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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog
« Reply #29 on: April 25, 2015, 06:24:29 AM »
Hi All,

I have added a new blog entry this weekend, looking at a 2MB Comspec expansion I bought and using it to run Kickstart 2.0 on my Amiga 1000!

http://amigax1000.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/amiga-1000-comspec-2mb-ax2000-with.html

I hope you find it interesting! :-)

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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog
« Reply #30 on: May 04, 2015, 02:21:16 AM »
Hi All,

I have updated my blog this weekend covering the build  and setup of my new Sam 460CR system, which I bought while waiting for  my X1000 to be fixed (which is with Varisys at the moment).

I  also setup my A4000D while waiting for it to arrive - the X1000 sure  leaves a big hole since it stopped working, and I miss not having it to  use. The Sam 460 goes someway to helping with that while I am waiting for the X1000 to be fixed.

Link is here:

http://amigax1000.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/my-sam-460cr-has-arrived.html

I hope you enjoy it!



Catcha,
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog
« Reply #31 on: May 04, 2015, 03:54:38 AM »
As always, excellent review!

(grin) how many Amigas do you hope to have? (bigger grin)

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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog
« Reply #32 on: May 04, 2015, 04:19:44 AM »
enough?
 

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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog
« Reply #33 on: May 04, 2015, 01:50:37 PM »
I would like to get my hand on one of those X1000 but the price is way too high for my budget. I'll stick to the original Amiga for the time being. Maybe if I win the 6/49 lottery jackpot next week :-)
 

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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog
« Reply #34 on: May 04, 2015, 02:23:32 PM »
Great blog, it always is.
 

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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog
« Reply #35 on: May 08, 2015, 02:59:29 PM »
Hi All,

Thanks for your kind feedback!

Today I have updated my blog with a sneak peak at the upcoming game Wings Battlefield by Cherry Darling, on both AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition (Sam 460) and MorphOS 3.7 (Powerbook G4).

Link is here:

http://amigax1000.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/wings-battlefield-sneak-preview-on.html

I hope you enjoy it! :-)

Catcha,
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog
« Reply #36 on: May 08, 2015, 05:51:09 PM »
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Hi All,

Thanks for your kind feedback!

Today I have updated my blog with a sneak peak at the upcoming game Wings Battlefield by Cherry Darling, on both AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition (Sam 460) and MorphOS 3.7 (Powerbook G4).

Link is here:

http://amigax1000.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/wings-battlefield-sneak-preview-on.html

I hope you enjoy it! :-)

Catcha,
Epsilon



Thanks for the preview/review.  I wonder how viable dual video card support is.  There's a lot of X1000 owners with more than video card now and a many people now have more than one monitor around so it would be nice to have your own monitor in 2 player mode even if you only have one system.
 

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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog
« Reply #37 on: May 08, 2015, 07:37:03 PM »
Finally some one has piqued my interest in the new Amigas. Great stuff, both good and bad about the new machine. Thank you.
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog
« Reply #38 on: May 09, 2015, 11:33:25 AM »
I wrote about the MorphOS version of this game :)

https://morphosuser.wordpress.com/2015/05/07/wings-battlefield/
 

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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog
« Reply #39 on: May 09, 2015, 04:25:04 PM »
excellent as always! hope Varisys can source out the issue with your Nemo soon
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog
« Reply #40 on: May 10, 2015, 04:16:28 AM »
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After using 8 and 8.1 since release date I find it hard going back to Windows 7. 8.1 is very snappy, and well thought out.

Hybrid boot is amazing tech, halves your boot time. Hate waiting for Windows 7 to sort itself out these days.

There is a lot of negative hype out there about it but most of this is from ignorant or anti MS people. MS have been making some great products of late.

Windows 10 is also a good OS too, I have that setup on another desktop here and each update that is pushed it just gets better. A shame they had to bend over and use a hybrid start menu though as that feels like a step back.

The release should have been Windows 10 then 8 maybe the change would be more subtle.


Can't disagree with you more, but then we all have our points of view.
Frankly I find the entire Win8 interface very irritating.

And I never have had a boot time issue with Windows.
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog
« Reply #41 on: May 16, 2015, 11:22:23 AM »
Hi All,

I have added a new blog entry this weekend, taking a first glance at the newly released MorphOS 3.8 on my Powerbook G4 and SAM460CR.

Link is here:

http://amigax1000.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/morphos-38-on-sam-460cr-and-powerbook-g4.html

I am still very much working on the SAM460CR build with more to come no doubt - I hope you enjoy it.

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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog
« Reply #42 on: May 16, 2015, 11:53:46 AM »
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Hi All,

I have added a new blog entry this weekend, taking a first glance at the newly released MorphOS 3.8 on my Powerbook G4 and SAM460CR.

Link is here:

http://amigax1000.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/morphos-38-on-sam-460cr-and-powerbook-g4.html

I am still very much working on the SAM460CR build with more to come no doubt - I hope you enjoy it.


Interesting reading. And interesting that you are getting French in Ambient status bar. Your language settings is set to just English, is that right?

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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog
« Reply #43 on: May 16, 2015, 12:18:39 PM »
@itix

Sorry I couldn't respond on Morph.zone regarding some helpful pointers from you and others, but the site appears down at the moment.

Not sure regarding the french in the status bar in Ambient on the powerbook either - it was like that a few MorphOS versions ago when installing the Chrysalis pack on a new install. I only use English, and checked the settings to confirm it is English, and only English in the Locale settings. No idea where the french is coming from!

I am keen to get the Envy24HT working on the Sam 460CR ...not sure if the elf openpci library is needed or not. also, the library. has .elf at the end, does that need to be renamed openpci.library to put into dh0:morphos/libs - nothing else has .elf so I assume so...

I guess if MorphOS can't find the card on boot then it doesn't appear in the MorphOS sound options to choose from...well it hasn't appeared for me yet anyway! Any other suggestions to get it working? I am all ears! :-)

Catcha,
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Re: Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog
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I am keen to get the Envy24HT working on the Sam 460CR ...not sure if the elf openpci library is needed or not. also, the library. has .elf at the end, does that need to be renamed openpci.library to put into dh0:morphos/libs - nothing else has .elf so I assume so...


No need to remove .elf at the end. It is old legacy thing. In early years of MorphOS development it was used to distinguish PPC native libraries from 68k libraries when located in same directory.

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I guess if MorphOS can't find the card on boot then it doesn't appear in the MorphOS sound options to choose from...well it hasn't appeared for me yet anyway! Any other suggestions to get it working? I am all ears! :-)


The problem could be OpenPCI. It is very old and not updated in ten years. Maybe it doesnt work with SAM...

You could try PCIScan (shell command) to check if it is seen by MorphOS. If it is then it is probably problem in openpci.library...
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