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Backdrops R Us
This month, Carl Moppett gives us his choices for
the AmigaOS4 Artist Competition:
These are taken on MY AmigaOne Running
OS4.
Configuration 750FX G3 @ 1 GHz, 1GB RAM, Voodoo3 3000,
Soundblaster Live & 120GB Harddisc
#1:
dj-nick-amiwall 4
This is bar my favourite back drop in the
community section and hands down is the winner in my opinion.
It carries on from the style of art in introduced with OS3.5
& OS3.9. To me it represents an optimistic feeling about
the future. How appropriate but to show on top of it native
PPC AHI and Amplifier. Playing an MP3 of the "Back for the
Future"
#2: Scanlines
I do like this image. The boing ball is just
great. The Scanlines remind me of running PAL screens on my
old 1438S monitor. I was curious how I was going to get my
applications onto OS4. I had a back up on my partners XP box,
so I opted for FTP. So i used my favourite FTP Daemon
(RC-FTPd) by Robin Cloutman. On My A1200T 060 with
MediatorNet.device I manage a max of around 245K per second
around my network at home. How amazed was I when I saw the
same 68K version running under interpretive emulation pushing
in excess of 600K per second.
#3: Moment
Moment reminds me of drinking Baileys on the
Rocks, while watching a sunrise. The perfect moment, calming.
The way Amiga computing experiences made you feel 10 years
ago. The way I hope OS4 will make people feel again. Now
IBrowse is a complex little beast. This Grab show a couple of
the new os4 features, offscreen window feature and anti
aliased fonts with regular applications. This is the 020
version of IBrowse 2.3 and again even under 68k interpretive
emulation and 68k graphics subsystem its still flies. The
feeling you get comparing OS4 on an A1 to 3.9 on Mediator
A1200T is like comparing when you upraded to an 060 and
Graphics card from AGA and an 020.
#4: Timeline.
I just like the symmetry about this image and how
the version numbers evolve out from the centre, like the
universe. Timeline is also the title of my
favourite novel.
Games Games Games. I love them and I can wait to play Payback
and WipeOut 2097 again. However, these don't yet run under the
version of OS4 I have access to. 68K ADoom does :) and on its
own screen with a 68K graphics subsystem, 68k interpetation
and software rendering it knocks up 40 odd frames per seconds.
#5: Amiga Art
Well this image is just simple. Boing Ball and an
Amiga logo on a nice orange backdrop. It gets the point
accross, there is no mistake you're looking at
an Amiga. I
have not done any word processing on the Amiga for years, I
think the last time was just before I graduated from
University. Amiga Writer and Final Writer are what I used then
and here they are shown running together on a workbench screen
under OS4, again using the interpretive emulation.
OS4 is a work in progress and from what I have
used I am impressed. I can't wait to see what these programs
above run like when the JIT
68k engine is in place with the
PPC graphics subsytem. But now Its fast, Its Impressive and
above all "Its Amiga".
Well done Amiga, Hyperion, Eyetech,
Carl Moppett B.Sc (Hons) | 
