Pigs and Faecal matter

[Wilse]

When they get together, they're allegedly about as happy I am right now.

I'm listening to a mod via OctaMED on OS4 right now.

After all these years, it's like I've found the Holy Grail or sommat...

:-D

Cheers!

[Wilse]

> Native,

Aye, via Damien Sewart's wonderful "maestrix" programme.

[Wilse]

@mdma:

Nah, OSS v1.03c, running native in OS4.

Native Os4 version isstill a few months away. (I think)

[Wilse]

mdma wrote:

Wilse wrote:
@mdma:

Nah, OSS v1.03c, running native in OS4.

Do you mean 68k-native OSS running emulated on OS4?

Sorry, yes. When I said "native", I meant without loading E-UAE first - just double click and go.
I'd been under the impression this was impossible for the last two years, hence my enthusiastic response.

How is it performance-wsie, and is it stable?

Well I only played with it for an hour but it seemed to work well enough.

Unfortunately I made a bit of an erse of installing a heatsink in my A1 and it's currently up on the blocks (no, it doesn't have the painters in. ;-)) .
On top of this, I can't get it to work on my Pegasos, so I can't do anymore testing yet.

Shame, since it's my favourite programme.

[Wilse]

Karlos wrote:
It also ran fine on my A1200 with OS4, apart from the serial line debug upsetting my midi gear :-D

So the midi works as well? Cool - I never tried it.

Speaking of which, I think I may have frazzled my A1's cpu |(not switching on). Would it be possible to check this with a null modem connection?

[Wilse]

Looks like I've barbecued it then because I'm getting nothing in Hyperterminal output window when I switch it on.

Bugger! :-(

Just when I'm about to get my hands on Petunia too.....

[Wilse]

Karlos wrote:
If it isn't too painful a question, what did you do to it?

Well, that's the thing.
It started freezing five minutes after switch on then wouldn't switch on at all, and I eventually opened it and noticed the cpu fan had stopped working.
I then followed a tutorial to replace it with a Zalman heatsink.
When I switched it back on it seemed good as new and I used it for about six hours solid, encoding mp3's, etc.
Next day I switched it on and nothing - so after much annoyed flicking on and off, I opened it again.
To my surprise, the heatsink was loose.
Turns out the push pins holding it to the cpu card were not holding it tightly in place. I'm not sure why I never noticed this at the time but I'm guessing the thermal paste was holding the heatsink in place.
The tutorial told me to keep the original push pins from the fan, as the ones that came with the heatsink would be too small.
I blindly followed this advice. My bad...

I've since swapped them out for the ones that came with the heatsink and it's now very snugly attached.

But, I fear, too late.

I haven't completely given up the ghost but I fear the worst. :-(

[Wilse]

Karlos wrote:
Gah, that bites :-(

Yes, it is somewhat deflating, I must admit.

I take it a replacement CPU us out of the question?

I imagine so.

Looks like I'll be restricted to the Pegasos for the foreseeable.
(And this iBook until the ex g/f takes it back. Maybe I could blag the G4 out of this? ;-))

[Wilse]

That's an interesting point, actually.

Hadn't thought of that. There must be someone?

[Wilse]

You might put the question to the people at amigaworld.net

Yeah, I've already done so.

Cheers for the suggestion.

[Wilse]

uncharted wrote:
Apparently ACK are in the testing stages of A1 upgrade cards (this was taken from an IRC chat), so there might be another option.

I hope so but I'll believe it when I see it.... too many false dawns already.