I get an error when I first run the install script.

It begins by telling me python needs to be updated and ask to select a destination drive. I select SYS and then get an error "Cannot open "SYS:" for output - COPY: object is in use".

Any advice?

Thanks.

AllKeys on OS4 Depot should allow you to use the extra mouse buttons - I use it to map the extra three buttons on my Zalman mouse.

I had a job 1999 - 2003 in which we used trackballs, and at the time I really liked them. My wife got me a Logitech trackball back in July; I find I can only use it for brief periods of time before my hand gets sore.

Hi,

Does anyone know if its possible, using arexx, to get the path to a drawer under the pointer? I thought there was a command in Workbench's arexx interface but I can't find it.

Thanks for any info.

@kas1e

I would like to try UFO: Alien Invasion, as I loved to play the original on my A1200.

Sadly, I have never got it to run on either my A1XE or my X5000.

@MickJT

I'm not 100% sure. I am currently working on an arexx script that uses ffmpeg -i (run from Art Effect to build a preview of 20 thumbnails from a selected video, and then prints data about the video at the top). It's working ok, but I can't figure out how to accurately parse fps, and I'm getting the resolution from a frame grab, which could be problematic if I decide to go with scaling.

When I google some of the features of -i, I'm seeing a number of threads where people are asking questions, and somewhere in the answers someone says "just use ffprobe".

I'm thinking of switching to mplayer. It appears to produce data on a video in an easy-to-parse format, although some of the results I don't quite understand (codecs are returned as codes, so I guess I would need to map those to whatever).

Its sounds like we're getting hardware optimised support for Radeon cards with the new Enhancer.

I'm hoping that will improve Odyssey rendering performance.

BTW, one way to block ads is to use your Hosts file to map their IP adress to 0.0.0.0 . That way Odyssey just can't find the content

Blimey, finally got it!!! This instruction actually works:



Looks like it just didn't like the DejaVu Sans Condensed font, which is odd, because I can select it with no problems from the front end. I also have to include .font on the end of the name.

Also looks like the formatting options (bold, etc) don't work, and changing str or mode doesn't have any effect.

But I've finally managed to get it to do something...

Thanks, I have the manual. I just can't get the command to produce a result. I've dropped a line to Alinea, although they're closed for the holidays.

For now, I've kinda left it and working on other parts of my script.

@nbache

Hmmm.... there's no console, so I tried putting the variable in a requestor.

http://imgbox.com/11wmVa2G

Can't see anything obviously wrong but then I don't know what I'm looking for.

@broadblues

Yep, tried that, no result.

@broadblues

Thanks, but no, that still does nothing.

Art Effect is able to correctly execute other commands with quotes without the need to enclose them with ' ', such as:

I don't know what is "proper", that is the problem.

I have adapted your line:

TEXT 10, 10, FONT "dejavu sans.font", SIZE 18, PLAIN, MODE MATTE, STRENGTH 80, "Testing, Testing, Testing."

but this does absolutely nothing.

Is anyone familiar with Art Effect's arexx commands, specifically TEXT?

I am working on a script and I'm not getting much luck with it. None of the example scripts feature it.

Does anyone have any examples on how to use the TEXT command?

Thanks.

Any chance we could have ffprobe ported to OS4? There's a 68K FFMpeg package that includes it.

Thanks.

@xenic

Thanks xenic, that did the trick.

Hi,

I am trying to put together an arexx script with no luck. I want to use REQUESTSTRING and REQUESTFILE to ask the user for input. However, I'm having trouble getting the result into a variable.

Here's what I've got:



But it doesn't do anything, the two variables just read as RESULT.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thank-you.

Same problem here, for quite some time: downloads (usually large files) from os4depot with Odyssey fail. I can resume them though, and usually complete on the second try.

@Lio

I'm not having problems with Mixer.

What is HDAudio for? I cannot see any documentation for it.

@smf

On OS4 with Odyssey, http://fast.com reports a download speed of 21 Mbps and an upload speed of 77 Kbps (!!!).

On Linux with Firefox, http://fast.com reports a download speed of 48 Mbps, and an upload speed of 20 Mbps.

Maybe Odyssey is the bottleneck? I can't find another Amiga browser that works with fast.com.

I can upload a file to my fileserver (filefactory) as another comparison. Pftp reports speeds in CPS, which is difficult to compare (just realised I could use NetSpeedMon to check the speed in Kbps, so I'll run this again when I'm back in OS4). [edit] NetSpeedometer shows a max speed of 134 kbps, although this was just a peak. Average speed seems to be around 118000 CPS, which seems very slow. Uploading via Filezilla on Linux 690 KB/s.

I am also using 8169, having recently switched over from 8139, however, the transition has been problematic and several times the network has just stopped working. I understand there are beta versions of the driver available, however, I'm not a beta tester, so I am just using what was delivered to the users who bought the X5000.

I am unable to replicate your test. The version of aget currently on OS4 depot is a Hollywood app. It cannot be run by command line, and when I give it the url you specified, it responded with "host now found" (although Odyssey can find it, so I guess the problem is with aget).

If there is a way of increasing network speed, I would love to hear it. My X5000 is my main computer, and its slow speed is a pain. Upload is so slow I basically cannot share large files - it invariably times out.