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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Oldsmobile_Mike on November 27, 2014, 06:03:40 AM
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RapidRoad USB Review
Received my RapidRoad USB module from AmigaKit yesterday, installed it today.
Hardware: It probably took longer to unscrew my case than it did to install. I purchased the A1200/clockport compatible version since it was the only one in stock at the time. This also gives me the option if I want to install it in an A1200 or other system at a later date. The plastic cover for these other applications is nicely designed, and attached with two nylon screws for easy removal. After removing its cover the board fit snugly into the designated port on my X-Surf 100. Install was unambiguous; board can only fit one way so that's the way I put it. I chose to run the optional 4-pin power wire as well, this gives the ability to output up to 1.5A instead of the standard 500ma through each port. Figured this might come in handy if I want to charge my phone or other devices more quickly. I ran the power wire beneath my other cards, if I'd really wanted to "fancy it up" I could've run it all the way under the motherboard, but that's a whole lot more screws to remove. ;-)
Software: I downloaded the 4.5 version of Poseidon from wiki.icomp.de. I couldn't find the link at first, that's because it's listed at the top under "If you are a RapidRoad customer, please click here". It's not listed under the "Products" heading, where I expected to find it. Install went smoothly; it detected my previous version of Poseidon and upgraded it. Removed my old thylacine.device and added rapidroadxs100usb.device and it fired right up. No issues with the software.
I previously had a Thylacine USB card and found it slow to the point of being unusable. The system would grind to a halt even trying to detect a device. I think this was due to the Zorro II bus, many other users have reported that card works well in ZIII systems. Whether it's by better design or software improvements, the RapidRoad had no such issues. As one test I plugged a generic Dell USB keyboard in. The RapidRoad immediately detected it and Poseidon played its "happy charm". By comparison, I plugged the same keyboard into a 3.33GHz PC sitting right next to my Amiga. Despite being approximately 100x the speed (in terms of MHz, anyway), my 33MHz A2000 detected the device much more quickly than this modern PC.
I tested several devices with the hardware:
Generic Dell USB mouse: detected fine, lights up, although I'm an idiot and can't figure out where in Poseidon I need to select the option to use a USB mouse instead of a standard mouse? So I couldn't actually use it. No big deal, I already have a modern PS/2 optical mouse with scrollwheel connected via my Cocolino, but if someone could point me in the right direction for the setting that would be helpful. Surprisingly I couldn't find much on Google or the Help manual for Poseidon.
Generic Dell keyboard: plugged in, detected quickly and was immediately able to type. I noticed the "numlock" function doesn't work (i.e., I can't toggle between numeric keypad and arrow keys). This might be down to a learning curve or configuration issue?
USB hub: connected one port of the X-Surf 100 to the four-port USB hub built into my monitor. Was able to access the additional ports with no issues.
Phone: I plugged my Galaxy Nexus smart phone into the hub. Poseidon immediately recognized it, but didn't know what to do with it. No surprise there. It was able to charge it, at least, which is probably what I'll use it for most. Just charging my phone while I'm sitting there. I'm sure if I poked around more I could probably figure out some way of accessing it as a mass storage device?
Digital camera: Plugged in a Canon digital camera that I had lying around the office. Poseidon detected it and I was able to browse the files on it. Multiview couldn't show the pictures but that may be because they were too big (7.1 megapixels). Will have to experiment further with lower res shots, I see no other reason why this wouldn't work.
Flash drive: This was the big winner here, and I am still amazed at how well it worked. A little bit of back-story: I have a FAT32-formatted SD card that I access through my card reader to transfer large files back & forth with my PC. I still recall what a PITA it was getting that working right. So to test a flash drive I scrounged through my spare parts bin, the first one I found was a 16GB cheap-o Adata model. Plugged it into my PC and saw it was formatted as FAT32 (I assume NTFS wouldn’t work), with a few hundred .jpg pictures loaded on it from an old project. So without any setup work, I plugged it in to my RapidRoad. Device was immediately detected and an icon showed up for it on the desktop. I was able to access the entire 16GB of data, and copied and saved a few files to it as a test. I ran it through several speed tests with SysInfo and SysSpeed, and was getting a solid 1.5-2.1MB/sec transfer rate. This is faster than my FAT32-formatted SD card, and nearly as fast as my PFS-formatted "600x" 8GB CF card that I use as my main hard drive. On that I'm limited by the SCSI speed of my GeForce '040.
