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.

heh... Send in the zombies? Does this mean that Hyperion's
last shot at Ainc was such a body blow, that Ainc had to
resurrect the dead Itec?

Seems kinda desperate and sloppy on Ainc's part.

So if Itec wants to claim to be an operating continuation
of the 2003 Itec, shouldn't it be possible to find
continuous tax returns, corporate registrations, etc
for the last 4 years? Or might Itec also be demonstrated
to also be insolvent - again forgoing rights to Hyperion?

hmmm....

PJS

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@Slash

Hi, just curious how things are going with Epistula.
From what little time I've been able to spend with the
demo, it has looked impressive.

Your efforts on file transfers sound great! Do you
think it will work with AIM too?

Thanks!

PJS

Hey guys,

I've got a G4 XE, in it I have a (the original from SoftHut) 64MB ATI 7000
amongst other IDE & SCSI cards.

The PCIScan line is:

0x1002 0x5159 ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]

The Radeon Monitor's active tooltype are:

INTERRUPT=No
CMPLENGTH=6
FAKENATIVEMODES=No
VSYNCMIN=60
VSYNCMAX=85
HSYNCMIN=31500
HSYNCMAX=64000
MODE=640x480@85
MODE=800x600@75
MODE=1024x768@72
MODE=1280x1024@60

All in all, it's been working great (even the occassional 3D). Hope this
helps.

PJS

@pjs

First, regarding MakeCD... I did check the settings... looks as though
it didn't do so well with "0" (max speed) set. I changed it to "8"
drammatically improved burn speed. This may have to do with the fact
that I don't have my A1's transfer speeds maxed-out (trying to max-out
reliability).

As for the drive, it's a LiteOn LTR-52246S CD burning drive (52x 24x 52x
speeds). I've had it from the outset, used it with MakeCD as well as the
OS4's own burn facilities consistently. With MakeCD, the "test burn"
function has consistently worked.

So I have my doubts it's the drive... somehow FryingPan doesn't appear to
be using Test mode.

re: FryingPan's Test Mode - the online docs refer to a mythical set of
buttons that are supposed to be in the interface to enable/disable Test
mode. They are *not* present in v.1.2.3. While damn pretty, a lot is
not as it is in the documentation. Maybe the ommissions have something
to do with the failures?

At this rate, I can't say that I'm terribly excited about registering
to see it "enable writing"... It already **IS** writing and failing at
doing so.

Ferry, sorry about the problem with your burns... Not even getting a regular
CD to burn, I doubt I have any insight.

Thanks,

PJS

@jahc

Yeah, I've been using the ISO Builder page throughout,
to no avail.

I'm just amazed there isn't more control, configuration
or something available to get this thing working.

Dissappointing.



PJS

Well, I tried FP once again... apparently ruined another
CD...

I tried selecting "Masterize Disk" (WTF is that supposed
to mean?) and that made no difference... created another
coaster.

As for the non-registered version only test writing...
I have no idea what to make of that... there is *NO*
control over FP's test writing (contrary to the online
docs)... and it is definately writing to the drive.

I gotta say, it's pretty frustrating with this software is
frying useless disks. And I want to buy some new burning
software, I'd just like to see it work. :-/

FWIW, I did also just try the newly free MasterCD. It
took something like 2hrs to test & burn 500 MBs to a
disk. Not very impressive.

Where is MasterISO when we NEED it?



PJS

Hey guys,

I need to burn a few CDs of data for a exAmigan and thought
I'd give the acclaimed Frying Pan a try.

So I read everything I could find on the website, marvelled
at its pretty interface and figured I'd see how it works...
my PayPal payment was ready to go!

It recognized a blank CD-R in my A1's LiteOn burner, it let
me add a directory of files in the "Tracks" page and presented me
with a "Write" button on the "Write" page. I clicked "Close
Disk" (we are supposed to close disks, right???) and hit
"Write".

Things started whirring, lights lighting and progress bars
progressing... so far so good... After (long) while, a CD
with visibly written tracks popped out.

I resinserted the disk in the A1 and nothing. I stuck the disk
in my Mac, it asked if I wanted to format it. I rebooted the
A1 with the CD in the drive and UBoot said it was an Amiga
formatted disk (huh??!!) and wouldn't boot from my hard dive.

So what's the deal? I found no docs to help me with this -
the "Write" and "Burning Disks" pages on the website are blank.

And the only old docs I could find say the unregistered FP
doesn't burn disks (only test burns them) and yet the "Write"
button was active and the disk had something burned.

Can anyone tell me what the secret is to getting a successful
result from FryingPan?

Thanks,

PJS

First off, let me add my appreciation for the work put into TuneNet!

There is one thing I noticed recently: TuneNet could really use the
ability to sort the playlist by DATE. The need arises if one is trying
to play a CD's worth of MP3's. Without such a search, entries are not
loaded in the order of the CD but Alphabetical.

I'd appreciate it. And thanks again, Paul!

PJS

Hey!

Nice improvement! The page looks great!



PJS

Hi All,

A minor graphical quibble here... While the home pqage is looking great,
could the recent topics page please be improved with some background
colors, etc?

Right now it just comes up with the default page color (tan?) and with
no shading, topic by topic. Maybe the individual topics could get the
alternating white/tan (table?) fills one sees on the home page's topics
list?

Thanks,

PJS

@crumb

Your work on Basilisk sounds great... Sorry your 4000's illness
got in the way.

I would be very interested in testing it out on my A1. Please let
me know if you'd like another betatester! Otherwise, it would be
great if you could post a progress snapshot to OS4Depot.

For many years. I ran Shapeshifter with various productivity apps
(CAD, Word, etc) demanded for work. I think folks underestimate
the possible productivity crutch classic Mac emulations offer
(particularly a PPC Mac) till we get new Amiga productivity apps.

Ever take a look at Sheepshaver? Without a 68k emulator, might it
be an easier(?) "next step"?

Thanks!

PJS

@Sister Rita

No info on dates.

FWIW, I know better than to ask for hard dates from developers.
I know these guys are all working hard on projects with no money
(and little promise of future mountains of money).

Under real world conditions and those limitations, schedules are
the first thing to slip.

But look at the flip side, even MicroSloth blew their schedules by
what? Two Years? And they had a bajillion times the resources
to plow into a substantially sloppier target.

c'est la vie,

PJS

@All

The information presented in that table is simply what I boiled down
from all the PUBLIC information I could find. Some of it is even
confirmed with some of the hardware developers.

I have attempted to present no whatsoever claims regarding licensing
- that's for the developers and Amiga Inc to announce. The table
just reflects the announced intent of these developers to run Amiga
OS and (even) to get licenses.

@tonyw

Geez... I'm sorry for the Troika typo... Looks like there's my first
revision for an upcoming v1.4 of the table!

@RomanceClip

No proprietary information is divulged in this table.

Thanks all,

PJS

Hi guys,

Over the last few months a number of pieces of hardware have been
proposed and/or shown for use with OS4. I have compiled all the
information I could find into a (Work In Progress) Table of
Comparison, which should be attached to this post.

I hope this helps in seeing what is/might be coming soon and how
things stack up with each other. Please let me know if you have
any suggestions, modifications, more information, etc.

Thanks,

PJS

AOS4-NewHardware-v13.pdf