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AROS Research Operating System / Re: AROS Summary

« Last post by retrofaza on May 12, 2026, 06:18:29 AM »

Most native games on AROS are ports of open-source titles (just like on OS4 or MorphOS). You can find most of the software (including games) on the https://archives.arosworld.org/. I’ve also been uploading videos of the ports I’m working on to my YouTube channel lately.

Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion / Re: A1200 + GVP 1291 SCSI issues after SetPatch

« Last post by techhusky on May 12, 2026, 03:05:14 AM »

Thanks for the reply. Much appreciated.

I purchased the system with OS 3.2.2 ROMs and the OS installed, so I didn't have a registered version to get the 3.2.3 upgrade. I threw some coin at Hyperion and purchased the digital version of OS 3.2 yesterday. I then mimicked my A1200 + GVP A1230/1291 OS 3.2.2 setup with UAE. Running on UAE shows the exact same problem. I pulled down and installed the 3.2.3 update and ROMs on my UAE image and still no luck. I'm going to try installing on real hardware after I burn the new set of 3.2.3 ROMs. I'm not hopeful, though.

MuLibs is configured to execute GVPInit. Unfortunately, it also does not resolve the issue.

The same setup with OS 3.1, 3.5, and 3.9 all work flawlessly on UAE. I may go back to 3.1 ROMs and OS 3.9 on the real hardware until this issue is resolved or a workaround can be found.

I reached out to Hyperion support but haven't gotten a response.

AROS Research Operating System / Re: AROS Summary

« Last post by Retro_Brian_FL on May 11, 2026, 11:39:32 PM »

Could someone please mention some native games, any size, that they recommend for AROS?

EDIT:
I feel I just modify the message. When asking for native, then truly something that is compiled with AROS SDK, if that is the correct way of asking.

Amiga.org Discussion and Site Feedback / Re: Site running slow and giving busy timeouts

« Last post by F0LLETT on May 11, 2026, 04:09:50 PM »

Did more work on this.
Changes made have now limited connects to the attackers, so keeps CPU usage at acceptable levels.
Seems they have stopped for now, as CPU usage is all but existant at the moment.

EDIT:- Last changes made seem to be working, fingers crossed.

AROS Research Operating System / AROS Summary

« Last post by retrofaza on May 11, 2026, 12:02:19 PM »

After a 9-month break, the AROS summary is finally back! New system releases, AROS One 1.3, AROS.games, the 64-bit transition, new emulators, Directory Opus 5, and AI-assisted development show that the AROS scene is more active than ever.

https://arosnews.github.io/aros-x86-spring-2026/

Amiga Software News / AHX 1.4, DigiBooster 1.2 and XMP 1.1 released

« Last post by softwarefailure on May 10, 2026, 09:29:40 PM »

Airsoft Softwair has just released minor updates for several plugins that allow Hollywood to load and play lots of different tracker formats. The AHX, DigiBooster and XMP plugins have been updated. The new versions contain a few fixes and enhancements and also support macOS arm64 and Linux arm64 now. You can download them from the official Hollywood portal.

New User Introductions / Re: Hi, I think my mid life crisis has started

« Last post by OldAmigan on May 10, 2026, 08:27:51 PM »

@moley147

User Groups - depends on how far you are willing to travel and where you are based, I suppose.

North West Amiga Group, NWAG. Their next meeting has just been announced for 20th June at the NorthWest Computer Museum, Leigh, Wigan. They often have twi meetings with the Yorkshire Amiga Group, YAG, at Littleborough Bowing Club, Rochdale

North East Amiga Group, NEAG. Next meeting is 30th May at St Nicholas Church Hall, North Road, West Boldon NE36 0QQ

Scottish Amiga Users Group, SAUG. Not sure but there may be a meeting coming up 16th June at Rosyth (just over the bridge into Fife from Edinburgh)

I'm Dumfries based and I'm trying to start a retro computer group with live meetings between Dumfries and Carlisle, if you are anywhere near.