Overall, I am very, very impressed by this little card. I'm so used to Amiga's always having problems with devices larger than 4GB, or partitions larger than 2GB, and having to spend hours mucking about with file systems (PFS was a huge challenge for me) that being able to just plug in a 16GB flash drive and have it instantly work makes this card well worth the money I spent on it.
Rating: 10/10, I look forward to testing more USB devices in the future and learning more about configuring the Poseidon software for optimal use.
On a side note, I really, really need some of those 16MB GVP SIMM's for my GeForce '040 board. I know someone on Amibay cloned them last year but I missed out on the run. Why isn't someone else making these? 64MB of 32-bit fast ram would be so much better than 16MB. :(
System specs at time of testing: Amiga 2000, 2MB Chip|24MB Fast|33MHz 68040|3.9 + BB1-4|Indivision ECS + GVP Spectrum|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|AD516|X-Surf 100|Cocolino|SCSI CD-RW
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Generic Dell USB mouse: detected fine, lights up, although I'm an idiot and can't figure out where in Poseidon I need to select the option to use a USB mouse instead of a standard mouse? So I couldn't actually use it. No big deal, I already have a modern PS/2 optical mouse with scrollwheel connected via my Cocolino, but if someone could point me in the right direction for the setting that would be helpful. Surprisingly I couldn't find much on Google or the Help manual for Poseidon.
You shouldn't need any configuration, mouse should just start working when plugged in. You should be able to use both USB and standard mouse simultaneously and there isn't any need to disable either of them. In fact, if you plug several USB mice they all should work simultaneously too :) At least that's how it works with my A1200/SpiderII and MorphOS machines.
If you go to Poseidon/Trident preferences and look the devices list, can you see mouse as HID class? If you double click it, does it say it's mouse interface?
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You shouldn't need any configuration, mouse should just start working when plugged in. You should be able to use both USB and standard mouse simultaneously and there isn't any need to disable either of them. In fact, if you plug several USB mice they all should work simultaneously too :) At least that's how it works with my A1200/SpiderII and MorphOS machines.
If you go to Poseidon/Trident preferences and look the devices list, can you see mouse as HID class? If you double click it, does it say it's mouse interface?
You are right. It detects mouses immediately.
Click devices and look for the second device. It should ve a HID class. If it detects it wrong, I think you can select it yourself. You can also double click the HID device and once again double click the device to configure it further. For example, I had to configure the horizontal wheel of my Logitech G7 gaming mouse because it was not detected.
I tried a usb stick and was able to copy stuff to and from it.
I also plugged a Sony Cybershot and could copy pictures back to my Amiga. Opening those pictures crash the Amiga so I think they were corrupted.
When I connected my Samsung Galaxy S4 (it's possible to choose an older picture transfer protocol), it crashed when I was trying to list the contents using Workbench or Dopus. (on my second try it did not crash and I was able to copy one picture to my Amiga.. That picture froze multiview. On the third try it once again crashed while trying to list the contents and I couldn't list the contents again).
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Thanks guys. I tried it with a different mouse and it worked fine. Guess it just didn't like one of my cheap-o mice, good thing I've got a drawer full of em! ;)
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Hi Oldsmobile_Mike,
Now this sounds like another brilliant piece of Amiga engineering from Jens Schoenfeld :)
Many thanks for your very comprehensive report.
Regards, Michael
aka rockape
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Just chiming in agreeing its a 10/10 product. Simple to install the hardware, software and it works immidiatly. Brilliant product for your Amiga.
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Many thanks for buying the Rapid Road USB from us and thanks for taking the time to write this comprehensive review.
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Nice review. I was very curious to hear how it works in Zorro II mode, 2mb/sec is a nice speed.
I tested it recently for my review on A1200/A4000:
http://www.fitzstevesamigaworld.co.uk/?p=253
I'm going to be testing out a USB Sound Card this weekend, just arrived from eBay yesterday :)
PS. Very nice A2000 you have there by the way.
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thanks for the great review Mike! I've got mine still in the box and can't wait to have some spare time to get her in my 1200D
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thanks for the great review Mike! I've got mine still in the box and can't wait to have some spare time to get her in my 1200D
Sweet! Post some speed results when you can. I'd be curious to know how ZII via the X-Surf 100 compares to a clockport connector on an A1200.
