Can you imagine? A1200 Reloaded + Mediator + Vampire +...

[nicholas]

@kreciu

Apollo/Vampire crew has gone about it in a smart way. They are quite informative, altho not overly so. They are quite available to the "common man" thru IRC (and some forum presence).
So people on IRC picking their brains will funnel the information onto forums, leaving the team to focus on development. Seems like a smart way to go about it.
People feel connected to the project since its very visible and open.

As far as development of the classic "scene". One of the things that annoys me is every program seems to be missing xyz library or third party program.
When I came back from my Amiga hibernation, reinstalling things, getting it to work, was quite annoying. Going thru SnoopDos, seeing whats missing, and figure out what to do.
There are packs that takes some of that grief out of the process, but I still wish the standard was that EVERYTHING you need to get X program to work is included in the archive/folder/installscript. So if I installed said program on a completely clean WB 3.1 system, it would work.

 http://www.geit.de/eng_grunch.html

[nicholas]

Thanks!

Looks nice.

Tho when trying to start the program SnoopDos tells me I need to install

petunia.library, aros.library, cgxdither.library and NList.mcc

Petunia is the 68k emulator on OS4, what are you running this on?

The 68k version should just need MUI and NList.

http://aminet.net/package/util/libs/mui38usr
http://aminet.net/package/dev/mui/MCC_NList-0.120

You probably don't even need to install NList as the version that comes as part of MUI should be enough to get it up and running I think.

[nicholas]

I installed NList and could start Grunch.

Looks like a nice program. Its currently scanning my System:
The A1200 isnt online atm, but I guess I should try to get that sorted.

Excellent!

The easiest way to get an A1200 online is with the prism2.device and a cheap pcmcia wifi card, CardPatch and CardReset from aminet (to work around hardware flaws in the A1200) and I really recommend using the Roadshow TCP/IP stack over any of the others.

[nicholas]

Well I would prefer RJ45 pcmcia card, coz connect Amiga over wifi means lowering security of your home wifi network OR getting right wifi card, upgrade and use WPA2, but it could be slow on Amigas with 030 or less. Roadshow is the best without doubt, but some can have problems to configure it w/o GUI.

 cnet.device it is then.

[nicholas]

I ended up installing using the 3c589.device with cabled adapter+MiamiDX for TCP/IP.

Thanks to Mech that helped me via IRC chat on Apollo-team. Not only did he sell me a excellent PSU a few weeks ago. He topped it off spending several hours helping me out with setup of online related programs. Top notch guy

Grunch looks like a really nice program btw. Just what I was looking for!

Glad you got it up and running. Feels odd having such an old machine connected to the net at first i found!