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Forum: Amiga scene 11 April 2024, 17:28
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Posted By emiespo
Wouldn't it still be somewhat cheaper to...

Wouldn't it still be somewhat cheaper to mass-produce - at least given the final cost of an A4000 - than providing those machines with a shelled external adaptor? I get that the chips inside the RGB...
Forum: Amiga scene 11 April 2024, 00:22
Replies: 3,777
Views: 505,798
Posted By emiespo
Compare the price of a 1984 EGA with limited...

Compare the price of a 1984 EGA with limited palette to 4096 colours of hi-res OCS (640x512 in PAL), and Amiga is beyond competition. Oh, and don't forget Amiga had HAM (320x512 again), EGA had...
Forum: Amiga scene 11 April 2024, 00:11
Replies: 3,777
Views: 505,798
Posted By emiespo
Kick 1.3 would not have solved 100% of the A500+...

Kick 1.3 would not have solved 100% of the A500+ compatibility issues, some really poorly programmed games would not work with 1MB of chip and expect only 512k or slow-fast to be used... but if it...
Forum: Amiga scene 10 April 2024, 07:34
Replies: 3,777
Views: 505,798
Posted By emiespo
Not entirely Commodore's fault. Stuff not running...

Not entirely Commodore's fault. Stuff not running was mostly due to poor coding, done without following Commodore's guidelines. With AGA, it was slightly worse, but you could at least disable some...
Forum: Amiga scene 10 April 2024, 01:15
Replies: 3,777
Views: 505,798
Posted By emiespo
Agreed. I did not mean all engineers at...

Agreed. I did not mean all engineers at Commodore, only the director ones that could not talk to marketing guys and vice-versa. All mis-directed by top management.



Couldn't agree more. 3DO was...
Forum: Amiga scene 10 April 2024, 01:08
Replies: 3,777
Views: 505,798
Posted By emiespo
Why would I lose my time continuing this argument...

Why would I lose my time continuing this argument then? ;)



In 1985 16 colours Hi-Res were beyond competition. In 1992 Amiga people were expecting to go beyond the best 1992 VGA resolutions.
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Forum: Amiga scene 09 April 2024, 01:00
Replies: 3,777
Views: 505,798
Posted By emiespo
Unlike angry armchair engineers, this is what...

Unlike angry armchair engineers, this is what wrote multiple times: discuss the reasons why it was done the way it was done, I mentioned cost saving, and simplifying the circuitry and debugging time...
Forum: Amiga scene 08 April 2024, 01:34
Replies: 3,777
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Posted By emiespo
Let’s say I want to turn pixel at coordinates...

Let’s say I want to turn pixel at coordinates 107,107 red (colour 5 in the clut).

5 bit planes: first I’d compute the Y coordinate start address, this is similar in both scenarios, imagining the...
Forum: Amiga scene 07 April 2024, 20:40
Replies: 3,777
Views: 505,798
Posted By emiespo
Yeah but you increase the number of operations...

Yeah but you increase the number of operations badly. I am pretty sure that if engineers designed this way it's either because of costs or simplicity of layouts, available tech of the time, etc.
...
Forum: Amiga scene 07 April 2024, 11:04
Replies: 3,777
Views: 505,798
Posted By emiespo
Edit: missed the link. That must’ve been a really...

Edit: missed the link. That must’ve been a really crappy GFX board that no pentium user would’ve wanted unless in an office PC.

My A4000 with 060 and Cybervision 3D could finally match a 486/DX2...
Forum: support.Hardware 30 March 2024, 14:18
Replies: 70
Views: 5,143
Posted By emiespo
Isn't this huge gap mainly because of Musashi vs...

Isn't this huge gap mainly because of Musashi vs Emu68? I presume if Emu68 was made compatible with this board, the difference would be much less.

I also wonder if a similar approach to the ZZ9000...
Forum: Amiga scene 28 March 2024, 15:22
Replies: 3,777
Views: 505,798
Posted By emiespo
It was an interview with Lew Eggebrecht in the...

It was an interview with Lew Eggebrecht in the best Italian "Amiga Magazine" of the time. It was actually called "Amiga Magazine" :D not a pun!

I can't seem to find (on the Internet Archive) the...
Forum: Amiga scene 27 March 2024, 21:37
Replies: 3,777
Views: 505,798
Posted By emiespo
I would get this if we were talking in "English...

