[News] OS4 progress since pre-release | ANN.lu |
Posted on 08-Jun-2004 21:47 GMT by Peter Gordon | 228 comments View flat View list |
Hans-Jorg Frieden has posted a detailed status update on the progress of OS4 to Amigaworld.net.
Brief summary:
· Picasso96 and MUI PPC native
· Kernel supports PPC performance monitor and Altivec
· Moovid (released with OS3.9 as "action") is now running native, and can play DivX and other common formats
· GCC 3.4.0 is ported
· The C libraries are much faster. As a result AmiPDF is up to 60 times faster.
· Serial and floppy drivers coming soon
· USB is working and supports HID devices like keyboards and mice as well as HID joysticks and steering wheels, and USB mass storage devices like USB sticks, flash card readers, 7-in-1 card readers and cameras
· A1 IDE device now has working UDMA support. Also, interrupts are no longer polled but delivered properly. This means that the device does not require any CPU time for transfers.
This material will in due course be released for download to registered users of the Developer Pre-release on our web site at:
http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz
There is more detail in the original AW.net posting.
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Posted by Steffen Haeuser on 09-Jun-2004 12:17 GMT | In reply to Comment 43 (Peg2): >1. RTFM
>2. IFace->OpenWindowTags(...,...,,..);
>to be correct,
>but hey! Look @ this:
>3. #include <inline4/intuition.h>
>OpenWindowTags(...,...,...);
Bad code. It won't work only to include the inline4. Also you should
NEVER NEVER NEVER use compiler-specific includes (like inline4 for OS4,
or pragmas for SAS/C or inline/ for gcc on OS 3.x).
Do it like this and it is fine (setting __USE_INLINE__ in the Makefile):
#include <proto/intuition.h>
...
OpenWindowTags(...
and it will work everywhere.
BTW: Library-Auto-Init for most libs can be done by linking with
-lauto, then you do not have to care about GetInterface/DropInterface.
Actually the library generation tool automatically generates source-code
for such a "auto-open-library". You could then generat a libmylibsauto.a
for example...
Hmmm, seems the MOS-crowd gets desperate, judging recent comments :)
Steffen |
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