@kas1e

Any chance you could update teeworld? Looks like the latest release was in April of this year.

@Daytona675x

Dude, love it. Might just want to set that up during the show so people can check it out!

@Lio

Have you gotten Descent Freespace to work on OS 4.1? I had trouble with it.

@mritter0

You should download it and give it a go.

@ALL

Be great if someone wrote an Amiga version of http://www.gamespy.com/ so we could play the few multiplayer we have :)

Hi All,

I'm thinking about putting together a lan gaming party at Amiwest 2019. I think we would have a wide spectrum of systems, Sam440's to X5000's. Maybe 10 or 20 system in total.

I'm thinking teeworld. Anyone have another suggestion? Something quick to learn and not too twitchy for the old folks :)

Anyone want to write us a new game?

Cheers,
Bill "tekmage" Borsari.

@Amigo1

For Synergy I would suggest you look at UHCTools. One of the tools is 'SynergyClient" which was updated as recently as 6/18/2019. It runs on both OS3 and OS4. It works very well, in fact I'm writing this post using it now.

They do not offer the server, that is a bit more work. MorphOS ships with a built in Client and Server but for OS4 we have the UHCtools client.

Cheers,
Bill "tekmage" Borsari

@kas1e

Nice work! Can't wait to give it a spin. I use VI/VIM for work all the time so I'd switch to this version as my goto editor.

Cheers,
Bill

Hey Salass00,

Any update on this project? Can't wait for working SSH on my X5K!

Bil "tekmage" Borsari

I've always wanted to know what to do about a program that calls fork().

It's a basic POSIX thing that we don't have on the Amiga.

Thanks!
Bill "tekmage" Borsari

+1 from me! I'd love the ability to SSH out from my OS4 machines. Looking forward to the first release.

Keep up the great work.

Bill "tekmage" Borsari

@Joeled

Discord Protocol? Does this mean we can do voice chat on the Amiga?

Cheers,
Bill

@Raziel

Would it be possible to write a launcher that checked the version online and was able to auto update if the local version was close to the timeout?

That should be pretty easy and would not require maintaining a seperate build.

Just a thought.

Cheers,
Bill

Fantastic news!

Two questions:

Do you have a link to allow for donations?

Can you include xterm in the next version?

Thanks,
Bill

Hi Nuder_Try,

I'd recommend you look at the Google Print Driver on OS4Depot. It's well written and I have had good success with it.

With the gcp.device you can print to any printer that can support google cloud. You can find a list here: https://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/printers/

Hope it works out!

Cheers,
Bill "tekmage" Borsari

@Thematic

I'd be happy to give it a try on my X5K. Feel free to PM me the details for download.

Cheers,
Bill "tekmage" Borsari

@kas1e

Thanks for the port! Works well here on my X5K.

One things, I created a simple anim but was not able to save it as GIF or anything.

Cheers,
Bill "tekmage" Borsari

@Stonecracker

Great to meet you in person at the show! Now I see what you were doing on your laptop for all that time :)

Really appreciate this work and when I get time I'll give it a try. Need to compile libcrypt and cross compile is the only way.

Take care and hope to see you again next year.

Bill "tekmage" Borsari

@eliyahu

How I got the Belkin F5D5050 working in my Amiga OS4 system:


First, I was able to order a device off Amazon here:
https://www.amazon.com/Belkin-F5D5050- ... 1&keywords=belkin+f5d5050

When I connected this to my Amiga a few things happened:

The light on the device turned Amber

The USB Device detection window showed up

The USB Log looks like this (type t:usb.log)
I: [16:32:34] hub.usbfd | HUB | Device on hub port 4 successfully added.
I: [16:32:34] USB Fkt Init | Init Fkt | Fkt 0x6f99a470 is {Vendor: 0x07A6, Product: 0x8511, Class: 00.00}
I: [16:32:34] USB Fkt Init | Init Fkt | Fkt 0x6f99a470 ("ADMtek","USB To LAN Converter","0001") initialized
W: [16:32:34] USB FD fkt start | BindInterfaceDriver | No interface driver of fkt 0x6f99a470/ifc 0x63956f00 {Class 00.00} has been found
W: [16:32:34] USB FD fkt start | FD launcher | Could not bind any suitable interface driver for fit 0x6f99a470

This is ok, there is no USB ethernet device class so the USB stack does not have a class to bind. When the network device is launched it will bind to the device, assuming it’s setup right.

The next step is to configure a network interface using the usbadm8511.device.

Open the prefs/internet application. Select “new” then open the requester and pick "usbadm8511.device”. At this point one of two things will happen.

If the type show up as “ethernet”, then the driver was able to connect to the device and you can go to the next step.

If the the shows up as “Unknown”, you need to set an environment variable to help the driver find the device. To do that look at the USB log for the “Vendor” and “Product” numbers, like this: Vendor: 0x07A6, Product: 0x8511

Next convert those numbers from HEX to DEC, I used google. Then execute the following in a shell, but with your numbers:

>setenv save usb/usbadm8511.device/unit0 "VENDORID=1958 DEVICEID=34065”

In either case I would reboot at this point. Recommend that before you do make sure the device is plugged in to an active ethernet link is connected.

After the reboot, open a new shell (Amiga-E and “newcli” works). Then execute:
>shownetstatus interface <name of the usb interface>

The output will look like this:

4.System:> shownetstatus interface interface.1
Interface "interface.1"
Device name = usbadm8511.device
Device unit number = 0
Hardware address = 00:00:00:00:00:00
Maximum transmission unit = 1514 Bytes
Transmission speed = 10000000 Bits/Second
Hardware type = Ethernet
Packets sent = 2
Packets received = 20
<snip>

The problem is the MAC of the network interface is set to 00:00:00:00:00:00. This is why it will not work.

Next, connect the device to a linux system to obtain the proper mac address. Windows might work but you need to deal with drivers. Under the linux shell run “#ip link” to see the devices and their MAC address.

Once you have the MAC address we need to program that address in to the interface file. Simple opened the interface file in sys:devs/netinterfaces/ and added the the following line:

hardwareaddress=00:05:1b:70:d1:da

Besure to program your static address or set the device to use dynamic addressing and rebooted the system once more

Boom! Online.


I hope this works for others. I've tested on Amiga's big and small.

Cheers,
Bill "tekmage" Borsari

Took a little more work but I figured it out. Turns out you don't need to set the vendor and device strings in the env vars. What was happening is RoadShow was onlining the interface but it was not detecting the Mac Address correctly. I plugged my F5D5050 to my Linux machine, got the MAC, then programmed that in to the interface file by hand. After that it worked!

I could tell you what system I am using to post this but... :)

Bill "tekmage" Borsari

Hi All,

Anyone have the skills to make an Amazon AMI with a full cross compiler env? I need one as well for some porting of linux tools and it would be great if I could spin up a VM and fire off the job then tear the whole thing down.

Cheers,
Bill "tekmage" Borsari

@all

An application I would love to see with the Xena would be a multi channel digital mixer. It should give us 8 inputs with digital controls and CPU based filters could be applied based on a cheap peice of HW.

I would use this at AmiWest to manage all the audio channels. Maybe pull the master out and stream it directly via Shoutcast or Icecast.

Hopeing we get a Xorro card at some point!

Cheers,
Bill "tekmage' Borsari

@Chris

Great! Now a real reason to get Google Print working on my Printer.

Cheers,
Bill 'tekmage' Borsari