Hi Joerg,

Thanks for the update!

I suspected this would be a problem when I read about it in
the 2.8 relnotes...

"Implemented popup menus for <select> with up to 25 entries."

...that the 25 entry limit would fail on any page that asked
for a US address... they almost always use popup menus for
your state... there 50 of them.

I also encountered this problem with a car sales site... there
are more than 25 car marques. For example...

http://www.cars.com/go/buyIndex.jsp?aff=national

...and the "make" popup menu doesn't work there.

Any chance support for more than 25 items could be implemented.
Obviously, small screens and/or long lists just begs for coding
complications.

Otherwise the new version is working great here... nice
and fast!

Thanks,

PJS

Hi Joerg,

Great work with OWB 2.9!

It's running very quickly... Google Maps are easily loading
faster on my A1 than in Camino or Firefox on my 1.4 GHz
PPC Powerbook.

Very, very nice job!



PJS

@Rob

Quote:
I had a similar problem getting my 1920x1200 mode to work with DVI (in OS4.1)... the mode that
worked in 4.0 wouldn't work on the DVI port. I got the 1920x1200 screenmode to work on the DVI
port by adding "+RB" to the line in my Radeon tooltypes, like so:
Quote:
Maybe this will work for you?

Good luck,

PJS

Hey Origin,

Seems like a great idea!

I just surfed around your test entry a bit... one rough spot I noticed:
it seems the "View Issues", "View Comments" and "View Program" links at
the top of the page seem to appear/dissappear kind of randomly as one
moves around.

Can I suggest those entries be kept visibile all the time (with the
link for current location "disabled")? I think this gives the user
a better sense of where they are, have been and can go.

Secondly, if you have the control, could you (?) play with the page
layout (table cell fills) to make those links look more like tabs.

Thanks!

PJS

Joerg, thanks for the continued work on OWB!

As near as I can tell, the new OWB seems to hang about 1/6th
of the way through the progress bar if you provide it with any
CLI paramaters... at that point, all I can do is close the
window... there is nothing on the serial port that indicates
a crash, per se.

Besides window size parameters that used to work on 2.6, even
just providing a URL causes this to happen, like:

OWB www.google.com

Of course, this pretty well kills my script for transferring
pages from IBrowse, when needed... :-/

Any ideas?

Thanks,

PJS

@Snuffy

Quote:
At least there are still a few other OS4 users in the North America...
I'm in VA, I know folks in MD, PA, NY, SoCAL, NoCAL, NC, CO, Ontario
and Alberta. Imagine if you were in Latin America!

The dealer picture is much weaker... SoftwareHut exists, but they have
been scared away by the lawsuits... As mentioned, Kurt/Revanche seem to
be busy with their non-Amiga work, MrHardware appears and responds only
sporadically. Anyone else?

I know there have been a few people along the years that have talked
about doing some sales work, but things never seem to jell... :/

PJS

@wolfe
Quote:
OS4, naturally.

With ONE Amiga OS coder "on board", maybe there's a glimmer of a chance
that Amiga Inc can claim to know what Amiga OS is, what the Workbench
does and that Notepad has nothing to do with Microsloth?

I wonder how many people at Ainc even have Amigas?
How many have ever even touched an Amiga?
Just worrisome.

PJS

@rwo

The press release was just notable that Amiga Inc (corporate version 3???)
has hired its first person to have ever coded ("Hello World" even) on a
real Amiga computer.

Imagine the community credibility that brings Amiga Inc in their legal
shaghai attempt!

PJS

After all the BS and Bluster from McEwen, this is the best
he could come up with? A warmed over, half-baked kludge
long overshadowed by a slew of last millennia technologies.

Just simply pittiful. McEwen should be ashamed.

PJS

@Andrea

Thank you very much for keeping up the great work with
MPlayer!

PJS

@Billsey

I'm also in total disagreement with you regarding Bill McE's intentions
and the AmigaOS we know.

In the early days, he was telling everyone that would listen about how
DEAD the old OS was and that he and Fleecy were going to lead us
forward with their new ground breaking vision.

The fact that a third party came to Ainc offerring to give them money
to put out OS 3.9 was granted like throwing a bone to the Classic Amiga
dogs... err... "community".

The OS4 deal was yet another source of funding for Bill McEwen's Amiga
Anywhere fantasies.

Yeah, without Bill and his disregard for the Classic OS, he would never
have given Hyperion permission to make OS4. We owe him that much.

Even more so, I'm sure Bill never envisioned his AmigaAnywhere would
have come to such a dismal end and the revived Classic OS come to be as
highly valued as it appears to be today.

Ain't life interesting?



PJS

< bump >



@LiveForIt

Just checking in... Things going well? Need any beta testers?



Thanks,

PJS

@cygnusEd

Great looking work! Between AbiWord and Gnumeric, we might
actually be able to start interacting with the rest of the real
(business) world with our Amigas again!



THANK YOU CygnusEd!

PJS

@DonF

Wouldn't the fact that the developers continue working on
OS4 and producing executables implicitly suggest that they
support that code's inclusion and release in Hyperion's
Amiga OS4?

