Pegasos review thread volume II (The on topic thread)

[Jope]

If only you could convince someone to port and update FileMaster to MOS

The FM sources are on Aminet (FM2000) .. we can only hope.. ;-)

A MUI gui and better datatype & RTG support.. Ahh!

I asked Toni about it, but he said that those new machines aren't Amigas, so he's not going to bother.

(Amiga == Classic Amiga to him :-)

Who needs Dopus when you have Filemaster. ;-)

[Targhan]

Congrats Redrumloa!

Make sure you get on the beta2 m/l.  There is lots of good information there.  Also, swing by MorphZone's faqs.  If you see anything missing, let me know.  

My Pegasos is great.  I think the biggest issue I have with it is based on the picky-ness of the RAM.  I hope this is corrected for P-II. :-)

[Andre.Siegel]

@ Joanna

I know that BlitzMax is a big project for (essentially) single coder but if he's going to make Linux + Mac versios of it anyhow, then he have to solve most problems anyhow. Like moving to OpenGL and supporting PPC byte order thruout entire environment.

The question is not how much work it will be to support MorphOS in addition to MacOS, but *when* BlitzMax for Mac will be released. I strongly believe that BlitzMax for Windows is at least one year away from being finished. The next version that is likely to appear after the Windows version, is quite obviously the Linux port. This should take another 3 months before he can concentrate on the Mac version....

 As you can see, BlitzMax is far from being a short-term solution. Moreover, it is not sure whether BlitzMax will get done at all. There is a high risk involved.

Blitz 2000 could be nice but it is years behind in development, and making it to behave cleanly and producing PPC code is a *lot* work.

Yet  it is probably a more realistic option than BlitzMax. (See above.)

[redrumloa]

Targhan wrote:
Congrats Redrumloa!

Make sure you get on the beta2 m/l.  There is lots of good information there.  Also, swing by MorphZone's faqs.  If you see anything missing, let me know.  

My Pegasos is great.  I think the biggest issue I have with it is based on the picky-ness of the RAM.  I hope this is corrected for P-II. :-)

Thanks for the advise. I won't be doing much for the next day or 2. I'm very sick atm :-x I hate being sick, and this is the worst type :-x

[odin]

@redrum:



Drink lots of it and get well soon :-).

[sdesros]

Well I got mine yesterday.  I went out and bought the missing components and I'm attempting to get it to run.

I got the whole thing setup by around 11pm.  Had a problem with the CDRom, moved it to the primary bus (as slave) and that cleared up.

Tried getting MOS to boot up, it just seems to stop after it's done loading everything.  Haven't had much chance to try and see what the serial debug will say.

So far, well, the BIOS looks familiar... (stares at the SUN station in my office.)

[Madgun68]

I was so close to giving up last night. If I tried to play anything with AHI the machine locked. If I tried to use the onboard ethernet the machine locked. Put in a Realtek 8139 nic and ditto.

Right before giving up I tried one more thing and presto: Everything worked.

[bbrv]

...well we definately need a better "help" system for the mass market.  

We REALLY appreciate the dedication.  Thanks for ALL the effort.

Best regards,
Raquel and Bill   :-)

[bbrv]

We have had some excellent feedback.

Thanks!

Raquel and Bill   :-)

[Warface]

If you'd like to have a similar desktop  download the desktop background here

Please don't use it in anything commercial, as the winged horse is from a photo I found on the net, just retouched it a bit. Hope you like it (and I typed all Xoops stuff right in IBrowse :-))

[Targhan]

Thanks for making that background available!  It's really sharp
looking.


@BBRV:  The community wants to help, I think all of us (no matter
which side of the fence we are on) are hungry for success.

@redrumloa and other new Pegasos owners:
1. Congradulations
2. If you need any help, don't hesitate to ask.

[Hooligan_DCS]

If you'd like to have a similar desktop download the desktop background here

Link doesn't work anymore  :-(

[bbrv]

Cool desktop!

:-D

R&B

[bbrv]

Cool desktop!

:-D

R&B

[sdesros]

Well... I'm finally posting this via my Pegasos!

I spent too much time trying various tricks to get my Catweasel to
read amiga disks.  In the end I ended up simply trying another drive
(ending up disabling another PC.)

Oh well...

Set up so far: USB, Catweasel (PC and Amiga disk support), Miami,
AMISSL, Rexx, Installer.  YAY...  I'm even able to do my online
banking via my webbrowser!  It's *almost* there.

I'm quite pleased with the results.  Now I'm going to need to spend
some time repairing my PC's.

[Warface]

Hooligan_DCS wrote:

If you'd like to have a similar desktop download the desktop background here

Link doesn't work anymore  :-(

One more time it's me to blame: it happens that I mistyped something being busy with the Xoops stuff. I referred to the image as jpg, but it's a png. Hope it works now, and sorry for the inconvenience.