30 January 2020, 06:10 | #3741 |
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Hey guys, long time no post. Has anyone had trouble with AmigaAmp 2.25 not being able to load the WarpUP external engine? It says failed to load engine. I am frequently getting this recently. I've updated to the latest nightly build. Other PPC programs are working fine, so I'm not sure what is going on.
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I did try AmigaAmp3 (version 3.21 to be specific) and it does work with mpega.library, although it's pretty slow and the music stutters IF you use visualizations. Without visualizations AmigaAmp3 worked pretty well. With AmigaAmp 2.25 that typically wasn't the case, Visualizations worked pretty well and didn't take up most of the 68k cpu time. Is there a recommended version of mpega.library? I think there are several variants out there. Also, with AHI I had to set Unit 1 to a ++ mode otherwise AmigaAmp complains. I have the Music Unit set to Paula 8-bit DMA, which I believe is correct. I'm using AHI.library 4.18. BTW I tried turning on Debug setting 3 and it used almost all my 68k cpu Does the output from that go to the serial port? Is there a way to route it to an output window on the workbench? thanks Darren |
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The patch just stores the value and every time the read is made the library just reads from a cache in PPC memory. Quote:
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Using SB128 for MP3 playing, I've not been able to get AmigaAMP3 work without skipping on Apocalypse whether with mpega.library or External. AmigaAMP2 works ok with External. Frogger works better but isn't really good for playing multiple songs. In the beforetime in the long long ago, at one point the Sonnet was playing web radio stations with SB128 out with AmigaAMP2.
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31 January 2020, 16:15 | #3749 |
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Has anyone got Sonnet working with AmigaOS 3.1.4? I just bought it yesterday and am in the process of setting it up on a new partition. I got Picasso96 installed and installed the Sonnet archive from Aminet, but I keep getting the message that there is no pcdma memory (VGA memory) so InitSonnet doesn't start. Can someone remind me how I set this up (I guess on the Mediator)? I can't seem to remember. I copied over all my envarc:Mediator settings from my working OS 3.9 installation but that didn't fix it.
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You need a running V3 or Radeon card.
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31 January 2020, 17:42 | #3751 |
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I've got the Voodoo 4 installed, same physical installation, I've just setup a different partition that boots OS 3.1.4. Right now it is very basic, it just has OS 3.1.4, the (latest iComp) Picasso96, Mediator minimal install with pci.library 13.9, and the sonnet package from aminet (not latest build). I thought there was something you had to do to enable the dma memory on the mediator side, I can't remember.
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Do you mean with installed that you are actually running the card? Like it is activated by LoadMonDrvs?
If you installed the mediator drivers through the installer then it should have set up ENVARC:mediator/voodoomem |
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I've got VoodooMem, it was set to 16, I set it to 14 but that didn't help. VoodooInt is there as well, I believe it is set to Yes. |
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Would try latest library version first.
Maybe VoodooMemOS = yes |
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31 January 2020, 20:33 | #3756 |
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Anyone able to comment if the performance gain from the Killer K1 to the M1 is a worth while upgrade?
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Though, I recall someone mentioning the M1 actually operates at a higher bus clock than the K1, in real life 66MHz isn't really going to be very noticeable of a difference. For purely CPU bound applications, it should only be some 20% faster in theory. From what we can tell most of the older Warp3D programs aren't actually CPU limited, they seem to be GPU limited, or possibly bus limited. So for something like Dosbox (totally CPU bound), which barely runs on the K1-if at all, the M1 isn't suddenly going to be usable or grant you a much larger library of stuff you can run. But Quake1, Quake2, Wipeout, you should seem some small but significant gain in FPS. A far better option is the Apocalypse rather than the M1. |
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01 February 2020, 02:03 | #3759 |
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Hey Tim, if I could try it that would be helpful, I'll do benchmarks to compare such as quake timedemos.
@grelbfarlk I have an apocalypse but I'm saving it for an A4000 since it wont work in my A1200. To be fair theres really only a few applications that run with stability so probably not worth the upgrade to an M1 at the moment. I've not tried Dosbox yet tho. So far I have working (software rendering only) QuakeWOS (fully stable inc AHI 16bit audio through F801) 320x240 flies, 640x480 playable AdoomWOS fully stable and smooth up to 640x480 AmigaAmp, seems to work fine prBoom runs but crashes randomly Duke3D (wrangler) crashes in startup 75% of the time but when it does run it's stable but has micro stutter MAME seems to run but without a GUI I haven't tested it further |
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I mean the K1 was nice since you could get generally far superior performance than a CSPPC for $20 or so, then the gold rush happened. The day that the K1/M1 is stable in an A1200 it's likely that the Apocalypse will work as well, so just buy another one of those. Or stop messing about with the A1200 and make that your WHDLoad machine while reading the A1200 sucks thread that's been going on forever.
But if you borrow an M1, just move that fancy heatsink over to a K1 and send it back. |
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