Workbench December 2002 Issue 187

December 2002 Workbench 1 Editorial Happy Christmas everyone,

This month we have articles covering the Elbox Trojan Horse code fiasco. Editor Tony Mulvihill Thankfully Elbox have fixed their little indiscretion. We have a rather long 0415 161 271 article covering MorphOS. If you’ve been confused about MorphOS then this [email protected] article should clear the air on OS 4’s closest competitor. We also have Contributions the final in my Future Tech series, meeting pics from October/November and Contributions can be soft copy (on floppy½ disk) or all the current Ami news. hard copy. It will be returned if requested and Don’t forget this months meeting is December the 8th, one week earlier than accompanied with a self- addressed envelope. usual. So until next year, have a happy Christmas and a great start to the new The editor of the Amiga Users Group Inc. newsletter year from all the AUG committee. Cheers :-) Workbench retains the right Tony Mulvihill to edit contributions for clarity and length. over 30 units were sold by Anything Send contributions to: Amiga Users Group Amiga, most of which were the G4 P.O. Box 2389 Seaford Victoria 3198 version. [email protected]

Advertising This Months Meeting Advertising space is free for members to sell private December 8th 2002 items or services. Version 2 of Amiga Quake has been For information on commercial rates, contact: released. This version supports 68k, Tony Mulvihill PPC and MorphOS. 0415 161 2721 [email protected] Last Months Meeting November 17th 2002 I’ll be demonstrating the 68k version Deadlines Workbench is published Latest news and info. on my machine at Decembers each month. The deadline A demonstration of DFX, the inline meeting and if you’ve got a fast, for each issue is the 1st Tuesday of the month of floppy adaptor made to allow std network capable Amiga (that is publication. floppies to work with you’ve got an ethernet card in your Reprints Amithlon and WinUAE. Ami with an RJ45 connector) bring it All articles in Workbench are Copyright 2002 the along and well get a game of network Amiga Users Group Inc. A demonstration of networking Quake happening. I can connect up to unless otherwise indicated. Articles may be reproduced between an Amiga and a Win98 box 8 machines with my switch. for noncommercial using TCP/IP and Samba File purposes if accompanied by Latest news and info from our a credit line including the shifting and VNC was demo’ed. original authors name and VNC is a remote control program bringer of Ami news, David Myers. the words. Reprinted from Workbench along the lines of Nortons’ the newsletter of the Amiga PCanywhere, only VNC is free and Next Years Meeting Users Group. http://www.aug.org.au an Amiga server and client is Sounds like a long way from available. It was most strange to see a happening but it’s only around a Disclaimer month and a half away. The views expressed in the fully functioning Win98 desktop and

Amiga Users Group Inc. just a screen flip away, an Amiga newsletter Workbench are We’ll have the Sun room booked for those of the authors and do Workbench. not necessarily represent next year but the dates are not the views of the editor or confirmed yet. Look for more info in the AUG committee. News that in the week or so that the AmigaONE had become available next years first issue of Workbench.

