@joerg

Thanks for the quick update. OWB 3.17 seems faster than OWB 3.16.

I just noticed that while I am typing this post with OWB 3.17 that the cursor wraps around to the next line in the middle of a word and does not move the whole word to the new line. Some characters are left in the previous line and the word continues in the new line.

I tried the same with OWB 3.16, it also wraps in the middle of the word leaving some characters in the previous line and continuing in the new line.

OWB 3.15 brings the whole word down to the new line as I would have expected.

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redfox

@Kicko

Thanks for the notes about opening files. I have adjusted my bookmarks to compensate.

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redfox

Good News!

@Raziel

Posted using OWB 3.16 ...

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redfox

I've just seen the 24 pages of responses to the Firefox news item on AW.

Anyways ...

Thankyou Hans-Joerg Frieden and Thomas Frieden for taking on this project.

My son uses Firefox all the time on the pc and he swears by it.

I use OWB, NetSurf, AWeb and IBrowse on my MicroA1.

Looking forward to Timberwolf.

Thanks,
redfox

@Daedalus

As I indicated in a previous post, I am using E-UAE 0.8.29-WIP3 SDL.

uae-sdl icon is set for stack size 32768
Start from Workbench

-- snip --

@Daedalus

I run E-UAE 0.8.29-WIP3 SDL on my MicroA1 on OS4.1.

I have E-UAE installed on my main system partition.
I only have one rom image available.

kickstart_rom_file=SYS:E-UAE/Kick.rom

I have not defined any amiga.rom.path and it works very well for me.

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redfox

@Snuffy

Sorry about the beta testing comment ... I'm not a beta tester, just someone who had lots of room available on a hard drive. I was quite surprised with my results, especially when my system could not find ENV:.

Just to recap my testing ...

My system is a MicroA1 with AmigaOS 4.1 with QuickFixes.
one Western Digital 250 GB 3.5" hard drive

At the time I started testing I already had
two FFS partitions
one JXFS partition

I ran into problems when I added my second JXFS partition.

Likewise, when I deleted the second FFS partition, I could add another JXFS partition with no problems, but I ran into problems when I added another FFS partition after that.

In summary, my particular system works fine with ...

two FFS partitions
one JXFS partition

-or-

one FFS partition
two JXFS partitions

-or-

one FFS partitions
two JXFS partitions
one SFS partition

-BUT NOT-

two FFS partitions
two JXFS partitions

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redfox

BTW, my system started acting up shortly after these tests. It was not booting up properly. Could not find the hard drive and would scan bus 0 for about 30 seconds and give up. Would not boot from CD-ROM drive at all. I am not sure yet if it is related to any of the testing above or related to recent battery replacement or just a coincidence. In anycase I now have the hard drive connected to the secondary IDE bus on my MicroA1 and the CD-ROM drive connected to the primary IDE bus. So at least I can boot from CD-ROM if it happens again.

@Deniil

I don't know very much about the Kickstart modules, but I suspect that Kickstart/diskcache.library.kmod is required for JXFS.

I commented out Kickstart/diskcache.library.kmod in my Kicklayout and neither of my JXFS partitions appeared on the Workbench on next reboot. Then I restored the Kickstart/diskcache.library.kmod line to normal in Kicklayout and both of my JXFS partitions appeared again on the next reboot.

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redfox

Final Update...

I changed the size of my 2nd JXFS partition by deleting it and adding it again leaving some room at the end of the hard drive for a smaller partition.

I added another small FFS partition at the end of the drive ... seemed ok until I did a cold boot.

Please insert volume
ENV:
in any drive.

I booted up the system using my CD and changed this last partition to SmartFilesystem (SFS\00) and the system boots just fine from hard drive.

In summary ...

My system will not boot from hard drive with 2 FFS partitions and 2 JXFS partitions.
SWAP
DH0 = FFS = main OS4.1 system partition approx 2 GB
DH1 = JXFS = miscellaneous stuff approx 35 GB
DH2 = JXFS = some more stuff approx 190 GB
DH3 = FFS of any size

My system boots just fine with the following mixture, with no complaints whatsoever:

SWAP
DH0 = FFS = main OS4.1 system partition approx 2 GB
DH1 = JXFS = miscellaneous stuff approx 35 GB
DH2 = JXFS = some more stuff approx 190 GB
DH3 = SmartFilesystem (SFS\00) of 2.8 GB

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redfox

Update...

I deleted my 2nd FFS partition and created a 2nd JXFS partition to use up the rest of the hard drive. System boots up fine with no complaints whatsoever.

So far I have only 2 videos stored in the new partition.

SWAP
DH0 = FFS = main OS4.1 system partition approx 2 GB
DH1 = JXFS = miscellaneous stuff approx 35 GB
DH2 = JXFS = some more stuff approx 193 GB

I'll play around some more and see if I can squeeze in AmiCygnix somewhere else on the hard drive.

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redfox

@Deniil

No. I have not clicked the button to make the new partition bootable. The only partition that is bootable is my main system partition. But it does sound as if the system is confused as to where to look for ENV:.