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Nice review. I was very curious to hear how it works in Zorro II mode, 2mb/sec is a nice speed.
I tested it recently for my review on A1200/A4000:
http://www.fitzstevesamigaworld.co.uk/?p=253
I'm going to be testing out a USB Sound Card this weekend, just arrived from eBay yesterday :)
PS. Very nice A2000 you have there by the way.
Thanks! Just saw your speed test results. It looks like ZII via X-Surf 100 is about 2-3 times as fast as A1200 clockport, and ZIII about 3 times as fast as that. Impressive speed, all around! :)
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I'm going to be testing out a USB Sound Card this weekend, just arrived from eBay yesterday :)
Great! Can't wait to read!
Great review Mike! I just received my parts too.... can't wait to get time to put the A2000 on the bench!
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@gizmo350 - once again we are neck-and-neck for upgrading our A2000's. I'll get you someday, haha! :roflmao:
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Great! Can't wait to read!
As promised, I tested a Creative USB Sound Card which I picked up cheap on the other Bay, I'm pleased to say it works with the RapidRoad! Plugged in and immediately it was picked up by Trident and the lights came on...
Went to AHI Prefs and as expected right at the bottom of the list USB Audio 16bit Stereo++ :D
First test was to try an MP3, sadly my 040 @40mhz wasn't man enough to decode the MP3 and drive the USB Audio, it worked but the audio was very choppy and the system was unusable while the track played. Even with 128kb MP3 @ 11025khz. I think a fast 060 or PPC would be able to do it just fine since AmigaAMP works on PPC too this would be ample speed.
However some good news for 040 owners, as long as you're not running something that obliterates the CPU it works perfectly, I was able to test ASP which is a spectrum emulator which has AHI and the sound was crystal clear. I imagine Amiga CD Games that work on 020/030 with AHI support will be fine too, I need to do some more tests. I tried Quake but as above there was too much CPU load to do clear sound, it was breaking up just like the MP3's
Overall a successful test and yet again the RapidRoad just works!
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Thanks @fitzsteve! Could you post the exact model of sound card you tried, in case others want to attempt to duplicate your efforts?
I hardly ever listen to mp3's on my Amiga, but as a test I've played a few mp3's off flash drives through Amplifier and my AD516 card. Works okay, a bit of popping, not any different from playing them off a hard drive/CF card. Best playback results I've gotten come from playing an mp3 back directly from RAM:. USB overhead when streaming music files from a flash drive seems minimal. :)
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Hi, the model is:
Creative Sound Blaster SB0270 - USB External Soundcard
(http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/3244/bkm9.jpg)
That's not my pic, just one I found online.
I shall try streaming the MP3 from Ram, it was from external USB stick so maybe the sound card and usb stick were using too much data although I believe it to be CPU related.
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Thanks a lot for the reports!!!
I can't wait to buy one :-)
Tygre
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That's not my pic, just one I found online.
I have one of those. Your saying it would work with my A1200 if I got rid of subway and got RapidRoad?
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I have one of those. Your saying it would work with my A1200 if I got rid of subway and got RapidRoad?
How fast is your A1200?
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I have one of those. Your saying it would work with my A1200 if I got rid of subway and got RapidRoad?
I tested on my A4000 and as you know Zorro III is much faster then clockport so I can't guarantee it will work on an A1200.
If I can find some time to open my A4000 I'll try it on my A1200 which has a Blizzard 1230 and report back.
Steve.
edit:
Just ordered another RapidRoad lol, this one will go in the A4k as it's the reduced cost version and then I'll use the clockport one in my A1200, expect the USB Sound Card test in a few days/1 week :D
In the mean time I tested an MP3 from Ram Disk instead of USB on the A4k and it played back just fine, there was some stutter at first but then it settled down (after about 10 seconds) and played ok.
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Can anyone who has popupmenu.library and reqattack and magic menu installed test if the menu that opens when you right click inside a requester (for example the requester that opens when you choose "about" from "Workbench" menu) gets stuck using a usb mouse connected to RR?
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Can anyone who has popupmenu.library and reqattack and magic menu installed test if the menu that opens when you right click inside a requester (for example the requester that opens when you choose "about" from "Workbench" menu) gets stuck using a usb mouse connected to RR?