December 2002 Workbench 2 In This Issue Bytes & Pieces Christmas Card 1 Editorial 2 Letting the World Know Fake OS 4 beta Group News 2 November 19, 2002 - We have been Bytes & Pieces 3 With the AmigaOne now informed that there shipping and AmigaOS is a fake OS 4 beta Elbox 4 4.0 in its final stages of circulating supposedly produced MorphOS 6 development and testing, the by HYPErion (!) which contains Humour 11 time has come to begin letting “amusing” commentary such as the rest of the world know the “x megabytes leaked but OS 4 Future Tech 12 good news, that the Amiga is will have virtual memory Meeting Pics 13 alive, well and ready to let the anyway”. It is possible that this Boing.Net 14 World have fun with computing archive contains malicious code again. and we therefore urge users not Anything Amiga 14 http://www.amiga.com/ to download and run it. Dealer Directory 15 corporate/111902- exposure.shtml Ben Hermans/Hyperion About The Group 16 fxPAINT 2.0 in December modules have been heavily and WarpUP and extended, new modules like e.g. thus, independant the “Navigation Builder” and the of which platform “Color variations”-wizard have it runs on, allow been added. you to work at full fxPAINT is an award-winning speed. An adaption for AmigaOS graphics program for AmigaOS, One of the most important new 4.0 is already being worked on MorphOS, Amithlon, PowerUP features is the support for and will be made available as a and WarpUP covering many gradients that may consist of a free download upon the time of different fields of graphical theoretically unlimited number of completion. applications. Besides others, colors and transparency-values. more than 90 high quality effects Together with the also brand-new On the fxPAINT-page you can for image processing, natural gradient tool you can easily add now find benchmark results that painting tools, image- gradients to pictures or use them document the speed gains through managment, batchprocessing- as background. native support of x86 and PPC. and numerous internet tools are The routines, already very fast on available to you. More Furthermore direct support for 68K, run - depending on the information on fxPAINT can be Truetype®-fonts, PNG-files effect/operation - more than 7 found on the fxPAINT- (loading and saving, incl. all times faster on an 180 MhZ homepage. options like alpha-channel, etc.), PowerPC and more than 40 times the system clipboard and faster on Amithlon running on a We are proud to announce the Turboprint has been added. The 850 MhZ Athlon. long awaited version 2.0 of ARexx-port and its nearly 90 fxPAINT today. fxPAINT 2.0 new commands as well as the An overview over all, including includes many new features, that numerous scripts contained offer many more, new features as well will open up new graphical additional functionality. as the possibility to purchase horizons to you. Besides the fxPAINT 2.0 at a time-limited generally improved working fxPAINT 2.0 will, besides the special price can be found on the speed and many new effects, a lot support for 68K-systems, also all-new fxPAINT 2.0 subpages. has been done at the modules, offer native support for Delivery is scheduled for the first too. The fxALBUM- and MorphOS, Amithlon, PowerUP half of December 2002.” fxCONV(batch processing)- http://www.iospirit.de/fxpaint/

December 2002 Workbench 3 Elbox Crash Code

obvious in their public Trojan Horse statements. Maybe it’s because of the Polish culture By Tony Mulvihill or language differences or maybe it’s just the way they Elbox are the well known are but anyway they made a Polish Amiga hardware major blunder recently when the Amiga is well known for manufacturers known for their an individual discovered rogue programs that overwrite innovative quality hardware, secret code in their software memory at random locations. such as the Mediator PCI drivers, that if activated, Plus once knowledge of the busboard expansion cards and destroys the RDB (Rigid Disk code got out, virus writers PCI card drivers CD, the Block) of an Amiga harddrive. could exploit the code by MrooCheck serial mouse purposefully activating it and adaptor, their range of This so called (by Elbox) anti- thus destroying your data. excellent flicker-fixers and piracy protection in the Elbox Never mind the fact the Elbox scandoublers, harddrive software doesn’t actually Trojan Horse code is actually adaptors and their Power prevent piracy but rather is a against the law in most Tower kit range. revenge mechanism that will wipe the RDB of the boot countries of the world. As great as their hardware and harddrive. The Rigid Disk First Elbox denied the software is (I myself have 4 Block of an Amiga contains existence of the code. Then pieces of Elbox hardware and the boot and partition table when more and more well I’ll vouch for it anyday), they and as well can contain all the known Amiga programmers lack good PR relations. This file systems used by the checked for, found and has been harddrive. Wiping the verified the code existed, they painfully RDB effectively means you can no longer finally came clean and said the access your data on the code existed in ALL their harddrive. The data is software. However the still there but you’ll statement Elbox released is have a major job to get confusing and ambiguous and it all back and usable. It pretty much blames everyone will require specialised else but themselves. You can software tools and an read the Elbox statement by experts knowledge. One following the links at the end wrong mistake and poof.... of the article. your data is gone for good. Consider the Elbox code like a The main problem was the fact car company releasing a car that the code could be with an anti-theft device activated by accident. It only which is a big bomb. Now the took a random memory write car company doesn’t tell you to activate the RDB code and your car comes with a bomb

