| Aros RTG On the Vamp - Quick Guide | page 1 2
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Pedro Cotter
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 308
03 Sep 2017 10:54
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Quick guide on how to install/configure Aros for the Vampire with the SAGA GFX Driver
- download nightly build (ISO)
EXTERNAL LINK
- Transfer files to bootable CF
make a bootable partition to CF and format it. I used FFS.
- Download saga drivers and put "saga.card" into System:boot/amiga drawer
http://www.apollo-accelerators.com/#download
-Edit s:startup-sequence and change it like this:
AROSBootstrap ROM boot/amiga/aros.hunk.gz boot/amiga/saga.card
- Reboot and choose your Screen Mode on prefs/screenmode
It will be slow as the RTG driver is not optimized.
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Vojin Vidanovic
Posts 770
03 Sep 2017 11:20
| Thanks Pedro! Direct link to Naughty build 2 EXTERNAL LINK
dont forget the contrib archive
EXTERNAL LINK
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Wawa T
Posts 695
03 Sep 2017 11:49
| im usually using pfs3 form my aros partitions on cf cards.
to speed up graphics somewhat you can disable decoration in appearance prefs. or simply delete theme.var from env/sys afair.
also one can decomporess contributions over the aros partition, which among others should contain aros owb web browser.
note that to attempt to run it one should delete the huge ttf donts collection from fonts (dejavu afair) which alone takes 10mb. otherwise on first owb launch font cache wont build within a lifetime.
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Wawa T
Posts 695
03 Sep 2017 11:55
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you are hard linking to certain release date files.
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Pedro Cotter
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 308
03 Sep 2017 12:03
| wawa t wrote:
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im usually using pfs3 form my aros partitions on cf cards.
to speed up graphics somewhat you can disable decoration in appearance prefs. or simply delete theme.var from env/sys afair.
also one can decomporess contributions over the aros partition, which among others should contain aros owb web browser.
note that to attempt to run it one should delete the huge ttf donts collection from fonts (dejavu afair) which alone takes 10mb. otherwise on first owb launch font cache wont build within a lifetime.
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Thank you for the tips :-)
Some day we will see Aros in all it beauty and grace on the Vamp.
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Vojin Vidanovic
Posts 770
03 Sep 2017 12:04
| wawa t wrote:
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you are hard linking to certain release date files.
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Will add new links as they get by, currently long list
of AROS ports might be more confusing. Thanks for the tips! I suppose once our SAGA RTG driver gets mature, it might also speed up the things, or not?
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Wawa T
Posts 695
03 Sep 2017 13:41
| is saga rtg driver works well on amiga and is slow on aros, then its aros problem not the driver, i would assume.
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Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6219
03 Sep 2017 13:48
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is saga rtg driver works well on amiga and is slow on aros, then its aros problem not the driver, i would assume.
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The problem is caused by AROS - as the default render code in AROS is terrible. But a GFX driver can fix the problem - be overlaying every AROS routine - so that the AROS default code is never used.
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Stefan Niestegge
Posts 33
03 Sep 2017 18:39
| I am just trying this. I made a bootable CF card from withing my AOS 3.1 install disk, FFS
Then i mounted the here linked ISO on my Linux box and copied all files from the ISO to the CF card (my Linux box is configured to be able to mount AFFS r/w). When i boot the CF card, i get message to insert volume ENV into any drive. Seems like the Aros ROM doesn't get loaded from the CF. Canceling the box throws me back to AmigaDOS shell.
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Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
03 Sep 2017 20:16
| You also need to modify S-S to get Aros ROM loaded from the CF.
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Vojin Vidanovic
Posts 770
03 Sep 2017 20:28
| Stefan Niestegge wrote:
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Seems like the Aros ROM doesn't get loaded from the CF. Canceling the box throws me back to AmigaDOS shell.
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Re-read and check steps - Download saga drivers and put "saga.card" into System:boot/amiga drawer
http://www.apollo-accelerators.com/#download
-Edit s:startup-sequence and change it like this:
AROSBootstrap ROM boot/amiga/aros.hunk.gz boot/amiga/saga.card
- Reboot and choose your Screen Mode on prefs/screenmode
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Stefan Niestegge
Posts 33
03 Sep 2017 20:51
| adding the AROSBootstrap line at the very top of s:startup-sequence
is correct?I'm sorry - i guess its obvious (not for me, though) Does the CF card have to use a name or so?
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Stefan Niestegge
Posts 33
03 Sep 2017 21:29
| Vojin Vidanovic wrote:
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Stefan Niestegge wrote:
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Seems like the Aros ROM doesn't get loaded from the CF. Canceling the box throws me back to AmigaDOS shell.
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Re-read and check steps
- Download saga drivers and put "saga.card" into System:boot/amiga drawer
http://www.apollo-accelerators.com/#download
-Edit s:startup-sequence and change it like this:
AROSBootstrap ROM boot/amiga/aros.hunk.gz boot/amiga/saga.card
- Reboot and choose your Screen Mode on prefs/screenmode
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Of course i read and did the steps. I can't read between lines, though. - I probably do wrong at "create bootable CF" or
- "transfer files (from ISO file content i guess) Transfering from mounted ISO file to AFFS formatted makes the executables loose the executable bit. Maybe more goes wrong here. I can't mount a CD ISO on the Amiga, can i? (no CD drive as well). An lha archive to be unpacked instead of an ISO would possibly help.
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Vojin Vidanovic
Posts 770
03 Sep 2017 21:41
| Stefan Niestegge wrote:
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I can't mount a CD ISO on the Amiga, can i? (no CD drive as well).
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Yes you can. EXTERNAL LINK EXTERNAL LINK
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Wawa T
Posts 695
03 Sep 2017 23:20
| Stefan Niestegge wrote:
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adding the AROSBootstrap line at the very top of s:startup-sequence
is correct?
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yes.
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Pedro Cotter
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 308
12 Sep 2017 16:32
| 50% of the GFX driver is done, HW sprite, IDE practically fixed!
And the Team has just started to fiddle with the OS4 Successor on the Vampire!!!!
Mwahahaha!!!
More videos to come... really interesting ones...
EXTERNAL LINK
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Ian Parsons
Posts 230
12 Sep 2017 17:35
| Fantastic. Looking forward to seeing more videos.
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Vojin Vidanovic
Posts 770
12 Sep 2017 17:43
| Pedro Cotter wrote:
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50% of the GFX driver is done, HW sprite, IDE practically fixed!
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Great news, looking forward to it improving on Vamps!
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E Penguin
Posts 46
12 Sep 2017 17:56
| Is there any way to do a multi-boot, menu option sort of thing? like, hold 0 to boot from DH0:, 1 to boot from DH1:... I'm guessing a clever script in DH0:s/startup-sequence which then re-ASSIGNs things, but I'm not sufficiently clever to work out how to do that.
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Nixus Minimax
Posts 416
12 Sep 2017 18:20
| Daniel Lakey wrote:
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Is there any way to do a multi-boot, menu option sort of thing? like, hold 0 to boot from DH0:, 1 to boot from DH1:... |
You could just disable dh0: as boot device in the early startup menu and then boot from dh1:
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