Miami Any News?

[olsen]

Argus wrote:
Any performance figures for Roadshow on 68K available?  I mean for the varous cpus out there (68030, 040, 060).

I haven't tested it on a plain '030 system yet. My typical test machines were an A3000T with a WarpEngine '040 board and an A3000UX with a CyberStorm '060. Compared to both AmiTCP Genesis and Miami/Miami Deluxe (with and without the special MNI drivers) Roadshow outperformed the competition by quite a bit. In a LAN with a 10 MBit Ethernet card (the original Ariadne, as made by Village Tronic) I got a sustained data transmission speed of 977 KBytes/s out of the A3000T and up to 941 KBytes/s out of the A3000UX. AmiTCP Genesis and Miami/Miami Deluxe never got to more than 820 KBytes/s on the same hardware.

To a good part the memory performance is responsible for how fast you can move data around, which is why the A3000T with the WarpEngine is faster than the A3000UX with the CyberStorm. But it also helps how the I/O handling inside the TCP/IP stack is designed and how high the overall processing overhead is. The Ariadne also has a very large transmission FIFO, which is a luxury the newer cards such as the Ariadne II or the X-Surf don't have.

Good news if it becomes available for sale.

Getting closer and closer. I never imagined how difficult it would be to get a product out like this. All that's missing is the GUI for managing the dial-up and DSL connections. The manual's ready (it covers the entire functionality, and even has a chapter on the firewall and NAT, with examples and a tutorial), the SDK is ready, the software has been ready for a very long time, the web site's there (www.roadster-tcpip.com) but it's still not online.

If you want to help in getting the product on the street this year, hassle the web master ;-)

[jkirk]

iirc i heard quite some time ago(so the info is a little fuzzy) that his a1200 hd died and he had no copies of the source or the license prog. so basically everything was lost. so he was unable to continue and didn't want to start from scratch again.

[Plaz]

If you want to help in getting the product on the street this year, hassle the web master

So who's the webmaster and how do I hassle? :-)
Miami's done an ok job all these years, but I'm ready for an update.

that his a1200 hd died and he had no copies of the source or the license prog

That was one of many theories some of us were kicking around for fun a couple of years ago. No one was actually ever able to come up with any definitive emails, posts or news items from Holger that explained his departure from the amiga scene. For me it will be nice to finally end the Miami noise with Roadshow aparently close to being released. So if someone does know the real story, we just won't be curious any more. :-P



Plaz
 

[Doobrey]

Piru wrote:
Not quite. Genesis is the GUI for AmiTCP/IP. The actual AmiTCP/IP kernel is used unlicenced in AmigaOS 3.9.

Silly question, but was the version of Genesis that shipped with the Ariadne II a fully legit version ?

[xeron]

tldaley wrote:
Roadshow is also 68k based, not PPC.

Roadshow has been PPC native for ages.

[olsen]

xeron wrote:

tldaley wrote:
Roadshow is also 68k based, not PPC.

Roadshow has been PPC native for ages.

Roadshow is 68k based. I started development around Christmas 2000, and the first version that actually worked was up and running by early January 2001. The PowerPC port followed much later and was not complete until November 2003.

[olsen]

Plaz wrote:

If you want to help in getting the product on the street this year, hassle the web master

So who's the webmaster and how do I hassle? :-)

Well, I'm not the webmaster. And the e-mail address to start hassling should be "webmaster (at) roadster-tcpip.com", if I'm not mistaken.

[wheels]

Great Discussion!

Can you pirate a program thats not for sale and that there is no developement or work of any kind being done on?

Why when I see the words"it will be released eventually" do I see my tombstone with me long dead...

Anyone one got some bone head instructions on Genesis? I got stuck at the IP addresses becasue I'm on a network and I don't know what the IPs are or should be. I think I know what the router is but Miami has trouble setting up as well when I run it. Gives me a DNS failuer but still works.

Thanks for all the comments and the history lessons. If you know how Roadshow works does that mean there is a demo?

JLW

[Argus]

@olsen

so I take it the product will only be available for sale on-line, e.g. like the old Nordic Global site.  That's fine, but you may want to consider a release via dealers too; those that are still around that is.

@wheels

if you've been around long enough, you'll know that Olaf's stuff works, no need for demo.

[Plaz]

Can you pirate a program thats not for sale and that there is no developement or work of any kind being done on?

The answer is yes, check any copyright laws where you live. The bigger question is wether any one will prosecute you for it. Odds are small. But odds are much greater of annoying other developers who share this site as you talk of promoting such things. Beleive me, many of us have felt the same frustrations with our amigas and it's software limitations. There is plenty of help among the users here to get you going with tcpip, so please drop the pirate talk and let's move on.

@olsen

"webmaster (at) roadster-tcpip.com",

When I had a look at the site, first it asked for authentication. When you bypass that, the webmaster link displays "mailto:%5bno%20address%20given%5d" so that looks like a dead end. I will try your suggestion none the less and see what happens. (Bounce mail is forecast) :-)


Plaz