December 2002 Workbench 4 Elbox Crash Code that will blow up if your car best and innovative Amiga gets stolen and when you hardware and finally discover that bomb, the provide the best company first denies it exists, support of any then acknowledges it does Amiga company I exist and say it won’t go off in have ever encountered. normal use, despite the fact it’s been proven all it takes to At the moment there is no set it off is to hit a random competition for Elbox’s pothole. Finally the car hardware but when the company says it’s everyone AmigaONE and OS 4.0 takes elses fault they installed a off, the Amiga market will bomb and that it’s perfectly grow and be more healthy and safe but recall the car and competition is sure to emerge If you’re after remove the bomb anyway. and force Elbox to cleanup some Elbox gear from Would you be happy with that their act. PR aside, their an Australian dealer give car company? service is excellent. Anything Amiga a phone call, or if you are familiar with Fortunately Elbox released an As an example of their internet ordering, Power updated driver package to excellent service I have Computing in England is also registered Elbox customers received no less than 14 a good source. which removes this updates to my mediator destructive Trojan Horse code. software since I first Pictures: So yes....Elbox are IMHO (in purchased and registered with my humble opinion) arrogant them in early 2001. Previous Page, and self serving but equally An Elbox Mediator SX 1200 have designed some of the So would I still buy and recommend Elbox gear for busboard. This board expands Amiga owners? Certainly. an A1200 to six PCI slots and Elbox have removed the allows the use of an ATX offending code from their power supply software and their hardware Above: is of a high quality and The 4 port Spider USB card innovative design. for Mediator equiped systems. Left: Have Elbox changed their The A4000 Mirage tower kit. underhanded ways? I doubt it but more Amiga Links programmers will be http://www.elbox.com/ scrutinising Elbox’s news_02_11_18b.html software from now on so we can be pretty sure anything http://www.elbox.com/ underhanded will show up news_arch.html quickly.

December 2002 Workbench 5 Morph OS in Detail

It currently runs on 603e, company to MorphOS in Detail 604e, 750 and 7400 (Original develop a migration G4) PowerPC processors. By Nicholas Blachford v1.1 Copyright © MorphOS is a well named Thendic-France SARL 16th combination of the old and the November 2002 new. It originally started in 1995 with a plan to migrate path for Contents Amiga to PowerPC but the Amiga to 1. Introduction eventually ‘morphed’ into an move to the 2. The Past: The History of entire in it’s PowerPC from the MorphOS own right which includes Motorola 680x0 (68K) series 3. The Present: The structure compatibility with Amiga processors which were coming of MorphOS applications. In the future it to the end of their life, this 4. The Present: The A-Box will change again becoming a was the genesis of the 5. The Future: The Q-Box truly modern, highly advanced MorphOS project. 5. Further Information operating system yet retaining compatibility with existing Unfortunately this agreement This document was written to applications through it’s was short-lived as Amiga describe MorphOS, how it system of OS boxes. Technologies’ parent company came about, its workings, its went bankrupt. current status and future plans. In the Beginning - The However the project did not Special thanks go to bplan and History of MorphOS die as phase5 decided to go the MorphOS developers for ahead and continue with the the great deal of assistance To add some perspective and migration process. This lead to given. for completeness, before going phase5 launching in 1997 a into detail, this section series of PowerUP add-on Introduction describes how the MorphOS cards for the Amiga providing project started and it’s RISC based acceleration for MorphOS is a new Operating subsequent history. the first time. Programs ran on System for PowerPC RISC both the 68K and some microprocessors which runs The Amiga started on its long functions were accelerated on the and arduous path to the PowerPC through the use of the PowerUP (CyberstormPPC, processor in 1995. While there PowerPC processor and a PPC BlizzardPPC) expansion cards have been and still are other native library. for the Amiga. It has also been projects to do this, with tested on the Mai Logic Teron MorphOS 1.0 the original There were many plans made CX and Teron PX evaluation project is finally being and agreements between boards. In the future MorphOS completed. phase5 and other companies will also run on other Open but as the numerous twists and Firmware based PowerPC In September 1995 there was turns in the Amiga story machines and possibly some an agreement between Amiga occurred companies went out PowerPC based Apple Technologies and the German of business and none of these Macintosh as well.

