Pegasos review thread volume II (The on topic thread)

[Warface]

Those Blitz3D screenshots are surely convincing. There will be a little trouble on Amiga side to generate formats it accepts (3DS, BSP), but it still seems to be simple and yet very powerful.

(Wonder why I didn't know about it? :-))

[JoannaK]

There are also time-limited demo versions of those softwares on
download area. Unfortunately one needs to have Windowse PC to use
them. Those Blitz formats are so well defined there are translation
tools for many common 3D softwares. Of course getting them to Mos
woudl be a bit hard, but personally I would be quite happy with even
2D version of that Software.

*mostly irrelevant sidenote*... This and my previous message on
this thread have been written using Voyager Running on Pegasos/Mos1.3.
:-)

[DaveP]

If they fix up powerbasic for MOS it does most of the 2D stuff from the PC blitz distibution.

[bbrv]

Thanks Joanna, we will check it out.  Also, thanks for the PM.  Things are starting to get normal again for us and we are coming back to focus again on all theings Genesi...:-)

Speaking of New Zealand we had "fman" here in our new Genesi Paris office yesterday.  His real name is Francois Prowse and we all thought it was pretty cool he came by ALL THE WAY from New Zealand (Ok, he was on his honeymoon with his new wife from Holland, but still  :-D  ).  Earlier in the week we had Gunne Steen, so we are thinking of getting a map up with Pegasos pins in all the locations the Pegasos can be found in the world.  Plus, we are thinking to post a Pegasos visitor list too... ;-)

Anyway, have a great day!

Raquel and Bill :-)

[bbrv]

...anyone else?

:-D

R&B

[Onetrack]

@bbrv

Yep, me too BBRV, don't forget.

I'm still holding a huge amount of interest in getting a pegasos, just getting my business off the ground. (btw we're now open, Jenn and I got the business license last thursday

Cheers,
Lorne in Canada

[Andre.Siegel]

@ JoannaK:

As you will know, "BlitzMax" (based on OpenGL) is still a looooong way off. Don't even think about it for now, Joanna. Also, there is a new release called BlitzPlus which is aimed towards more serious programmers but was designed specificially to use the Window GUI (native windows, etc.). Porting BlitzPlus wouldn't be easy either even though it lacks all the cool 3D features.

Please note that the basic idea to have something like Blitz3D running on MorphOS, is most certainly an exciting one. This could increase the quantity of released software by quite a bit. I just feel that the PC version of Blitz is probably not an option at this point in time. Perhaps we should rather concentrate to support efforts such as PowerD or a MorphOS port of AmiBlitz2000 (Open Source variant of the former BlitzBasic for Amiga).

[bbrv]

Yikes!

We forgot about you Lorne!!!!

Sorry.

The Phoenix Game Team was slowed down slightly by a customer who keeps changing his mind... :-?  BUT, things will be back on track next week... :-D

More soon!

R&B

[downix]

@JoannaK

My first time typing a responce on the Pegasos as well.  (I'm
downloading the apps I need in order to work, my PC died on Thursday,
poor old Athlon 500 couldn't take it any more)

[bbrv]

Hi Nate, in this case we are VERY interested to know how it is going...there will be another 40 new Pegasos owners next week that will probably need some assistance...:-)

Raquel and Bill  

[Madgun68]

The DHL guy was here at 8:30am this morning. :-) I haven't torn open the box yet to look at all the stuff inside, but I was once again reminded just how small the board is by the size of the box. It's the size of the box most harddrives come in.. :-o

I've got the digital camera out, and will take shots for a write up I'll do once it's up and running.

As a side note, it's rather interesting how tracking systems can be fouled up. The package was listed as leaving Brussels on the 25th. The last entry this morning said it had arrived at the Brussels facility on the 27th. :-P

[Warface]

A friend of mine received his board today as well. He was just as surprised when the delivery guys handed him over the package :-) His Pegasos works flawlessly so far, and he's busy trying the applications. :-)

[downix]

@bbrv

So far so good, been spending the past few days finding the most
optimum configuration of hardware, using the spare parts I have lying
around.  So far, gotten the best performance out of this:

Permedia 2, got 3% faster redraw than my Voodoo and 14% faster than my
S3.  Don't have a Radeon to test, but Linux liked my Rage128 quite
well (and it is an OF card, so got the system booted and configured
faster).

A 128MB stick (Samsung unregistered memory, of all things) and a 64MB
Viking ECC have given me the least amount of hastle.  (running just
one I kept having system reboots or shutdowns after an hour or so,
together I'm having no problems)

Conexant based TV tuner card, best thing since the VCR I feel.

external Zoom 56k modem, gets better performance under Miami than
Linux's integrated TCP stack.

Hard drive is where I keep getting hit hard, as I can't use the
largest HD, as that's got all of my data on it (don't want to rely
100% on the tape backups).  So I'm running a 4GB IBM and a 1.8GB
Western Digital.  (the WD is my old A1200's hard drive)

CD-ROM is a Phillips model. My CD-RW keeps powering-down during reads
for some unusual reason unless there is a second CD-ROM on the same
IDE channel.

ethernet is running fine, have a network between the Pegasos and my
in-laws PC (which has my tape backup SCSI drive attached to it at the
moment).  

Monitor is some no-name 15" that has been in constant use since the
early 90's.  

Other than some issues with Microdot-2, software has been a breeze.
(Thanks everyone that's pointed out some great apps to use)  I even
began porting some of the apps I've created over to MorphOS, to see
how well they'd do.  

[redrumloa]

My board is here and it is working flawelessly so far:-D

[JoannaK]

Andre: I know that BlitzMax is a big project for (essentially) single coder but if he's going to make Linux + Mac versios of it anyhow, then he have to solve most problems anyhow. Like moving to OpenGL and supporting PPC byte order thruout entire environment.

IMHO after those two hindrances are done rest of MOS port should be quite doable. Of course things like GUI  are system dependant but I have been in assumption some of those details are going to be solved by Mos  team anyhow (due other porting projects?).

Blitz 2000 could be nice but it  is years behind in development, and making it to behave cleanly and producing PPC code is a *lot* work.  

[Jope]

If only you could convince someone to port and update FileMaster to MOS

The FM sources are on Aminet (FM2000) .. we can only hope.. ;-)

A MUI gui and better datatype & RTG support.. Ahh!

I asked Toni about it, but he said that those new machines aren't Amigas, so he's not going to bother.

(Amiga == Classic Amiga to him :-)

Who needs Dopus when you have Filemaster. ;-)