Sonnet 7200 PCI programming

[Marlon_]

Originally Posted by grelbfarlk

Yeah I mean PS/2 adapters work if they're for big box Amigas. If the Amiga->PS/2 adapter was for A2000 then a simple DIN to PS/2 adapter is needed.

Does the a500 keyboard have the same signals as a4000 keyboards? I do have the soldering skills to make a little adapter for one of my a500 keyboards if that works

[nexus]

Originally Posted by Marlon_

Does the a500 keyboard have the same signals as a4000 keyboards? I do have the soldering skills to make a little adapter for one of my a500 keyboards if that works

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=68709

[Marlon_]

Originally Posted by nexus

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=68709

Lucky me, all my A500 keyboards are mitsumi

[Jope]

The Q1 installation/removal trick also works with NMB boards. :-)

[BULI]

Originally Posted by grelbfarlk

AMP2 *almost* plays DVDs correctly now but it seems like audio starts 4 seconds behind the video so it's not good.

Try watch video file direct from DVD/CD as simple file via button Play File (not Play DVD) in GUI_MUI_AMP. I recomend AMP2_BETA from here:



www.amidog.se/amiga/bin/WIP/AMP2-BETA-040716.lha


You will have synchronize, but you willn't choise subtitles, or difrent sound track.

[BULI]

Originally Posted by starship

Better,
We need H.264 mp4 codec for froggerng.
Ragnarok could play easily.

I think, that good option is FF_PLAY from FF_MPEG pack.
We have FF_mpeg for WOS, but there isn't FF_Play.
There is also FFmpeg with FFplay for 68k CPU, and with this pack, NetSurf can play video from YouTube

Look this video:



FFPlay can play many formats, also HTML5, so we could have simple player to video from Youtube!

[nexus]

VLC does have PPC source online

[BULI]

Originally Posted by starship

Better,
We need H.264 mp4 codec for froggerng.
Ragnarok could play easily.

Originally Posted by nexus

VLC does have PPC source online

Why not, how fast is this player?


Or MPlayer for WOS?

[grelbfarlk]

MPlayer should be buildable without too much drama.
VLC from what I can see wants a working pthreads which we don't have in our SDK, found this out from GemRB but that might just be the libVLC-which is not really needed for GemRB.
FFMpeg should be doable as well, there are many embedded versions one of which should work. Just needs to be done.

[nexus]

Originally Posted by grelbfarlk

MPlayer should be buildable without too much drama.
VLC from what I can see wants a working pthreads which we don't have in our SDK, found this out from GemRB but that might just be the libVLC-which is not really needed for GemRB.
FFMpeg should be doable as well, there are many embedded versions one of which should work. Just needs to be done.

FFMpeg is in VLC or it can use its own
uses the libavcodec or its own LibVLC

"The libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project provides many of VLC's codecs, but the player mainly
uses its own muxers and demuxers. It also has its own protocol implementations"

[Hedeon]

Some benchmarks of the Killer NIC M1 running WarpOS stuff:
(I also take requests)

GPMark SDL Benchmark:

                      CSPPC  BPPC    Sonnet  PrPMC800 Killer NIC
                      360MHz 330MHz  500MHz  450MHz   400MHz
                      CVPPC  Voodoo3 Voodoo3 Voodoo3  Voodoo3

Blitting Test:        18.7    8.2     36.8    137.7    40.0
Plasma:               18.5    8.2     32.8    81.5     34.3
Rotozoomer:           17.3    6.3     33.1    96.7     34.3
Rotozoomer Near:      18.6    8.2     33.6    100.9    36.1
Rotozoomer Far:       14.8    4.2     31.7    86.0     30.2
Radial Blur:          6.9     1.6     9.9     19.4     12.0
3D Bunny:             3.6     1.6     5.1     11.2     7.0

3D Games:

