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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: SilvrDrgn on July 09, 2004, 04:39:42 PM
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One of the OS4 betatesters put this video of native P96 on his homepage.
It's not an official OS4 demonstration, just a user's machine. Picture quality of the video is not great, but it gives an idea of the speed native P96 achieves.
Check it out -> http://crisot.free.fr/os4/os4.avi (http://crisot.free.fr/os4/os4.avi) (19.29 MB)
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If you're on broadband, it's worth the 20MB download. The responsiveness is impressive.
The video is of the demonstration being done on a CRT monitor, but it isn't so horrendous that you can't see what it is trying to demonstrate properly.
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Took me 35 seconds to dl and its worth it! very interesting.
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I see the file extension is .AVI but WMP refuses to play it saying I don't have the proper decompression available. Is this thing in DIVX or some other compression format?
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@SilvrDrgn
I think its XviD. It plays fine in FroggerNG, and on OS4 native Moovid. It also plays in Windows Media Player here at work, but then I have both DivX and XviD codecs installed.
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The responsivenes is very impressive. :-D
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redfox
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I'm not impressed but relived. With the much higher processing power it should be expected.
Anyway, would love to see it but I have dial up...
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Looks pretty good... :-)
Was this demo done with hard disk DMA enabled?
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bad a$$. Thats all I can say. Hopefully it brings out competition between the two systems. Even though I'm more a MOS fan its still good to see something being done for this system. Keep up the good work!
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Well, you use what you have the hardware for. It's as simple as that :)
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If you're on broadband, it's worth the 20MB download. The responsiveness is impressive.
If you're on broadband, the site also proves fast enough to stream it (with mplayer) if you're only going to watch it once. (Heads-up to anyone else with only 10MB free, uck!)
That's got to be one of the faster PDF renderings I've ever seen, though I admit I've been using some pretty weak hardware myself. Does Apple do as well with Quartz Extreme?
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very nice
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Wow! a vast improvement from the non-native. I'm looking forward to other improvements we'll see.
Anyone know what the specs on his A1 are?
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YAM's MUI was 68k?!?
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@ Argo
I read somewhere else (AW.net, I think) that it was a 933MHz chip. Can't remember if it was a G3 or G4, though.
@ thread
Whee! That looks great! Way faster than my aged PC, and easily faster than my 68060 Amigas. Personally, I prefer nonsolid window movement, but this looks great regardless. :-D
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Exciting times are coming again! Once we have made the full transition to PowerPC and there are no legacy libraries kicking around in the system, the true performance of the G4 can be realised on the Amiga.
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As Argo already mentioned: a vast improvement over non-native. I remember the first video, and that was jerky to the point of being embarrassing. (It was jerky for good reasons, but nevertheless it was not something to proudly show off to someone.) This is in an entirely different category. Kudos to the programmers, your months of sweat, hard labour and blood were worth it.
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I can't seem to watch it either. A standard mpeg version would be nice. My computer isn't powerful enough for avi's, and the WMP on the public computers nearby (windows 2000) don't recognize the file type. I'm gladdened by the reports I'm seeing in this thread, though. Sounds like it's going to be a brighter day for the chosen people. (Us. :-))
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It looks good. Can't really tell what's going on, but it looks impressive just the same. :-D Now all we need are some people to write some demos for this new system. I think we can get beyond spinning cubes with this. :-)
- Mike
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The last thing to see now, is a dma enabled workbench that will show the speed that can reach the windows/directory content refresh (icons/files)...
After this we will have an almost complete look to the the real feeling of the finished GUI/OS speed... for now the things looks veeery promising... :-D
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Very impressive :-D
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Both YAM and MUI where PPC.
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Personally, I prefer nonsolid window movement, but this looks great regardless.
Preferences/GUI can disabled solid resize and movement.
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MPlayer, Frogger, and even the new MooVId plays it fine here. (It seems MorphOS is better for video playback than Windows? :-))
If I weren't using a system with similar speeds for far more than a year, I'd be impressed. But credit is due, and indeed a nice job. Hopefully the ordinary AmigaONE owners will have it soon.
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@weirdami
download this
http://download.divx.com/divx/DivX511.exe
and install only the codec.
Bye
PS- or use FroggerNG WOS like me ;-)
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Looks very impressive, well done to all involved.
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I thought the latest DivX codecs contain spyware? .
I use VLC (http://www.videolan.org/) (opensource media player for most operating systems).
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Really fast
Congrats to the developers. I hope see it runnin on my 1200 PPC very soon :-D
@Rogue
Its just a recompilation of the currnt 68k version of P96 or its totally/partial new stuff?
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The free version of DivX Pro is ad supported. The standard (non-Pro) codec linked above is clean.
VLC is indeed very nice.
As for the video itself, pretty good. Beats my PC with some operations...
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Its just a recompilation of the currnt 68k version of P96 or its totally/partial new stuff?
This is largely a recompilation, although large parts of P96 have originally been written in 68k Assembler. These have been ported back to C. Some stuff is new/improved.
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Was that build of OS4 likely to be without IDE DMA, out of interest? If not, I guess it adds to the impressiveness of the graphics responsiveness :-)
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For me this was breathtaking.
It reminded me of the importance of the original graphics system which enabled the Amiga to get noticed originally.
Good work
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Was that build of OS4 likely to be without IDE DMA, out of interest?
To be honest, I dunno. I would guess it was using DMA, but I can't be sure.
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The free version of DivX Pro is ad supported. The standard (non-Pro) codec linked above is clean.
I used a spybot to remove the crap from it after i installed it .also i think the latest xvid can do divx.
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That demo was pretty impressive speed wise. Good enough for me. :-)
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It is very fast indeed, but the video seems to be faked.
http://www.ann.lu/detail.cgi?category=forum&file=1089557440.msg
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It is very fast indeed, but the video seems to be faked.
Posted by a guy that used an anonymizer to hide his identity...
No, the video is not faked. Just compare the speed of Quake at the end of the Video - it runs at normal speed.
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Here is a better quality video: http://uniweb.free.fr/os4/os4morequal.avi
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I just had to register in this forum as wel.
The last video is as fast as the other and it cant be fake.
Wel it can but, if you listen to the sounds when i type it`s acurate to the vodeo and it sounds 100% normal. He also types fast but not un-normal fast.