@COBRA

Didn't know that. Thanks for the explanation.

I know nothing about Overlay implementation in DVPlayer but, (iirc) the overlay mode made things SLOWER on most AmigaOS 3.x video players i have tried.
And keep in mind that i'm using a BVision, which i believe is faster than CV3D. Perhaps this is a BVision or a CGFX v4 specific issue...

"....and since this is a true 24-bit scandoubler you are going to be able to see the whole spectrum of colors your Amiga AGA chipset can produce."

Huh?

Edit: I have never used a SD/FF, does this mean that HAM8 modes can not be displayed with other flicker fixers?

@TiredOfLife

I'm not so sure, but since Heretic II is a hyperion product and he is a member of this company, it seemed reasonable to me.

@TiredOfLife

PM Rogue?

@ZeroG

So, this OS4 system module adjusts the buffers of a partition depending on if it is being accessed or not? Ok. I didn't know this because i haven't bought it yet.

Hi.
Would it be a good idea to add the feature of dynamic disk buffering to SFS, in order to reduce unecessary memory consumption in setups with many SFS partitions?

SFS would have to detect somehow if a partition is being accessed and whenever this happens, it would increase the read-ahead buffers for this partition (and the AmigaDos buffers if this is feasible) to a user defined amount.
When this partition is not accessed anymore, SFS would drop the buffers to a minimum.

@TiredOfLife

I've had exactly the same problem with registering HereticII. Contact them and they will give you a new registration code.

@AmiGame

Because it's not OS4-only.

Thank you for your replies.

Hi.
I just would like to know what are your favourite, OS4-ONLY applications, utilities and games.

@Joerg
I have a question on this issue. What is the file-size limit for SFS\2. Is it possible to be used succesfully with AmigaOS 3 and the scsi.device of IDEFix installed?

@AmiKit

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What exactly increases performance in AFA_OS? The TrueType fonts with or without antialiasing? The skins? The support for PNG icons? All of these DEcreases performance. Most importantly, even if you disable all the eye-candy, the AFA_OS task itself eats CPU cycles even when everything idles. Launch scout to see it by yourself.
The only thing that increases performance afaik, is a single patch in the graphics.library which replaces IconBeFast and makes icon rendering faster. Of cource, PNG icons will still be slower.
Correct me if i said something inaccurate.

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You don't have to use these or anything else from OS3.5. Use WBCtrl from OS3.9 with the right arguments, or even better, WBAllocFast from Aminet.
You may also get better results if you replace FText with SystemPatch carefully tuned.

@Jack

Well, an Amiga with a 68060/50 and a GFX card (or even with AGA using Riva and b/w display) can play MPGs of similar specifications with the youtube videos. You get some frame-skipping of course, but it's not unbearable.
So, i don't see how i'm wrong.. UNLESS the flv format is much more harware demanding than the MPG one. In this case, yes, i'm wrong. I doubt it because the quality of the flv videos are clearly inferior from the MPGs.
Does anyone here know that for sure?

@klesterjr
That's the method i use to watch youtube videos on my Amiga 1200 for a long time now. With some videos, it's necessary to use the -r option to set the fps to a correct value.
I wish there was a damn flv player, so we could skip the converting part which tends to be time-consuming with big videos! Afterall, youtube videos have low resolution and A/V bitrate. It's nothing that a classic Amiga can not handle!

I simply don't understand how this, or any other court case affects US: The Amiga community... I'm confident that the lack of developers and modern SOFTWARE is what's really killing the platform, not a court case. And anyhow, if the whole community depends on just ONE sw developing team, (that would be "Hyperion" in our case) we are screwed anyway. No matter if the win or lose.
From the hardware side of things, ok, it's almost impossible to get a OS4 capable machine, but everyone has his Amiga or Amiganoid. Be it a classic Amiga, an A1, a Peg, minimig or a UAE box.

@Chris

Yes.

Hi.

@Futaura

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Both cards were bought from 2 different Amiga users, who tested the cards on their own system. I can't say 100% that they are the 5v type, but i suppose they are.

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You are right. I know how strange this sounds, but i only have 2 Amiga 1200 in the house.

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Like i said, i reseted the modem/router to "factory defaults" by pressing the "reset" button, but it didn't help.

I am against of cross-posting the same thread all over forums because i consider it anti-nettique, but this time i have to make an exception because i feel very desperate right now.

I have an Amiga 1200 revision 2B from Escom and i'm using it every day, as my main computer. I'm accessing the internet with a dial-up modem without any problems, (like right now that i'm posting this message) but because we all now how slow this is, i decided to go ADSL about a year ago:

CASE 1:
I bought a second-hand network card "fiber line 10M ethernet combo" not in a very good shape and a brand new ADSL modem/router "SpeadTouch 536".
I set everything up and i started to access the internet with my new ADSL connection.
After 10 hours of happy browsing, i started to smell like something was burning and the connection was dropped. The "ethernet" LEDs on both the card and the Modem went OFF forever... This meant that the card could not communicate with the modem. I never managed to connect again with that equipment and thus, i went back to dial-up...
I blamed the old and crappy network card back then, but i recently opened the modem and saw that a chip near the ethernet plug was smoked-out. I googled that chip and found that it is a usual transformer but as a IC. I have no idea of what caused the damage. I don't know if it was the card or not.

CASE 2:
A week ago, being sick of the dial-up thing, i decided to give broadband a second chance. This time i bought a "KTI PF-16i" ethernet card and a "SpeedStream 4200" ADSL modem/router. Both were brand new.
I successfully connected to my modem/router configuration page via AWeb, using either MiamiDX, Genesis or MOSNet. After a couple of hours, while i was tweaking the settings, (entering user/pass, encapsulation mode, etc) i realised that the modem did not responded to my actions anymore!
Unlike in the first case, there was no burning smell and the "Ethernet" LEDs remained ON. There are still ON as we speak, but i can not access the configuration page anymore. I tried to reset the modem to "factory defaults" by pressing the appropriate button, it did reset, but this didn't help. I opened the modem and couldn't see any visible sign of damage. I have no clue of what is damaged this time (network card or modem/router) but it's apparent that something is damaged...


What the hell is going on!? Apparently, something is damaging the modem and probably the network card too. It's not a specific brand of card or modem because i tried 2 different brands of both peripherals.
I can only assume that it's my Amiga. What sort of malfunction could it have? Where should i look? Everything else works as normal!
Is there a known problem with the PCMCIA slot of the Rev 2B?
Anyone else had this terrible experience? With which Amiga model?

Am i doomed to stay on dial-up forever with my Amiga?