MultiRen is great. It can be fiddly to use, but its fiddly because it is so powerful and has alot of options to master.

I think what we need most is an updated network stack. My download, and especially upload speeds, on OS4 are diabolically slow. I boot into into Linux on my X5000 and, with the same hardware, I get much faster speeds.

Great video, I wanted to see more of the case and got my wish.

It's certainly roomy in there, the X5000 board seems pretty tiny. Lots of space for expansion.

Sorry to hear you had to make so many attempts to get a working soundcard. I chose the cheapest PCIe on ebay, and it worked no problems.

Great video! Awesome setup you have there. The Thermaltake case looks very smart, it would be good to see a future video that gives a better look at it.

Surprised to see you are into Spectrum, I didn't think it was terribly well-known in the States.

And nice to finally put a face to the name. ;)

Look forward to seeing more.

Interesting results. If the X5000 supported it, I would probably add a 2nd graphics card, although I would need to sacrifice my PCIe 8169 card and use on-board ethernet (which isn't ideal). Would like to have dual monitor support in OS4.

It's weird that there was such a spike in WinUAE users in 2018. Maybe notification of the poll found its way through some other distribution channel that year?

@Raziel

Have you eliminated the filesystem as a factor?

@Raziel

Not entirely sure what you're asking, but I'm using an SSD and 2 SATA drives in my X5000.

I installed the SSD on the p5020sata.device, and contains WB, Work (apps & documents), Games, Misc/Temp, OS-4 Depot (apps I'm not actively using) and Amicygnix (which I use for Amicygnix, QT, Odyssey and Timberwolf).

I also transplated 2 SATA drives from my A1-XE, onto a sil3112 pci card, which contain documents, videos and pictures.

More and more I am finding that I use my NAS for pictures and videos, as I transfer stuff between my Amiga, iPad and phone.

They perform very well. Initially had some problems with my SATA drives, but I traced that down to a loose cable connection.

Umm, surely moving data from an SSD to a SATA drive would not reduce wear but increase it? After all, an SSD has no moving parts but the SATA does? Or do you mean "wear" in a non-phyiscal sense?

@Raziel

Could you please post the model number of the card you are using? I am hoping to replace my RTL8169 PCI with PCIe.

Thanks!

Seems to have been sorted on ther server now.

I had a fair amount of stability issues in my non-fixed A1XE G4, especially with USB. Even with a USB PCI card, I found that USB transfers would often crash or fail.

Then I replaced the CPU cooler and everything became alot more stable. USB failures became very rare.

I have a Radeon 9256 with 256 MB in my A1XE G4. In earlier versions of AmigaOS 4.x, I would only see 128 MB. Then, at some point, there was an upgrade that allowed me to see all 256 MB.

I don't think I did anything other than update my version of OS4 (and now on FE). It just became available.

I don't know if it's a limitation of the G3-SE, or perhaps your card and mine are different in the way they address the extra memory.

Having said that, if I try and use more than 128 MB (usually by opening multiple screens, one of them being Odyssey), I invariably get GFX corruption.

@broadblues

I was able to sort it by downloading to Ram: instead.

Haven't had a chance to play with it (I have to work this weekend) so will check it out next week.

Thanks.

Unfortunately, when I ran Updater something went wrong and the install fell over.

Now, whenever I run updater, it says I have 3.2 installed, but I only have 3.1 installed.

:(

I was using Nick Clover's weather.py from OS4 Depot, which broke last Easter. A few months ago I finally got down to taking a look at it, and I discovered that the BBC reformatted their RSS metadata. I think they changed the city codes. I was able to rewrite weather.py to get it working again.

@mritter0

My vote would be for a progressive loading of thumbnails.

Currently, when I load a directory full of images, Workbench Explorer grinds to a halt while it loads them all. I would prefer that it loaded the file-list, then progressively loaded the thumbnails.

@NoCache

It has been stated on the Hyperion board that it's not possible to put 2 graphics cards in the X5000 and use both on OS4.

Edit: Here's the link http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=4111

@1mouse

LOL, unboxing a brand new A600 on Christmas morning. That hasn't happened in a while.

Nice article, I look forward to reading more.

@mritter0

Working now, thanks!

@mritter0

Still can't automatically install, although the dates in the changelog now match OS4 Depot.

I've made a few attempts to install the latest update with AmiUpdate, all of which have failed to automatically install. I wind up with un-archived install sitting on RAM.

The changelog gives the same version as listed on OS4Depot (2.2 Build 9000), but has a different date (2018-10-10 vs 2018-12-18).

@JosDuchIt

Quote:

Just to clarify - it was Daytona who said this with respect to the SAM. I have only tried one with my X5000, and it worked fine.