Great to see active software development on the Amiga -- especially the AA3000+. I guess the next step is to draw a rubber-banded rectangle to zoom? :)
I used to have an A500 with a 68000 CPU. It didn't have an MMU, so there was no memory isolation between processes. I think though that some Amiga models had a 68020 with MMU -- did any Amiga OS support virtual memory / memory isolation on that hardware?
Sadly, memory protection isn't part of classic Amiga OS so it's easy to cause difficult-to-fix bugs by writing outside the program's memory space. All part of the charm of retro!
Great to see active software development on the Amiga -- especially the AA3000+. I guess the next step is to draw a rubber-banded rectangle to zoom? :)
Yeah, that would be cool. Not sure I'll do that, though, as I'm onto other projects.
Great!
Do you also provide the source code for the polygon demo for learning purposes, or can you also write a beginner dsp-polygon-tutorial ?
It's an idea but I'd need to think if I can make a tutorial interesting - there are lots of technical details.
That would be great!
I used to have an A500 with a 68000 CPU. It didn't have an MMU, so there was no memory isolation between processes. I think though that some Amiga models had a 68020 with MMU -- did any Amiga OS support virtual memory / memory isolation on that hardware?
Sadly, memory protection isn't part of classic Amiga OS so it's easy to cause difficult-to-fix bugs by writing outside the program's memory space. All part of the charm of retro!
Dsp vs 060?
He showed that in an earlier video. The '060 was considerably faster, but of course it was a hugely expensive CPU.