I have "popupmenu.library" version 10.10.1 and MagicMenu version 2.35 installed on my system. I have no problems right-clicking on any menu items with USB mouse. Mouse works seamlessly with any Workbench-compatible programs I've tried so far. Obviously doesn't work with hard-coded WHDLoad games, however. ;)
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If they could only somehow "re-target" USB devices to work on old games I would be in heaven. Would be nice to use a USB analogue stick with fight sims.
Chris
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If they could only somehow "re-target" USB devices to work on old games I would be in heaven. Would be nice to use a USB analogue stick with fight sims.
How about a USB --> PS/2 --> 9-pin adapter? Yeah, not exactly what you had in mind, I know. ;)
Adding to my list, I can now confirm that RapidRoad works great with a Microsoft Wireless Desktop 5000 (wireless mouse and keyboard combo). Plugged it in, popped up, worked fine no issues. Although it felt a bit weird using a wireless keyboard and mouse on my Amiga for the first time. ;)
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Lol, prolly won't work on a X1000 and run in uae.
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Adding to my list of compatible devices:
- Garmin Nuvi 1300 (binded to massstorage.class, was able to charge device and access its file system).
I'd like to try a USB printer at some point. I assume that to have any chance at working it would need to support Postscript output. I've got 17 printers around the office but all are big workgroup-class devices connected via Ethernet, not sure if I have any USB printers anywhere, haha. ;)
Side note, it looks like Poseidon uses a small amount of chip memory for something? With my graphics card I usually have 97% free. Doing a fresh boot and then opening nothing but Poseidon/Trident Prefs I notice that goes down to 95%. At a quick glance with SysInfo and Scout I couldn't find the cause. All my libraries/devices/etc. appeared to be loaded in 32-bit fast. Odd, but no big deal.
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Side note, it looks like Poseidon uses a small amount of chip memory for something?
AFAICT, it does not. Perhaps some small graphics is cached to chip memory?
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I'd like to try a USB printer at some point. I assume that to have any chance at working it would need to support Postscript output. I've got 17 printers around the office but all are big workgroup-class devices connected via Ethernet, not sure if I have any USB printers anywhere, haha. ;)
Instead, plug in an ASIX Ethernet dongle and access your network printers that way; it gives me a way to connect to my HP inkjet, Dell WorkGroup and cheap B/W laser printer.:laugh1:
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Instead, plug in an ASIX Ethernet dongle and access your network printers that way; it gives me a way to connect to my HP inkjet, Dell WorkGroup and cheap B/W laser printer.:laugh1:
Since my Amiga is on the same domain I think I could just access them straight over the network, without a dongle. Only two things (1) I have no need of a printer on my Amiga, and (2) I still haven't had time, haha. ;) But yes, I'd like to test a printer connected to RapidRoad, just for purposes of compatibility testing.
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I have "popupmenu.library" version 10.10.1 and MagicMenu version 2.35 installed on my system. I have no problems right-clicking on any menu items with USB mouse. Mouse works seamlessly with any Workbench-compatible programs I've tried so far. Obviously doesn't work with hard-coded WHDLoad games, however. ;)
Try this:
Choose About from Workbench menu. The about window will appear in ReqAttack style. What happens when you right click that about window using usb mouse connected to RR USB?
Here a menu pops up but gets stuck and the only way to close that menu is either using the real Amiga mouse or pressing escape from keyboard.
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Try this:
Choose About from Workbench menu. The about window will appear in ReqAttack style. What happens when you right click that about window using usb mouse connected to RR USB?
Here a menu pops up but gets stuck and the only way to close that menu is either using the real Amiga mouse or pressing escape from keyboard.
I'm running the other two you mentioned but not ReqAttack. I vaguely recall the name, think I ran it back in the '90s, is that the one that adds animations to requesters? It's probably a nasty hack and the source of your problems.
When I open the right-click menu and do Workbench -> About, I get the standard 3.9 ROM menu and an OK box. No issues.
At a guess I'd say your problem is software, not hardware related. Try disabling some of your hacks and patches and see if problem continues.
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I'm running the other two you mentioned but not ReqAttack. I vaguely recall the name, think I ran it back in the '90s, is that the one that adds animations to requesters? It's probably a nasty hack and the source of your problems.
When I open the right-click menu and do Workbench -> About, I get the standard 3.9 ROM menu and an OK box. No issues.
At a guess I'd say your problem is software, not hardware related. Try disabling some of your hacks and patches and see if problem continues.
