Here are the results of the AmigaOS 4 graphics card survey I did last month. I do these every year…By far the most interesting result was actually the number of responses I received, which seems to have dropped back down to roughly the level it was in 2017. This makes me wonder, have those WinUAE […]
Okay, the Warp3D Nova tutorials book is finally done. I’ve done the final edits, and it’s available now for you to buy. I’ve decided to go for the extra expense of full-colour on the print book. I know it’s more expensive, I think that the colour syntax highlighting makes the code easier to understand. So, […]
A few years ago I wrote a bunch of tutorials for Warp3D Nova with the intent of helping other people learn how to use it. This was back when it was first introduced. Anyway since then those tutorials have kind of gotten lost on myblog, kind of buried. So, at Jamie’s suggestion (thanks Jamie), I’ve […]
The results are in for this year’s AmigaOS graphics card survey and they’re quite interesting. For starters, 467 people contributed this year vs 348 in 2017. That’s a 34% jump. Maybe the community is growing…What are people using as their main graphics card? There are two clear trends:People are slowly migrating toward newer cards. Use […]
If you’ve been following the AmigaOS world then you’ll no doubt have heard of the upcoming A1222 (codenamed Tabor). It’s a nice little board; one that I’m planning to build a laptop out of. Anyway, the P1022 CPU on-board has a peculiarity: it’s got a Stream Processing Engine (SPE) for floating-point calculations that’s incompatible with […]
A brand new game that takes full advantage of Warp3D Nova has just been released by the AmiBoing/Entwickler-X team. Called Spencer, it’s a classic Jump’n run platform game with a bright and colourful cartoon 2.5D style.From a technical standpoint, its graphics are rendered in 3D with shaders providing advanced per-pixel 3D lighting. Having put a […]
ERROR If you’re signed up to the DIY mailing list, then you’ll already have seen this. Otherwise, the video above is a quick update on the DIY laptop project.Quick SummaryThe battery holder has been completely redesigned It has PTC fuses on all battery balancing cables (in addition to the one on the main circuit), so […]
Matthew Leaman recently published an article about the move to Polaris graphics cards on AmigaOS 4.x. He gave a good overview of why drivers for Polaris cards are needed and the work being done. That said, a picture is worth a thousand words, so I thought I’d give you a glimpse of the current driver […]
ERROR Last month I gave people a sneak peek at my DIY laptop project at AmiWest (and youtube). It’s been several weeks since, so it’s high time that I gave you more information. The video above gives a quick update (I’m almost done assembling a large 3D printer for prototyping), and details on the usual […]
As an AmigaOS graphics driver developer I’m always interested in knowing what graphics hardware people are actually using. This year I’ve got the most accurate picture yet, with over 3x the submissions of last year’s survey! Many thanks to the 348 people who took part.So, what does the AmigaOS 4 graphics landscape look like? Well, […]
