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AROS Amiblitz
« on: May 12, 2010, 11:58:15 AM »
Well, not exactly, but I thought this was very cool. Long time fan of blitz basic/amiblitz so this was pretty exciting for me and I thought Id share it with y'all. It's a screenshot I took of AROS running amiblitz using latest beta of janus/68k intergration.
http://i44.tinypic.com/24m5m3c.jpg
Time for me to finally retire trusty ol' Amithlon as my "serious" amiga system I choice :-)
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Re: AROS Amiblitz
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2010, 01:09:25 PM »
Nah, not at all. I can run heavy aga demos (magia, lapsuus, etc.) or 68k games (duke3d, quake1/2,alienbreed3d 2, freespace, etc.) more than fast enough while simultaneously playing a hi res high quality video, while browsing with OWB and playing Broken Sword in ScummVM concurrently (for a random example). I surely wouldnt be ditching amithlon if it wasnt for a superior experience.
Ah, actually I think I misinterperted you. I thought you meant performance wise, but now I suspect ou mean a compatibility thing ? Either way it runs well, nice speed and as bloodline mentioned the intergration supports full emulation of the 68k amigas :)
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Re: AROS Amiblitz
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2010, 08:41:10 AM »
I am running it using aros intergration (check aros windows and aros menus in the screenshot for example), but the aros 68k intergration is based on a custom uae.
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Re: AROS Amiblitz
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2010, 03:13:28 PM »
Quote from: bubblebobble;558229
Amiblitz does not hit the hardware. It is system friendly. Same as the resulting exectuables, unless you explicitly do HW banging stuff, same like in C.
I thought this urban legend would have been gone...

BTW, horrible 68K OS configuration.
The Fonts are awkward, not antialiased, the slider on the right side of the source window is missing, no Zune look for the wizzard GUI, and btw. quite old version of Amiblitz, I guess 2.4. Current is 3.5.

I wonder now what would happen if you run an app, lets say that opens a window again and adds an app icon. Would this apprear on AROS desktop? Would stuff like AHI output work?



I agree about it being not a nice 68k config,.. it was I very hacked, stripped down version of amigasys I set up just to test the intergration in aros  :)  Im working on a 68k setup at the moment that is a bit nicer and more suited to its purpose (ie., blends/more consistant to the aros side of things), its only pretty recently that intergraton is working to a point that its worth taking the time to do it :) (oh and by the way its amiblitz 3.1.2 that's installed)
As for icons appearing on the AROS desktop I cant recall if I tried, but I'll have a look a little later. AHI output works, but Im not sure if you can use uae ahi output, could possibly be only paula works. I cant say for sure, but I did have a few problems when I was experimenting (although its a hacked up/butchered 68k system Im using so the fault may be there too) and it still incomplete/non public beta. It really is a pretty cool experience though. A lot of stuff already feels/looks like its running native (oh, and non system friendly custom chipset sotware behaves as it normally would (ie.runs full screen), and you can switch between screens as "normal" as well whether it's 68k or aros software or a mix. If anyone is interested I'll make up a video of it in action ? (assuming clusteruk doesnt beat me to it :-))
Near as I can tell this is where I write something under the guise of being innocuous, but really its a pot shot at another persons/peoples choice of Amiga based systems. Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look.