SlimJim's Not-so-short AmiGBG fair report

[Rogue]

Actually, we where planning to have an OS 4 demonstration on the show running on the CyberStormPPC (not 68k). We almost made it, but ran into a problem with the PPC accessing custom chips - it seems a flaw in the CyberStormPPC hardware can cause a complete hangup of the system when certain conditions are not met. "Unfortunately" the emulator is fast enough to cause these conditions :-)

It was rather easy to work around it once the problem was identified, though. Just didn't happen in time to prepare a demonstration.

[Rogue]

Rogue, was this a demo of OS4 (with all the new modules) running on cyberstormPPC or a demo of OS3.9 running on ExecSG with emulation?

It depends. On first boot it would be OS 3.9, on second OS 4.0, because our current boot loader can only load PPC stuff, not 68k. The "advantage" of the delay is that we can fix that until next time, that's actually on the TODO list for tomorrow.

[Rogue]

So when could we expect this public demo of OS4?

I can't say for sure. Depends on which show someone from the team can actually attend, and to be honest I am not completely sure where and when the next show will be. We did hurry some stuff that should have been done differently, but since we didn't make it in time we'll redo a few things, since we have the chance now.

There is only one chance to make a first impresion  :-D

[Rogue]

Approximately how fast is the 68k emulation on a 233mhz PPC?

We didn't do any benchmarking yet. The system will always boot up with the interpreter, the JIT will only be used once the system is up and running.

[Rogue]

Btw, we're more or less planning a release party for OS4, any chance we can invite you and Thomas to Gothenburg for a bunch of beer once OS4 is out? I'm thinking maybe a small showing with a bunch of machines followed by one hell of a party

Hmmm, well, "hell of a party" definitely sounds good ;-) I guess you just won me over...