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Re: Aros has a new trick Video, don't miss it :-)
« Reply #44 from previous page: November 13, 2010, 10:29:58 AM »
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Sorry but with OS4.0 on my main Amiga I'll have to disagree with you big time on this one. Although I've set up a whole 250Gb partition and can easily boot straight into it, on my Amiga it's just way too slow to be usable for me. I only use it on an 640 x 512, 32 Colour screen, you can't really go down to 640 x 256 on it as most of the progs written for it tend to have been written for larger screen sizes than this.

At the risk of remaining off topic (sorry Stephen), just using 32 colours isn't enough. The gradients and 32-bit icons are no sinecure for AGA.

As I said, I used it with a basic 640x512x16 (more with overscan) display, turned off solid window sizing/moving, replaced the icons with palette based ones, used only simple fonts (not the anti-aliased ones) and turned down the shading and other visual effects and the display was just as snappy as it was on the 68K/3.x at the same resolution. Beyond that, almost everything else was faster (especially having converted the filesystem from FFS to SFS). My blizzard, like yours, has a 240MHz CPU, so it seems reasonable to assume that whatever it is that's making your installation run like treacle isn't necessarily representative.
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Re: Aros has a new trick Video, don't miss it :-)
« Reply #45 on: November 13, 2010, 09:01:48 PM »
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MorphOS itself doesn't offer sd, but there are 3rd party tools that offer sd. I don't use it, since Amiga-m is faster and more convenient IMHO. Also the RMB on the depth gadget offers  a thumbnail view of other open screens and allows simple selection.
The sd aproach with todays hw doesn't feel as smooth and natural as on the old hardware IMHO. Fancy stuff like a rotating cube for switching screens is also a nice gimmick, but not very useful.


Hey!  :)
I didn't know MOS (with third party software) had this capability: I mean not just screen dragging but thumbnails for other screens.
In fact, after my previous post, I thought about screen dragging, its usefulness and a proper evolution.
And it came to my mind the option of having thumbnail view of open screens by right-mouse-button clicking on the depth gadget!

I think it's a very cool and useful way to move through screens (together with Amiga-M shortcut): we do not have to copy from other platforms! (Vista, Win7, Linux)

Let's implement it on AROS too!  :D

Hope you'll agree...

P.S. Falling on the ignorant side: in fact I didn't know about it on MOS because I didn't try it, but I don't have proper hardware to run it.
 

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Re: Aros has a new trick Video, don't miss it :-)
« Reply #46 on: November 14, 2010, 12:37:48 PM »
Yet another vid of screen dragging showing 3D graphics... rather fun :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY8mWxwzH5o

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Re: Aros has a new trick Video, don't miss it :-)
« Reply #47 on: November 14, 2010, 01:43:37 PM »
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Yet another vid of screen dragging showing 3D graphics... rather fun :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY8mWxwzH5o


Great video that one, beat me too the full version :-)

Screen dragging is amazing and even though not as needed as the early day when it allowed high res tool kit over a Ham screen like brilliance, even now it is very useful and a great demo.
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Re: Aros has a new trick Video, don't miss it :-)
« Reply #48 on: November 18, 2010, 04:34:55 PM »
Screen dragging might be less useful today than it was 25 years ago, however is one of the unique features Amiga had, so I am really excited for the fact it has finally landed on native AROSland too.

Said so, I wouldn't expect AROS to run better than AmigaOS 3.1 on classic hardware: with some luck it will be not too much slower, but don't forget that 1) AROS won't have the "optimized in assembler" parts, for simple portability reasons, and 2) AROS is much more advanced, in many parts, to the OS that inspired it. More advanced means also new features that will require more porcessor grunt. In a nutshell, I think AROS on classic hardware will be something more than a curiosity, but the real uses for it will come from UAE installations and clones like the Natami or the Minimig, where there is more freedom about confugrations. Don't forget, too, that people using PPC accelerated cards will need to write software to handle them, or at least recompile the whole OS to take advantage of them.
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Re: Aros has a new trick Video, don't miss it :-)
« Reply #49 on: November 18, 2010, 08:03:35 PM »
What use does screen dragging have today (outside of classic Amigas)?
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Re: Aros has a new trick Video, don't miss it :-)
« Reply #50 on: November 18, 2010, 08:22:07 PM »
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What use does screen dragging have today (outside of classic Amigas)?


What use does it have on classic Amiga systems? There's your answer ;)
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Re: Aros has a new trick Video, don't miss it :-)
« Reply #51 on: November 18, 2010, 08:43:03 PM »
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What use does it have on classic Amiga systems? There's your answer ;)


On CRT, I always preferred it to flipping screens as it didn't switch sync if the revealed screen was not in the same resolution as the foremost one.
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Re: Aros has a new trick Video, don't miss it :-)
« Reply #52 on: November 18, 2010, 09:36:12 PM »
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MorphOS itself doesn't offer sd, but there are 3rd party tools that offer sd. I don't use it, since Amiga-m is faster and more convenient IMHO. Also the RMB on the depth gadget offers  a thumbnail view of other open screens and allows simple selection.
The sd aproach with todays hw doesn't feel as smooth and natural as on the old hardware IMHO. Fancy stuff like a rotating cube for switching screens is also a nice gimmick, but not very useful.


Yeah, I never bothered with installing that screen dragging stuff on MorphOS. Frankly, it must be one of the most overly hyped and utterly useless so called "features" of Amiga, ever! Whatever real use it might have had 20 years ago, it's completely gone today. It's a gimmick at best, and quite pointless even for a gimmick. I don't want to piss on the parade here, but surely there must be better stuff to spend development time on than this?
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Re: Aros has a new trick Video, don't miss it :-)
« Reply #53 on: November 18, 2010, 10:20:00 PM »
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Sorry, but could not disagree more. Yes with the screens we have it is not as important now, but it is a great thing to have for general use. With Amiga M and dragging screens this is now a nice improvement.

Some like, some do not, but at least both groups are happy now.

Only improvement I would like now is like Windows7 previews at bottom of screen but I am happy to wait for that, as this will come no doubt.
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Re: Aros has a new trick Video, don't miss it :-)
« Reply #54 on: November 19, 2010, 12:28:38 AM »
So it's just a neat trick with no real use?
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Re: Aros has a new trick Video, don't miss it :-)
« Reply #55 on: November 19, 2010, 12:34:39 AM »
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So it's just a neat trick with no real use?
Which sums up all the AmigaOS clones... But we still love them :)

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Re: Aros has a new trick Video, don't miss it :-)
« Reply #56 on: November 19, 2010, 02:02:57 AM »
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So it's just a neat trick with no real use?


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Re: Aros has a new trick Video, don't miss it :-)
« Reply #57 on: November 19, 2010, 10:13:15 AM »
I guess screen dragging will be difficult once you have different screen modes?
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Re: Aros has a new trick Video, don't miss it :-)
« Reply #58 on: November 19, 2010, 11:03:45 AM »
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I guess screen dragging will be difficult once you have different screen modes?


I don't know how Aros is performing Screen dragging, but if it is doing it via OpenGL (each screen is a texture) then different resolution screens could be scaled (with trilinear filtering) to be the correct size behind the front screen.
 

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Re: Aros has a new trick Video, don't miss it :-)
« Reply #59 on: November 19, 2010, 11:46:50 AM »
I finally watched the video all the way through and Stephen's closing "this is what made me fall in love with the Amiga in the first place" remark reminds me of the first time I demonstrated it to a friend that at the time had a 386SX :-)
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