released By Hyperion Entertainment, an AROS version certainly should be.

By that, I mean AROS (or AOS3.x) compiled with 68080 (assembler, and 64 bit (if possible), where improvements would further increase), FPU, AMMX2 and S-AGA instructions incorporated into it, that does NOT WORK on 68000, 020, 030, 040 and 060 CPU'd AMIGAS. It doesn't have "if ... then" instructions in there so it can work on the lower CPUs, or include the superfluous code segments that would allow for it to run, which would only increase the code size for no reason.

Yes, a break with the past, yet maintaining backward compatibility to as high a degree as possible.

The best of ALL worlds!!!!!!!!


Olaf Schoenweiss

Posts 690
15 Nov 2017 16:38


unfortunately not


Vojin Vidanovic

Posts 770
15 Nov 2017 16:46


Thierry Atheist wrote:

  By that, I mean AROS (or AOS3.x) compiled with 68080 (assembler, and 64 bit (if possible), where improvements would further increase), FPU, AMMX2 and S-AGA instructions incorporated into it, that does NOT WORK on 68000, 020, 030, 040 and 060 CPU'd AMIGAS. It doesn't have "if ... then" instructions in there so it can work on the lower CPUs, or include the superfluous code segments that would allow for it to run, which would only increase the code size for no reason.
 
  Yes, a break with the past, yet maintaining backward compatibility to as high a degree as possible.
 
  The best of ALL worlds!!!!!!!!

I love your enthusiasm Therry, but best we can opt from current position is that this 3.1.x release will bring something OS 3.5 or OS 3.9 dont have. Otherwise, its useless to all owners.

Vamp specific optimisations arent mentioned. Hype team congratulating Apollo is more a merit then a specific direction.

Same goes for AROS 68k. Its great it started to suport Vamps, but it will not magically turn to optimized distro.

BUT, in time, if Vamp flok grows and proper optimization, debugging etc. tools are presented, it might become true.

Mind that so far, no OS 3.x or AROS distro has been heavily optimized beyond 00/020 code.


Wawa T

Posts 695
15 Nov 2017 22:42


gregthe canuck wrote:

  Looks good!
 
  Is kalamatee doing any AROS work lately?
 

nope.


Wawa T

Posts 695
16 Nov 2017 01:18


currently there is not much going on on aros front. today i repaired aros doom port (initially based on adoom ppc) to compile for and work on amiga-m68k. i may implement optimizations that have been done for amiga in there, but cannot test it very well since it doesnt run timedemo with the wad version i have.
 
  other than that im occasionally fixing compilation of this and that from aros sources for amiga, but nothing particular, rather for the sake of completeness. also im working on some further apps and libs based on third party contributions, but not being a coder i may or may not succeed with it.
 
  certainly people with more expertise in amiga and experience in system progamming would made actual difference, if they joined.


Vojin Vidanovic

Posts 770
16 Nov 2017 01:26


wawa t wrote:

currently there is not much going on on aros front. today i repaired aros doom port (initially based on adoom ppc) to compile for and work on amiga-m68k.

Thanks Wawa. Any efort is better then none.
I am sad Kalamatee is gone and silent and we did not make a difference at time needed.


Gregthe Canuck

Posts 274
16 Nov 2017 01:46


At the moment I am betting on both horses (OS3.1x and AROS). Who knows - at some future point some cross-pollination may happen (either in developers, code, or both).

Should I keep sponsoring Kalamatee? Is his absence only temporary?




Dusko Kovacic

Posts 21
16 Nov 2017 02:18


Olaf Schoenweiss wrote:

unfortunately not

until we do something more significant in terms of collecting few thousand euros and pay them to guys like kalamatee as team of "developing investors" we will see nothing that is contributing
as acceleration to development in any way. so lets start, give the account with funds counter. i dont want hyperion to even start to think of os4 port to vampire. they dont deserve it. aros is the right way to go.

kalamatee, how much money do you honest need to continue with further serious development?




Wawa T

Posts 695
16 Nov 2017 02:57


people need to be able to live their lives. im not sure any serious funding is possible in amiga community. usually only ovious scam works wonders here, i hope the vampire effort proves me wrong. so instead talking money lets gather ourselves and put some effort in coding.


Mr Niding

Posts 459
16 Nov 2017 08:28


gregthe canuck wrote:

At the moment I am betting on both horses (OS3.1x and AROS). Who knows - at some future point some cross-pollination may happen (either in developers, code, or both).
 
  Should I keep sponsoring Kalamatee? Is his absence only temporary?
 
 

Considering he basically was figuratively both on his knees and arms financially, the relatively small amount of Patreon money hes recieving is barely holding his head above water. He did say he might/probably have to sell his computer equipment before the "rescue" happened.
Wether or not he did end up doing that, Ive not heard either or in that regard. I hope not, cause he seems to have potential income thru those skills.

But if I personally had been in his situation, doing hobbylevel coding would probably be VERY far down on the list of priorities.
I guess you could argue that Kalamatee has let a oppurtunity pass, by not communicating with the community. There seems/seemed to be quite alot of willingness to chip in for his continued development, more so than he already got (and what he got was for his past developments mind you, like Wawa usually points out).

Anyhow, I do wonder the same thing Greg with regards to his absence, but maybe asking on AROS EXEC forum is more likely to yield an answer.


Olaf Schoenweiss

Posts 690
16 Nov 2017 13:36


I have not heared anything from Kalamatee so I cannot say if absence is temporary or enduring. To me it looks more like enduring because there was no activity by him for a long time, not by commits and even not in developer mailing list. So I assume not. Deadwood too has lost interest in Aros. I contacted him and explained why I think Aros has advantages to 3.X but not heared of him after. So unfortunately two of the most active developers dropped Aros almost at the same time. Hopefully others will step in in future.


Olaf Schoenweiss

Posts 690
16 Nov 2017 13:38


he indeed has. Certainly he would not have become millionaire but at least he had a chance to get income. By becoming silent from one day to the other this chance is gone now.


Wawa T

Posts 695
18 Nov 2017 00:08


  he had a chance to get income.

 
  i dont think that income could be in a range to sustain someones living. one may need to turn elsewhere and maybe even quit some time and attention consuming habits to get hold of real life issues. nobody should be entiteled to feel grudge against such, in fact, a resonable decission,

posts 171page  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9