Quick and dirty video of my SAM440ep and AmigaOS 4.1.4 part two HD

[TheDaddy]

Hi,

This is part two of a video I shot of AmigaOS4.1 running on the smallest of the new gen Amiga compatible boards, the SAM440ep mini-itx by ACube, running at 666MHz.

It's about switching between different screens at different resolutions one of the many things the Amiga is capable of ...but really it's about me playing around

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y_XdT8nH7U&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

Don't forget to select 720p HD, slightly better quality...

[Darrin]

Looks fantastic!

Am I the only person who has never played Quake (1, 2 or 3)?

[TheDaddy]

Looks fantastic!

Am I the only person who has never played Quake (1, 2 or 3)?

Thanks Darrin...erm...you might be the only one who has never played the Quakes! Only joking...
There are a lot of people who don't like FPS (I do)

But it was just to show OS4.1 on my underpowered SAM...and multitasking and all that...

These videos are really meant for people who have been away from the scene like many of my friends and colleagues...infidels!

[jorkany]

Looks fantastic!

Am I the only person who has never played Quake (1, 2 or 3)?

Pretty much.

[Tripitaka]

Looks fantastic!

Am I the only person who has never played Quake (1, 2 or 3)?

I played through all of them plus expansions like Malice too. I have some great memories of those games.

[TheDaddy]

I played through all of them plus expansions like Malice too. I have some great memories of those games.

Malice...of course! AirQuake anyone? I loved playing it online, it was great!

[carvedeye]

Great video but how did you get q3 to load the map so quickly? mine seems to take ages

[TheDaddy]

Great video but how did you get q3 to load the map so quickly? mine seems to take ages

Thanks.

Answer: The 60GB OCZ Agility 3 SATA 3 SSD installed as my main drive

[Piru]

Answer: The 60GB OCZ Agility 3 SATA 3 SSD installed as my main drive

Why SATA 3? SATA 2 are cheaper and would be exactly as fast as SATA 3 in your setup.

[nyteschayde]

Wow, looks great. I wish my A1200T/OS4.1µ4 Classic could even work at half that speed. I am happy to have the support of my Radeon 9250 but sheesh that looks nice.

[Darrin]

Does Doom 3 and Redneck Rampage count?

[TheDaddy]

Why SATA 3? SATA 2 are cheaper and would be exactly as fast as SATA 3 in your setup.

Had a spare one, the other one is in my pc.

It gives:
Max Read: up to 525MB/s
Max Write: up to 500MB/s

against:

285MB/s, Write = 275MB/s of SATA2

You never know...with a pci SATA3 controller this thing would fly!

[TheDaddy]

Wow, looks great. I wish my A1200T/OS4.1µ4 Classic could even work at half that speed. I am happy to have the support of my Radeon 9250 but sheesh that looks nice.

Thanks. I like the way it feels now, snappier!

It opens windows and fills them with drawers really quickly and loading levels for games or photos is a complete different thing.

Booting like in part one is great too and it's only the mini SAM440 (666MHz):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3JUWtNN-P8&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

[TheDaddy]

Does Doom 3 and Redneck Rampage count?

Yes they do.

I have to say though that D3 is too scary! It took me ages to finish it, damn thing. Q4 on the other hand was quite good fun.

Redneck?

[Piru]

Had a spare one, the other one is in my pc.

It gives:
Max Read: up to 525MB/s
Max Write: up to 500MB/s

against:

285MB/s, Write = 275MB/s of SATA2

You never know...with a pci SATA3 controller this thing would fly!

Sure OCZ are great. I have two Vertex 120GB ones in laptops, though I specifically got Vertex2 for the one that doesn't do SATA3, and Vertex3 for the newer laptop that does.

The only issue with the Sandforce chipset is that it slows down to about 50% performance when using crypto (the controller gets some of the performance by compressing/decompressing data on the fly and encrypted bitstream doesn't compress well -> performance loss).