AMD system with Amiga Forever 6

[DonnyEMU]

I would like to comment that WinUAE has been very stable and very very usable under windows XP..


I just bought a new laptop computer an HP Pavilion ZV5260us which has 512MB RAM a dvd burner and an AMD Athlon 64, 64-bit x86 compatible processor.. It also has a 15.4 HI DEF widescreen 1600x1050 lcd display..


Recently I installed the preview program release of Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit edition.. Anyway after reading this entire post I decided to try out WinUAE (32bit) on the preview release.. I also have direct x installed on it..

Well I have to say three things, it's FASTER than I have ever ever seen.. I had to fool with the CPU flags but in 64 bit mode running a 32 bit app thru WOW it's AMAZINGLY FAST.. Under 32 bit XP I notice the windows redraw even at 1600x1050 resolution.. On XP 64-bit it's not the case anymore at all you cant see redraw or refresh at all. Sound and video work and everything amazingly well..

Although it's not a 32 bit app running it in 64 bit seems to improve the performance greatly. I am going to benchmark in a follow up post..

[Holley]

Sorry Trinity, I was just trying to cover every angle, and I've been posting at the same time as you so there's been some serious overlap!

Provided you get into the archive it should install in the normal fashion :-)

Donny - my guess would be that the speed increase is because Windows background processes can use the 64 bit, so get out of the way quicker ;-) So there is a good reason for 64 bit after all, lol ... on my old P3 1200MHz at 1400x1050 I don't have any redraw issues though, it might be worth checking your graphics card drivers if you have to go back to 32 bit.

[Trinity]

Holley ...thank you for all your tech help and polite insights , I'll try again ....but the truth of the matter is that i'm losing precious time 'fiddling around' trying to reinvent the wheel here .......... my experiences have been with rendering, drawing and image processing , and to that end because of my work as a fine artist  ie: oil painting , etc... the amiga is (was) a great asset in saving time in sketching and modeling ...as opposed to wasting costly oil paints and clay... because I could go to the "final work" painting on real canvas with real oils ...
  The AF6 was a shot at trying to emulate my old 3000t , but all this tech. and trial and error  is beyond my scope of expriences and  with no results ..I can see everyone here is very qualified and subsequently even  your chat is far beyond my expriences and comprehension of the simplest tasks... I'll try again ...and see if this yields results ....otherwise it's Literally "back to the drawing board ".. thanks ..

[Holley]

ok, good luck - if you could find someone to do the config for you then once set up it would be a good A3000 replacement and you'd save the stress ...

[Trinity]

holley...I haven't the foggest idea of whats going on and everytime i download a packer or unpacker it always come up with the same message about an unrecognizable file ...so ... i think i'll stop while i'm ahead and wait for the real Amiga or Pegasos ...if you know anyone who would like to purchase this AF6 CD , I will sell it ...btw ...i can resell it ? .... just leave a pm in my box here at amiga org......thanks

[Holley]

You could put in Amibench.com I guess.  There's gotta be some reason it's getting in a muddle, sorry I don't have any suggestions :?

Have you tried downloading using Windows then openning it from a directory set as as a harddisk in UAE?

[Trinity]

holley ..:: I think if i had a manual , at least for this Dopus , I could get it  together... but ... I'm just so confused , as I have missed many yrs., since i did any amiga apps..... I don't understand why I cannot Unzip and files?... I had downlded 3 LHa and 3 unzip files ...but I seem to come up with the same "unreconizable file ".... error ... I even managed to download TVPaint ...but It won't open either ... I know its just something small  i'm missing ...
 best to wait for a new Amiga or Pegasos ...and btw ... I had a MacG4 in 2001 (to use) ,it was a very nice system ... but the new ones are just to pricy ... but it did work  well and i could easily run the apps... Abode , coral , etc... just like my old Amiga 3000 ...it ran very nicely ...And on this AMD , I can see the speed advantage and know if i could roundup some 3.1 manuals i'd be fine ...maybe i should just buy some new apps (Amiga) but I'm afraid that they wouldn't load
 

[weirdami]

@Trinity

I'm confused. What happened to the text of your posts?

[Trinity]

Hi weirdami :: ..re:posts .. i received a 'complain via pm ' that the posts were in the wrong forum(s) so , not to offend anyone , i deleted the one's previous to the complaint . I'm very sorry .. really I was under the impression that Amiga.org forums were user and beginner friendly ...perhaps i assumed too much? ..Needless to say i'm rather turned off by a responce from a member who was not even a 'Moderater'.  and now i'm  reluctant to post anything ,,,jeeesh ..it's a bad scene when the Amiga folks are so freaky.. well, only some of them.  In all fairness I really needed the help and Holley and Thomas were very forthcoming with information.  If a person can't find help in this forums ...Just what is the purpose of the forums ... not everyone 'shoots up' amiga  everyday    ...even if we could , there are other responsibilities that must be tended to... So , please accept my apology for the deletions ......i feel bad enough being rejected here ..much less feeling guilty too... smile.
 thank you for your inquiry....
 Trinity.

[guest1955]

Are you not overreacting a lil' bit? No one wants you to leave the Amiga Scene- I'd say that the majority of us want to help each other out. So someone said that you are posting in the wrong board- it's not the end of the world is it!?

[Holley]

Trinity - most all messageboards take a little settling in, and most of us are willing to help (though most use real Amigas so can#t help with UAE specific stuff).

Aaaany way, I'll try breaking down un-archiving stuff for you -

Step 1 - Download the LHA .run file
2 - run it from the shell
3 - copy it to 'Workbench:C' (so it can be run from anywhere)

Thats LHA installed, next:
1 - open a shell & navigate to where your archive file is
2 - use LHA to extract the archive (I use RAM:)
3 - go to where you extracted the archive to, and run whatever install script is needed.

Let me know how far you've got on this lot so far, and I#ll talk you through in more  detail :-)

OS 3.9 has a graphical front end program called Unpacker thats does the extraction with a couple of mouse clicks, I don't know if AF6 includes it.

[Thomas]

i received a 'complain via pm '

And why do you care so much about it ? Private mail means nothing.

If a moderator advises you to stop doing something, you should do so in the future. No need to remove old posts, the moderator can do it himself. If he doesn't, the posts are not as offending as you think.

If someone else (not a moderator) sends you a private mail, this is his own opinion and you are free to have you own, even if it is the exact opposite. There is not even the need to react.

However you should try to make your posts more readable. What you are currently practicing here is not the correct format. Perhaps this page can help you: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
You should read it thoroughly. If you follow it, nobody will ever complain about your posts again.

Bye,
Thomas

[SamuraiCrow]

@Trinity

If you're trying for Lha you might want to try the old version since some newer versions have issues with processor cache.

[Failure]

Thomas wrote:

However you should try to make your posts more readable. What you are currently practicing here is not the correct format. Perhaps this page can help you: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
You should read it thoroughly. If you follow it, nobody will ever complain about your posts again.

Just should mention, ESR is a bit elitist about some things, and that particular document is one where he really lets it shine through.  It has a lot of good points, just try not to get the idea that we are all holier-than-thou geeks like ESR :-)  Worth a read though.

[Trinity]

Holley :: thank you it worked like a charm .... Thanks for all the good advice


bye

[Holley]

:-? I was expecting you'd need some more desciptive help on at least one part of that!  But if thats what was needed then great :-)