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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: danwood on March 10, 2010, 01:33:53 AM
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Little video I just knocked up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPT7SmVEpjc
1.x era apps, I'll do 2.x and 3.x soon, any suggestions for apps I should show in those?
Also, top marks for whoever can name all the games/mods? :)
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That was cool. But Lets just say the clock could indeed stay ticking on "other" machines.
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That video rocked - thanks for posting! Be especially nice to see it demonstrated on an A1000 with 512kb of memory though :)
BTW: with this video playing and writing here, my G5 is acting all sluggish as hell. lol
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^^ Flash. It's always better to download flash video and play it natively (flv is a wrapper) than in a browser.
But yeah, this is great. I got a real feel for what ocs was about.
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That was cool. But Lets just say the clock could indeed stay ticking on "other" machines.
Both of you guys are correct.
Windows and Macintosh classic used a "Cooperative Multitasking" meaning your background application (in this case the clock) may or may not keep running depending on how the foreground application was coded. The programmer was responsible for surrendering the CPU.
The best example I can give is that I had a poorly coded windows 3X artillery desktop game. After setting the trajectory and power, when you pressed fire, the game would lock out background tasks until the cannon ball stopped. That really sucked if your background task was a xmodem BBS transfer or a sound player.
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And AMOS apps typically "turned off" amigaos till they exited, not much multitasking there.
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I used a smiliar setup A1000, MiniMegs 2 meg fast ram 512K chip ram and 4 floppy drives and the Amiga 1300 Genlock to do all that. MY pc friends loved the sound capabilities and the fact that I could :
Play mods while:
1) running DPAINT 3
2) Word Processing
3) Visit BBS sites
4) Display full motion video as the workbench background. This blew their minds. For instance I'd be on a world processor screen I'd pull it down halfway or 3/4 and watch videos from my VCR while typing as the workbench backdound displaed the genlocked video while the processor screen was overlayed on top and 100% opaque.
The onlything that wierded them out was the "Slap on the side" expansion of the A1000's design. I agreed... heck apple was able to put slots in a wedge design case.
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Nice video...
Windows 3.1 could multitask... Really shitty and slow but it technically could.
Steven
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Windows 3.1 could multitask... Really shitty and slow but it technically could.
Release dates are important also.
Windows 3.1 was released in 1992 - Cooperative
Multifinder was released in 1987 - Cooperative
AmigaOS 1.x was released in 1985 - Preemptive
desiv
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@Danwood
WOW! That was the best Amiga video ever! :knuddel: :bowdown:
Please make another one with the following progs:
Hippoplayer
Prowrite 3.3 (that was my fave word processor back in the olden days)
Audition 4 (The BEST sample editor from way back. Show a sample in the editor and zoom in / out on it. It has supersmooth zoomscrolling!)
SCALA: u didn't show a real scala presentation. Why not? SCALA is awesome.
U should have loaded a text document into CED to show the hyperfast scrolling.
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@Danwood
WOW! That was the best Amiga video ever! :knuddel: :bowdown:
Please make another one with the following progs:
Hippoplayer
Prowrite 3.3 (that was my fave word processor back in the olden days)
Audition 4 (The BEST sample editor from way back. Show a sample in the editor and zoom in / out on it. It has supersmooth zoomscrolling!)
SCALA: u didn't show a real scala presentation. Why not? SCALA is awesome.
U should have loaded a text document into CED to show the hyperfast scrolling.
Thanks for the feedback Chaoslord :)
Yeah some of the apps had to be rushed, as Youtube only allows 10 minute videos, and when I got to Scala there was only something like 2 mins left and I really wanted to show a few more.
I will do a 2.x and 3.x video though and demo Scala MM 200 properly, and take note of the apps you mentioned, some great suggestions there :)
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Nice video...
Windows 3.1 could multitask... Really shitty and slow but it technically could.
Steven
Yeah, maybe I should have worded it "windows could not multitask properly/like this until 1995"
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And AMOS apps typically "turned off" amigaos till they exited, not much multitasking there.
Often, this kind of thing was to regain as much chip ram as possible. Be on an unexpanded A1000 for a while, and you'd be thankful of this practice too. ;)