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Re: AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup - August 2023

Posted on: 2023/9/1 2:26 #121

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@AmigaOldskooler

Thanks - I missed the update to Kevin's Mediavault script.

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daveyw

Re: Introducing the Rear Window blog

Posted on: 2023/8/23 6:50 #122

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@trixie

It's unfortunate, but I think alot of people think like Dave - retro computing is still fair niche, and not everyone wants to relive the good old days.

My own first programming came from the Atari 130XE manual. Great days.

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daveyw

Amiga spotted in "Painkiller"

Posted on: 2023/8/21 21:38 #123

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Was watching "Painkiller" on Netflix over the weekend, and rather surprised to see an Amiga appear.

The series dramatises the US opioid epidemic. In the early 90s, the company Purdue was pushing the FDA to approve OxyCotin, which was being held up by FDA officer Curtis Wright. Purdue sends him a webcam so they can "keep in touch".

Wright is shown plugging the webcam into the back of what appears to be an A3000. There's no branding, so its hard to tell, but the monitor is prominently labelled "Commodore 1084". It's running Windows 3.1 though.

Very surprised to see an Amiga - or at least a Commodore monitor - being used in a production in this day and age...

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daveyw

Re: Who is getting the A1222 Plus?

Posted on: 2023/8/7 3:06 #124

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@RobQuote:

Rob wrote:@tekmage
[quote]Some Sam440 and low end AmigaOne or Pegasos systems will likely make their way to the second hand market providing a cheaper route for some new users who may condsider the current hardware to be too expensive.

I tried selling my A1XE a few years ago on Amibay and got zero interest, so I don't know what the market is for older machines.

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daveyw

Re: Game Competition for July/August 2023- Breakhack !

Posted on: 2023/8/2 3:22 #125

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I belatedly had a go at playing Breakhack. However, when I start the game the menu covers the screen. Apparently, Esc toggles it off an on, but for me it does nothing, and I am stuck with it covering the screen.

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daveyw

Re: Hello!

Posted on: 2023/7/12 5:16 #126

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@layout

Welcome! Amigans is a great place to ask for help if you need it.

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daveyw

Re: Guide for New A1222 Users

Posted on: 2023/7/6 1:39 #127

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Thanks for the interesting guide.

I noticed you mentioned an SDBackup tool comes with the A1222. Is this an Aeon app? Exclusive to the A1222? I don't have such a tool on my X5000 and as I'm currently getting my head around a uboot upgrade, its quite interesting to me.

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daveyw

Re: Daylight saving settings not saving properly in Time Prefs

Posted on: 2023/6/21 22:09 #128

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@davec555

Quote:

davec555 wrote:Hi,
Seems like random start and end days, months and times are being saved each time I hit save and try to fix it.

Is there a workaround to get this working? or is it working for everyone else?

Thanks
Dave

Do you mean the TimePrefs from Enhancer? It's fairly broken. I haven't seen it randomly change although I have seen it fail to correctly calculate the date as per the rules you select in the UI.

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daveyw

Re: Radeon RX cards on X1000

Posted on: 2023/5/2 22:00 #129

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@MichaelMerkelQuote:

MichaelMerkel wrote:
how can get one a user there?
i *think* i have one. but don't know my password. i cannot send a "password lost" mail.

Yeah, I once tried to set up an account there too. I literally received the confirmation email months after I applied, by which time the link had long expired. And no, I don't mean I checked my spam folder months later and found it, it didn't get sent to my inbox until months later.

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daveyw

Re: NVMe device driver

Posted on: 2023/4/29 20:23 #130

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@joergQuote:

joerg wrote:@Rolar

1. Speed of the C:Copy implementation. Unless a lot in the AmigaOS version changed and was improved, or even better it was reimplemented from scratch, it's a very slow way for copying files and for example ASyncWB is much faster.

Interesting. AEON have built a replacement Copy command in the Enhancer pack, do you know if it incorporates what you have suggested?

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daveyw

Re: Radeon RX cards on X1000

Posted on: 2023/4/27 1:51 #131

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Honestly, since I got my RX560, I initially bemoaned the loss of soft-reboot, but now I don't really notice. I prefer to be able to watch full HD videos on my X5000.

As I understand it, soft reboot is only an Amiga thing anyway. It's not that Hans has removed the code, its just that it doesn't work with more modern cards, because they were never designed with this feature in the first place. So bemoaning that we can't drag ourselves forward into the 21st century like Windows seems illogical in this instance.

Hope I don't offend anyone - this ain't AW so don't want to flame.

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daveyw

Re: Lsof AmigaDOS?

Posted on: 2023/4/21 23:30 #132

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@Capehill

Awesome, thanks, I was struggling to understand what Pragma does, now I have a usecase for it I get it.

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daveyw

Re: NVMe device driver

Posted on: 2023/4/21 2:21 #133

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@noXLar

Agreed, greennaam its a monumental achievement and you should be rightly proud.

An example for all of us...

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daveyw

Re: Lsof AmigaDOS?

Posted on: 2023/4/20 23:30 #134

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@daveywQuote:

daveyw wrote:

Need something I can integrate into a script.

Working on a small project that monitors a file download and performs an action when completed. Currently looking for the file comment to be entered but would prefer a more robust solution.

Well, I got my Arexx script working, but thanks to Tequila, I can see it is grabbing all the CPU bandwidth and killing performance.

How can I change the task priroity of a arexx script?

I'm going to look into WaitNotify, it might be more helpful.

Otherwise, I will finally have to learn a proper programming language... have been eyeing PortablE for a while.

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daveyw

Re: X5000 power management

Posted on: 2023/4/13 2:59 #135

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@Isense

I have also had phantom power-offs on my X5000, but I traced it to a loose power supply connection.

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daveyw

Re: Lsof AmigaDOS?

Posted on: 2023/4/9 12:45 #136

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@BillEQuote:

BillE wrote:@daveyw

Would WaitNofify command on OS4 Depot do what you want ?

Looks promising, I will check it out. Thanks.

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daveyw

Re: Lsof AmigaDOS?

Posted on: 2023/4/8 0:04 #137

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@Chris

Thanks Chris, but my skills are limited to arexx and DOS scripts.

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daveyw

Re: Lsof AmigaDOS?

Posted on: 2023/4/7 22:45 #138

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@rjd324

I've already rejected that approach as it can't distinguish between a download that has completed and a download that has failed or stalled. My current hack is more reliable.

Download directory is not a problem, its always looking in a specific place. It will process all files in there that have completed download.

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daveyw

Re: Lsof AmigaDOS?

Posted on: 2023/4/7 19:03 #139

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@LiveForItQuote:

LiveForIt wrote:@daveyw

curl or wget

Not sure how they might be used; I don't need something to initiate a download - anything like a browser or ftp client can do that - I need a method of indicating a download has completed (successfully).

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daveyw

Re: microAmiga1 and USB 2.0. Is it possible?

Posted on: 2023/4/7 4:56 #140

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@Hypex

Likewise, I abandoned the onboard USB on my A1XE and added a USB2 card that I used for all USB.

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