looking good.

For anyone else curious about MorphOS on the X5000, I've swapped across to a Radeon 1650 card with 512MB which is giving me better 3D performance than the X1550 although sadly it had some issues with DVI output so this is being displayed with VGA output. Again the card only cost me £8.00 on Ebay so if anyone reading this is curious to try this out on their X5000's, I would consider giving it a go.

I do have a question in regards to the ACE (Amstrad) emulator if anyone with an X5000 has managed to try it out. It loads with no issue on my Mac Mini G4 but for some reason this will not run on the X5000. Is there a likely cause for this or does the program only support a G4 processor?

If anyone is interested in a Cyrus Plus/X5000 for Morphos, you may want to start watching eBay. It seems some OS4 users are giving up and dumping their X5000. The last one sold for roughly half the price of a new one.

[ Edited by redrumloa 21.08.2018 - 16:12 ]

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Situation with gfx on all 3 sides makes it currently hardly possible. Maybe x600 and x1xxx might do the magic.

Twisty,Twisty.
Seller says he does not have enough time in the day to enjoy .
I appreciate his situation .
I escape this by using my X5000 at work.

Now were did that previous post by TMG go ?



[ Edited by Spectre660 21.08.2018 - 14:43 ]

Best 3D support that you can get on an X5000 currently is maximum 2 out of the three supported OS'es. For AmigaOS 4.1 and Linux you need 2 video cards .
And no current AmigaOS 4.1 and Morphos 3D option.


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[ Edited by Spectre660 21.08.2018 - 15:19 ]

> Nemo/X5000 for Morphos

That would be Cyrus Plus. Nemo is the X1000 board, which MorphOS doesn't run on.

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Whoops! You would be correct. I'll fix my post.

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No twisting, just observing. Why buy something only to almost immediately dump it at fire sale prices if all was rosy?

Heck, anytime a Pegasos II goes up for sale it easily gets well above original MSRP. If a full Pegasos II system was listed on eBay right now it would probably get the same price as this X5000.

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New X5000/20 boards are available and X5000/40 boards are due so the only reason to pay top price would be if this one saves on shipping due to the location . If not then he would need to lower the price to make it attractive .

I think the majority of X5000 users are happy with the machine myself included. The next generation Amiga scene in general is a work in progress no matter which operating system you decide to run and so long as you are aware and happy with this realisation and accept that due to the low installed user base progress is not as quick as we would all like, then I think personally you will get a lot out of it espcially in comparison to a owning classic Amiga setup.

I won’t lie but I am getting more mileage out of MorphOS than I am AmigaOS 4 at present and Linux hasn’t had much of a look in at all over the past two months. Reasons behind this I would probably say are down to an updated browser and good playback with Mplayer In MorphOS compared to their AmigaOS 4 and Linux equivalents.

However AmigaOS 4 still gets quite a lot of use especially for things like Snes9x and Atari++ which run better than their MorphOS counterparts. I much prefer the ease of Tunenet in OS4 over Aminet Radio .

Some things run better in one and some things run better in the other, but the advantage of the X5000 is that it is one of the few machines out there and available to buy that can run both AmigaOS 4 MorphOS and various Linux distributions all in one box.

Lots of people like to moan about it’s price and of course for some depending on where you live in the World and your purchasing power it probably is, but if people are deciding to sell their systems on EBay for less than retail price then perhaps one should look at it as a opportunity to snap up a pretty unique system at a knockdown price rather than assume that because someone is selling the system isn’t much cop. 😉

I understand that Tunenet is better than Aminetradio but what about Snes9x? Why OS4 version is better?

> the X5000 [...] is one of the few machines out there and available to buy that can
> run both AmigaOS 4 MorphOS and various Linux distributions all in one box.

It's even the only machine newly available to buy that can do so.

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Tunenet better that AmiNetRadio? Never

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@zukow

The HunoPPC port of SNES 9X on OS4 allows for better quality resolution filters. The GUI on the OS4 version is also a lot nicer too.

The MorphOS version appears a little lacking in comparison

For those who are curious my blog post from last year covers this

https://amigax5000.blog/2017/06/24/snes9x-super-nintendo-emulator/





[ Edited by outrun1978 21.08.2018 - 22:45 ]

And my preference for Tunenet over Aminet Radio is simply down to the preconfigured shoutcast streams. Unless I have missed something with Aminet Radio and the set up of it, the scan of streams doesn’t seem to work and I have to enter in Radio streams manually.



[ Edited by outrun1978 21.08.2018 - 22:54 ]

But BeWorld ported Huno's port to Morphos.
http://www.morphos-storage.net/dl.php?dir=Emulation&file=Snes9x_1.53.lha


and
1511.jpeg

this tab is most ugly piece of UI i've ever seen :)

... but ok, Amigainput tab could be useful.

[ Edited by zukow 22.08.2018 - 00:19 ]

Anyone got any kind of benchmarks of anything with MorphOS running on the x5000?? Can be anything really. Just need to see if the x5000 is lets say twice as fast as a Mirror Drive Mac or if it is the same or even slower?

Only for ones who have a compatible working 3D card in their x5000 for MorphOS, a good starting point is to benchmark Quake III. Here is a thread explaining how to set it up once you have it installed:

Quake III Benchmarking

Just run it if you are able to. Nobody with an x5000 has sat down and actually ever did it, or at least even posted about it.

[ Edited by Doffo 21.08.2018 - 18:06 ]

> Anyone got any kind of benchmarks of anything with MorphOS running on the x5000??
> Can be anything really.

See comment #781:-)

Thanks. That settles that. ;)

Still, who is gonna step up and run some quake III benchmarks on their x5000? Don't even have to play the game, run some commands and watch those FPS go. :D

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Sounds fair enough. OS4 has 3D support finally with Warp3D Nova, right?

@redrumloa

No Quake III ports using Warp3D Nova or wrappers available yet .
Port using GLES4 wrapper awaiting a Warp3D Nova/OpenGLES 2.0 library bug fix release .

Post # 1 by Kas1e

Post # 2 by Kas1e

Bug fixes done and stuff tested works with Radeon SI and Polaris .
There are 2 wrappers in the works. Gl4ES and EGLWrap .
Demos that I have access to for both work (Radeon SI and Polaris) but nothing heavy like Quake III to benchmark yet .

Forgot a 3rd Wrapper , Minigl Reloaded which is a implementation of Minigl via Warp3D Nova.

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AmigaOS 4.1FE using Warp3DSI (Not Warp3DNova)

X5000/020 - Radeon R9-270X


IOQuake 3

1600x1200 = 95.10FPS

[ Edited by Spectre660 21.08.2018 - 21:59 ]

Pampers X5000 benchmark from 2016

Benchmark Configuration


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