Question to all Amiga owners

[wawrzon]

@eliyahu:
i think it is really not a proper way to moderate, deleting (clarifying) posts of people like smerf.

[smerf]

Quite happy with my A1200, well no USB yet but getting there. :-) Besides more fun trying to fit it all into a wedge.

The only thing about the classic Amiga is the crap browser, otherwise it would be very usable as an everyday computer. Which I'm almost doing, apart from my CF Card problems I've decided to go back to a laptop HDD.

Hi,

When you get your USB card for the Amiga 1200, please do this, read the instructions, then wait 15 minutes, read the instructions again, then look closely at your Amiga 1200, then read the instructions again, and then when you think you know what you are doing read the instructions line by line as you do them.

I personally know an idiot that didn't do it, and he burned up his USB card.

OK, I only read the instructions once!!

Can you guess who the idiot was?

smerf

[ElPolloDiabl]

When I read you had been waiting a year, it made be wonder why you are afraid of being criticised. lol
I don't have a problem with people who want an x1000. But I suggest you will be waiting a long time for software to be ported as well.

A-Eon said they were hoping there was still an Amiga market available. They may decide to only sell the sam460 because not enough people want the x1000.

[smerf]

Quite happy with my A1200, well no USB yet but getting there. :-) Besides more fun trying to fit it all into a wedge.

The only thing about the classic Amiga is the crap browser, otherwise it would be very usable as an everyday computer. Which I'm almost doing, apart from my CF Card problems I've decided to go back to a laptop HDD.

Hi,

The CF card problem for the Amiga 1200, can't really help you there, I have tried a buffered 4 way ide thingy from amigakit, works well with regular hard drive but not CF. Now the CF works great for the Amiga 4000 with a Buddha card, so maybe instead of going on the cheap like I did with just a buffered ide, maybe a more expensive one would work with the Amiga 1200.

I have 2 CF's plus an ide CDROM working on the Amiga 4000.
Never could get the CF to work with a CDROM on the A1200. Will work by itself as a hard drive, but soon as I ad the CDROM lock up city.

smerf

[eliyahu]

When I read you had been waiting a year, it made be wonder why you are afraid of being criticised. lol
I don't have a problem with people who want an x1000. But I suggest you will be waiting a long time for software to be ported as well.

A-Eon said they were hoping there was still an Amiga market available. They may decide to only sell the sam460 because not enough people want the x1000.

incredibly the opposite is true. there is far more demand for X1000 systems than amigakit can handle. every batch gets quickly sold out. the reason X1000 production is stopping is because their supplier for the PA6T processor has doubled their price on a per-part basis, and it's just no longer financially feasible. several hundred have been sold, according to trevor's talk at amiwest last year. it's a great machine. expensive, but a great machine.

the SAM systems are manufactured and developed by acube, not A-EON by the way.

-- eliyahu

[klx300r]

@ utri007

No worries about e-uae on even the 440ep soon as Ranji is moving along quite nicely with JIT for UAE which should be a definite boost for all machines but especially the low end ones.

@ eliyahu

i wish you were a mod here alot sooner as I've noticed alot less 'noise' in threads like this :-)

[klx300r]

Hi,

When you get your USB card for the Amiga 1200, please do this, read the instructions, then wait 15 minutes, read the instructions again, then look closely at your Amiga 1200, then read the instructions again, and then when you think you know what you are doing read the instructions line by line as you do them...

smerf

great advice as I've heard from more than one amigan about frying their clock ports when installing their Subway USB's incorrectly.

[matt3k]

LOL..  nice joke.

I've actually owned every Amiga including the A3000T (which on record is the heaviest machine i've owned) but i just have an A4000 which i love,  i did have an A4000T CyberstormPPC which I sold to a scientist in Germany they needed the machine for speciality programs on 68k and PPC side.
I've been an Amiga owner since I was 16, i'm now 41.. it's great to see hardware and support for classic Amiga's.. just wish someone would make a realy fast 060 accelerator card.. even the CD32 is missing out.

I owned the tank that was way overweight, aka the 3000T.  It was laughable how heavy that thing was.  Glad I got rid of it, save many trips to the chiropractor.  Great box, but MAN was it heavy.  For me the 3000D is the right sized desktop, fits nicely in my desk.