ReqAttack is not really a nasty hack. It makes requester really nice (it also comes woth Amikit). Animations inside requesters is an option.
The problem is with ReqAttack. That's why I wanted someone who uses reqattack to check if it also happens with their system. After opening the about window, reqattck allows you to right click inside the window. That's when the popupmenu gets stuck. This only happens with the usb mouse and not original Amiga mouse. I guess it's related with the input.device installed by Poseidon.
The same problem also happens with MUI 3.9 setting. Try right clicking on "Builtin". A popupmenu appears that allows you to choose between Presets XEN, Stunzi, kmel_a2024 and dirkf. Here using usb mouse, you can not choose any of those. The menu gets stuck and pressing lmb has no effect. But unlike the problem with ReqAttack, you can close the menu using rmb.
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Hey Guys, I got a second RapidRoad USB so moved the clockport version back to my A1200, somewhat as expected the 030 isn't able to drive USB Audio but it does work in as much as the device is picked up and playback is attempted. There are occasional beeps to suggest it's trying to play!
A fast 060 might be able to push it, assuming the clockport has enough bandwidth. Shame I got rid of my 060 lol.
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Hey Guys, I got a second RapidRoad USB so moved the clockport version back to my A1200, somewhat as expected the 030 isn't able to drive USB Audio but it does work in as much as the device is picked up and playback is attempted. There are occasional beeps to suggest it's trying to play!
A fast 060 might be able to push it, assuming the clockport has enough bandwidth. Shame I got rid of my 060 lol.
Bummer. thanks!
I have an 060, just not a fast one. I suppose I could see what it does with subway USB.
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A fast 060 might be able to push it, assuming the clockport has enough bandwidth. Shame I got rid of my 060 lol.
I don't think the clockport has nearly enough bandwidth. Probably have better luck with a MAS Player...
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I don't think the clockport has nearly enough bandwidth. Probably have better luck with a MAS Player...
I'm going to get a Prisma for music playback but was hoping the USB sound card would be useful for AHI audio, i.e for Amiga CD games and emulators.
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Tried another device tonight. My NTFS-formatted, GPT-partitioned 4TB external hard drive. It popped right up, but course Poseidon couldn't figure out what the heck to do with it. I don't think I'll hold that against it. ;)
In my defense, I was really tired when I tried this, haha. :lol:
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Pop the NTFS file system in l: and it might just work :D
http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/ntfs_0.9
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Rapid road is a very nice piece of hardware.
It realy runs great with cardreaders, USB sticks, DVD,CD, Usb2Midi, mouse ..
In an a1200 with 030 you can't play MP3 ;( But i'm able to play mod's with ahi and my USB soundblaster but not on high sample rates. I still prefer Paula for this ;).
The speed is nothing to compare with my deneb (ZIII DMA mode) but it can handle the same devices stable, and even more!
My external dvd-rw won't run on the deneb. It drains to much power. So the USB port gets disabled sometimes, then only a reboot helps to get the port enabled again. So i just stick with my SCSI cd-rw ;).
But on the RR the same external DVD_RW runs great and is just as faster then my cd-overdrive (its on old 4x cd-rom)!
So power hungry USB hardware will work more reliable on a RapidRoad. The deneb has to get al its power from the bus-board.
On the Deneb you can play MP3 through a USB SB-Live, but since its using a software decoder, i cant get 44.1Khz stereo too on my 060@50Mhz. But 22Khz runs fine.
I want to order another RapidRoad to use on the clockport of my X-surf-II for the more power draining USB devices, but i dont know if it will work togheter with my deneb.
The deneb is using a "special version" Trident 4.4, and the Rapid road is using a "Special version" of trident 4.5. The software does hint it can handle multiple devices.
Dont want to open my amiga's to much, but maybe someone already tried this?
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If they could only somehow "re-target" USB devices to work on old games I would be in heaven. Would be nice to use a USB analogue stick with fight sims.
Chris
At the risk of being a bit off topic, isn't that the point of this adaptor? http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=52&products_id=1272 ? The "Rys MkII". I mostly use my 1200 for gaming and am considering one, but I'm not sure how good the overall joypad support is.
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At the risk of being a bit off topic, isn't that the point of this adaptor? http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=52&products_id=1272 ? The "Rys MkII". I mostly use my 1200 for gaming and am considering one, but I'm not sure how good the overall joypad support is.