Unless, of course, they are all chained up in Evert
Carton's basement...

And look at the flip-side: if they didn't support the use
of their products, I'd imagine work would stop immediately
and a page like this would appear:

http://www.morphos.net/

PJS

@LiveForIt

Looking forward to your port! Thanks for the effort!

I was wondering, how does Basilisk's networking support
compare with Shapeshifter's?

I used to use Shapeshifter productively and had a VLink
SANA driver that allowed me to "loop" SS back into MiamiDx
for net access from the Mac side.

Now that MiamiDx is dead and we have the obtuse Roadshow
to deal with, I'm wondering if its even possible to get
Basilisk online any more.

Any experience?

Thanks again,

PJS

Hey guys,

Granted all the *impossible* AmigaInc promises make it look real, but the
Psion PDA reference should be a dead give away... Psion has been out of
the PDA market for years.

Checking archive.org shows this page version was put up in June of 2001
and it really doesn't look like it's changed much in the last six years...

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://mozamiga.mozdev.org/

So just put this one away as another of the Ainc-supported pipe dreams
that went nowhere.

PJS

@Spirantho

I don't have a TV Tuner card and was wondering what cards might be using the
Conexant CX2388 chipset (available in the US).

After a little digging around, I found a list of cards that are supported
by the linux CX2388x driver:

http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb?cmd=fil ... x88;filenode=-1;style=raw

Any guess if these should (theoretically) work with your software?

Additionally, did AmiTV also support the bt848 and bt878 chipsets? Somewhere
it was said the Conexant chip were successors to the bt chips. And there was
another page with a huge list of cards supported by the linux version of
that driver:

http://linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Cardlist.BTTV

Thanks for your work on AmiTV!

PJS

In the last few days I got my copy of Amiga Future's first English
edition (in Virginia, USA). It really looks good and one can see
how much work the guys must have put into it.

Andreas & Company: THANK YOU!

The other reason for the topic: APC&TCP needs to place their print
order for the next edition at the start of this week. Apparently,
a lot of the transfered Total Amiga subscriptions expired with issue
67. That leaves APC&TCP in a bind guessing how many copies to make
of the next issue.

So if you want to support the development and publication of an
English Amiga magazine, can I suggest you all go to their website
and sign up!

http://www.amigafuture.de/indexe.html

Again, thanks Andreas and company!

PJS

@Billsey

> This is what you typed in your first post. It assumes that
> Itec ceased to exist. As far as I am aware, that is an indefensible
> assertion that appears to be designed to turn people against Amiga, Inc.

heh... I think AmigaInc's behavior stands for itself - no assistance
from me is necessary:

--- Rather than take the costlier/riskier route of moving the "Classic
Amiga" forward, they dropped the "Classic Amiga" like a hot potato
and tried to pawn someone else's unrelated technology off as the
new "Amiga".

--- When they failed to pay their employees and were losing in the
courtroom, they claimed insolvency.

--- When it looked like they might loose their assets, they shielded
them by selling the assets to what turned out to be themselves.

I was willing to give AmigaInc the benefit of a doubt for their
financial failings in the dot.com bust... I can appreciate the idea
of making a quantum leap with the Amiga "spirit"... I was even willing
to give McEwen some room for his claims of involvement in OS4... I
understand the perils of their gamble and the nature of marketing...

But now where does AmigaInc stand? They have created next to nothing
in seven years. What little they did do is dependent on a bankrupt
company. Their greatest feat appears to be their shell game of dodging
creditors and legal judgements.

And now as a third party has managed to take the technology THEY DUMPED
and move it beyond AmigaInc's wildest dreams, AmigaInc's response has
been to pull the questionable legal grab we are now watching.

As I said, I think AmigaInc's behavior stands for itself... furthermore,
it is reasonable to question whatever version of story/claims the
McEwen cabal might happen to be peddling today.

---Was McEwen the CEO or not?
---Was AmigaInc Isolvent or not?
---Itec & KMOS are one or not?
---Were the Amiga rights sold or not?

And so I'll restate: *I* would like to see proof the Itec of June 20th,
2007 has any connection to the 2003 Itec LLC that prevously said
they SOLD the Amiga rights to KMOS.

PJS

@Billsey

I wasn't referring to Kouri Capital or anything predating
our legal shell game. And I suggest that Itec and KMOS
presented themselves as separate entities (in spite of
secretly sharing the same principals/funding).

This shell game would appear to be supported by the
contemporary statements that KMOS was 'aquiring' the
AmigaOS rights from Itec (Fall'03).

Did they or didn't they make the sale?

Let's say they didn't (as they now seem to claim), then
wouldn't Itec now have to avoid the issue of insolvency
between then and now? My point would be: if Itec ceased
to exist between 2003 and now, wouldn't the rights (they
now claim) have fully reverted to Hyperion?

It would seem that if Itec's LLC was allowed to lapse
or they failed in their annual state/federal reporting,
either would be reasonable proof of their insolvency.