A600GS Updates

[Boing-ball]

The A600GS will be on sale at Kickstart 02 show.

We have some big news coming this week about some software development of it.

Excellent! Any plans for any YouTubers will be getting their hands on one to review and demonstrate?

[amigakit]

Cardiff, 9th March, 2024

AmigaKit Ltd is pleased to announce an important software development for the forthcoming A600GS computer system.  The new ARM Graphics Library is  pre-installed accelerating the performance of AmiBench and 68K applications.

The ARMgraphics.library was created by AmigaKit's in-house developer to bypass the bottleneck of the 68K graphics functions.  It accelerates graphics rendering performance in applications.

AmiBench is pre-installed on the A600GS computer system.  It opens the desktop environment in high resolution 1080p with True Colour icons. Now it can use the new ARM Graphics Library for various purposes including faster rendering of windows, icons and backgrounds.

Third party developers can take advantage of this library by using it's powerful functions from their 68K application.  It also offers an opportunity for 68K games developers to enhance their games with faster graphics rendering.

The library provides a link between 68K programs and the native ARM processor.

Further work is underway to patch 68K system graphics functions so older applications that are not written to use the ARM Graphics Library can benefit.
 
AmigaKit has developed AK-Datatypes, Picture Datatype and Datatypes Library over the many years for the Enhancer Software on X5000, X1000 and A1222+.  These have been compiled for 68K to run on the A600GS,  In addition these system components can also be accelerated by the ARM Graphics Library for extra performance.

The A600GS computer system is due for launch in the second quarter of 2024.   

Additional Information about A600GS, AmiBench and it's components can be found on these websites:

A600GS:         www.a600gs.com
AmiBench:      wiki.amiga.org/amibench

[ernsteiswuerfel]

I suppose A600GS currently runs Amiberry 5.6.x as underlying core. Will there be an upgrade path to Amiberry 6.x which is currently in development (available as preview)?

Which leads to the next question whether the A600GS hardware is capable of running Amiberry 6.x at full speed? Upstream says the 6.x branch needs reasonably more CPU resources compared to 5.x branch.

This is rather important as staying with Amiberry 5.x also means staying with an older WinUAE core.

[Boing-ball]

Cardiff, 9th March, 2024

AmigaKit Ltd is pleased to announce an important software development for the forthcoming A600GS computer system.  The new ARM Graphics Library is  pre-installed accelerating the performance of AmiBench and 68K applications.

The ARMgraphics.library was created by AmigaKit's in-house developer to bypass the bottleneck of the 68K graphics functions.  It accelerates graphics rendering performance in applications.

AmiBench is pre-installed on the A600GS computer system.  It opens the desktop environment in high resolution 1080p with True Colour icons. Now it can use the new ARM Graphics Library for various purposes including faster rendering of windows, icons and backgrounds.

Third party developers can take advantage of this library by using it's powerful functions from their 68K application.  It also offers an opportunity for 68K games developers to enhance their games with faster graphics rendering.

The library provides a link between 68K programs and the native ARM processor.

Further work is underway to patch 68K system graphics functions so older applications that are not written to use the ARM Graphics Library can benefit.
 
AmigaKit has developed AK-Datatypes, Picture Datatype and Datatypes Library over the many years for the Enhancer Software on X5000, X1000 and A1222+.  These have been compiled for 68K to run on the A600GS,  In addition these system components can also be accelerated by the ARM Graphics Library for extra performance.

The A600GS computer system is due for launch in the second quarter of 2024.   

Additional Information about A600GS, AmiBench and it's components can be found on these websites:

A600GS:         www.a600gs.com
AmiBench:      wiki.amiga.org/amibench

Looks good and comes with a Fully Licensed Octamed as well 👍🏻
Maybe Ravi Abbott could give it a go for his DJ mixing 😉

[amigakit]

AmiBench Def Icons rendered in window - accelerated by the ARM Graphics Library:



(click to expand)

[Boing-ball]

Looks good…

Will this also support Warp3D gaming? Such as Payback.

How are the screenmodes done? P96 or is it some sort of New Monitor drivers that emulate the Alice?

[BozzerBigD]

Will this also support Warp3D gaming? Such as Payback

...and the recent Wazp3D port of WipEout?

[Boing-ball]

...and the recent Wazp3D port of WipEout?

Didn’t know about that.. Is it on Aminet? Or somewhere else.?

Cheers.

[BozzerBigD]

https://arcziii.itch.io/wipeout

I think speedwise it is currently only playable under Win-UAE or a CM4 powered PiStorm32 (and the latter is still a bit slow and in need of optimisation). However, it would be fun to try on the A600GS if this Arm library graphics boost really is a major step  forward.

[kolla]

some sort of New Monitor drivers that emulate the Alice?

You mean Lisa.

[amigakit]

@Boing-ball

A Warp3D driver for the A600GS is a large development project - months of work.   The current ARM Graphics Lib is a large undertaking so that has some additional development first before moving onto newer projects.

A-EON Technology owns Warp3D and we have the source code to port over in future if need be.

[Boing-ball]

@Boing-ball

A Warp3D driver for the A600GS is a large development project - months of work.   The current ARM Graphics Lib is a large undertaking so that has some additional development first before moving onto newer projects.

A-EON Technology owns Warp3D and we have the source code to port over in future if need be.

That’s good to know. I think it would great if Warp3D was developed on further. Plenty of older RTG type games out there 👍🏻

[Amiga Forever]

Nice picture of A600GS 

[amigakit]

Development of AmiBench for the A600GS continues. 

The new Clock utility added this week with a wide range of skins/themes and sizes which can be selected





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