lha_68k does not work with accelerator card HC533

[SvaboMSX]

Dear Amiga Friends

few weeks ago I bought a HC533 Accerlation Board.
Got Kick1.3 and Workbench 1.3 on it to work.

Unfortunately when I try to extract an archive using LHA nothing happens.
Just entering "lha" and hitting enter, the CLI prompt is shown. There is no output from the program LHA, such as synopsis etc.

Does anybody experienced similar problems with command tools, beside running accelerator card?
Does anybody knows alternative to LHA for extracting ?

Thank you and best regards
SvaboMSX

[kolla]

So what lha do you have?

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Version full file `which lha`

EDIT: Oh crap - OS 1.3? Good luck

[First Ninja]

Got Kick1.3 and Workbench 1.3 on it to work.

You may want to update AmigaOS to the latest version (3.1.4) by replacing its Kickstart ROM circuit. Not only will doing so show support for the ongoing OS development, but your Amiga will also be pretty much guaranteed to run any program compiled for your processor. Please stop by Alinea or most other Amiga retailers to place an order - a Kickstart chip, an installation pamphlet and a fresh set of Workbench floppies will cost you around €45. For more information about AmigaOS 3.1.4 and to see a few screenshots, please visit the official product page.

[SpeedGeek]

Dear Amiga Friends

few weeks ago I bought a HC533 Accerlation Board.
Got Kick1.3 and Workbench 1.3 on it to work.

Unfortunately when I try to extract an archive using LHA nothing happens.
Just entering "lha" and hitting enter, the CLI prompt is shown. There is no output from the program LHA, such as synopsis etc.

Does anybody experienced similar problems with command tools, beside running accelerator card?
Does anybody knows alternative to LHA for extracting ?

Thank you and best regards
SvaboMSX

OS1.3 is considered obsolete - you simply can not use this version with most modern Amiga software. You should always check the requirements of any Software before using it. BTW, for Lha_68K you need at least OS2.04. 

[SvaboMSX]

Hi All

thank you for your hints.

LHA  starting Kickstart2.   That makes sense. This explains the behaviour.

Is there an older version of lha existing, with compatible with 1.3 ?

I use Kick 3.1 on my Amiga1200. But on this machine a Amiga500 I wanted to stick to 1.3 for nostalgic reason :-)

regards

[SvaboMSX]

version full file lha_68k says error in OPen file.
I only can run  lha.run
There it is telling me something :  sfx1.2

I unpacks successfully three different versions of lha. But call of these file does not work.

[SvaboMSX]

I now found a version lha_138.
This one seems to be working. HOwever it is a demoversion. I don t know what the limitations are of this version.

Thank you. (I would never think about such a problem due to kick start version)  :-)

[warlock]

Yeah.

Kick 1.3 and WB 1.3 is sooo much cooler...
No point in reducing every Amiga to a keyboard with the same accelerator and FPGA.
(Now someone just needs to port/make a TCP stack)

[kolla]

@warlock

Hah!   

[TribbleSmasher]

LHA  starting Kickstart2.   That makes sense. This explains the behaviour.
Is there an older version of lha existing, with compatible with 1.3 ?
I use Kick 3.1 on my Amiga1200. But on this machine a Amiga500 I wanted to stick to 1.3 for nostalgic reason :-)

If you are keep using old software you are obviously missing out on bug fixes and other improvements along the way. especially crunchers/packers you trust your data with.
Of course it might be just for fun (eh, 1.3 Amiga 500), you should keep this in mind.

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History:

2.15   Sven Ottemann
       
        removed some forgotten debugoutput
 
2.14   Sven Ottemann
       
        Fix: Y2K11 bug
       
        changed the default I/O Buffersize to 128k
        changed the max  I/O Buffersize to 512k
        changed the default Headerlevel to 1
       
2.13   internal version

2.12  (Sven Ottemann)
       
 - Fix: a stringproblem reported by Alex Carmona
       
 - Fix: softlinks were handled as dirs
        reported by Christian Aichinger

2.11 (Sven Ottemann)

 - Fix: a Enforcerhit/Greamreaper in the u-command
   reported by Martin McKenzie

 - New: a WarpOS-version of LhA

 - some changes to reduce the number of contextswitches in
   the WarpOS-version

2.10 (Sven Ottemann)

 - Fix: the support of selfextracting archives was broken

2.9 (Sven Ottemann)

 - Fix: the -lh1- decoding and enconding was broken in 2.8
   (reported by Timo Sievänen)

 - Fix: the archive date was showed as xx-xx-105 instead xx-xx-05

2.8 (Sven Ottemann)

 - Ported to AOS4

 - Fix: protection bits are set correct now
   (reported by Richard Drummond)

2.7 (Jim Cooper & David Tritscher)

 - FINALLY tracked down a crash problem with corrupted archives.
   (Jim)

 - Lots more bullet-proofing. (Jim)

 - AMINET RELEASE

2.4 (Jim Cooper & David Tritscher)

 - More fixes, cleanups, code-tightening.

2.3 (Jim Cooper & David Tritscher)

 - Fixed final (I hope) prob with -Qm and output redirected to CON:.

 - Doc cleanups.

2.2 (Jim Cooper & David Tritscher)

 - .guide translated to German, documentation cleaned up. (Martin)

 - .guide translated to French, documentation cleaned up. (D.Hervé)

2.1 (Jim Cooper & David Tritscher)

 - Fix probs with -Qm & too narrow windows. (Jim)

 - Final cleanups, etc. before new Aminet release. (Jim)

 - Set up Web site - lha.warped.com - plain, but functional. (Jim)

 - AMINET RELEASE

[SvaboMSX]

hi,
thank you for your thoughts.

I'll keep possible bugs in mind.
As you said.. it is just fun for me. Won't try to save personal data on lha archives. It is for unpacking of tools.
It is fun...  even the accelerator card does not needed to be. I just wanted to have a CF Card inside, as replacement for an external harddisk.
It is a charme to click around and compile some stupid  "hello world" programs in C.
Unfurnate I realized that the program "say" does not work. I liked this speaking thing when I was a kid

Take care

[TribbleSmasher]

'Say' should work.

[ncafferkey]

I now found a version lha_138.
This one seems to be working. HOwever it is a demoversion. I don t know what the limitations are of this version.

IIRC it can extract archives but not make new ones. If I don't remember correctly, I don't apologise: it's been 30 years since I used it! :-D

[arttu80]

'Say' should work.

Yes, but I think it supposed to have translator.library and narrator.device present on disk.

[SamuraiCrow]

I now found a version lha_138.
This one seems to be working. HOwever it is a demoversion. I don t know what the limitations are of this version.

Thank you. (I would never think about such a problem due to kick start version)  :-)

Actually, the limit of that version is that it cannot make self-extracting archives.