Commodore Free Magazine Issue #59 (PDF)

A-EON Updates "Boing Ball" re-visitedNews from A-EON TechnologyHardware Accelerated 3D using 2D CompositingAmigaOS graphics guru, Hans de Ruiter, has issued anotherupdate to his RadeonHD graphics driver for the AmigaOS.Version 0.32, which makes its official debut on the AmigaOS4.1 Update 5 CD especially created for AmigaONE X1000 "FirstContact" system, delivers full 2D support for all Radeongraphics cards from the Radeon X1300 through to theRadeonHD 4890. When asked about the improvements in hisnew driver De Ruiter said, "I'm quite pleased with the updateddriver. Apart from fixing a few bugs, the biggest change is theaddition of homogeneous texture coordinate support to thecompositing function. This allows 2D warping and evenperspective-correct texturing". In reply, A-EON Technology'sTrevor Dickinson commented, "I am pleased to help supportHans' graphics driver work and look forward to the futurerelease of hardware accelerated 3D graphics drivers whichshould benefit the AmigaONE X1000 all other AmigaOS 4users".To illustrate the improvements in his new driver De Ruitercreated "Composite3DDemo", an interactive 3D "Boing Ball"demo remake that renders everything using hardwareaccelerated 2D graphics without the use of 3D drivers.Originally developed as a test application for the RadeonHDdriver running on the AmigaONEX1000, it demonstrates what canbe done with AmigaOS 4.1'spowerful compositing feature anda little creative thinking. In othergood news De Ruiter revealed thathe is releasing the source-codewhich he hope will help others touse these features, and encouragethem to see what they can do. The"Composite3DDemo" is included onthe AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 CD andcan be downloaded from the weblink shown below. Please alsocheck the link to the "YouTube"video.NEWSwww.commodorefree.comAbout Hans de Ruiter & HDRLab: Hans de Ruiter is an electrical& electronics engineer and leading AmigaOS developer andAmiga enthusiast. His website - HDRLab - details variousprojects, many of which are AmigaOS related. The biggest ofthese is the RadeonHD driver for AmigaOS, an ambitiousproject that aims to deliver modern graphics capabilities forthe AmigaOS platform.Links:Composite 3D Demo downloadhttp://hdrlab.org.nz/projects/amiga-os-4-projects/c3d/RadeonHD development loghttp://hdrlab.org.nz/projects/amiga-os-4-projects/radeonhddriver/radeonhd-development-log/radeonhd-chip-0-32-bugfixes-and-fully-working-2d/Composite 3D Demo videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDDBhGLTPPIA-EON Technologyhttp://a-eon.com/YouTube Linkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDDBhGLTPPI&feature=player_embedded#Sam440ep_setup 1.3 Releasedfrom m3x viaSam440ep_setup is a little utility to optimize performance onyour Sam440ep board (mini-itx and flex versions)What's new:use a more aggressive instruction cache speculativeprefetching setting. This allows a faster execution for somesoftware, for example the following Blender speed testincreased performance by 10%-20%:bldyn -b projects/bricks_and_water_plugin.blend -o ram:pool-F JPEG -f 0As a side note some values returned by Ragemem areincorrect (MIPS) or lower (L2 cache read64/write64) when thissetting is enabled. To disable this setting, add NOCCRargument to the command line.Currently on OS4Depot upload queue. http://os4depot.net/Page 12