A600GS Updates

[THX-1138]

I've not updated this month, so today I did it - without checking what new features were going to be added.  Wow.  Once again you guys have surpassed my expectations - thank you!

[broadblues]

Hopefully that bugfix will be rolled out soon. Is there a known rough ETA?

For the F12 issue? I know why it happens, and will be formulating a fix next week, I won't promise ETAs . 

The why is that for some reason in our minimal X environment DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is not set, even though dbus session itself is running, if that var is not set CEF munges it to prevent a dbus autostart, which can  race conditions in CEF but which we also don't want anyway as we have a valid session. When the variable is not set the commands we use find the correct address through other means, but when it is set wrongly but CEF it causes them all to fail. 

[janikosk78]

I dug the device out of the closet and updated it to the latest version. I noticed that the A600GS has slowed down drastically. Starting Amibench takes almost a minute, and the couple of games I tried (Santa & Skidmarks) have laggy sound and choppy gameplay. I guess I probably need to do some kind of factory reset, because it is completely unusable now. Do others have the same issues?"

[slemmo]

I have stuttering mouse (reported in another thread, and it freezes the mouse when I open amibrowser for instance. Also opening folders in amibench is very slow. I have given up on this product, it hasn't worked since I bought it half a year ago. I update it every time a new update is released hoping it will be fixed, but instead you just get fresh new bugs

[Rusty Breadbin]

i want to do a factory reset after the install of the video codecs failed and all attempts to get it isntalled since just don't work, but all attempts to try to get information on how to do a factory reset just go ignored. Since then I dug out my Turbo Chameleon cartridge that I bought in 2014 (from AmiKit, coincidentally) and have been having an absolute blast on that using the Minimig core on it, while my A600GS sits mostly unused.

I thought the A600GS was the device that was really going to ignite a love for the Amiga that I knew had to be in me somewhere but had never really been tapped (being a massive C64 fan from the 1980s), but with all the problems the A600GS has had, and continues to have, it just was not the device to do so. Such a pity.

[polyp2000]

The more i read about the problems with these so called "next generation" amigas the more i think i will pass.

[janikosk78]

I have stuttering mouse (reported in another thread, and it freezes the mouse when I open amibrowser for instance. Also opening folders in amibench is very slow. I have given up on this product, it hasn't worked since I bought it half a year ago. I update it every time a new update is released hoping it will be fixed, but instead you just get fresh new bugs

 

Yeah. Back into the closet it goes since it doesn’t work. I set up a Pi 4 and installed Pimiga on it. Works great.

[janikosk78]

A small update here as well. I’ve been in correspondence with AmigaKit about the issues. They provided me with a link to a new disk image, which I downloaded and wrote to an SD card according to the instructions. The installation was quite a pain as it kept freezing frequently, and sometimes I managed to install it, but then the device wouldn’t boot the next time I tried. I tested with three different SD cards and the power supply is not the problem – it has more than enough capacity. The latest attempt: it installed cleanly on the original card and all programs/games worked great. But after shutting down the device properly, it’s completely a lottery whether it will start again or just freeze at the initial status bar.

[broadblues]

When you say the "installation" what to do mean? Just writing it to an SD card? Updating after the signing in to AmiSphere? The latter will be slow because of the large libcef.deb but once installed that should usually only need to be done once.

Are you absolutely sure of your power supply? What is its exact spec?

[janikosk78]

After writing the card, when you insert the SD card into the machine, it takes a few minutes (at worst overnight and stuck) before it boots into the operating system. The firmware in the disk image I received is already up to date, so you can’t update anything — except maybe from the advanced section. The machine seems to work perfectly with all programs and games, but when you need to shut it down/reset it, it won’t start up again. Or should I wait for a certain amount of time after a successful boot? Psu is 5A.

[janikosk78]

Apparently, a new firmware update became available. I downloaded it and have been testing the device a bit, and it seems like games and programs are working normally.  The device also seems to start up every time now without getting stuck.

EDIT: Turns out it didn’t work after all. The same freezing at the startup screens continues, no matter which SD card is in the machine. At first, it really seemed like the device was working after the update, but no...  :'(

[amigakit]

The following software updates for the A600GS and  A1200NG have been uploaded today through the in-built live update system.  They are available to download for all registered AmiSphere users:


46.2.1215  (05/09/2025):


* Small optimisation for high polling mice

* Fix for F12 menu key not working when AmiBrowser was run.