Pine users... do you exist? lol Usenet/Mail probs & minor audio rant

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None of the mp3 players require soundcard. All can play with paula directly or through AHI (AHI comes with paula.audio device). OK, there might be some excceptions like MAS-player's own software or delfmpeg, but those should be obvious needing the decoder hardware.

I've been using AMPlifier for over ten years as my main mp3-player. For some years with paula and it worked pretty well with it when you had 060. If you gave it bit higher priority than default is, then it played without any cuts no matter how much you used other programs and CPU.

Then I got Delfina Lite soundcard and AMPlifier worked fine with it decoding mp3:s with its DSP. No CPU load at all.

And nowadays I'm using it on MorphOS with Pegasos.

So, I'd say it's pretty compatible program and if it doesn't work, it's probably an user error. And actually if you don't have soundcard with hw decoder for mp3, then using soundcard needs more CPU power than paula.

About mail and news combo... I wouldn't try to find combo. Separate programs are better for separate jobs, IMHO YAM or SimpleMail is good for email and I guess there's some news programs too.. at least NewsRog and NewsCoaster seem to be open source nowadays. I had successfull test with NewsRog long time ago... I myself don't use mail or news locally, so can't say anything sure about those as main programs. I use Pine and Tin on my mail server.

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Ilwrath wrote:

ROTFLMAO! I never used Pine before, so thought I may have been "missing out".

Naw...  I think you're probably better off with any of the more modern Amiga email or news programs.  Pine is totally text/terminal based.  It's one strength is that it can run through a standard VT-100 terminal.  (So WAY back in the day, you could simply use JR-Comm to dial directly in to a computer running a dial-in shell.  Then, open Pine on that remote computer, and you could read your internet e-mail, and not need TCP/IP or whatnot on your end computer.  This was helpful like 17-20 years ago when I didn't have a hard drive on my Amiga, nor the skill to run TCP/IP on it.  :lol:)

Depends, I find Pine as the best option still, BUT I definitely won't recommend to run it on your Amiga or any other local computer. It's great if you have shell access to your mail server etc. Then you can have your mails, settings, folders, filtering, addressbooks, mail archive and everything available from any computer at any time. From work, school, mates, travels... and home Just connect with SSH client to server and do the mails. No hassle to configure clumsy mail clients locally to any machine. I can connect to my mail server with SSH by just clicking one hotkey or menu item from my Amiga's keyboard, so it's as quick to start as any other program.

Usability of properly configured Pine is far far better than any graphical client will ever be And it can handle attachments, links etc well... that uuencoding yourself is ancient history. Pine is very powerful nowadays.

I use local clients only when I want to send quick attachment to someone...