New Cam Released

[Kees]

Amiga released the new CAM. You can find it at http://os.amiga.com/cam/.

Non CAM members can check out "This is Roadshow" by Olaf Barthel.

[Dagon]

Interesting the  Roadshow story :-)

[Rodney]

Olaf is the man

[mikeymike]

The 64-bit article is especially good.

[CyberViking2000]

What I found interesting is that each icon now has its own  palette. This will mean that although not high colour, the icons can be made cleaner with fewer artifacts that result from palette sharing.  :-D

I'm sure that high colour icons will come eventually, but having this is really nice, as well.

[mikeymike]

What I find odd/amusing is how OS4 seems to have been developed "backwards", but I think that's mainly due to one of the earlier HP explanations about trying to implement it all in emulation, then replacing bit by bit with native PPC code.

However, if I had any talent in software development, the highest priority for me would have been to implement the IDE driver and (U)DMA natively :-)  How painful it is to use a machine with an IDE disk running in PIO!  Ok, so they're not "using" the machines per se, but get rid of the biggest bottlenecks first :-)  - this is semi-joking btw -

[Rodney]

as usual, im not sure if im right, but hyperion said that they compiled everything in 68k to start with to fully test out the JIT engin. Which to me sounds like its a good idea because face it, theres really not alot of Amiga usrs and even less beta testers and only having one or two apps to test it isnt going to test it properly.

So to me, sounds like a good idea because just about every system component from apps to drivers shall be 68k. Good idea! Wide variety of testing too!