Inspired by the questions above, I thought it might be an idea to do a bit of customer research at the Zzap show as to just what potential usres might wish from AROS, just of course with those people who are happy to do complete it.

I've created a BeeBase form to record this feedback (please see image); is there anything else I should be including here?

Cheers,
Nigel.

Edit: Typos fixed, I've added a section asking about interest in native, hosted and portable, plus I've added more information about each option in the bubble help, i.e. explaining what currently exists in AROS and what does not.

Opps, sorry - double post.

It's in the AROS archives along with CUBE adn Assaultcube - Deadwood ported all those a few years ago when the 3D drivers came out.

Cheers,
Nigel.

May I ask if there is a download for CUBE 2 I only see windows mac linux versions

Thanks :-) I think the show is sold out so should be quite busy all day (runs 9:30 to 6). I'll definitely be pushing 64 bit and try to gather some 'customer research'.

Cheers,
Nigel.

Because the 8400 is quite old? Probably but it works well with the current driver on 32 bit. I originally bought it a part of a pre-built AROS system back in the 2000s, and the i7 is the third motherboard it's been in; the first from the pre-built system died, I have the second but the CPU is a little old for 64 bit and the i7 I had for free as it was being thrown out at work because Microsoft wouldn't allow it to run Windows 11...

Anyway, on CUBE 2 lowest fps seems to be 17, highest as peasked at 71, typically around 25-40, and that's with running the other game and DVD playback simultaneously.

Cheers,
Nigel.

Wow @ntromans that's a great setup and thank you for all the time you put into preparing that!

Looking forward to watching any video reports or reading regular reports from the show. Please shere them when they are available. And post any photos you take. Keeping my fingers crossed for good attendance!

If you can, please gather the following information from visitors:

- Did you know that AROS is migrating to a 64-bit system?
- What would be needed to make you use AROS / use AROS more?

Hi I want to ask don’t you have Gpu bottleneck with this combination ?

Very nice! Good luck Nigel!

We'll be cheering you on from afar.

Everything pretty much finalised for the show aside from the bit of issue with laptop for the presentation mentioned elsewhere. The demos will be:

i7 desktop running 32 bit native - simultaneously showing Cube 2, Hollyman (Pacman clone) and a DVD on a big-screen TV. Not just to show 3D capabilities and CPU grunt but also how flexible Trident is - I've mapped the Cube 2 controls to a wireless USB game pad and the Hollyman ones to a classic digital joystick (connected via an Amiga 2000 keyboard converted to USB via a Keyrah) so that both games can be played simultaneously through their respective controllers.

i5 HP laptop 64 bit native - showing OWB and internet radio (just hope the wifi at the venue is good).

Sansung netbook - showing the sort of productivity software I use for work, each program running on its own screen, the use of touchscreen on AROS and the ability to transmit a chosen screen to a second display (via an ASUS 4G surf running 32 bit native); second screen will be a 17" TV. (This has been incredibly useful at work this week; the college PCs have been particularly problematic so I've needed to transfer my presentation to my Samsung several times).

ACER Aspire - showing 'What is AROS' presentation. Looks like being on standard 64 bit so no USB which is a little tricky as the keyboard on this laptop has stopped working. However, if I boot from hard drive and start the presentation from user-startup this will be OK for the show (the presentation just runs in a loop).

Computer spec sheets and demo explanatory panels have all been produced, I just need to print and laminate those. Lukily I've been allocated a 6 foot table so there will be plenty of room for all the machines.

Cheers,
Nigel.

It's a GForce 8400.

Cheers,
Nigel.

What video card do you have in that i7 machine?

Will do, although a Zzap I'll have the i7 running 32 bit as it will be showing 3D capabilities.

Also hopefully my first AROS article will appear in the next but one Amiga Addict magazine (might have been sooner but it seems my original e-mail back in February got lost in the e-mail system somewhere).

Cheers,
Nigel.

Ok, glad to hear that. Have fun at MAE!

i5 and i7 are good candidates to have USB3 working on them. Looking forward to your tests.

I'm actually at a MAE event rigth now, some dicsussion re. what's happening next month.

Personal life has been a bit busy these last couple of weeks but I hopefully after Sunday I shoudl be able to try the latest USB 3 and get the rsources together for the show.

Cheers,
Nigel.

Hi @ntromans

How are preparations going on for ZZap event? It's almost May. Have you had a chance to try USB3 support on your hardware? If there are issues that would block it from beeing presented, there is no so much time left.

Glad to hear you finalized your setup and looking forward to hear how people react to your presentation/AROS.

I've been using the send screen application for a couple of weeks in class now.

I decided to park the RPi idea for the moment (as looking on the net it seemed many people were having problems setting an RPi up as an access point) and instead I'm using a little ASUS 4GSurf, running AROS of course, as the receiver connected to the class-room's screen.

My Samsung with its touchscreen then sends the selected screen to the ASUS for display. I combined the sending code with my ViewPubscreen application so I can choose which screen to send; I can be looking at one screen on the Samsung (e.g. with student details or speaker notes) whilst the screen with SimpleWhiteboard is presented to the students. It's obviously easy to flick between the screens as I need to.

So far it's working out well to give rooms without a smart board that functionality and with the added bonus I can stay facing the students rather than having to keep turning back to the board to write. This is on 32 bit (to use Hollywood's networking library) and I appreciate it's a bit of a niche application but if anyone's intersted I'll happily post up the code. In any case, hopefully it will provide an interesting demo of a practical use for AROS at the upcoming show.

Cheers,
Nigel.

P.S. I just saw Hollywood's PDF library was updated and was really hopeful it would finally support the loading of PDFs in AROS' Holywood but unfortunately not. A real shame as it's more capable at handlng current PDFs that our current version of GhostScript.

I've asked to take four machines:

i5 laptop 64 bit. Hopefully this will be running OWB if I can get onto wifi in the hall plus Amiberry and emuv0 running 32 bit apps.

i7 tower 32 bit to show 3D capabilites via Cube2. It also shows how flexible Trident is as I have all the controls mapped to a wireless dual-stick controller. I'll have mplayer running a video or two next to it just to show raw CPU power at work.

AMD laptop. I was planning to run my 'what is AROS' presentation on this. It does run 64 bit nativey but equally could be the AROS portable machine.

Samsung netbook 32 bit to show 2D graphics and AROS with a touchscreen. My plan here is to have an RPi zero 2W cionnected to a screen and acting as a wifi hotspot. The Samsung will then connect to it and send its screen (either SimpleWhiteboard or ZunePaint) for display by the RRi, giving AROS a wireless dual screen display. Obviously it will be possible to send a specific screen from AROS so you could have one displayed on the machine and a different one on the remote screen. I need this anyway for one class I teach in at work - trying to teach A-level Electronics in a room with no smartboard and a tiny, trapped-in-a-corner wihiteboard is becomming bit of a pain.

The other option instead of the Samsung is my Acer Aspire machine which would allow me to fit a bigger touchscreen but it's the one that refuses to have a working USB. Is it possible there will be another release of experimental USB3 before May?

Cheers,
Nigel.

Glad to hear that! How many machines can you bring? Will you be showing both AROS One (native) and AROS Portable? Also do you need any help with preparations?