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Good stuff. Remember that Windows uses WinUAE which compliments Amiga Forever. WinUAE is a free download. You can’t beat using real hardware though….
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Hi, I'm Stephen.   I was an Amiga 1000 owner back in 1985-ish, eventual upgrade to an Amiga 2000. But both systems are lost to time -- I may have all my floppies in a box in the basement though.

So I've recently dived in to retro-computing.. I had a Z80 system I built in 1979, cards in a box in the garage I think, and about a year ago I started designing a modern version of it. Eventually building a single board z80 computer and getting Altair basic up on it.

But enough about that.  What happened is digging in to that made one thing lead to another, so I'm in the process of trying to acquire either vintage computers, or emulators, of all the pre-Windows systems I ever owned.   

A big one for me is the Amiga computer, which I always considered a ground breaking computer when it was released.  Broadcast quality video, lots of color depth, great resolution, and it ran a multi-tasking bitmapped displayed window system.   I worked a career at Xerox Research and was using Altos and Dandilions at the time, it was great to go home to a similar computer

So of course I've been looking on Ebay for systems, and working Amiga's seem rare and expensive, so a few days ago I came upon FS-UAE, which lead me to Amiga Forever.   I didn't have to give it any thought to buy their emulator and licensed software.

Once that was up I realized I wanted to do some of the things I did back then, one of which was run Deluxe Paint.    I don't have my copy, unless it's in a box in the basement, so I went and purchased a vintage version of it, complete with original packaging and instructions.   That lead to looking in to how to read and amiga floppy and I found that there are several projects out there where people have made arduino based boards that adapt vintage floppy drives to modern PCs.  It's within my capability to build one of those boards, but instead I found someone selling a complete unit of a floppy drive with the interface board in the case, and a USB C connection to the PC.

So I'm all set to dig back in to Amiga land, especially if I can find my old floppies.   Some of the stuff that I used to use it for probably can't be done anymore, because I did a lot of video with it.  I had a live frame grabber for it, and actually wrote code to run on the Amiga to cartooniize captured video.   I also remember that i wrote driver software for it to add a type of pipe to the cli, so I could pipe output from one process to another.
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Amiga.org Discussion and Site Feedback / Feedback on incomprehensible CAPTCHA
« Last post by scm2000 on May 08, 2024, 11:37:17 PM »
Hi, I'm new here and will introduce myself in the correct topic, but I want to give feedback on the barrier I had to register here.

It's fine to require answering and Amiga related question, if you don't know the answer I'm sure everything is findable on the web, but the CAPTCHA was a real problem for me.

I had to request several new letters to find some that were barely legible and I had to use Mac zooming to decipher . I understand adding noise is done to confuse robots, but there are limits to humans too based on age and the condition of their eyesight.  It's not just the noise but the low contrast with the background.

I did try to click on to listen to the letters, but it had no effect in my browser -- Which is Safari on a Mac.

I'm glad I made it in though and I'm just hoping some feedback might lead to some loosening of settings if any for the letter obfuscation.
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Thanks Andy. Redownloaded and use a different unzip package. Shall see if it helps.
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Amiga/MorphOS/AROS Programmers Forum / Re: CGX v4 Supergels Bug
« Last post by Boing-ball on May 08, 2024, 09:04:58 PM »
Hi,

I'm developping a new software under OS 3.9 CGX v4 (last version) with CybervisionPPC.

--> My GELS work very well under Amiga native screens and under P96 (tested under WinUAE).

--> My GELS work very well under CGX IF i desactivate SUPERGELS. If i activate SUPERGELS, i have the right sharps for my GELS but not the right colors.

Any idea to help me ?

Thanks.

Can I ask why CGX V4? And not P96?
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Amiga Tutorials / Re: Getting online with PiStorm32, Miami DX and Encrypted WiFi
« Last post by AndyFC on May 08, 2024, 07:48:25 PM »
Thanks @10MARC. In return, I'm linking to your video. I've learnt some things from it, like `shownetstatus`.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDvz9euZ-fg
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Amiga Tutorials / Re: Getting online with PiStorm32, Miami DX and Encrypted WiFi
« Last post by AndyFC on May 08, 2024, 06:56:58 PM »
executing command (wirelessmanager wifipi.device) gets failed to initialize driver.
Why do all the other devices get recognized as files in the networks folder, such as cnet.device but the wifipi.device shows as a folder?
inside folder there is no .device to access.

Hi David, It's possibly something to do with the archive and what tool you're using to unpack it; occasionally I have problems with .Zip files where they don't unarchive correctly e.g. I'll use one tool and the tooltypes aren't set correctly or a folder is seen as a file, but unpacking using another utility will work.

The unpacked archive should contain the following file structure (just concentrating on the WiFi files):
Emu68-WiFi (folder)
 - Devs (folder)
   |- Networks (folder)
     |- wifipi.device (file)
   |- Firmware (folder)
     |- cyfmac43455-sdio.clm_blob (file)
     |- brcmfmac43436s-sdio.bin (file)
     |- brcmfmac43436-sdio.clm_blob (file)
     |- cyfmac43455-sdio.bin (file)
     |- brcmfmac43456-sdio.txt (file)
     |- brcmfmac43436-sdio.txt (file)
     |- brcmfmac43430-sdio.txt (file)
     |- brcmfmac43456-sdio.bin (file)
     |- brcmfmac43455-sdio.txt (file)
     |- cyfmac43430-sdio.clm_blob (file)
     |- brcmfmac43436-sdio.bin (file)
     |- cyfmac43430-sdio.bin (file)
     |- brcmfmac43456-sdio.clm_blob (file)
     |- brcmfmac43436s-sdio.txt (file)
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Amiga Marketplace / Re: For sale motherboard A4000D rev2
« Last post by Cosmos on May 08, 2024, 03:48:03 PM »
Sold !
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Amiga/MorphOS/AROS Programmers Forum / CGX v4 Supergels Bug
« Last post by teslamaitre on May 08, 2024, 03:32:58 PM »
Hi,

I'm developping a new software under OS 3.9 CGX v4 (last version) with CybervisionPPC.

--> My GELS work very well under Amiga native screens and under P96 (tested under WinUAE).

--> My GELS work very well under CGX IF i desactivate SUPERGELS. If i activate SUPERGELS, i have the right sharps for my GELS but not the right colors.

Any idea to help me ?

Thanks.
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executing command (wirelessmanager wifipi.device) gets failed to initialize driver.
Why do all the other devices get recognized as files in the networks folder, such as cnet.device but the wifipi.device shows as a folder?
inside folder there is no .device to access.

Sorry for my crude explanation of my problem but I'm sure it's elementary. It's almost as if I am missing a file in folder.
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