Thanks orgin!

Nice job. OS4Depot seems to be generally working fine for
user access... Downloads, searching, etc.

Is there anywhere you're worried about that might need more
testing?

Thanks again,

PJS

@AmigaBlitter

Thanks for the update! Hope the author helps with the
endian issues, it seems like so few x86 guys care about
running on anything else these days.

Thanks again,

PJS

Hi 1mouse,

If you open a shell and type ShowNetStatus, what does it
show you?

If you're using ethernet, in SYS:Devs/NetInterfaces/ you
should have a text file with a name that matches the name
of the "interface" shown in your Internet prefs.

Usually, having DHCP turned on (checked) in Internet prefs
is a good way to start.

The interface file for a DHCP ethernet connection on a
SAM440 should have contents similar to within these lines:

---------------------------------------------
# DEVS:NetInterfaces/ASAether
# File generated by Internet 53.3 (1.8.2011)
# On Tuesday, 28-Oct-14 at 10:55:29
device=ppc440ep_eth.device
hardwaretype=Ethernet
configure=dhcp
mtu=0
---------------------------------------------

If you're using a wifi card, then there are a few other
things you'll need to do.

Finally, are you sure your hardware is good... Good
cable? (tried it in something else?) Good router port?
(tried something else in that port?) etc etc

Good luck,

PJS

@ScarFez

I think you have to be clear about the fundamental
differences in scale you're facing....

You want to emulate a processor type on another processor
that was exponentially less powerful than the first ?

Even if someone could get past all the things that are
missing, it's not going to work very well.

Kinda like trying to make a Piper Cub act like an F-16.

Good luck,

PJS

@ScarFez

Rigo frequently makes Codebench updates around the time of
the DevCon at AmiWest each Fall. The most recent was just
a few months ago and you can download off his website here:

http://codebench.co.uk/downloads.html

While Rigo keeps working on it behind the scenes, he just
hasn't been releasing more frequent updates.

I'd be surprised if he wanted to downgrade from OS4 to OS3
with Codebench. That would mean a ton of redundant work!

For OS3 development, you could always look for Lattice or
any of the 68K dev packages that were done over the years.

...or buy an OS4 machine. ;D

Good luck,

PJS

@salass00

Hi, I tried your last beta (v53.5) on an up to date beta
system and my shell account and had pretty mixed results.

It connected, but was exceptionally slow and seemed to lock
up all other disk access during any SSH disk activity.

Any chance you'll be releasing any more beta's for AmigaOS
(vs MattyOS)?

Thanks,

PJS

@AmigaBlitter

Great to hear what you're working on. Thanks!

Do you think the emulation will run well enough to run
Doze95/98 productivity apps?

Thanks again,

PJS

Wow!

You were running the "1.12rev2" version from OS4Depot?
If so, maybe you should start a new thred on this here
so kas1e sees it and can maybe help.

Is this happening on OS4.1 FE or?

I wonder whether there's some OS dependency at issue.

hmmm...

PJS

@K-L

At the risk of being difficult, did you install the
latest WGet from OS4Depot (URL above)?

What about going to the guy's page and making sure you
can download the linked files. Maybe Le Republique doesn't
want you blocking spammers? ;)

Otherwise, I just don't know what to say.

I've been running this for a month or two and its been
work rather well.

hmmm....

PJS

Indeed! There's something messed up with the simple
texts and how they're getting pasted or copied back off
these webpages.

:/

At this link you'll find a proper LHA file with the two
texts - the excerpt to add into S:Network-Startup and the
Toggle script (with icon!):

http://www.pjsa.net/hostsTricks.lha

That should make things easier... ;)

Good luck,

PJS

Hey guys,

Yeah, this little trick, as coded, isn't going help any
local hosts you might have set up. But who does such
things? ;D

I guess adding the Join command after downloading the new
hosts file could concatenate the "clean" hosts to your
original file... I think. hmmm

...or you could use your router to set up your local hosts
for all LAN machines. ;)

Thanks,

PJS

@white

OK.... speeding up Oddity??

There's one little hack that's been helping me. I just
started a new topic on it here:

http://www.amigans.net/modules/xforum ... m=40&topic_id=7731&order=

Granted, quitting Oddity after every use is also HIGHLY
recommended. It simply isn't good enough to leave running
in the background.

Good luck,

PJS

Given the nature of the modern web, it seems like many
sites drown visitors with adverts, tracking scripts, etc
etc. Of course, Oddity his quite vulnerable to all this.

Raziel suggested using the "hosts" file in AmigaOS to
sidetrack all those scripts. He also found a site where
they maintain hosts files that will block those web
denizens:

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

Raziel, that smart guy (!!), also came up with a WGet
command line to download the hosts file to your Amiga.

Here's how I hacked all that into my Amiga...