          Demo  Sonnet 500MHz G3    PrPMC 450MHz G4   Killer NIC 400MHz
                320x240  640x480   320x240  640x480   320x240  640x480
QuakeWOS  (2)    68.3     24.6       93.0     40.3      60.0    25.3
glQuake   (1)     x       48.9        x       50.1       x      44.5
Quake II  (1)     x       51.2        x       55.1       x      44.3
Quake III (4)     x       28.3        x       32.0       x       a

Demos:

     Encore/ByNight  Encore/Sulaco
        (Window)        (Window)

part 1:  49.07           48.76
part 2:  36.23           49.95
part 3:  36.78           35.85
part 4:  30.56           43.85
part 5:  33.18           45.00
part 6:  28.49           49.83
part 7:  50.00           47.07
part 8:  32.85             x
part 9:  38.78             x

x = not measured/not available
a = not enough memory

[Marlon_]

So, the Killer Nic is sightly better than a Sonnet at 500MHz? Who would have thought.

[Hedeon]

Originally Posted by Marlon_

So, the Killer Nic is sightly better than a Sonnet at 500MHz? Who would have thought.

You spoke a bit too soon :-)

[Marlon_]

Originally Posted by Hedeon

You spoke a bit too soon :-)

Hehe, yeah, I noticed that you started to edit the post a fair bit. :P

[BULI]

Originally Posted by Marlon_

Hehe, yeah, I noticed that you started to edit the post a fair bit. :P

But Killer NIC M1 has one bigger problem- not enought memory (only 128MB)?

[nexus]

Originally Posted by BULI

But Killer NIC M1 has one bigger "bug"- not enough memory (only 128MB)?

the PCI 32bit is 64MB DDR
the PCI-E is 128MB DDR2
so they will need a swap out
we havent tested the pci to pcie adapters that are same price as the killer nic
but if they work then you can use those and it would also add to availability

sold as
PCI 32bit 64MB-DDR stock Bigfoot K1 333MHz or M1 400MHz(K heatsink) and K1 in DELL/Alienware XPS part#R088J

not tested yet
requires Startech PCI to PCI-E adapter(PCI1PEX1) or (PCIX1PEX4)<PCI-X to PCI-E X4(X16 slot)
PCI-E 128MB-DDR2 Visiontech 2100 Xeno Pro and DELL/Alienware XPS part#C45ND

[BULI]

Originally Posted by nexus

the PCI 32bit is 64MB DDR
the PCI-E is 128MB DDR2
so they will need a swap out
we havent tested the pci to pcie adapters that are same price as the killer nic
but if they work then you can use those and it would also add to availability

sold as
PCI 32bit 64MB-DDR stock Bigfoot K1 333MHz or M1 400MHz(K heatsink) and K1 in DELL/Alienware XPS part#R088J

not tested yet
requires Startech PCI to PCI-E adapter(PCI1PEX1) or (PCIX1PEX4)<PCI-X to PCI-E X4(X16 slot)
PCI-E 128MB-DDR2 Visiontech 2100 Xeno Pro and DELL/Alienware XPS part#C45ND

Sound interesting

[trixster]

Are the quake 3 timedemo scores using lightmap or vertex lighting?

[nexus]

just fyi these might do 667MHz at 333MHz bus or you could get adventurous and swap for a MPC8349 which does run that
add some DDR2 and you have a cheap winner over sonnet easy
MPC8343/8347/8349 are same family pin compatible

all the killer nics use the same MPC8343 cpu
heatsink isnt needed for 400MHz as the pci-e run that without one
that big K heatsink was just for show and its way over kill as its like 8oz full nickel plated copper
but i do love it looks awesome tbh

[Marlon_]

Originally Posted by nexus

just fyi these might do 667MHz at 333MHz bus or you could get adventurous and swap for a MPC8349 which does run that
add some DDR2 and you have a cheap winner over sonnet easy
MPC8343/8347/8349 are same family pin compatible

all the killer nics use the same MPC8343 cpu
heatsink isnt needed for 400MHz as the pci-e run that without one
that big K heatsink was just for show and its way over kill as its like 8oz full nickel plated copper
but i do love it looks awesome tbh

Looks like the Killer Instinct "K", which I'm pretty certain is where they got the inspiration from. ^^