MilkyTracker running on a classic Amiga 4000

[d0pefish]

...with several upgrades, and under MorphOS PowerUP of course.

This is a near-vanilla installation of MorphOS PowerUP running on the CyberStorm, and with the latest versions of MorphOS SDL and OS4Emu.

The machine:

All set up
Under the bonnet

Specs:
Occupying the Zorro slots
* Compserv Scandoubler II (AGA compatible with S-VIDEO and composite out too!)
* Algor Pro (USB and flash card; custom Kickstart loaded with Piru's Exec, 3.9 patches and lots more)
* X-Surf Mark III
* ...plus 16MB RAM on the motherboard.

In the centre:
* Fujitsu 36GB SCSI-UltraWide hard disk drive (The Maxtor died :cry:)
* CyberStorm PPC 604e/233 + 060/50, with 128MB 60ns RAM
* CyberVision PPC
* Samsung DVD-ROM and high-density floppy drive.

[size=18]Here's the video! :-D[/size]

Sorry for the poor quality, I was in a rush, and pay no attention to my horrible accent.

There you go! And it also serves as a nice punch in the face to these people with 1GHz G4 Pegasos machines complaining that it's slow. :pissed:  :madashell:  

[d0pefish]

Thanks! :-D

Yeah, a tripod is on the shopping list - my old one broke. :cry:

[d0pefish]

@Bazzaq:

Thanks! :-)

Yes, it;s dual boot. I can choose to boot it with the two-mousebuttons menu (Early Startup Control).

It's on a partition of my SCSI hard disk (DH1:).

You register free of charge when you get MorphOS up and running, but you must have your Amiga connected online. There is a tool which you run, and it gives you a form to fill out. Once done your application gets sent and a keyfile gets sent by email a few days later at the most.

@cecilia:

:oops: Thanks. :-) Hehe, I just thought I might sound really weird to you guys over the water, especially since I didnt really notice what I was saying during recording, which didnt help.

  :-D  :-D  :-D

[d0pefish]

Yeah. It was mainly intended as an experiment to see if it would work at all, but it works better than I thought.

MilkyTracker is almost fully SDL, and since MOS has native SDL, I dont think there's as much overhead as not much is really being emulated. I think OS4Emu just allows the binary to start up and then it gets handed over to MorphOS' SDL libraries.

It's like tracking has come full circle - starting on Amiga, being enhanced over all the years over various platforms, and now it's been brought home again. :-)

[d0pefish]

@Piru:

Thanks for the explanation - I had a feeling it would e something like that. :-)


@jmbattle:

I'm up in Newcastle - so you were nearly right. :-) My parents were from Sunderland, but I was born in Northumberland, so my accent is a bit of a mish-mash. :crazy:  :crazy:

[d0pefish]

@Piru:

Oops. F**k, I'm retarded. :crazy:

I just blindy looked at the name AmigaZeux and figured it looked French. :boohoo:  :boohoo:

Sorry, iti  :cry:  :cry:  :cry:

[d0pefish]

I am using an X-Surf 3cc ethernet card with my Amiga 4000. It's painless to set up and it works a snap with Genesis.

It's an old-style Realtek PC ISA card welded and riveted onto a bridgeboard, and you get a couple clock ports and a simple IDE interface thrown in for free! :-D

It costs roughly 70 GBP from Vesalia or Amigakit I think, but it's been worth every penny to me - makes shifting stuff to and from the Amiga much easier and saves on the pain of hunting down an Ariadne or similar. :-D