First, get the latest WGet from OSDepot and put it in your
C: dir so you can do the downloading:

http://os4depot.net/index.php?functio ... utility/misc/wget-bin.lha

Then make a copy of your original hosts file, just in case
you want to access all the spammers and web spies (aka
FaceCult) from time to time:


Next, add these lines to your S:network-startup after the
line with "AddNetInterface":

-------------------------


-------------------------

What those lines will do is download the latest & greatest
"clean" hosts file to your Amiga every time you boot up.
Furthermore, they will check to see if you are using the
"clean" file at time and make sure the new version is in
use.

Finally, I set up another little CLI script to toggle my
Amiga between these two hosts files. Just open Notepad and
save these lines to a file ("ToggleCleanHostsFile.cli"?):

-------------------------


-------------------------

Then you just go into and WBInfo on this CLI script file
and set these things to make it run with a double-click or
from AmiDock:


Then you can drag'n'drop this icon into AmiDock and you
have a simple way to check which host file you're running
and to switch it with one click.

Just to give you a sense for what difference I found this
change makes, here are some times for fully (almost)
loading a webpage:

http://www.autoblog.com/news/?icid=autoblog|news|latest
original hosts file = 22.5 secs
clean hosts file = 11.7 secs

"Almost" = without blocking the spammer hosts, there are
often sockets that constantly appear to be left open -
watching whether you're seeing the adverts?

One other little fringe benefit with this hack: when you
quit Oddity, you run into far fewer DSI's and "child
process unresponsive" messages.

Have fun,

PJS

@white

Given your question about which MPlayer is being used, one
item of note...

I forgot that YT.rexx was initially set up using APPDIR:
paths to MPlayer and FFPlay (in my system, I set them to
explicit paths for manual control and testing purposes).

In case you didn't know, the "APPDIR:" path in
"APPDIR:MPlayer" is a "virtual" path to whichever version
of MPlayer that was last run.

In general that works fine for most users as long as you're
not changing programs a lot and/or doing a lot of testing.

With APPDIR: if you move MPlayer or create a new install
and then run it just once (from the command line or
Workbench), then YT.rexx will automagically also being
running that MPlayer.

Obviously, it's not a good thing if you test some new
version of MPlayer and that's not working. APPDIR: will
mean YT.rexx will also be using that bad version until you
go back and manually run the known-good version again.

Fun fun fun!

Good luck,

PJS

@white

Well, you need to be clear what the various components are
doing when you use YT.rexx....

Your webbrowser is calling YT.rexx to decode the Youtube
page and find the actual video URL(s) within.

MPlayer is a commandline tool for playing videos. You
should be using Mick's latest version for best performance
and results.

MPlayer-GUI is just a frontend for MPlayer that gives you
point'n'click controls for starting/playing videos. All in
all, this shouldn't be necessary or involved when playing
YT videos with YT.rexx.

Configuration...

In this thread we've been talking about how to configure
your browsers to call YT.rexx on Youtube links & pages.

If you use "autoplay" with YT.rexx to automatically play
videos, then it is YT.rexx that is directly running
MPlayer.

As such, the configuration of which MPlayer & how it runs
is set at the start of the YT.rexx script. Please see the
YT.rexx AmigaGuide docs.

Granted there are even more ways to use YT.rexx (to show
you all the video formats available) and then to be able
play from the findings from your browser... But first
get "autoplay" working.

;)

Good luck,

PJS

@white

In Oddity, I've got an entry that is set as follows:

Category = Link
Label = AutoPlay with YT.rexx
Action = c:rx Internet:YT/YT.rexx %l silent autoplay

That seems to work well for me.

Thanks,

PJS

@Severin

I can only think you must be running an old version of the
YT.rexx script. YT.rexx is working fine here with the
release version of IBrowse 2.4 (dont forget to reboot
after running beta!).

Granted the YouTube pages have always been heavy on the JS
spyware, so I'd suggest for everyone that you go into the
IB URL Prefs, make a "#?youtube.com#?" entry and turn off
JS for the site.

Then you can go into the FAB menus and set up entries to
"autoplay" or load the HTML links (from YT.rexx) and get
to YouTube vids easy peasy.

Good luck,

PJS

@white

Congrats.

If you add "silent" to the arguments in command line of the
menu item, then you wont get the console window with the
script output (it will just start playing the video).

Enjoy,

PJS

@JosDuchIt

So you got your NetGear wifi adapter working now?

Basically, your Amiga probably thinks the Netgear is just
another router and AmigaOS knows nothing about the wifi
network upstream.

Is this adapter you've got?

https://www.netgear.com/support/product/WNCE2001.aspx

If so, in the future you should be able to connect to the
router with Odyssey as described in the manual and
configure/manage how the adapter operates & connects to the
wifi network.

Thanks,

PJS

@salass00

Nice job! Looking forward to the results.

PJS