Pegasos review thread volume II (The on topic thread)

[Kronos]

@red
Things you might want to add:

How hard/easy was it to get your data&apps from your AOS-setup to the Peg.

What works, what not, what requires 3rd-party SW to be installed,
what needed manual adjustement/install.

How fast/slow is it compared to your UAE-setup (you are running
UAE or am I mistaken ?) But don't go back to typical benches with
no real use. Better use stuff like browsing or some GFX-work to
determin the difference.

Also try to compare how the stability is compared to an
"normal" OS3.x-setup. but don't do that before you got your
setup straight.

[Kronos]

@Paul_Gadd

Atm there are only 2 ways to turn a Peg down.
a) Pull the plug  ;-)
b) Hold the PWR-button for a few sec till the PSU shuts off.

I'm sure you would notice quite a difference if you ran the 68k
version of a renderer and than compare it to an PPC one, but as
long as you use "normal" 68k-SW you won't notice any slowdown
even with the static-emu (JIT is still only for Betatester_1).

Stuff like GoldED (with highest coloring-setup in C++-mode) or
IBrowse work just as fast as on 1-2ghz WinUAE-setup.

The reason for this lies probraly partly in the missing under-
lying OS (like Windows), completly refusing to do any chipset
emu and the fact that these kind of SW runs mainly in the OS
(for calling GFX-routines/doing GUI-stuff) which is allready in PPC.

[Kronos]

@Calen

There is a licence (and driver) for Poseidon included, so
if that supports your modem so will  MorphOS.

If the PowerTower meets ATX-standard (which I doubt).

3D-drivers or in the work/testing.
Those games have been reported to run in SW-renderer, but
I have no personal experience as none of these games interest me.

About OS4 on the Peg.... oh well that is flame-war terretory ...

But I will say this:
As long as OS4 isn't out, Genesi isn't missing a single costumer,
and no we don't want to discuss how long it is till the A1-version
of OS4 (which would be the base for a potential Peg-version) is out.

I also think the "no OS4 for Peg" will mean more lost costumers to
Hyperion as it would to Genesi.

And yes this is just my opinion.

[Kronos]

@DaveP

Putting MorphOS in the same categorey with UAE is quite a stretch ....

MorphOS runs on its own (the Quark-kernel is just an invisible part).

MorphOS runs PPC-SW written for PuP/WOS, UAE doesn't.

MorphOS has a 100% native OS, while UAE has only a partly native
GFX-driver (which redirected through XWindows instead of going
directly to the HW).

MorphOS has it own native PPC-apps, UAE doesn't.
MorphOS(non-JIT) 68k emu is about 5-10 times faster than UAE on
the same CPU (and the native OS helps speeding up 68k-SW even more).

So comparing UAE to MorphOS is like comparing an A500 to a full featured
Draco (or A4000/060).

[Kronos]

@DaveP

When my Peg was brandnew I tried StormC_4 (on MOS-1.1).
The compiler itself worked o.k., but the big list gadget
in the project-windows had trashed GFX. Haven't tried it under
newer MOS-versions as I switched to a GoldED+GCC setup.

Never saw a reason to look back, cos it does all StormC did
(except the debugger, but I never used that) in a nicer way.

It is easy to setup as GoldED comes with ready to run versions
of both vbcc (68k,PuP,WOS,MOS) and gcc (68k +?WOS?).

All I had to do was to set the GG-assigns to the MOS-GG install,
and if I ever wanted to compile 68k again I could easily
revert that.