[bbond007]

i was curious how long bbond007 had been on the list

I was never on any list....

Still, it would be nice if an X1000 just showed up

wishful thinking I guess

[smerf]

Hi,

@NovaCoder,

The classic scene on the other hand is really showing some interesting signs of life, with new software, new FPGA hardware and even updates to the original OS (eg the amazing new icon.library).

800x600x256 color Workbench using AGA -> icon.library
=================================================================

What you talkin about NovaCoder?

Am I amissing something here 800x600x256 Workbench using AGA?

smerf

[smerf]

HI,

@klx300r

How do you like your Amiga one X1000,

How does OS 4.? run on it, I only have a A1200 and it runs awful, it is slow, and the color (not OS 4.1 fault) is really bad, plus I only get half a screen at 640x400 interlaced mode. Wondering how it runs on a faster machine?

How is software availability?

I am not just talking about games, how about word processing, spreadsheets and databasing. Can it run a video toaster, or can it render in 3D. Can I pop in a DVD and watch a movie or put in a digital CD for music.

Can it play any new games out like far cry 3 or Crysis 3. How does it compare to Linux Mint or a Ubuntu based machine.

smerf

[utri007]

OS4 is hobby OS, so no Far Cry 3 or Crysis 3. Games are open source ports or SDL. Word prosessing is oK, I don't know spreadsheet or databsing. I belive it can't run video toaster, but rendering is possibl with blender and old 68k render programs, like lightwave, Real 3D etc.

AmigaOne x1000 and Sam 460 has a problem, there is no currently fully supportd graphics card for them PCIe, wich means no 3d support, no overlay support, so you can watc DVDs but ther are limitations. Digital music is ok, there is tunet for internet radios etc. and several ways to listen mp3s

Basic tasks like internet browsin, etc works very well

Currently best support is for Radeon 9XXX cards, like Radeon 9250

It is possible to install linux to AmigaOne and run it with Amiga OS4

[wawrzon]

What you talkin about NovaCoder?

Am I amissing something here 800x600x256 Workbench using AGA?

no, i think he is talking about fpga arcade, interesting project that alas constantly gets delayed. at least it is claimed to be manufactured just now:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?p=729535&highlight=fpga+arcade#post729535

http://www.fpgaarcade.com/

there is 060/100/128mb/usb/lan daughterboard developed for it:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?p=724311

video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ug4_yh3Q288

while at it there is also a discussion about cpu fpga replacement, you visited before, quite fruitful, remains to be seen how fruitful it will actually become. several fpga projects are being worked on without much publicity. and last but not least there is aros68k im testing on my amigas. its not yet an end user capable system, but its progressing.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Am I amissing something here 800x600x256 Workbench using AGA?

I can run 800x600x16 on my ECS A500 with Indivision (after updating to 1.10 firmware) and the SuperPlus drivers.  It works quite well, was messing around with it again last night, but after opening Workbench and DPaint both at that resolution I think I only had about 100KB of chip ram left.  

I've seen forum posts that other people are running 1024x768x4 on ECS machines with the HiGFX drivers, haven't tried those yet.

Am almost certain AGA machines can do either resolution with 256 colors and the right drivers, but think there's still some bugs to be worked out of the Indivision for those models.  :-/

[wawrzon]

@Oldsmobile_Mike
ah, this too. the scsrce chipram is a nightmare. id wish there was a way to swap hidden screens to fast, at least on aros68k..

[Lurch]

I have 2 CF's plus an ide CDROM working on the Amiga 4000.
Never could get the CF to work with a CDROM on the A1200. Will work by itself as a hard drive, but soon as I ad the CDROM lock up city.

smerf

CF cards tend to die on me, have had a 8GB sandisk which worked fine. Had two PFS3 partitions setup on it.

Was playing Full throttle one day, it locked up and when I restarted the CFCard could no longer be detected. Couldn't even get it detected on the PC, 6 month old card ;-)

Have another 2GB card here was working fine, was just FFS. Worked for ages on my A500. Thought meh will try that on the A1200/FastATA. Corruption errors, even when setup with SFS or PFS3. Doesn't appear to matter what settings I set it to when partitioning.

So going back to real laptop HDD at the moment. May get a cheap SSD later on.