I would get this if we were talking in "English Antiparticle Board", but most people use quantum-leap to mean a radical change, a transition to a completely different thing, from A to B without a...
Forum: Amiga scene 27 March 2024, 12:41
Replies: 3,777
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Posted By emiespo
Saw this huge thread... don't have useful time to...

Saw this huge thread... don't have useful time to read through it all, will try to add my 2 cents.

Did anyone mention that, apart from the AGA machines not being the huge quantum leap everyone...
Forum: Coders. General 26 March 2024, 18:58
Replies: 239
Views: 28,499
Posted By emiespo
Is the blitter doing anything atm? If not, given...

Is the blitter doing anything atm? If not, given CPU needs any tiny bit of performance to cope with sprites and other logic, it might make sense to give it a go with a blitter-assisted C2P.

I...
Forum: Coders. General 26 March 2024, 18:52
Replies: 239
Views: 28,499
Posted By emiespo
Correct, but I was referring to the combo: faster...

Correct, but I was referring to the combo: faster VRAM and a chunky mode, no silly Akiko. Add a bit of fast RAM and Doom and many other 3d games would've been more than playable on any AGA machine,...
Forum: News 24 March 2024, 12:37
Replies: 281
Views: 88,582
Posted By emiespo
I'll start with a further question, and reply to...

I'll start with a further question, and reply to the previous points below.

Question: I'm converting from `.mkv` videos to `.cdxl`. Conversion works very well, except the audio always pops loudly...
Forum: Coders. General 23 March 2024, 22:00
Replies: 239
Views: 28,499
Posted By emiespo
You're totally right about Commodore messing the...

You're totally right about Commodore messing the Amiga, even the CD32 has a silly way of doing c2p (might have been nice if you could just fire a c2p conversion by flipping a bit and have it done in...
Forum: News 28 January 2024, 01:04
Replies: 281
Views: 88,582
Posted By emiespo
Hi! Sorry missed updates on this thread. That...

Hi! Sorry missed updates on this thread. That makes sense, I was really wondering how it could've made odd length frames :)

As I said, I'm writing my own CDXL engine to both understand how it...
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 30 December 2023, 02:42
Replies: 16
Views: 2,484
Posted By emiespo
Hi, I'm trying to write an os-friendly CDXL...

Hi, I'm trying to write an os-friendly CDXL player (working under 1.3 too), using all OS functions just for the sake of "it can be done" :) next step would be to make a game around it.

Now my...
Forum: News 26 December 2023, 23:58
Replies: 281
Views: 88,582
Posted By emiespo
That's not for AGA, it's in the official docs as...

That's not for AGA, it's in the official docs as a test video that can be converted and played back on a PC (VLC handles cdxl video - not audio though, ffplay apparently handles both, but I haven't...
Forum: News 26 December 2023, 02:10
Replies: 281
Views: 88,582
Posted By emiespo
Post Hi, I'm also having an issue with AgaConv, it...

Hi, I'm also having an issue with AgaConv, it seems that conversions to standard CDXL always fail (version is 1.0.3, I managed to compile it under MacOS after tweaking a couple of things).

With...
Forum: Coders. General 07 September 2023, 00:40
Replies: 16
Views: 2,488
Posted By emiespo
Thanks a lot for your insights, I'll give them a...

Thanks a lot for your insights, I'll give them a look asap (I am on a Mac now, where for some reason FS-UAE doesn't work anymore in Ventura). The VSCode extension does not include std*.h definitions,...
Forum: Coders. General 04 September 2023, 00:57
Replies: 16
Views: 2,488
Posted By emiespo
I have some code where I was doing exactly this...

I have some code where I was doing exactly this (MacOs), now for some reason I need to recompile the whole thing under Windows, and indeed it started failing complaining about __stdargs. The same...
Forum: support.Hardware 02 September 2023, 11:22
Replies: 415
Views: 108,623
Posted By emiespo
Same, that’s possibly the same reason I bought...

Same, that’s possibly the same reason I bought it, have a relatively cheap (and modern) CPU that could be used instead of a super-expensive 1993 one (68060). I even wrote a basic C project (posted in...
Forum: support.FS-UAE 27 August 2023, 14:50
Replies: 133
Views: 107,877
Posted By emiespo
Lightbulb FS-UAE segfault

Hi!

I tried both the pre-made execs and also compiling from the main sources, I end-up with a segmentation fault error (MacOS Ventura).

If run with --stdout, these are the last lines of the...
Forum: Coders. C/C++ 28 December 2022, 21:32
Replies: 7
Views: 3,084
Posted By emiespo
Hi all, I can confirm this technique also works...

