Longest Amiga session

[Cass]

Depends on the ammount/size of memory you have installed, and the kind of applications you're running.
An unexpanded 16MB Fast A4000, won't last long surfing the internet and doing other stuff simultaneously.
With 152 MB, I go till some proggie halts the system (won't go out of memory with the usual apps running -expect large files/compression/compiling etc.-).
OS4 will resolve these problems, hopefully.

[pierre]

NO amiga will last long surfing the web... even if the amiga last the user will SOONER or later give up.... We need firefox !..  
My toaster flyer is rock slolid, as long as I don't mess with other things.
10 or 11 years ago, I used to to graphics for the local news station, I used a a3k(t) to switch the graphics live! (with scala!!!) It NEVER crashed EVER, just this one time during the brodcast I was palying with the key on the front...I learned that if you turn it to the left it resets the amiga... whoops... I claimed the machine crashed... those ppl where very uptight!  I did get it back up and running pretty quick tho but I did miss some graphics.... It had not crashed I reset it!  live and learn

[leirbag28]

@Lemonty

I personally believe ( and I really really think this is it)  that the reason your Amiga or any Amiga crashes with iBrowse (even an 060)  is because the Web gfx or the data coming through.it too much for the Amiga to process and it goes crazy on overload and Crashes..........soething similar Happens to SCALA MM300 when I push it to the Limit by throwing and Switching Gfx too fast that take up all the chipRAM.

I really believe thats whats wrong..............I think the programmers should make the program (iBrowse) to adjust to whatever CPU the Amiga is using..and downgrade itself a little to not use the FULL CPU..like maybe %75 of it only...................yes it will take longer..............but will crash less I believe.

@pierre

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I used a a3k(t) to switch the graphics live! (with scala!!!)
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Way to go!  SCALA is the software Video Toaster! :-)

[Ilwrath]

I used a a3k(t) to switch the graphics live! (with scala!!!)

heh...  Yeah, we did that at the local cable studio, but not usually live.  Only once do I recall ever genlocking a guru meditation over someone's head, instead of flipping a name banner in.  :-)

[beller]

Somewhere in the US, I'd bet money, is a small cable network still running their schedule/information channel from an A500 with a genlock.  

At one point in the '90s it seemed like everywhere you went you saw Amiga graphics on a cable network doing some task.  

I always left my Amiga running (when they were new) when I was home...sometimes for days without problems.  I'm sure the cable channels ran 24/7. Granted you did see your share of guru screens running in the middle of the night, or the ever popular insert Workbench screen!  Add to that the number of folks who used Amiga's to render 3D graphics and you have tons of folks who regularly ran the heck out of their Amiga systems for extended periods.

If my Amiga couldn't run for more than two hours without a crash I'd be looking at my hardware and software.  If iBrowse is the culprit, it might mean you need to add a bit of ram.  iBrowse loves the ram!


Bob

[recidivist]

 Since yet another cable system merger/buyout I have heard the nearby Amiga cable  guy may be pushed out as the new home office has their own graphics/menu system. I plan to touch base and see if some stuff is now available for hobbyist prices.

 I have seen the BSOD and the ordinary Windows desktop proudly displayed for all the motoring public when a local Citgo gas station's sign program crashes. They have a video sign on a tall roadside post for current fuel prices/soft drink specials/fast food.

[Gojirax]

I've run my Amigas for days without reboots. The only time I ever found myself rebooting from instability of any sort was when I was downloading and unarchiving a lot of stuff, checking out random software or playing games/demos.

[benJamin]

Back in the day, when I was living on Residence at Uni., I had my A1200 running 24/7 for the entire semester: Organiser would start DeliTracker at 07:00 every morning to remind me to get-the-hell-up, you lazy...

Anyways, during most use (Wordworth, Pagestream, PPaint, C4D, OctaMED SS, DOpus, etc.) it suffered no crashes.  Occasionally, I would have to reboot; most crashes were from me installing things and trying to get them to cooperate with other things (VisualPrefs + MultiCX + etc. = KABOOM!).

Or playing demos I'd just downloaded, but I was prepared for such eventualities by rebooting to my 'run games and demos' partition.

I did have a program that told you how long the machine had been on for, one time I checked it, it had been up for 34 days.

== iBrowse aside ===

Although I didn't go nuts with web-surfing (comp. labs were a hundred metres away and I had an AF sub.) I did some Yahooing (I knew not Google, 1998) and found that setting iBrowse' stack to a ridiculously large amount generally prevented crashes.  I can only guess this would work with other browsers as the size and complexity of web pages is increasing, so the size of your initial stack should be proportionate.

I generally didn't hang around browsing too long, though: I had pictures to draw and assignments to avoid.  ;-)


benJamin
"We are GIGGING tomorrow in Brisneyland!  Check Kamikaze Perverts' web site if you're in the area!"

[rare_j]

The other night I unpacked 1.25GB of zip files (2.5GB unpacked size) from a DVD to the hard drive of my A1200... I set it off at mid-day, only 9 hours later and it was finished.

My PC could have done it in 3 minutes  :-D