Question to all Amiga owners

[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.

[Lurch]

You need a GFX card to enjoy web browsing on classic amiga,AGA is showing its age.

Not really, looks very nice on my IndiAGA2. Just need the webpages to render properly not a big mess of boxes and code ;-)

Don't care about flash/java and the like just need HTML to be supported properly.

[Lurch]

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

LOL, I've been there!! I'll make sure to do it when nobody else is around. Focus on the task at hand too.

I think we've all had the case of idiot syndrome. :-/ LOL

@ utri007 Netsurf looks interesting. Sitting on the fence watching!

[klx300r]

@ smerf

I'm really enjoying my X1000 because Update 6 is much more stable now then when I originally bought OS4.1 with my old Samflex a few years back.  My main browser at home is Timberwolf on my X1000 and I run all the Firefox add-ons I use on my notebook with no problems since the last update.  Youtube videos via HTML5 play but slowly right now as we are waiting for 3d drivers.  The upside of the X1000 for me is seeing the development first hand and looking forward to dual core support in AmigaOS:)

for wordprocessing I use AbiWord and for spreadhseets I use GNumeric udner AmiCygnix which is working amazing in a window screen under OS4.1 update 6.  These are very modern style office productivity software and are constantly updated (thanks Edgar).
For games I play all all my favourite classic 68k games seamlessly under glUAE and/or RuninUAE (double click icon and play) though I must admit I use my A1000 & A1200 to play my 68 k favourites and save my X1000 for  new modern games suhc as those offered by AmiBoing, BOH, KOG, Huno's great games or various ports from the linux world. For graphics/drawing I use either SketchBlock or Gimp.

For 3d modeling Blender works just great (thanks Andy) & even with 1 core working now it's very snappy in layout mode and rendering times are alot faster than my old Samflex (currently I'm running it with Wazp3d while waiting for a full warp3d driver to arrive).  Many X1000 owners have got Lightwave v5 working fine natively on OS4 as well, there's a great youtube video by mbrantley showing it in action.

I also dual boot with Linux Debian and it runs quite nicely with all the available Linux apps working great. It's funny that I got my first taste of Linux ever on my old Samflex & now X1000 and although it has everything a new pc has under linux I still can't get myself to stay using Linux for too long as it just feels alien to me.

messing with music I use Audio Evolution, HD-Rec& TuneNet is always on in the background.


on the classic side I'm most excited about building my new GBA1000 and place it next to my original A1000 as I love soldering/hacking hardware :-)

[NovaCoder]

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
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What you talkin about NovaCoder?

Am I amissing something here 800x600x256 Workbench using AGA?

smerf

Read all about it here -> 800x600x256 AGA WB

[Crumb]

800x600x256 color Workbench using AGA -> icon.library

You can notice how screenmode window is being drawn, that's definitely not fast. Have you tried using less colours?

[NovaCoder]

Speed is relative my friend, this is fast enough for my 21 year old hardware

[rvo_nl]

wow, that is very fast indeed.