Amiga User Group News / Next SCCAN meeting - Saturday, May 16, 2026

« Last post by RobertB on May 10, 2026, 08:13:51 AM »

Happy Mother's Day, C= and Ami comrades!
The next meeting of the Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network is Saturday, May 16, from 2 to 5+ p.m. at

Panera Bread Restaurant
19662 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, California
(818) 407-9400

We'll talk about how we did at the April 25-26 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show and about the upcoming June 20-21 Pacific Commodore Expo NW in Seattle.
The A1200 '060 returns, and we'll try to again to archive its CompactFlash hard drive. The Ultimate 64 returns with the latest games reported at itch.io, and the A600GS returns with classic games from Amiga500Archive.com and the latest games reported at itch.io . From the Fresno Commodore User Group, we'll look at the programming involved in the VIC-20 game, Fisherman.
If you have any PET, VIC-20, C64/128, C16/Plus4, or Amiga software and/or hardware that you'd like us to see, bring it along!

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion / Re: A1200 + GVP 1291 SCSI issues after SetPatch

« Last post by Boing-ball on May 10, 2026, 01:33:38 AM »

Quote from: techhusky on May 09, 2026, 06:08:10 AM

Hi all,

I have an A1200 running OS 3.2.2 with a GVP 1230 Turbo+ II 68030 accelerator with an attached 1291 SCSI controller. The 1291 provides an external DB25 connector for external SCSI devices. I've been trying to get it to work with a ZuluSCSI Pico Slim for weeks. The GVP driver kept reporting any device configured (HDD or CD-ROM) on the ZuluSCSI as a tape drive. Some debugging showed that the device inquiry data was not being properly reported by the gvpscsi.device driver (version 5.3), even though the ZuluSCSI was returning it properly. I'm not sure why I didn't think of this sooner, but just today, I finally decided to try booting without a startup-sequence. The ZuluSCSI worked perfectly. I was able to narrow the failing point down to the SetPatch call during startup. I am assuming after patching something is either stomping on the gvpscsi.device or has changed a dependent driver or library enough to break it.

Any suggestions for workarounds for this type of situation? OS 3.9 SetPatch has the ability to SKIPROMUPDATES for certain devices and libraries. I don't see similar capability on OS 3.2.2.

Thanks,

-Jeremy

Have you tried the following after backing up your current configuration

1).. Installing ThorsMMU libs in expert mode. As this has configurable options for Phase 5, ACA and GVP accelerators

2j.. Why still on AOS 3.2.2 when 3.2.3 upgrade is available. May have a fix for SetPatch there.

https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/

Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion / A1200 + GVP 1291 SCSI issues after SetPatch

« Last post by techhusky on May 09, 2026, 06:08:10 AM »

Hi all,

I have an A1200 running OS 3.2.2 with a GVP 1230 Turbo+ II 68030 accelerator with an attached 1291 SCSI controller. The 1291 provides an external DB25 connector for external SCSI devices. I've been trying to get it to work with a ZuluSCSI Pico Slim for weeks. The GVP driver kept reporting any device configured (HDD or CD-ROM) on the ZuluSCSI as a tape drive. Some debugging showed that the device inquiry data was not being properly reported by the gvpscsi.device driver (version 5.3), even though the ZuluSCSI was returning it properly. I'm not sure why I didn't think of this sooner, but just today, I finally decided to try booting without a startup-sequence. The ZuluSCSI worked perfectly. I was able to narrow the failing point down to the SetPatch call during startup. I am assuming after patching something is either stomping on the gvpscsi.device or has changed a dependent driver or library enough to break it.

Any suggestions for workarounds for this type of situation? OS 3.9 SetPatch has the ability to SKIPROMUPDATES for certain devices and libraries. I don't see similar capability on OS 3.2.2.

Thanks,

-Jeremy

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