Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog

[Acill]

Wow, I had no idea you could take the ACA500 and put an A1200 accelerator on it like that. Very neat!

[Epsilon_]

Hi All,

A little delayed sorry but here is my blog post covering the awesome August 2016 Adelaide Retro computing meeting with a theme of "Bring your favourite Retro System". Lots of photos and interesting systems (including many Amigas) on the night!

http://amigax1000.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/adelaide-retro-computing-group-august.html

I hope you enjoy it! :-)

Catcha,
Epsilon

[gregthecanuck]

Today  I have written anew blog post covering the installation of my newly  purchased ACA1233n accelerator (using ACA500), new floppy drive and new  512k memory expansion into my recently acquired Amiga 500.

Hey nice blog. I recently picked up a pair of A500s in need of some love. Both are missing the drive eject buttons. Where did you get the replacement drive and the button?

Cheers!

[Epsilon_]

Hey nice blog. I recently picked up a pair of A500s in need of some love. Both are missing the drive eject buttons. Where did you get the replacement drive and the button?

Cheers!

Thanks for the kind words.

I got the A500 floppy drive with the eject button from Amigastore.eu.

http://amigastore.eu/en/476-internal-floppy-disk-drive-for-amiga-500.html

Hope this helps!

Catcha,
Epsilon

[gregthecanuck]

Epsilon - thanks for the pointer.

I am also enjoying reading your trains blog on Japan. Looks like a great way to see the country. Plan on going there in the near future - I'm in Vancouver so a direct flight.

[Epsilon_]

Hi All,

I have written a new blog post looking in detail at the upcoming Enhancer Software v1.1 update from A-EON Technology for AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition on my AmigaOne X1000.

Link is here:

http://amigax1000.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/enhancer-software-11-update-on-x1000.html

I hope you find it interesting :-)

Catcha,
Epsilon

[cgutjahr]

I hope you find it interesting :-)

I do, every time. Thanks.

I made a news item about the updates/news you mention. I described AmiPDF as "new in this release", since I never heard it mentioned in conjunction with the Enhancer package. I assume you describing it as "an update" refers to the original version that's part of AmigaOS 4.1?

[eliyahu]

@cgutjahr

I made a news item about the updates/news you mention. I described AmiPDF as "new in this release", since I never heard it mentioned in conjunction with the Enhancer package. I assume you describing it as "an update" refers to the original version that's part of AmigaOS 4.1?

correct. it's an update based on the same source code.

-- eliyahu

[cgutjahr]

Ok, thanks.

[Epsilon_]

Hi All,

Today I have written another blog post looking at the recently released Dir Me Up v3.02 for AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition on my AmigaOne X1000.

Link is here:

http://amigax1000.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/dir-me-up-302-on-x1000.html

I hope you enjoy it! :-)

Catcha,
Epsilon

[Epsilon_]

Hi All,

Today I wrote a new blog entry covering the September 2016 Adelaide Retro Computing event with an Amiga theme.

Special guests were Trevor Dickinson from A-EON Technology and Robert Bernardo from Fresno Commodore Users Group in the USA! Trevor gave an excellent presentation on the night and there are lots of photos!

Link is here:

http://amigax1000.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/adelaide-retro-computing-meeting.html

Hope you enjoy it and hopefully we'll see you at our next event! :-)

Catcha,
Epsilon

[giZmo350]

@ Epsilon... Awesome meeting as usual! Really cool to see Trevor and Robert there! Can't wait to try out Alice and A1222 products someday! Thanks for all you do for the Amiga community!

[cgutjahr]

@Epsilon:

Can you be more specific about the "seamless integration" of Linux applications into the Amiga environment on ALICE? There are two way to 'integrate' this:

1. A simple AmigaOS (CLI) program that can run Linux applications. The Linux application's window is then drawn by Linux. It pops up in Front of the emulator and is simply themed to have the window borders look like an Amiga window. If they're using this approach, you can not 'mix' AmigaOS and Linux windows - it's impossible to switch Firefox' window to the back of the window stack and have a Workbench drawer or YAM's window display on top of it, for example.

2. Having a X Window server running on AmigaOS, and make the Linux applications send their GUI data to the Amiga X Windows server. This way the Linux application's window is drawn by AmigaOS, so the window behaves like a any other window on AmigaOS. It can be mixed with other windows, minimized or (theoretically) even be displayed on its own screen.

So far I was assuming they were using the former approach, because it's a lot less work and because the preview video released in March was carefully constructed so that the deficiencies of that approach wouldn't show. You praising the "seamless integration" makes me wonder if they're actually using the latter approach.

[klesterjr]

@cgutjahr:
I wrote you a LONG message, but you don't accept private messages.  

Short answer:

1.

[cgutjahr]

@cgutjahr:
I wrote you a LONG message, but you don't accept private messages.  

Ouch, sorry to hear that :/ I do disable PMs and only accept emails whenever possible, because I prefer to have all my messages in one place (i.e. my mail program). Didn't know this forum software would let you actually write the entire message before telling you that you can't send it - that's kind of stupid.

Short answer:

1.

Thanks.

[Epsilon_]

Hi All,

I have written a new blog post taking a brief look at Amiga MIDI on the MIST FPGA system.

I thought it was just for Atari ST cores, but It works on the Amiga cores too!

Link is here:

https://amigax1000.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/amiga-midi-on-mist-fpga.html

:-)

Catcha,
Epsilon