Hey Wayne (and all those from ages ago - Acill especially I remember).
I havn't been here for years, but came back at the end of last year when I properly started to follow a thread on the English Amiga Board about the Sonnet hack which is ELBOXs (rebadged to SharkPPC) ppc card for the Mediator - I'd been following the guy on Google Plus but the forum there exploded with a decent thread on the subject.
I got my old Amiga 4000 Power Tower with 060, Mediator etc out back in Ocober and worked out why the CPU had become flakey (the reason I stopped using it as it would crash after a while of use) - the Cyberstorm firmware had not been updated to the latest version so was screwing it up. I updated that and it appeared more solid. Unfortunately my old OS+addons setup was not on the HD that was installed and this annoyed me as nothing was how I liked it, so I shelved the 4k again as I don't have a computer room any more, not since my 2nd child arrived. I'm now in the cupboard under the stairs so not enough room for a PC< the Pegasos AND a huge towered 4k. I think I might have the HD with my proper set up on it in a drawer somewhere - hopefully it still works when I have the room, and time, to set everything back up again.
Since doing that, my Amiga "flame" has rekindled a little - especially as I just helped a friend who wanted to swap a A1000 for an A1200 so he could game on it. I told him to try to bargain an accelerator card into the deal as a A1000 is worth a fair chunk more than a vanilla A1200!!! So he got a 040 into the deal. Happy chappy!
Meanwhile, the Sonnet/SharkPPC guys are moving along a pace - they've now found another (more easily sourced) ppc card which works with the Mediator - so who knows? When they get that working fantasically I might get me one and unearth the 4k once more!
Meanwhile, I'm browsing here and in a few other places and trying to get Amiga Forever/UAE working on the PC - not very intuitive I have to say.
The Pegasos II running MorphOS is there and working, but I don't get to use it much as the PC is my day-to-day workhorse and with a family, and a job that has longer hours than ever before what little time I have is taken up with other things.
Oh, one thing I will say is, I am *LOVING* Elite: Dangerous on the PC (also available on XBoxOne and Playstation) and being part of that community on Twitch - it's like being in an Amiga User group all over again - same "feel" and noce people all round.
I'll be hanging around guys....take care!
TTFN
Sam / Bifford
