AMD system with Amiga Forever 6

[Holley]

@Trinity
If it 'flashes' in black it's probably due to AWeb3.4, the beta of the public license AWeb 3.5 is downloadable (sorry, can't remember where from) and that works much better.

As for speed problems, on Laptops check the windows priority and CPU throttling settings, I'm using WinUAE .8.27 on a 1.2GHz P3 and it flies along :-)

[Holley]

You'll get there in the end I'm sure.  AF updates would be designed to be saved and run under Windows BTW.

It's alot of learning, I'm afraid many Amiga users forget just how much stuff there is to it!  (BTW it's no easier trying to emulate a PC without any prior knowledge of them ;-))

[Holley]

It doesn't really matter where you download the .lha archive to, as long as you don't lose it ;-)

Under the full OS 3.9 there's a program called 'Unpacker' that will help with archives (I find it indespensable), but if thats not on the AF6 version of 3.x you'll need to get a program to unpack archives - the command line version can be found on Aminet (ftp://de.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/arc/lha150r.run is a self-extracting version), you'll need this for all kinds of stuff so it's worth bothering with!

It's run from the shell, so you need to work out how to use it ( - there are free graphical front ends for it, but they have to be downloaded as an archive, in a catch 22 kinda way.

(Have a look here for some handy tips - http://www.amigarealm.com/archives/thisoldworkbench/html/towb01.html)

When you unarchive the 3.5 file you'll see a new drawer, and within it the installer program (it can be installed over the top of the old lite version).

[Holley]

Sorry Trinity, I was just trying to cover every angle, and I've been posting at the same time as you so there's been some serious overlap!

Provided you get into the archive it should install in the normal fashion :-)

Donny - my guess would be that the speed increase is because Windows background processes can use the 64 bit, so get out of the way quicker ;-) So there is a good reason for 64 bit after all, lol ... on my old P3 1200MHz at 1400x1050 I don't have any redraw issues though, it might be worth checking your graphics card drivers if you have to go back to 32 bit.

[Holley]

ok, good luck - if you could find someone to do the config for you then once set up it would be a good A3000 replacement and you'd save the stress ...

[Holley]

You could put in Amibench.com I guess.  There's gotta be some reason it's getting in a muddle, sorry I don't have any suggestions :?

Have you tried downloading using Windows then openning it from a directory set as as a harddisk in UAE?

[Holley]

Trinity - most all messageboards take a little settling in, and most of us are willing to help (though most use real Amigas so can#t help with UAE specific stuff).

Aaaany way, I'll try breaking down un-archiving stuff for you -

Step 1 - Download the LHA .run file
2 - run it from the shell
3 - copy it to 'Workbench:C' (so it can be run from anywhere)

Thats LHA installed, next:
1 - open a shell & navigate to where your archive file is
2 - use LHA to extract the archive (I use RAM:)
3 - go to where you extracted the archive to, and run whatever install script is needed.

Let me know how far you've got on this lot so far, and I#ll talk you through in more  detail :-)

OS 3.9 has a graphical front end program called Unpacker thats does the extraction with a couple of mouse clicks, I don't know if AF6 includes it.

[Holley]

:-? I was expecting you'd need some more desciptive help on at least one part of that!  But if thats what was needed then great :-)

[Holley]

hoakey doakey - Aminet will just be a collection of the (then) current files (as can be found on us.aminet.net), so should be handy!

Not sure about the other, unless it's of some use for the inbuilt CD32 emulation that WinUAE includes.

Anyway, I think your next question will warrant a fresh topic ;-)