December 2002 Workbench 6 Morph OS in Detail plans came to fruition, Q-Box. The A-Box eventually with the decline in the Amiga market phase5 At the time of writing themselves went bankrupt. (November 2002) most Later a new company, bplan development has focused on was formed and the project the A-Box but considerable was picked up again but this design work has been done on time it was to be completed as the Q-Box. The an Operating System in it’s original own right without any The A-Box can run Amiga purpose of MorphOS was components from the original. RTG (Re-Targetable Graphics) to keep the Amiga alive by In 2000 as it moved towards applications as it includes a providing an upgrade path to completion, MorphOS was complete PowerPC native modern hardware. released as a public beta for clean-room reimplementation PowerUP card owners. of version 3.1 of the Amigas’ Users can already use Operating System (herein emulators to run original The 2002 public MorphOS 1.0 AOS) and a JIT (Just In Time applications on other release on the PowerPC based compiler) based 68K emulator. platforms but these work by Pegasos represents the final emulating the 68K processor chapter in the 7 year long The Q-Box on the other hand and the custom chips. While transition to PowerPC from shall be new and will require this emulation is complete and the original 68K based it’s own applications, but by accurate, a great deal of propriety hardware. MorphOS including compatibility with potential performance is lost does not require the original Amiga applications through in doing all the emulation. hardware or include any of the the A-Box, MorphOS is able original system software but it to start with an existing, While MorphOS has moved does very much include the mature application base while on from what it was originally same spirit and feeling - a the Q-Box is in development. built for it still retains computer which is fast and fun compatibility with AOS 3.1. to use! It is also possible that in the However it uses a different future other boxes may be technique which allows The Structure of MorphOS added allowing compatibility software to take full advantage with applications from other of modern hardware. The A- The MorphOS System is operating systems. Box includes a clean-room based around the minimalist Possibilities here are to add implementation of the AOS . On top of / and BeOS 3.1 API created using publicly the kernel are currently two application compatibility. It available documentation. This “Boxes” the first, currently in should however be noted that has been written and compiled the final stages of these are only possibilities at on the PowerPC so it is nearly development is the A-Box, the this point and various issues 100% native. There is also a second box currently in have to be considered before 68K emulator for existing development is the adding compatibility for these applications, the performance significantly more advanced systems. of which is boosted

December 2002 Workbench 7 Morph OS in Detail significantly by a JIT (Just In MorphOS. Time compiler) which converts 68K code into native AOS originally ran on what PowerPC code then caches it are now obsolete systems largely removing the overhead with only a fraction of the emulation usually incurs. In computing power available in addition to being native, the today’s modern A-Box is faster than the microprocessors. Amiga original at running speeds were quoted in MIPS applications due to different (millions of instructions per techniques and being used second), the MIPS rating for within the system. This a 1Ghz IBM G3 is over 2,000 replacement for Workbench is provides a further boost in times higher than the original called Ambient and being part system performance. 68000 based Amiga. Despite of the A-Box feels like the this the original Amigas environment it emulates. It is For maximum performance responsiveness was - and still able however to take however it is a simple process is - very high. Consequently, advantage of the changes and to compile code natively to the given that the A-Box provides advancements in the graphics PPC. This allows Amiga a more efficient PPC native system so unlike the Amigas’ applications to take full implementation, it’s Workbench it supports 24bit advantage of the PowerPC responsiveness will appear displays and blending. CPUs’ performance. surprisingly fast to any PC Displaying the contents of a owner especially given the window while it’s moving is One important point to make relatively low clock speed another feature provided by however is that there is no (600MHz) of the initial the graphics system used by emulation of the Amiga systems. Ambient. MUI (Magic User custom chips. Consequently Interface) is also incorporated MorphOS cannot itself run File Systems Support making Ambient highly applications which require customizable. them. This is not as much of a MorphOS supports a number problem as one might imagine of File Systems and others can Other Graphical since applications from AOS be supported via plug-ins: Enhancements 2.0 onwards have been able to OFS (Original ) use API calls which are not FFS (Fast File System) Unlike the original, the hardware dependant. If a user FFS 2 (Fast File System 2) graphics system is now fully wants to run applications PFS 3 (Professional File abstracted away from the which require the custom System 3) hardware, it has also been chips (e.g. many games), they SFS (Smart File System) significantly enhanced with can use UAE (Ubiquitous many new features such as Amiga Emulator), this Chill Out - The Ambient transparency and overlays. provides emulation of the full Desktop Accelerated 3D graphics are Amiga hardware and runs on implemented using the various platforms including The MorphOS desktop Rave3D API and a wrapper for the API is in

