semthex Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 It's not christmas yet but ... you have cried for it, here is the first screensht of it, taken with VMWare just a few minutes ago. I will try to configure the box for GUI now and put you some screens of it if I am done. First experimental releases have been shipped to some testers for vertification. Beta 9 featuring SSE2 will come soon. Thanks to my brother rufus for the great help with analysis and stuff, without you this would not be possible that fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
np101137 Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 AWESOME SEMTHEX! GREAT WORK! I can't wait for this release.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Bravo, same method as maxxuss i suppose? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertX Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 kinda like a peep show...Mmmm...GREAT WORK... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Great news semthex, thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaemonES Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Nice. So some parts were reverse engineered from Maxxuss kernel, as I understand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinlar Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Great work Semthex! You're the Santa Claus of coders. Hopefully we'll see a new Jas DVD or a PPF patch to add in the SSE2 capable kernel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSX86Geek Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Ich fall vom Glauben ab.... Edit: lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Keep posts in English, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myzar Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Great work semthex ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Great Work, should I put back my AMD 3500+ SSE2 just for test it, or with my Opty? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 yes, Semthex, "GRATULATION" from me too (should be latin enough .. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nastyhome Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 do me baby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathdude1284 Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 yay!!! Way to go semthex...thanks for everything... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicklas Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Great, but i have a different opinion in this case. Of course we all appreciate your hard work semthex, you're one of the greatest contributors of this community. But because of that, and because we all know you're very skilled, my opinion is that you shouldn't do a SSE2 kernel. There are just a few people with SSE2; and those who are with some of this old proccesors, its time to change. Proccesors are cheap. In my humble opinion, your time is really valuable and all the community will be improved if we all keep going with SSE3 kernels only, improving it all the time. Of course im nobody to tell you what to do; im just saying what i think. Thanks for everything again and good luck! PS. I almost forgot my question, this "beta9" version will be "universal" with universal i mean, it will run both sse3 and sse2 proccesors? If so, will the performance be affected for sse3 proccesors or it will be completly transparent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keys88 Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Thanks Semthex! Can't wait for the release! Nicklas, "Processors are cheap", but laptops aren't. In case you've forgotten, you can't upgrade a laptop processor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathdude1284 Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Great, but i have a different opinion in this case. Of course we all appreciate your hard work semthex, you're one of the greatest contributors of this community. But because of that, and because we all know you're very skilled, my opinion is that you shouldn't do a SSE2 kernel. There are just a few people with SSE2; and those who are with some of this old proccesors, its time to change. Proccesors are cheap. In my humble opinion, your time is really valuable and all the community will be improved if we all keep going with SSE3 kernels only, improving it all the time. Of course im nobody to tell you what to do; im just saying what i think. Thanks for everything again and good luck! PS. I almost forgot my question, this "beta9" version will be "universal" with universal i mean, it will run both sse3 and sse2 proccesors? If so, will the performance be affected for sse3 proccesors or it will be completly transparent? I disagree. There are many people with sse2 only boxes. Remember back in the maxxuss days where numerous people would ask "will there ever be support for sse only?". Senthex has stated that he would like to have his kernel work with most hardware, contrary to what mifki stated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkW Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Great work! Is there hope that this will fix the SSE2 problem with iTunes 7? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 But because of that, and because we all know you're very skilled, my opinion is that you shouldn't do a SSE2 kernel. There are just a few people with SSE2; and those who are with some of this old proccesors, its time to change. Proccesors are cheap. In my humble opinion, your time is really valuable and all the community will be improved if we all keep going with SSE3 kernels only, improving it all the time. You seem to have forgotten that the main purpose of this whole OSX86 project is being able to run Mac OS in our current PC's. I also think that your estimation of the amount of SSE2 users is quite inaccurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macwindows Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 You seem to have forgotten that the main purpose of this whole OSX86 project is being able to run Mac OS in our current PC's. I also think that your estimation of the amount of SSE2 users is quite inaccurate. Quite true. Also to upgrade many motherboards with 478 socket with SSE3 is either not possible or need to upgrade many more components(video, ram), instead of just one cpu to make it work better. There are many SSE2s are quietly, patiently and eagerly waiting for this to happen. CanMac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nastyhome Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Great, but i have a different opinion in this case. Of course we all appreciate your hard work semthex, you're one of the greatest contributors of this community. But because of that, and because we all know you're very skilled, my opinion is that you shouldn't do a SSE2 kernel. There are just a few people with SSE2; and those who are with some of this old proccesors, its time to change. Proccesors are cheap. In my humble opinion, your time is really valuable and all the community will be improved if we all keep going with SSE3 kernels only, improving it all the time. Of course im nobody to tell you what to do; im just saying what i think. Thanks for everything again and good luck! PS. I almost forgot my question, this "beta9" version will be "universal" with universal i mean, it will run both sse3 and sse2 proccesors? If so, will the performance be affected for sse3 proccesors or it will be completly transparent? Stop been racist. Just coz SSE2 are a minority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 SSE2 != Race of human. The correct term is prejudiced. Also, why not provide some reasons why you think it should be continued? I'm not judging either side, but if you're going to counter-argue somebody, at least provide facts, reasons, theories, whatever, to make a counter-point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 SSE2 needs a reformation, they need a Malcom X, And thats Semthe X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 SSE2 != Race of human. The correct term is prejudiced. And with that being said, I say we go back to the topic at hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zu1u Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 bloody well done.. best news i've gotten all day too the ammount of replies this is getting should provide enough proof that there still are quite a bunch of people using sse2.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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