OS4 betatester demonstrating the native P96 graphics drivers

[Matt_H]

@ Argo

I read somewhere else (AW.net, I think) that it was a 933MHz chip. Can't remember if it was a G3 or G4, though.

@ thread

Whee! That looks great! Way faster than my aged PC, and easily faster than my 68060 Amigas. Personally, I prefer nonsolid window movement, but this looks great regardless. :-D

[amigakit]

Exciting times are coming again! Once we have made the full transition to PowerPC and there are no legacy libraries kicking around in the system, the true performance of the G4 can be realised on the Amiga.

[Cymric]

As Argo already mentioned: a vast improvement over non-native. I remember the first video, and that was jerky to the point of being embarrassing. (It was jerky for good reasons, but nevertheless it was not something to proudly show off to someone.) This is in an entirely different category. Kudos to the programmers, your months of sweat, hard labour and blood were worth it.

[weirdami]

I can't seem to watch it either. A standard mpeg version would be nice. My computer isn't powerful enough for avi's, and the WMP on the public computers nearby (windows 2000) don't recognize the file type. I'm gladdened by the reports I'm seeing in this thread, though. Sounds like it's going to be a brighter day for the chosen people. (Us. :-))

[Glaucus]

It looks good. Can't really tell what's going on, but it looks impressive just the same. :-D Now all we need are some people to write some demos for this new system. I think we can get beyond spinning cubes with this.  :-)

  - Mike

[Zorro]

The last thing to see now, is a dma enabled workbench that will show the speed that can reach the windows/directory content refresh (icons/files)...

After this we will have an almost complete look to the the real feeling of the finished GUI/OS speed... for now the things looks veeery promising...  :-D

[Akiko]

Very impressive  :-D

[Rogue]

Both YAM and MUI where PPC.

[Rogue]

Personally, I prefer nonsolid window movement, but this looks great regardless.

Preferences/GUI can disabled solid resize and movement.

[Warface]

MPlayer, Frogger, and even the new MooVId plays it fine here. (It seems MorphOS is better for video playback than Windows? :-))

If I weren't using a system with similar speeds for far more than a year, I'd be impressed. But credit is due, and indeed a nice job. Hopefully the ordinary AmigaONE owners will have it soon.

[Framiga]

@weirdami 

download this

http://download.divx.com/divx/DivX511.exe

and install only the codec.

Bye

PS- or use FroggerNG WOS like me ;-)

[Calen]

Looks very impressive, well done to all involved.

[mikeymike]

I thought the latest DivX codecs contain spyware?  .

I use VLC (opensource media player for most operating systems).

[DeQuevedo]

Really fast

Congrats to the developers. I hope see it runnin on my 1200 PPC very soon :-D

@Rogue

Its just a recompilation of the currnt 68k version of P96 or its totally/partial new stuff?

[that_punk_guy]

The free version of DivX Pro is ad supported. The standard (non-Pro) codec linked above is clean.

VLC is indeed very nice.

As for the video itself, pretty good. Beats my PC with some operations...

[Rogue]

Its just a recompilation of the currnt 68k version of P96 or its totally/partial new stuff?

This is largely a recompilation, although large parts of P96 have originally been written in 68k Assembler. These have been ported back to C. Some stuff is new/improved.