December 2002 Workbench 8 Morph OS in Detail development, OpenGL remove without completely remapped to the compatibility is also in the breaking compatibility with application where the pipeline. applications. These however are limitations of the A-Box, The Audio system has also not MorphOS as a whole, the been improved with the Q-Box shall not have these addition of AHI, this is a problems. retarget table API for Audio so message Applications can take Q - The Future of MorphOS is due. advantage of systems with Small audio hardware better than the The Q-Box messages are directly original (these days, all of Up to now the development copied as this method is faster them). has been concentrated on the for very small amounts of A-Box. In the future this focus data. When launched AOS was a shall switch to Q. highly advanced operating Scalability and Other Bits system, it included pre- Q shall consist of an enhanced The message passing system emptive multitasking in 1985 - Quark kernel, a set of servers used within MorphOS means a feature not added to other to provide functionality and the system can be highly desktop Operating Systems the Q-Box in which scalable. The components (i.e. to Windows or MacOS) applications run. The Quark sending and receiving until much later. Compared to Kernel itself is very small messages can be running on modern Operating Systems providing a hardware different processors or even however, the Amiga has it’s abstraction layer, drivers, physically different computers fair share of limitations, i.e. memory management and and the messages will still get there is no memory protection message passing. Most of the there. A windowing system or virtual memory present as real work will be done in the over a network (a-la The X standard. servers, i.e. Networking, File Windowing System) could be System, GUI, Media, Security, implemented in this manner Because it includes a faithful 2D/3D Graphics etc. but the result is likely to be a re-implementation of the AOS great deal more responsive. 3.1 API specification the A- Applications shall run in the An X Windows compatible Box design was largely fixed Q-Box and make API calls via wrapper is planned so X and could not be made a message passing system. The Windows applications can be radically different. API shall not be locked to any ported but the resulting speed Consequently the A-Box has single programming language on the desktop will be very many of the same basic so application developers will different from those using limitations present in the not be required to learn a new current X Windows original. Some of these have language. The message implementations. been worked around with passing is also extremely fast, extensions but in some cases instead of transferring the data The distributed capability of Q the limitations are either too in the message, the memory messaging means clustering difficult or impossible to location of the message is will be possible without

