How to use my Sam440ep AmigaOS 4.1 machine

[klx300r]

what others have said and I personally also like to dabble with Lightwave and Blender, doodling with SketchBlock, fixing/upgrading my classics/NG keeps me busy too

Basically my old Samflex@800 and now my X1000 are modern extensions of my A1000, A1200's and I look forward to find ways to keep messin with them.
Based on your Byte Cellar which is quadruple the size of my Man Cave I suspect you know the reasons why;)

[blakespot]

Ok, I've got the machine setup with OS4.1FE and it's in my office. Having fun loading it up properly.

I've got player and DvPlayer installed. Someone mentioned that the Radeon 9250 in my 440ep-Flex assists with video playback. Is there some binding I must work to get this happening. Video looks pretty studdery in mplayer, and DvPlayer seems to play nothing I throw at it. (There is mention of .AVI files not playing in the OS 4.1 bundled version of DvPlayer -- is there a better, pay version?)

I've got mpega.library (libmad clone) installed and working. Also installed a52 and dca codecs. What other core things do I want to setup? Is mplayer and DvPlayer it for video playback? There's no VLC port, right?

Other "core" suggestions?

Thanks.



bp

[Jeff]

Thank you for this thread. I'm getting ready to follow along with updating my Sam 440 Flex:) Lots of great suggestions here!

[eliyahu]

@blakespot

dvplayer is commercial, and there's a new version coming, but until then, i'm not sure if you can order it anymore. try dvplayer.amistore.net and see if it will let you buy it. if not, ping matthew (@amigakit) or trevor (@TrevorD) and see if they can help. the version included as an 'extra' with the OS is really more a demo. but i used the full, paid version on my SAM back in the day, and it played 480p AVIs quite well, especially in fullscreen.

mplayer is another animal altogether. for faster NG machines, you don't really need to fiddle with it, but man, i had to on that SAM. you want to make sure framedrop is always enabled. if it's an AVI, you want cache on, if it's a MP4, you don't and you also want force indexing... see what i mean? eventually i just used my office machine to transcode all my video files into 480p AVIs using Xvid or MPEG2 as a codec, and those work great. i was so happy when i got a G4-based system. it played everything, no need to muck about. and, no, there is no VLC port -- at least that i know about.

as for what else, well, there's a bunch of stuff out there (as i mentioned earlier), and plenty of cool games, too. are there any specific things you want to do with your SAM?

-- eliyahu

[pVC]

The thing is, when I fire it up, I never find a compelling reason to keep using it daily. It is sitting beside my quad-core 3.4GHz Core i7 iMac w/ 3 screens and I _want_ to use it but I think I just don't have the apps to keep my interest.

I think that most of us who still use their Amigas/compatibles in daily use just love how the whole (operating)system works. It's not that much about the apps, but other things.

Of course there are some lovely apps which you love too, but to be honest, other systems have much better offering with the apps you need in the modern world, if you mainly need those. Although nothing still beats Magellan2, AmIRC, CEd, ARexx, PPaint, etc in my use

But I'd say if someone who has been a power user on the Amiga earlier (== knows what's possible) is now sitting happily in front of some other system like OSX, Windows, Linux without feeling annoyed... he's a lost soul now. Unfortunately many next gen buyers seem to be like that... having a new machine sitting somewhere without power and waiting some miracle to give them a reason to start using it.

[blakespot]

Update.

I've been installing lots of utils, apps, demos, games on the 440se in my office. It's fleshed out far beyond what it was sitting at home in my basement comp room. I use it a great deal each day at the office. I am hoping to find new ways to use it, still. I need to find a good code editor that has integrated FTP to edit and save remote files. That's my job (web dev).

Nice listening to streams on TuneNet. Will be nicer when it gets back in sync with Shoutcast, as I hear it will before too long.

I've got reg'ed Wordsworth on my A2000 '020 - need to find somehow get that installed on the SAM.

Any other recommendations? Anything you have to offer is appreciated!




bp

[Valiant]

Update.

I've been installing lots of utils, apps, demos, games on the 440se in my office. It's fleshed out far beyond what it was sitting at home in my basement comp room. I use it a great deal each day at the office. I am hoping to find new ways to use it, still. I need to find a good code editor that has integrated FTP to edit and save remote files. That's my job (web dev).

Nice listening to streams on TuneNet. Will be nicer when it gets back in sync with Shoutcast, as I hear it will before too long.

I've got reg'ed Wordsworth on my A2000 '020 - need to find somehow get that installed on the SAM.

Any other recommendations? Anything you have to offer is appreciated!




bp

     Have you had a look at [URL]Codebench[=http://codebench.co.uk/downloads.html]?  It doesn't have FTP yet, but it's getting there.

     A couple of things missing from Eliyahu's excellent list are FreeDB, a database of CD ID's which I use at the same time along with ADRipper, and WebVision, a classic 68K app for viewing webcams.  It still works great with AmigaOS 4.1.

[Dandy]

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I rely on too many cloud services and such that require better (eg, more modern/stable browsers) browsers, and use too many services like GDrive and Dropbox, which really aren't an option on the SAM.
...

Then this might be something for you:

Amiga Cloud Handlers

[eliyahu]

@Dandy

thanks for the reminder -- the google drive handler is excellent. i still need to register, though....

-- eliyahu

[klx300r]

Then this might be something for you:

Amiga Cloud Handlers

tried to get DropBox working on my X1k with no luck so if anyone has it working please let us know here

[psxphill]

You could always start developing apps that suit your interest a bit more. The Amiga community, especially the OS4 community, could always use more great apps.

Computers are successful all the time you can do something that you can't do on another computer for the same amount of money.

If the hardware was cheaper and better then people would be rushing to write more apps.