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Re: wireless networking
Posted on: 2010/8/31 1:22    #21
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Getting a working wireless stack, device drivers and a working supplicant for amiga systems could keep the entire developer population in entire amiga land busy for years to come. In other words - it will never happen.
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Re: Proposal to make Zune MUI4 compatible (Bounty)
Posted on: 2010/8/26 2:24    #22
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Edited by ssolie on 2010/8/26 23:23:44
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Re: Some OS4.1 bugs
Posted on: 2010/8/25 1:27    #23
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@ChrisH

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Olaf's Roadshow is basically fine by modern standards...

Hah, if by modern you mean 15 years ago, perhaps.
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Re: Proposal to make Zune MUI4 compatible (Bounty)
Posted on: 2010/8/23 8:28    #24
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@Tuxedo

What? How can the MorphOS team not allow it?
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Re: Proposal to make Zune MUI4 compatible (Bounty)
Posted on: 2010/8/23 0:11    #25
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Why not have a bounty for paying Stuntzi to open up MUI4?
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Re: any chance we get USB2.0 before 2011 ?
Posted on: 2010/7/25 2:00    #26
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ChrisH wrote:
Plus very few USB3 devices out there, and USB2 is good enough for many things.


It's funny how this pops up again, the exact argument was used when USB2 came - and look where that argument lead.

Maybe you should look more carefully for USB3 devices, I count many products already in my regular webshops. Disks and memory sticks (and this time the bottleneck for speed is in the media itself, and not in controller/cable), video capture devices, cameras, and hubs ofcourse - definetly more to come.
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Re: Porting more interesting stuff
Posted on: 2010/7/25 1:49    #27
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Why bother with closed minded MUI when there's Zune, which AROS uses? Is there really no native port of Zune for OS4? I mean, there is for OS3.
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Re: Help Joerg
Posted on: 2010/7/21 15:24    #28
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porthan wrote:
@joerg

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Of course you don't do that in AmigaOS software, it's not required since it only runs on big-endian CPUs.


For now it only runs on BE but who knows what there is in the future?


This goes through the entire OS - all code used in OS4 assumes big-endian CPU, it's a requirement since all 68k programs also are big-endian, and OS4 is supposed to let 68k and PowerPC programs share data and memory. Porting OS4 to a little-endian architecture would require major rewriting of the entire OS. It will not happen.

And the same also applies for MorphOS.
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Re: Help Joerg
Posted on: 2010/7/21 2:01    #29
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Instead of porting gstreamer, you should rather look at how to make OWB use something that is already available on OS4. The MorphOS port uses ffmpeg, for example.
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Re: ASL File Requester enhancements
Posted on: 2010/7/4 5:29    #30
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kas1e wrote:

Trixie try to point for you and others about real live. About lazy users. About new blood and alt , which can give aos4 some popularity (maybe). But while some users will stack on that stuff like "learn os! you all lame !" - then it way to die.


And you think this will happen just by making the OS "familiar" to "most users"?

First of all, it is _very_ unlikely that AmigaOS atracts more users at all, at this stage it is more a matter of keeping the current user base than anything else - and you do not do that by alienating them.

Secondly - people grow fond of a platform not because it is familiar, but because it is different.

Thirdly - why do you want new users of the type that are so ignorant that they cannot deal with the AmigaOS way of doing things? Exactly what do you hope this demographic group has to offer to the platform? Money?

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Btw, did you have amigaos4 yourself ? (because if not, then strange how you can say what is good or bad in ASL).

I have OS4.0 on my CSPPC, and I had plans to buy a machine with OS4.1 once one is made that I find worth buying, which has yet to happen. SAM460 could be it. In the mean time, as I read about OS4 development, I find it less and less tempting to put money into, as I see all sorts of nonsense fluff implemented, and very little done to the big underlying problems in the OS.


Edited by kolla on 2010/7/4 11:09:28
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Re: ASL File Requesters suck
Posted on: 2010/7/3 12:00    #31
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trixie wrote:

You cannot just tell these people, "Learn the OS!"


Why not?

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First, UIs should work in the same way regardless of platform, so as the user feels comfortable with them.


So why do we bother with different platforms then? Sheesh!

Seriously, I really dislike how this "most users" argument is used to ruin everything I like about using computers. The same thing going on on Linux, it just gets worse and worse, more and more like Windows - the appearant measure point for everything "user friendly". I find it absurd.