December 2002 Workbench 9 Morph OS in Detail having to rewrite the entire Be moved networking inside, incomplete. The rest of OS. Applications requiring Linux began as a macrokernel Q is still only at the massive numbers of so includes everything. This processors will be relatively technique provides a speed simple to write under Q. One boost but at the cost of requirement of large scale stability and security since applications is a large memory different kernel tasks can footprint, workstations and potentially overwrite one planning large servers have been 64 bit another’s memory. stage, the for many years now but this is large details yet to reach consumer level Given the above, one might have been worked out but Operating Systems. Q was wonder why Q can be based the fine details have yet to be designed with 64 bit capability on a microkernel (strictly filled in. Drivers are for in mind from the start, it shall speaking it’s only instance included in the A- not be a bolt-on to an existing “microkernel like”) and still Box where they can get to the 32 bit OS. Applications will, expected to perform well. The hardware directly. In the from the start have access to answer to this lies in the fact future the drivers shall be address ranges much, much that MorphOS runs on moved into the Quark kernel larger than existing desktop PowerPC and not x86 CPUs. where they will be Operating Systems. It is a problem with the x86 independent of the A-Box and architecture that causes indeed of any other boxes, this Microkernel Vs Macro context switches to be has the advantage of making Kernel computationally expensive. them usable by all the boxes. Context switching on the This move has been pre- A common problem PowerPC is in the region of 10 planned so drivers were encountered in the times faster, similar in speed written with it in mind and the development of microkernel to a subroutine call. This move shall be a relatively Operating Systems is speed. means PowerPC Operating trivial operation. This is due to the CPU having Systems can use a microkernel to context switch back and architecture with all it’s Vapour Where? forth between the kernel and advantages yet without the Almost all the information user processes, context cost of slow context switches. here about the Q-Box is in the switching is expensive in There are no plans for an x86 future and this could lead to terms of computing power. version of MorphOS, if this accusations of us generating The consequence of this has changes there will no doubt be vapourware. We are only been that many Operating internal changes to setting out our goals here and Systems have switched from accommodate the different how we plan to achieve them. their original microkernel processor architecture. However as is normal in the roots and become closer to a world of computing things macrokernel by moving Transition change so this is all subject to functionality into the kernel, change. Development of i.e. Microsoft moved graphics At time of writing the Quark complex systems always takes into the Windows NT kernel, kernel exists but is a great deal of time, we are

December 2002 Workbench 10 Morph OS in Detail

as possible but what not to do and the the final paths not to follow. product will of course take time.

The future will expand on the work Further already done Information and provide MorphOS For details of MorphOS news users with a and links see: truly modern www.-news.de Operating System For more details of the designed and Pegasos main board see: built by now www.pegasosppc.com long experienced v1.1 Copyright © Thendic- developers France SARL November 2002 who know the benefits and All terms and names used in advantages of this white paper are the past but trademarks and property of looking at ways of getting the also have the their respective owners. system into the market as soon knowledge and experience of Laughter

December 2002 Workbench 11 Future Tech

By Tony Mulvihill conductor. It is the nature of silicon being a semi-conductor A few months ago I looked at that has both prevented and LEP (Light Emitting lead to the development of Polymers) and electronic ink. plastic transistors. This month we’ll have a look techniques to printing LEP at what makes both electronic Traditionally transistors (light emitting polymer) ink and LEP displays possible, generate heat and sometimes displays. This printed layer of the plastic transistor. lots of it (Note the huge heat transistors provides the sinks and fans needed on electronic switching matrix Transistors are small processors these days). Heat is needed to operate both LEP switching devices that work as a no go for plastic as it would and electronic ink displays. an amplifier, in that they melt, silicon can handle heat switch and modify a larger OK but has no flexibility, you By building up or stamping a electrical signal. They are at cannot bend a sheet of silicon. layer of transistors on a the heart of all modern So in order to have floppy, flexible substrate, engineers electronic devices from bendable displays and rollup have succeeded in the break washing machines to electronic paper, engineers had through development of the computers and a single to develop flexible, heatless low power flexible control integrated circuit or “chip” transistors and they have mechanism that’s needed in can have anywhere from succeeded in doing just that. the production of thin, flexible several hundred to several Using new chemical and rollup displays for both million transistors etched onto engineering processes, they electronic ink and LEPs. it’s substrate. have developed relatively heatless transistors made out Plastic transistor development The heart of a transistor is an of plastic and capable of being has also had some downflow etching on a piece of silicon, printed onto a flexible effect to other electronic which is known as a semi- substrate using similar devices, such as rechargeable lithium ion thin film batteries (batteries the thickness of a sheet of paper) and very large capacity memory devices for computing like the 5 Terabyte (5 trillion bytes) USB memory cube which measures just 2.5 x 10 x 14.5 cm.

Technology is leading us in many strange and fantastic ways. What was science fiction just a few years ago is becoming science fact. Now if we could only discover FTL

December 2002 Workbench 12 Oct/Nov Meeting Pics

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