Pegasos review thread volume II (The on topic thread)

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Targhan wrote:


I would love to have done a review of the Pegasos, but it's difficult to not be biased.

This was the case with my review too. Many things changed since I wrote it, I've discovered new bugs, and new stunning features I didn't dream of before (have u checked what your middle mouse button can make with an ambient window? and when you click it twice?  :-)), yet I think the review is still fair as being only 6 days after receiving my Pegasos.

And for a full depth review I still don't feel myself experienced enough. These days I'm busy watching all the huge movies which my BVPPC/060 was not fast enough for.  :-)

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Methinks that an Amithlon is much faster (emulated CPU wise) than the current Pegasos with G3. This depends on the machine/real cpu you use though. But Amithlon will never look like these...

MorphZone's desktop gallery

Mine is in the lower right corner. :-)

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Wilse wrote:

That's why I'm getting both!

Hope to see the reviews soon :-)

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DaveP wrote:

Stuff like:
  PageStream 4.1
  Aladdin 4D
  Hisoft C++
  Storm C
  etc...

Sorry, but AFAIK both AmigaOS4 and MorphOS will rely on GCC. Having those 68K (and WarpOS) target compilers is rather pointless IMHO. Again, AFAIK it's VBCC which has up to date target support besides GCC, but it's claimed to produce slower code (maybe easier to use and program for/with) and most importantly free.

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DaveP wrote:
Not at all pointless. Without this you will find it difficult to
write/build stuff for earlier Amigas.

Why would you develop with something that has no support for your current OS? I doubt StormC or HiSoftC will support OS4 or MOS.

Back in the old days I abandoned MasterSeka assembler when I got my A1200 and used AsmOne instead - never used MasterSeka to write 68000 only programs on my A1200, as AsmOne was able to do that and of course had 68020 support too.

GCC and VBCC has support for 68K/PUP/WOS/MOS and surely will have support for OS4.

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DaveP wrote:
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Methinks you doth protest too much ;-)

No way, I don't use Amiga C compilers at all, it was just striking and surprising to me :-) And still it is :-)

Someone will surely test them tho, as I'm rarely using C I don't have them. (StormC costs a fortune, dunno about HiSoftC) So it will hopefully turn out. :-)

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If only you could convince someone to port and update FileMaster to MOS... (sigh, I'd better quit dreaming :-))

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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? :-))

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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. :-)

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If you'd like to have a similar desktop  download the desktop background here

Please don't use it in anything commercial, as the winged horse is from a photo I found on the net, just retouched it a bit. Hope you like it (and I typed all Xoops stuff right in IBrowse :-))

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Hooligan_DCS wrote:

If you'd like to have a similar desktop download the desktop background here

Link doesn't work anymore  :-(

One more time it's me to blame: it happens that I mistyped something being busy with the Xoops stuff. I referred to the image as jpg, but it's a png. Hope it works now, and sorry for the inconvenience.

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Jethro_Tull wrote:
Thanks for the very informative posts redromlua.  

Just one quick question to readers of this thread.  If (i.e. it's hypothetical) OS4 was a competent effort and made available on Pegasos / Pegasos II at a fair price, would you buy it? Personally, I think OS4 on the Pegasos would be a win-win situation for everyone involved.  And if (again, that 'if' is important) Pegasos users are willing to buy OS4, maybe Hyperion can be coaxed in writing a version for it.  

I for one would definitely buy OS4 sooner or later. It's not just about the OS (which I can compare to MOS then, and use the better) but about having new Hyperion game titles for my Pegasos as well as I have almost all of their older titles.

Hope a dual boot will be possibble (in case OS4 will be available for Pegasos one day of course)

EDIT

Have I mentioned that the farthest texture of the desktop background below started it's carrier as an OS4 backdrop? :-) Well, it was a few months back though, I didn't have my pegasos back then.