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Title: fxSCAN 4.02 with native x86-support (Amithlon)
Post by: IOSPIRIT on July 22, 2002, 08:38:44 PM

As the first bigger application fxSCAN (http://www.iospirit.de/fxscan/) now supports Amithlon with x86-native versions of its CPU-modules. Thus fxSCAN now runs on native on 680x0, PPC (WarpUP, PowerUP, MorphOS) and x86 (Amithlon) with full speed. The port of the OCR-engine and the servertask (one for every sytem) again brings at least a doubling of speed compared to the emulated 68K-CPU.


Under "Downloads" you can now download a free patch from version 4.0/4.01 to 4.02.


All changes since V4.01:

• direct support for TurboPrint (no more only via Graphics Publisher), incl. copying. Partly leads to greatly enhanced printing speed.
• x86-native versions of the servertask and the OCR-engine in Amithlon.
• when saving JPEGs, the DPI-information is now saved, too.
• version 8 of the fxWARP3-system (new "fxWARP Memory Guard" to work around bugs and limitations of WarpUP)
• the standardtool saved in NewIcons can now be changed

with the PICTURETOOL-tooltype
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Title: Re: fxSCAN 4.02 with native x86-support (Amithlon)
Post by: Kronos on July 22, 2002, 09:36:20 PM

Seems the old 100%-PPC-fanatic-statement
"noone will ever write SW for AOS-x86"
has been proven wrong  :-D

And now we only need Amithlon_2.0 with USB(scanner)-support  :-(

Title: Re: fxSCAN 4.02 with native x86-support (Amithlon)
Post by: redrumloa on July 22, 2002, 10:14:12 PM

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"noone will ever write SW for AOS-x86"

Who said that? Anyhow being made, and people buying are 2 completely different things.

Title: Re: fxSCAN 4.02 with native x86-support (Amithlon)
Post by: Kronos on July 22, 2002, 10:18:54 PM

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Who said that?

A lot of people at amiga-news.de and on ann.lu.




Put up or shut up  :-P

Title: Re: fxSCAN 4.02 with native x86-support (Amithlon)
Post by: Tomas on July 22, 2002, 10:38:52 PM

nice!! if more ppl start coding in x86 maybe amithlon would be a usefull os, not just a emulator  :-D

Title: Re: fxSCAN 4.02 with native x86-support (Amithlon)
Post by: bhoggett on July 22, 2002, 10:50:46 PM

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Who said that?

Lots of people. Most of them reside on ANN, but I seem to remember getting similar comments here last autumn.

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Anyhow being made, and people buying are 2 completely different things.

Granted, but one usually comes before the other, except in the world of coupons and pre-orders.  :-P

Mind you, there are people on ANN still complaining that the Amithlon support stifles PPC and AmigaOS4 development, and that it should be abandoned in favour of the latter.

Title: Re: fxSCAN 4.02 with native x86-support (Amithlon)
Post by: Kronos on July 22, 2002, 10:54:31 PM

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Mind you, there are people on ANN still complaining that the Amithlon support stifles PPC and AmigaOS4 development, and that it should be abandoned in favour of the latter.

Sounds just like the people who declared Amithlon useless because
Pegasos/OS4/A1/MOS would be out in just a few weeks .....

BtW: That was in September   ;-)

Title: Re: fxSCAN 4.02 with native x86-support (Amithlon)
Post by: Hammer on July 23, 2002, 10:51:37 AM

I wonder if PPC AmigaOS can complete with x86-32 AmigaOS....

Title: Re: fxSCAN 4.02 with native x86-support (Amithlon)
Post by: carls on July 23, 2002, 08:16:45 PM

Hey Red, nice avatar :-)  :roll: