26 June 2023, 23:27 | #81 |
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Yes, and your point is?
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oh, my point is that probably there is some miscommunication in this thread - all your points are valid but only to HW of one vendor where other vendor may implement particular functionality or not at all or in other way.
so doing some generalization on SVGA may be not the best as they are unique from vendor to vendor and can't be considered as some common denominator for offered functionality - they offered commonly frame buffer with particular organization located trough some window in address space with lot of x86 limitations and lot of workarounds for those x86 limitations. Saying that some chip offered capability to switch video mode within single line or other similar to Amiga functionality is meaningless for this discussion as it was not standard and usually not used. btw auto-scroll or virtual desktop was supported by ATI drivers if i recall correctly |
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It surprise me someone can miss this feature because I tried it once on the Amiga and it gave me the nausea, literally, after a few minutes.
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So all I can say is that this 100% Amiga compatible screen dragging ability of PC graphics chips 'back in the day' (1990's) was unknown to me. However I did some research and found out that (according to the AROS team) screen dragging was actually patented by Commodore, so anyone else who implemented it without permission would be violating that patent. BTW all those cards you mention were introduced in 1995 or later, so at the time Hombre was developed it was more advanced than PC VGA cards, most (all?) of which did not have the hardware to do proper screen dragging. Quote:
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Restricting movement to vertical is better because then you don't have to worry about horizontal mouse movement - just grab and drag knowing it will go up and down perfectly vertical without wobbling around. But of course you will just say that for wanting that I am a 'very funny man' with peculiar desires that nobody else has. You see, if a modern PC doesn't do something you want, that's your fault for not accepting the wisdom of the OS gods when they say 'it makes no sense'. |
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That's more useful on Amiga hardware and certainly not needed anymore. On current and recent hardware you'd just use the GPU for that. |
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Actually, the problem is that you are so "tight" into Amiga space, you probably do not notice that most other people do not care about your experiences anymore. Most people do not care about screens or dragging, it is an obsolete concept that does not make sense anymore, so you are pretty much alone with your demands. People today assume that computers work like smartphones (or I must assume so, given the look of the gnome desktop). Not that I personally like that, but I am probably in the minority. |
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I find virtual desktops much more useful than draggable screens. I never liked paging through a lot of screens which all but the Workbench screen usually only had one program running. That made them full-screen windows. Also, if you dragged down a screen half-way and then clicked through the screens, that screen would stay pulled-down making it awkward to handle. Thus, I would only pull-down screens to see something on another screen and then drag the screen back up.
Of course, screen dragging was a great feature at the time. There was little display real estate and there had to be a way to handle the outputs of multiple programs in a multitasking OS. The hardware wasn't powerful enough to move that much graphical content which is why the copper was such a useful coprocessor. However, with all that in mind with a modern monitor that easily lets me arrange multiple windows next to each other I find virtual desktops more useful than draggable screens. Hence, I never missed the feature when I got a PC (running linux with fvwm2 and beyond which all had virtual screens). |
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It seems people don't know there's no difference between the two for some reason.
I'm the opposite and find screen cycling awesome |
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Of course screen dragging is useful if graphic pipelines similar to Amiga where you can mix video modes mostly to conserve memory. But this is same story as with windowing (virtual screen, autoscroll etc) - even plain VGA can do this but anyway it was rarely used, even rarely exposed to user so preventing to be used. |
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DP is just like all of us, a passionate person over Amiga.
You can all rave on about what graphics cards and computers can do today. It still isn't going to change the fact that for a while, Personal Computers, struggled to replicate what the A1000 could do, on just 16 Bit and 512KB RAM. It was once stated that the A2000 was so well designed, that it would not become obsolete, until well after the turn of the century. IMHO, Amiga computers will never be obsolete and/or superseded! |
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"Screen dragging" functionality can be enabled for PC SVGA when hardware function is available and if it's a "killer app" then the PC market will gravitate towards it. Examples of the PC market gravitating toward a particular vendor 1. NVIDIA's RT is a "killer app" that resulted in NVIDIA's discrete PC GPU dominance. 2. NVIDIA's GeForce's T&L (DirectX 6.1, DirectX7, Quake 3's NV15 map) feature was the "killer app" that killed 3DFX. NVIDIA directly wreaked 3DFX and SGI both in the market space and NV's counter-legal battles. GeForce's hardware T&L was useful in pro-3D apps that stepped on SGI's core market. 3. NVIDIA's TNT/TNT2 32bit 3D render vs 3DFX's 16bit 3D render. The loser is 3DFX. ATI's graphics products are just commodity OEM shippers. 4. The gaming market was biased towards fake 3D around the late 1993 Doom era. X86 CPU cloners focused on good integer performance until 1996 Quake forced Pentium FPU issue on X86 CPU cloners. Before NVIDIA TNT, my SVGA card is S3 Trio 64UV PCI. Last edited by hammer; 28 June 2023 at 06:27. |
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Amiga's 24-bit memory address range from 68EC020 and 68000 has its own limitations and issues e.g. PCMCIA memory range conflicts. I have a Dell Inspiron 5150 (mobile Pentium IV + GeForce FX 5200 64 MB) with 2GB RAM and a PCMCIA slot, the PCMCIA prism2 wifi card just works. I was using an older PC for flash ROM update prism2 WiFI card with WPA/WP2. A 32-bit X86 allows 3GB system memory (asymmetric dual channel mode) and 1 GB address space for I/O and add-on devices. I tested this configuration on an ASUS W3J laptop with 32 bit Core Duo CPU. AmigaOS's 32-bit memory model has 2GB of system memory and it has issues with PiStorm-Emu68 Pi 4B with 4GB RAM. Last edited by hammer; 28 June 2023 at 06:52. |
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my good old a2000 manages to work miracles with his picasso 4 from 1996
https://youtube.com/shorts/m9loS6l85y0?feature=share my graphics card is limited in zorro 2 but its still axeptable in use |
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The substantially different thing is that you do not need to move graphics around, which is quite an advantage on slow machines or slow graphics cards. Nowadays, of course, this makes no difference and no sense anymore. You can realize screen dragging just as compositing effect with the GPU. In fact, this is how it works on AmigaOs 4. There, a screen is just a moving raster where the GPU moves graphics data around.
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Once again - in Amiga times even 64MiB of RAM was huge amount of memory - you are referring to technology created 10..20 years after Amiga (Commodore) bankruptcy. It is quite obvious that technology progressed significantly since AGA times. Amiga OS memory limitation is not substantially different than other 32 bit OS's from beginning of 90's. Even NT was severely limited in terms of addressable memory despite being oriented toward professional use cases. I recall many statements around 80/90 that 32 bit address space is huge and RAM size will be NEVER able to achieve 32 bit address limit (physical limitation). Btw - if you willing to check conflicts in 24 bit address space you should definitely get more familiar with PC XT/AT limitations... PCMCIA is not conflicting - simply this address is shared - you could at least in theory use FC lines to isolate PCMCIA from general memory range thus avoid conflicts - there is multiple if then but this was never big problem as rarely amount of RAM in A600/A1200 in 24 bit space exceeded 4MiB (and it was never issue in 32 bit space). Last edited by pandy71; 29 June 2023 at 00:04. |
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You missed the abbreviation DP was meant for David pleasance.
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It is only me having strange feeling of reading some synthetic text generated by some ChatGPT?
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