All of my partitions are on the same hard drive.
SWAP
DH0 = main system = FFS
DH1 = miscellaneous stuff = JXFS
DH2 = a small FFS partition for AmiCygnix

I was adding the 2nd JXFS partition as DH3 as the next partition in the empty space beyond the others.

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redfox

UPDATE...

Here are the results of some experiments I performed today.
My system is a MicroA1 with AmigaOS 4.1 with QuickFixes.
Western Digital 250 GB 3.5" hard drive
I already have two FFS partitions and a JXFS partition.
I am trying to add a second JXFS partition.

Added a 100 GB JXFS partition ... seemed ok until I did a cold boot.

Please insert volume
ENV:
in any drive.

Removed partition ... system boots ok.

Added a 35 GB JXFS partition ... seemed ok until I did a cold boot.

Please insert volume
ENV:
in any drive.

Removed partition ... system boots ok.

Added a 5 GB JXFS partition ... seemed ok until I dd a cold boot.

Please insert volume
ENV:
in any drive.

Removed partition ... system boots ok.

Added a 5.5 GB FFS partition ... no problems at all.

The new 5.5 GB FFS partition is fine and usable. System boots fine.

End of beta testing. Have a nice day guys.

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redfox

@ChrisH

Since I am still confused by the terms FFS and FFS2, I will simply state that I have been using FastFileSystem with Long filenames (DOS\07) (Blocksize 2048) since I first installed OS4.0 pre-release about 3.5 years ago.

Currently using a Western Digital 250 GB hard drive. My previous Maxtor hard drive died with read/write errors shortly after I upgraded to AmigaOS 4.1. It was a very old drive, so I don't think that OS 4.1 killed it.

Currently, I am using FastFileSystem with Long filenames (DOS\07) for my main system partition, and JXFileSystem (JXF\04) for a partition where I store lots of miscellaneous stuff, like music, pictures, videos, pdf files, etc.

I have a 4 partitions:
SWAP approx 2 GB
DH0 my main system approx 2 GB FastFileSystem with Long filenames (DOS\07)
DH1 approx 35 GB JXFileSystem (JXF\04) for my other stuff
DH2 approx 5 GB FastFileSystem with Long filenames (DOS\07) for AmiCygnix

Recently, I added 160 GB partition as per my previous post. Although it seemed to work at first, I could not boot from hard drive after a cold boot.

Only solution was to delete the 160 GB partition.

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In the early days of OS4, I had a 1.3 GB hard drive with a single FFS partition. Then I upgraded to my 40 GB Maxtor hard drive with a single FFS partition of about 35 GB. Later on, I carved that drive up into a smaller system partition and a large 2nd partition, both FFS. When I installed AmigaOS 4.1 on the Maxtor drive, I had a SWAP partition, a small FFS system partition, and a large JXFS partition.

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redfox

@Deniil

I suspect that there is a maximum partition size, especially for Western Digital hard drives. There is a thread over on amigaworld about this issue.

Here are my notes from some experiments on August 15, 2009 ...

August 15, 2009, I added a 160 GB partion to my Western Digital hard drive
- DH3 Volume name "Extras" ... 160 GB JXFileSystem (JXF\04)
- As per instructions from Media Toolbox, I let the machine reboot.
- DH3 showed up as unformatted.
- Quick format ok.
- Copied two videos over to DH3. Both played just fine.

Then I did a cold boot (power off/on) ...

Please insert volume
ENV:
in any drive.

Lucky thing I burned a bootable backup to CD-R before I added the new partition ...

Rebooted machine using CD-R. Renamed my new partion to a different Volume name a few times, but same message on boot from hard drive.

Rebooted machine using CD-R and deleted the new partition.

System running ok since.

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redfox

@kvasir

I have used ARexx for quite awhile now for writing scripts and small programs for my own use. Nothing fancy, still learning how to do some stuff. For example I wrote a sendmail program, which uses SMTPpost to deliver the email to the destination. My program opens a console window, prompts the user for input and creates a sendfile which is passed over to SMTPpost. I use SMTPpost from the (very old) INet Utils distribution because I don't know how to communicate with the OS4 internet protocols.

Some of my other ARexx programs use KingCON to open console windows for communications with the user. I also use MicroRexx and am learning to use AWNPipe. AWNPipe is more sophisticated than I first imagined and I am struggling to understand some of the concepts.

I'm not sure what Python can do ... I'm still at the "Hello World" stage.

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redfox

@Antique

Canada.

But it is a very large country, so I will narrow it down a bit. I'm from the city of Edmonton in the province of Alberta in western Canada.

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redfox

@anyone

Well ... that was an interesting crash.
red arrow motorcoach ... Reservations section
https://www.redarrow.ca/rex/booking.php

Try filling out the "From:" text string by picking from the list ...

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redfox
Submitted crashlog.

@328gts

Welcome. I hope everything goes well for you and your new SAM. If you have any questions or problems there are lots of people here who can help.

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redfox

@logicalheart

Welcome. Sounds like you have a nice collection of machines.

I own a very old A2000HD which is not used very much now and a MicroA1 with AmigaOS 4.1. I use a mixture of PPC programs and 68K programs, and E-UAE for a few old favourites.

The other members of my family have other computing interests, so we also have a laptop, a mini-tower machine and a full size tower machine running their favourite OS.

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redfox