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| The Power Of Multitasking in AmigaOS4! |
In this blog i will show you a new music tracker i have picked up and installed into my AmigaOS 4.1.5 system. The open source HivelyTracker. It uses the AHX audio format, and plays SID C64-like chip music! The music tracker supports both AHI and PowerPC (PPC for short)! A very useful multi tracker music program! A version is also available for Windows, Linux and MacOS X! No doubt that this tracker has a lot of potensiality!
Another thing i want to write about is the power of multitasking! While the Amiga was not really the first computer platform to introduce it to the industry, Amiga was the FIRST to introduce pre-emptive multitasking to the home market already in the late 80-ies! Already at that time the Amiga could do several things at once, like word processing and formating a drive at the same time, while listening to music and watching a movie or an animation! Even today with most PCs and Macs bypassed the Amiga in several areas, these systems STILL struggle hard to show TRUE multitasking in such an excellent, native way AmigaOS does, and this function has reached new heighs in the latest AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5, and with Multi-core CPU support (among many things) in the upcoming AmigaOS 4.2, pre-emptive multitasking in AmigaOS will reach a whole new dimension, opening up a lot of possibilities! The time ahead is promising!
In the above screenshot you can see i have several programs and tools up and running at the same time. HivelyTracker with animated display window, MilkyTracker, Shell typed with Version RadeonHD.chip (which is version 0.53), the AHI preference showing the onboard SM502 chip of AmigaOne 500/SAM460ex using full 16 bit HIFI Stereo++ mode and the Screenmode preference showing my Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6570 1GB DDR3 PCI-E card displaying full 32 bit graphic in 1920 x 1080 resolution! All that on an AmigaOne 500 with 1.15Ghz CPU speed and 2GB of fastest DDR2 memory! Very impressive!
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| AmigaOS 4.2 MUST have Cloud Protection! |
Especially Windows is very vulnearble to such attacks as Windows has been widely known and extremely commercial to customers all around the world, and because MacOS X systems are becoming more and more popular, there is no guarantee that Mac systems will be safe, too. What about AMIGA?
Because Amiga today is viewed as a brand new, next-generation system not known to everybody, hacking and infection the Amiga seems next to impossible, and that is excellent news, but the world is moving forward with new challenges and possibilities, as new danger happens every day, so that practially means that the Amiga will need to adopt new protection technology in future AmigaOS versions like the upcoming 4.2 version heavily under development.
Cloud Protection is one of the new ways to keep a highly secured internet protection as possible. I don't know how it works or why the name Cloud is used, but i understand it that it uses new, highly advanced technology to protect a computer system from massive attacks as best as possible, using the best of Firewalls, Anti-Spams/Anti-Viruses and everything else that helps protect from massive hacker attacks. AmigaOS 4.2 will need to intergrate Cloud Protection!
This is very important as technology moves forward, and AmigaOS needs to catch up by following the changes in technology. Nobody want their computer or mobile systems to be infiltrated by hackers, giving them full control! Remember: HACKING IS A SERIOUS CRIME AND WILL BE PUNISHED BY THE LAW!!! If you are a hacker or know somebody commiting such a crime, then do community the favour: Stop the crime and take the punishment! Do the right thing! You as a hacker might harm others, but yourself most of all in the end. That is the truth!
With this blog i hope we all will be learning the important lesson and the serious consequences of commiting a crime as hacking. Make computing SAFE and FUN again! You have a choice - The right or the wrong way. Very simple!
This completes another blog. See ya soon!
Written by:
Helge Kvalheim, Norway