Hi all, I can confirm this technique also works on 1.3, however I have a slightly more complex use-case... I'm trying to write a CDXL player, so it means I need to also change the palette with each...
Forum: Coders. General 27 December 2022, 18:48
Replies: 63
Views: 10,876
Posted By emiespo
Ah interesting didn't know that! Well Akiko does...

Ah interesting didn't know that! Well Akiko does still do something up to a 68030@50MHZ (where it is marginally faster than the hybrid c2p CPU/Blitter, with DoomAttack).

Still much faster for the...
Forum: Coders. General 27 December 2022, 14:05
Replies: 63
Views: 10,876
Posted By emiespo
Worth adding that the 68030.library also...

Worth adding that the 68030.library also (partly*) fixes Akiko on CD32s with a 68030. It marks its address non cacheable, so that when the CPU writes and reads from the same location multiple times,...
Forum: Coders. C/C++ 25 December 2022, 23:50
Replies: 15
Views: 1,708
Posted By emiespo
Thanks! I managed to have it working by...

Thanks! I managed to have it working by simplifying (ie removing) all those weird _REG() _ASM() in the clib pragma file (just kept definitions as in the camd archive).

In the end I don't think I'm...
Forum: Coders. C/C++ 23 December 2022, 18:25
Replies: 15
Views: 1,708
Posted By emiespo
Hi, I am trying to do something similar with the...

Hi, I am trying to do something similar with the asyncio library (http://aminet.net/dev/c/AsyncIO.lha).

Made an asyncio.sdk file with the following content:


Short: Asyncio library
Version:...
Forum: Coders. C/C++ 23 December 2022, 09:45
Replies: 1,549
Views: 359,292
Posted By emiespo
Hi, I am trying to build the latest version and I...

Hi, I am trying to build the latest version and I get this error (also from the stable release sources):


gmake[3]: Leaving directory...
Forum: News 06 November 2022, 20:04
Replies: 38
Views: 5,424
Posted By emiespo
Hi, tried the latest version 1.6.6 (MacOs), it...

Hi, tried the latest version 1.6.6 (MacOs), it seems FsUAE won't start now (tried to launch it from the cli and it complains about missing SDL libraries).

I manually installed all the libraries...
Forum: Coders. C/C++ 06 November 2022, 17:49
Replies: 117
Views: 50,869
Posted By emiespo
Hi guys! I just discovered that this fabulous...

Hi guys!
I just discovered that this fabulous extension has been ported to Linux and MacOs, I wonder if anyone is using it on such systems.

I tried the base project and I can see FsUAE starting,...
Forum: News 18 May 2021, 11:07
Replies: 1,647
Views: 449,836
Posted By emiespo
Thanks I read the FAQs and wanted more...

Thanks I read the FAQs and wanted more information on the physical ROMs provided by some retailers for the very same reason :)

My CD32 has a TF330, which should rely on the internal ROM...
Forum: News 17 May 2021, 18:40
Replies: 1,647
Views: 449,836
Posted By emiespo
It's not just that, is the fact that without a...

It's not just that, is the fact that without a proper ROM you might incur into problems - especially since the CD32 is not officially supported.

Thinking about FileSystem issues, inability to boot...
Forum: News 17 May 2021, 13:38
Replies: 1,647
Views: 449,836
Posted By emiespo
Given what Gulliver wrote right above: is the...

Given what Gulliver wrote right above: is the CD32 ROMs offered on your site customised and non-official? IIRC the CD32 has a 1MB ROM on a single chip (and 16bits, to save costs... damn sinking C=)
...
Forum: News 17 May 2021, 13:28
Replies: 1,647
Views: 449,836
Posted By emiespo
Thanks, really good to know!

Thanks, really good to know!
Forum: News 17 May 2021, 10:21
Replies: 1,647
Views: 449,836
Posted By emiespo
Hi Gulliver, thanks for all the info. I'd be...

Hi Gulliver, thanks for all the info. I'd be interested in 3.2 for my CD32, but from what I see it seems the CD doesn't contain a custom ROM for it, so it would need to always double reboot, is that...
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 15 May 2021, 21:15
Replies: 342
Views: 81,609
Posted By emiespo
I was talking about an existing library in LIBS:,...

I was talking about an existing library in LIBS:, what is strange is that my exe is able to find and read another file - (game data) - but it won't open the asyncio.library.

I just tested in RUN...
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