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I can't even remember when I last needed swap memory. It was configured on most if not all of my linux PCs but I believe it was never used in my usecases. Now with SSDs reaching bandwidths in the GB/s range, I wonder how noticable it would be. Perhaps it gets used and I don't even notice?
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swapon -s, free, top will tell you.
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Yes, I prefered D paint in fact, I used D Paint III with my A500 Plus back in the day and animation was good. The only issue I had then, was trying to work out how to add sound to the finished anim. |
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The mod'ed CoffeineOS 921's "Kickstart 3.9" ROM didn't fix the "Gayle reset" issue. I have two 32GB microSD cards with either AmigOS 3.2 (modded with CoffinOS) or CoffeineOS 921. The problem is during cold boot freeze before running the CardReset command. Before the "Gayle reset" hardware fix, 1. Cold boot into CoffeineOS without a WiFi card 2. Run the CardReset command. 3. Insert Prism2 WPA2 WiFi card, 4. Amiga 1200 will freeze. 5. Warm reboot into CoffeineOS with a WiFi card. 6. Activate TCP/IP network stack and run NetSurf 3.10. This issue is less with 3Com 3CCE589ET 10 Mbps Ethernet card and it usually doesn't cold boot freeze the A1200. After the "Gayle reset" hardware fix, 1. Cold reboot into CoffeineOS with a WiFi card. 2. Activate TCP/IP network stack and run NetSurf 3.10. I prefer WiFi equipped with Amiga 1200 since it's semi-portable. A1200 with PiStorm32 Lite-Emu68-RPi 4B 4GB RAM (2 GB usable with AmigaOS) can beat my old IBM T20 (Pentium III 700Mhz with 512 MB RAM) and a match against Dell Inspiron 510m Pentium M with 2 GB RAM laptop. A1200 with PiStorm32 Lite-Emu68-RPi 4B 4GB RAM is partly crossing over that can be used as my daily driver. A1200 with PiStorm32 Lite-Emu68-RPi 4B is silent without laptop fan noise. It's missing Youtube. CoffeineOS 921 has been updated to the 922 version. Quote:
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I purchased AmigaOS 4.1 FE was bundled with Amiga Forever 2016 with a software-emulated Phase 5 PowerPC setup and AmigaForever A1200 KickStart 3.X ROM. I have purchased AmigaOS 3.1.4 with A500/A1200 ROMs and AmigaOS 3.2 with A500/A1200 ROMs. If Emu68 has support for Phase 5 PPC emulation, I'll use the existing AmigaOS 4.1 FE license. CoffeineOS 921 has a time-limited IBrowse, but I prefer NetSurf 3.10. I look forward to the AmigaOS 3.3 release. Last edited by hammer; 30 June 2023 at 05:27. |
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I talked to a guy that had Roadshow for legal reasons, he doesn't use Amigas any more so I'm keeping that floppy, successful license tranfer.
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Windows 10 32-bit runs fine with 3GB RAM and 2.5 inch SATA SSD, but don't expect it can run mobile phone ported Genshin Impact. A Google Pixel 2/3 mobile phones have 4GB RAM. Pixel 4 has 6 GB RAM and Pixel 5/6/7 has 8 GB RAM. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsur...lcome-to-Steam From the Steam hardware survey for May 2023, 51.93% have 16 GB RAM. -0.26% decrease. 1.17% have 24 GB RAM. +0.01% increase. 16.87% have 32 GB RAM. +0.77% increase. 1.61% have 64 GB RAM. +0.04% increase. 19.65% with the combined 24GB to 64 GB RAM group. 71.58% with at least 16 GB RAM. vs 4.87% have 4 GB RAM. -0.13% decrease. 18.91% have 8 GB RAM. -0.44% decrease. Last edited by hammer; 30 June 2023 at 05:19. |
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I think the new Amiga chipset shouldn't have less than 4GB. If you need to load like 4545 floppies up to run 4545 games at the same time, you are living too fast man, just like run like 10 or so and see if you can complete the levels about as fast.
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Bummer! Luckily all my cards work using 'card reset', so I don't need the hardware reset mod on my A1200.
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There is nothing to fix. This is a hardware issue, namely that RESET is not available on the PCMCIA port. It is not fixable by software. There is also no way to initiate a reset by software, contrary to common believe.
FYI, the 2GB stems from two stupid decisions in exec. First decision is that AllocEntry uses bit 31 of the returned address to indicate failure, so it cannot return an address beyond the 2GB barrier. The second issue is that bit 31 is also used in the exec list of resident modules to indicate that the entry (with bit 31 set) is a pointer to a follow-up entry and not a resident module itself. |
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But I want to run Indy 4 415 times and that's just not possible with only 4 GB of RAM! 410 times is just not cutting it man.
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I don't think that it is right to call those decisions stupid. Not even "shortsighted". Those decisions were very reasonable and provided for a very elegant way of dealing with memory allocation in code. The fact that we can now easily buy more than 2GB of RAM doesn't make the decision stupid even in hindsight because we haven't got any software that would put that much RAM to use. If Amiga were an economically viable ecosphere, we would long have got some newexec with 64bit addresses (and memory protection, resource tracking, resource ownership etc.) where old programs run in some sort of sandbox in a 32bit address sub-space. Just like MacOS and Windows did.
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Sorry, but I disagree. AllocEntry() should just return a NULL pointer in case of failure, because that the common type of interface. Returning its argument with bit 31 set is inconsistent with the rest of exec, and - in fact - led to several defects in programs that checked for NULL instead. Nobody expects such kind of an interface. Having the possibility to replace ROM modules is elegant, but the negative pointer is not. It makes the whole construction inaccessible from higher languages. Actually, it is also pretty inconsistent. Whereas the *memory* for the resident nodes is a linked list of MemEntries (similar to the rest of the system) the resident list is a "screwed up" array. Why not a list of nodes? Why do the mementries for the residents have to include the memory for the nodes themselves, whereas they do not for "regular" allocations? |
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Not to mention that negative pointers are a filthy hack that every programmer should stay away from.
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Roadshow has been integrated as a part of OS4 since very early on. It was only later released for OS3, and became better known by its name then as it was a separate product. It's mostly invisible in OS4 so doesn't gain much attention, with its preferences program just called "Internet".
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