I personally prefer to have AmigaOffice Rather than a OO port.

I think parts of OO could be used, for example file format compatibility, but for the rest, Amiga apps can be much more nice. I doubt we can expect fast and responsive OO on something like 400Mhz netbook, but some "designed to Amiga" -suite could fly on it.

So, I would vote for AmigaOffice that is being built from existing and future Amiga SW. I think it might require Hyperion or someone else to get to contact with AmigaSW authors to arrange the suite being built. It would be great if AOS4.2 comes with AmigaOffice lite. And that people could later upgrade to full versions of the apps they use most.

example:
- CinnamonWriter lite + AmigaWriter lite + Wordworth lite + ?
- PageStream lite
- HollywoodDesigner lite
- CinnamonSpreadsheet lite + TurboCalc + Gnumeric + ?
etc...

AOS should come with lite/demo versions of any application that it's author is willing to share and full version should be easily available via webshop..

Anyone played with home media players / streamers like AppleTV or Roku?
How do they play with Amiga devices?

AppleTV vs Roku
A vs R #2
Info from Roku

btw. about samba and M$ networking...
We should have something better to use in every computer.
Samba is pathetically slow also on 1.7 Ghz x86 systems.
It takes ages for linux to figure out network shares, for example from Lacie NAS.

iBatch ?
http://www.os4depot.net/index.php?fun ... cs/convert/ibatch_eng.lha

As the PA6T can address 32GB RAM and X1000 can hold at least 16GB, I imagine 64bit memory addressing (+the use of two memory bus) is on the roadmap...

For me it would be ok if they need to limit apps to use maximum of 2GB per application. But the rest should be available with future applications and for OS needs.

btw. about the difference between ftp mount and samba...

I've understood that if one uses samba, the copy operations between network drive directories happen on the network drive itself, while with FTP you end up copying the data via LAN to your Amiga RAM and then back to the drive via LAN = very slow.
Am I right?

re: backup

http://www.onyxsoft.se/tutorial_backup.html

(not tried myself yet, I usually just do the copy+paste with DOpus)
Also, most 68k apps should work: http://aminet.net/search?query=backup

Sure. With AOS4.2.

@ChrisH

I think the OS should free the 3D RAM reserved by composed workbench, when workbench is not visible. Does it not?
But the Aquaria needs more than 64MB anyway (if composing and 24bit is used on it's own screen??)?

@CrisH

How about running Aquaria etc on a separate screen?
Would it work? (does AOS4 then free the 3D RAM reservations of WB)

I have SAM440ep 667Mhz.

There exist a tool to overclock SAM, but I have not tried it. Not really had enough time yet to find tasks where my SAM is too slow.

Ep models biggest "handicap" is the 64MB of 3D RAM. It limits you from using both compositing and 24bit colors on high resolutions. (for me 1920x1080x16b + compositing is ok for workbench, because I can run paint programs on separate 24bit screen, in Amiga style)

One can use PCI Radeon92xx cards to increase 3D RAM, but it does not increase 3D speed (because M9 has very fast built-in RAM and because M9 is on 66Mhz bus while the free PCI is a 33Mhz bus).

To my knowledge 1GB upgrade might be possible by soldering RAM chips on the board. But no-one offers such service.

Unlike the ep, flex model have 1GB RAM and can use 66Mhz PCI expansions.

SAM440 series have more mature drivers than SAM460 series. Another well performing HW option is pegasosII with G4 CPU.

@thedaddy
Some tested SW:
http://www.blitterwolf.com/testing.html
http://www.intuitionbase.com/ossoftware.php

"another thing which still makes me use DOPUS more than Filer : handling of archived files."

Last time I checked Dopus was not able to extract the archive correctly, for example some hyperion .lha packages fail and they recommend to use the arc tool.

Is there a fix for the Dopus lha issue?

JosDuchIt:
"Makes me ask about the built-in Radeon M9 : is it "dual-link" (as explained in that web-page)?"

the page:
"As of 2006, the majority of video cards are single link DVI implementations."

I believe SAM's M9 uses only single link. Therefore +RB.

@thedaddy
Strange if the monitor does not accept 60hz input. (IMHO)

+1

There were issues with several Radeon chips in system.
But (IIRC) it should not be a problem if all updates (uboot etc.) are in place.

I have this line in devs/monitors/Radeon M9 - icon - tooltypes:
MODE=1920x1080@60 +RB

Works perfectly. (even though I have to be carefull how to spend the video RAM, 16bit with compositing or 24bit without compositing, etc...)

I have SAM440ep & 23" LG via DVI.

So far I have not managed to get samba working with lacie network drive. But who cares (it's sluggish anyway), FTP seems to work.
For quick test ftp://ipadressofthedrive should work.

Then downloaded pftp from the depot ...

I think it will be like lime z9.
800MIPS CPU (400Mhz, no L2), 512M RAM.
Good as a netbook.

I think of it as a modern A600.
But perhaps it's named as A1-300.
It should outperform classic PPC Amigas and perhaps efika, nothing more.

I'll get one.

"The Sam440ep's built-in graphics chip will NOT be supported by Gallium3D"

:(

Then I (for one) need to upgrade or "sidegrade". 2D on M9 + 3D on a 33Mhz PCI does not appeal to me...

@logicalheart

"- Find out if the internal SATA port will work with a multiplier:"

ACube should test one ASAP!

To my understanding 460ex has full support of SATA II and therefore it should support SATA II splitter/multiplier. But someone need to test it first.

@kas1e

Ok. Clear to me now.

Their PR side is enthusiastic&overly optimistic, while the producing side underperforms (for whatever reason).


Often single persons seem more capable of focusing on some matter and get it faster done.
(I think one of the reasons of the slow progress of Alladdin4+ is that it targets to be multiplatform (total rewrite etc.) and the non Amigaish OSX seems to be the developers number one system.)

Oh, I just spotted your (& fellows) Amifig at OS4depot:
http://www.os4depot.net/filedata/snapshot/5935_2_snap.jpg
Nice looking... hopefully nicely cooking...