Amithlon Explained on Aminet

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Ironically one of the 1st videos I ever watched on OS3.9/Amithlon 10 or so years ago

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Ah, ok, cool. I hadnt seen that one. Seems its running on a real '060 based amiga. Id only seen the other videos he did with it running on Amithlon. Even supports multiple monitors (both with different display/apps).
Cant wait to get ahold of it. Ive been trying to get to 300fps on Quake2 for a while. Maxed out at 298, never quite hit 300 yet without dropping resolution and I think these drivers should get me there (and then some). When he does implement 3d acceleration it'll be crazy fast (not that 300fps isnt fast enough already, but theyre good ways to benchmark a machine against its former configuration)

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I wonder if a bounty would be possible to release the amithlon sources. Seemed a bit of a tangled mess legally, but I dont recall who owned the sources. Same question of Umiliator. Apart from classics aros and amithlon/os3.9 have always been my drug of choice. Would be brilliant to be able to merge the 2 using aros kickstart replacement and big endian x86 to merge 68k and x86 seemlessly ala os4/mos. Granted it wont be as fast as "normal" LE x86, but amithlon using solely 68k code is competitive with os4 and mos running ppc code, so any extra speed it provides is just a bonus.

Has anyone seen the topic bought up before (if it'd be possible to obtain sources)? Id be interested to know if its worth pursuing.