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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: alx on June 28, 2003, 03:12:30 PM
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There are some more OS4 Screenshots from Hyperion for you to check out here (http://amigaworld.net/modules/features/index.php?op=r&cat_id=6&rev_id=26&sort_by). There appear to have been quite a few tweaks to the default style.
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Hmmm, we look very clean.
Tumbz up here.
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Looks nice, better than the last screenshots.
Me want! :-D
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Dammit, they are handsome! They are sexy bitches!
:-D
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Wow. I really like the look. I can't wait to get my A1 G4XE (from Livewire Systems (http://www.livewiresystems.ca/). I'm eager to find out when OS4 will be available for the A1s.
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Dammit, they are handsome! They are sexy bitches!
Amiga? A bitch??? :-D
They look indeed very, very good. The best screenshots that I saw from the OS4 team. Good work Massimo & Matthew. (and all the others :-))
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[color=0000FF]Very, very cool! Makes me want to go out and buy it NOW![/color]
:-)
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Glad to see they got rid of those horrible greens and browns at last and those awful background pics. Maybe they dropped the "support for colour blind people" at last then. ;-)
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Very nice! Can someone with more artistic skills than myself knock up a nice MorphOS and/or GTK2 theme? ;-)
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Well as far as looking like classic work bench, they are doing a good job, looks like classic programs are running pretty well too.
Can't wait to see how far you can take the looks though.
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Hey, being a color-blind person, I resent that remark.
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WOW!
It looks GREAT!
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Um...no offence Nate, that's not what I mean. I refer to this comment on ann.lu:
Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion (Trusted User) on 08-Jun-2003 12:06 (excerpt)
If you see what kind of considerations came into play when designing the current default appearance (colorblind people for instance), they you'd understand that there is more, much more to UI design than aesthetics.
;-)
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;-) Now, this is shaping up into something sharp!
:-) In the first shot, some of labels in the windows have underscores under one letter. This suggests that it will be possible to navigate through the window, activating gadgets, etcetera, with the keyboard, instead of having to switch to the mouse repeatedly. This was one area where Windows® had a feature that AmigaOS didn't. Now it seems that it does. This is a welcome addition.
The drop down arrow looks a little awkward, but it's probably one of the details still to be addressed.
Also, the brushed metal is gone from the windows, but it remains on the dock, where it looks good.
The title bar has a shadow, it seems. Or maybe that's part of the background image. Either way, it looks good.
:-) In the second, there are icons in the prefs drawer for new features: AmigaInput, Asl, DefIcons, USB, etc. PartitionWizard looks impressive: uncluttered and easy to use.
:-) In the third, the NotePad and SnoopDos windows are hanging off the edge of the screen. Directory Opus (version 4?) is running in a window, and making use of the new anti-aliased fonts and system gadgets. It's also showing the contents of a "kickstart" drawer at the root level of the boot partition. Ram Disk: has only two drawers now instead of the current three. Interesting stuff, here.
:-D All in all, this is impressive, and I'm eager to get my hands on a copy!
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To be honest I like these clean ones much better than those with that brushed steel bg. Is it a dream that they will get rid of that mac like brushed steel pattern completely? :-) (I mean AmiDock)
Much better: resembles strikingly to OS3.1 yet feels much more modern. A move in the right direction I say :-)
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o be honest I like these clean ones much better than those with that brushed steel bg. Is it a dream that they will get rid of that mac like brushed steel pattern completely? (I mean AmiDock)
Yes that brushed metal that is used dont look good, but i do like the brushed metal used in Macos-X
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Warface commented:
Much better: resembles strikingly to OS3.1 yet feels much more modern. A move in the right direction I say :-)
That's the best description I've seen for these new pictures. Sums it up very nicely indeed :-)
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Two things worry me about the third screenshot:
1 - why is the date 1978? [DOPUS window]
2 - why is CPU usage at 100%?
I think the reason for 2) is that DOPUS is a bit crap at letting the CPU go.
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@Quixote
The drop down arrow looks a little awkward, but it's probably one of the details still to be addressed.
That's not the fault of the OS4 team. MakeCD uses the Triton GUI toolkit, which does not use for every gadget gadtools/intuition. What would help is a rewrite of MakeCD to use a ReAction GUI.
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CU Gio
No diggity...
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The date is probably at 1978 because that's the default date when the time prefs haven't been loaded.
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2 - why is CPU usage at 100%?
I think the reason for 2) is that DOPUS is a bit crap at letting the CPU go.
Assuming they're using 68k emulation, this is what happens on MOS too. 68k CPU use tests are worthless under integrated 68k emulation. Although I'm not a coder and can't tell you why. ;-)
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I think Kenny beat me to that :-) Also, the original exec.library didn't have any proper accouting so I guess most applications measured CPU with their own code. Probably the code that measures the use just doesn't work under the JIT.
One other possibility is that the CPU really is at 100% - grabbing the framebuffer to a file could easily swallow up all the CPU for a short time...
Moving on, I have to say its all shaping up a treat :-D
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Yes, very nice indeed! :-D
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redfox
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1 - why is the date 1978? [DOPUS window]
My Amiga 500 would do that after every reboot
UNTIL I put in an adram540 I think it was, which had a working battery and/or RTC on it.
edit - 1 more opinion...
The only place that drab solid gray color would be on my desktop, would be ONLY in a 3Dmodeler program, but the brush-metal look looks ok in the dock area.
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In the first shot, some of labels in the windows have underscores under one letter. This suggests that it will be possible to navigate through the window, activating gadgets, etcetera, with the keyboard, instead of having to switch to the mouse repeatedly.
You have been able to do that for a while, Reaction suppots it anyway, and I think some of the GadTools gadgets have supported it since 3.0.
Chris
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Assuming they're using 68k emulation, this is what happens on MOS too. 68k CPU use tests are worthless under integrated 68k emulation. Although I'm not a coder and can't tell you why
The following is a complete guess as im no emulation expert, so feel free to correct me. My guess is that the underlying OS only gives the emulated 68k process as much cycles as needed and nothing extra, hence its always using 100% of its perceived available CPU power.
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Very nice :-)
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Yes that brushed metal that is used dont look good, but i do like the brushed metal used in Macos-X
Exactly. In OSX it's nice, but obviously OS4 doesn't have the swarm of graphicians (either in quality and quantity) OSX has... :-) This clean design is much better! (Blue and gray frames, light gray window interiors... I like it!)
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The following is a complete guess as im no emulation expert, so feel free to correct me. My guess is that the underlying OS only gives the emulated 68k process as much cycles as needed and nothing extra, hence its always using 100% of its perceived available CPU power
That's kind of what I was thinking. Like Ramdisk showing 100% full.
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Chris chimed in:
You have been able to do that for a while, Reaction suppots it anyway, and I think some of the GadTools gadgets have supported it since 3.0.
;-) From what I've noticed, the preference editors in OS 3.9 will have these for the buttons at the bottom of the window, but nowhere else. The OS 4.0 screen shots show every gadget equipped with them.
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That's kind of what I was thinking. Like Ramdisk showing 100% full.
Yeah, what use is a 100% full ramdisk anyway!
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