Your point of view is straight out depressing :(
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Re: ASL File Requester enhancements
Posted on: 2010/7/1 21:46    #32
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@trixie

If you use makedir that often, then just learn the hotkey - that is the primary function of the menus anyways, online help for hotkeys

I myself do not use makedir often at all, so I do not want it there as some button I might accidently hit, causing an unwanted popup etc.

@Chris
Agree fully, and I had forgotten that if you press / after filename in save requester, it will ask if you want to create it - but that's because I very rarely have any need for creating directories that way.
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Re: ASL File Requester enhancements
Posted on: 2010/7/1 0:30    #33
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Daedalus wrote:
Hehe, wow... Maybe I'm the only one here who actually likes the ASL file requester?

No, I like ASL, it's one of the things that makes Amiga experience worth while - blazingly fast no-nonsense requesters, where the stuff you need 95% of the time is available as big, easy to hit gadgets and the stuff you only need 5% of the time is to be found in a menu, and not cluttering the interface. And background colour signaling whether it is a "open" or a "save" requester. Very nice, very intuitive, and the most effective requesters around, for any OS.

But, please - feel free to ruin that too in OS4, like they did in MorphOS. I ended up using OS3.9 asl.library there, since the one that comes with the OS is slow, cluttery, has silly context menus all over the place and quite frankly pisses me off. The 68k OS3.9 asl.library runs in circles around the powerpc native one.


Edited by kolla on 2010/7/1 0:47:17
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Re: Amiga meeting in norway
Posted on: 2010/2/23 23:11    #34
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@Antique

P? Gol da, eller?
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Re: Filer 53.29 uploaded
Posted on: 2010/1/23 16:01    #35
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saimo wrote:

Change the icon type of drawers to "project" and set the default tool to "Filer": from then on, any time you double-click on a drawer in WB, you'll get a Filer instance showing the contents of the drawer.


This is interesting, since this was something I used earlier for creating script applications within a drawer. Somewhere along the upgrades of 3.5 and 3.9 though, this stopped working, Workbench would treat an icon of a drawer as a drawer type icon, even when it was set as type "project". I assumed this was an "bugfix", but it has annoyed me. Seeing that this is possible in OS4 makes me wonder though, maybe it wasnt an intended "fix".
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Re: OS4.1(.1) and WiFi
Posted on: 2010/1/23 13:55    #36
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Chris wrote:
project of IconX


Why do people use IconX?

Since like forever you can change icon type to "Tool", set the S-flag and set it to start from shell.
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Re: AmigaOS 4.1 update 2 usability requests
Posted on: 2010/1/20 4:19    #37
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@Hans

Correct, I dont have to relate to it, and yes, it's exactly these tiny things that makes me reconsider buying into OS4. I know what makes me like AmigaOS, screw around with that, and there's very little appealing left.

Just for the heck of it, got some screenshots showing off how the new and supposedly improved ASL works? I suspect it to be just another disappointment.
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Re: AmigaOS 4.1 update 2 usability requests
Posted on: 2010/1/20 3:37    #38
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@Hans

FYI, I only have OS4.0 which I use very rarely (only got CSPPC, and it doesnt exactly run fast). But the more I read about OS4 I realize that it is not the type of AmigaOS I would want anyways.

I'm curious what those people doing kiosk systems think about the enforced disk writes. Would be highly ironic of this new feature would kill off the only professional niche OS4 has found so far.
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Re: AmigaOS 4.1 update 2 usability requests
Posted on: 2010/1/20 3:11    #39
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@trixie

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trixie wrote:

By write-protecting your system partition, you also prevent the system or applications from storing environmental variables.


Yes, great isn't it? On OS3 I have yet to see any app where this is a problem, with one exception (AfA's diskfont_lib.exe that writes fontcache to fonts:, but I always fixed that by editing the binary so it uses t:fontlst instead).

In MUI, Zune etc. it is optional whether to automatically save to disk or not on exit.

Quite clearly the concept of "USE" and "SAVE" is one of the highlights of AmigaOS - am I allone in thinking this?
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Re: AmigaOS 4.1 update 2 usability requests
Posted on: 2010/1/20 3:02    #40
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@Hans

Anything that writes to disk on a whim every time a program, be it command, application or library, is launched, _is_ getting in the way. And this most definetly is not "amiga like" behaviour.

To enforce this into the system as part of a minor upgrade, without even offering an option to turn it on/off, is highly unprofessional.
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