Most programs that use USB joystick have a program to trim the the stick to zero. If that adapter zero's the the stick automatically it will work, if not you going up, left or wherever.
Chris
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Hi,
Has anyone tried,
Usb cd/dvd player ?
Usb pc floppy drive ?
Thanks
Gokce
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I will be interested in knowing what the real issue or solution is for the image files not being able to be displayed. Can these images be loaded directly from say ImageFX and skip Multiview all together?
R.
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My Logitech G700 Mouse is using half of the 66Mhz 060 while being moved. Is there a way to lower this?
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Use a native Amiga mouse or one of those USB-Amiga adapters.
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Use a native Amiga mouse or one of those USB-Amiga adapters.
I already have and use them.
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Then your question does not make sense as you would not need the RapidRoads USB? :o
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Then your question does not make sense as you would not need the RapidRoads USB? :o
You need rapidroad usb for many things including the ability use a usb mouse. Actuall your reply does not make sense assuming that I do not have an amiga mouse or assuming that I do not want to use a usb mouse with rapidroad or I do not use rapidroad for other usb devices. If you know about a setting that reduces cpu usage, tell me. If you don't, just pass on. ???
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My Logitech G700 Mouse is using half of the 66Mhz 060 while being moved. Is there a way to lower this?
Yeah - do more, other stuff, because if all you do is moving around your mouse cursor, then that’s what the CPU will spend time on :)
Btw - how do you know your CPU is using 50% on “mouse activities”, have you installed Executive by any chance? If so, then even more so - use your computer more if you want to see lower percentage used for “mouse activities”.
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My Logitech G700 Mouse is using half of the 66Mhz 060 while being moved. Is there a way to lower this?
Yeah - do more, other stuff, because if all you do is moving around your mouse cursor, then that’s what the CPU will spend time on :)
Btw - how do you know your CPU is using 50% on “mouse activities”, have you installed Executive by any chance? If so, then even more so - use your computer more if you want to see lower percentage used for “mouse activities”.
I have executive installed since it was released. I used idle check cpu usage.
On cybergraphx screens, if screen refresh rate is not 50hz or 60hz (which are not easy on the eye) depending on whether your Amiga is running in pal or NTSC mode, using real Amiga mice, mouse pointer does not move smoothly. The only way to have smoothish mouse movement is to have a 100hz screenmode with pal or 120hz with NTSC timings and then you have sort of flickery double mouse that at least moves smoothly. To my surprise, usb mouse makes the pointer move smooth regardless of refresh rate. But I found that moving windows with mcps smooth moving windows option struggles when using a USB mouse with RapidRoad so I decided to check cpu usage and found this. Real Amiga mice use only 1 percent of cpu.
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The obvious thing to do if you want to remove the “problem” with mouse pointer taking CPU time, is to not use a PIO (programmed I/O) driven controller, like RapidRoad, where the CPU do all the work in reading from the devices, but instead use a controller that use DMA (direct memory access), like for example the Deneb controller (DMA with OS3, but only PIO with OS4) or - simples of all - the original Amiga mouse port.
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Ah, well, then all you need to do is to RTFM - to expect people here to know exactly what it is in your mashed up hack&patch system that makes mouse pointer score high numbers in Executive’s AmigaOS scheduler replacement ... hahaha, escuse me, I am off to di some shopping. Good luck :)
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Would a rapid road fit inside an Amiga 500?
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Would a rapid road fit inside an Amiga 500?
LOL. You can make "anything" fit, with enough work. But it's not designed for it. You'd need to start by adding more RAM, a faster processor, and find some way of adding a clockport connector. ;D
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One could add 2x 90° zorro-adapters to turn the expansion port around, then fit an xsurf card and plug the rapidroad onto the last.
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Something like this?
http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?103645-A500-GBA1000-Clockport
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Anything is possible! ;D
In case ya’ll are wondering what you’re looking at;
Buddha Flash Phoenix Edition
http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/buddhaphoenix
True IDE
http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/TrueIDE
Z500
http://www.robthenerd.com/projects/z500
Subway USB module
https://bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=598
An Ethernet to USB Adapter
A DataStick Pro USB Stick
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Is the Z500 still available?
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Hi there Hiddenevil....
Daedalus, AKA Rob the Nerd, AKA Rob Cranley makes the Z-500. He makes them in small batches.
You can request a board in this thread over at EAB.
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=87848&page=14