Hey guys,

As you may or may not know, I have a rather sexy looking AmigaOne XE.

It's not had a lot of use recently, but I decided to power up the other day and I think I've got a few issues.

Firstly, not so long ago, the machine decided to take ages to boot up - it boots the U-boot ok, loads kickstart and then takes ages to load the WB.

When I tried to defrag and use mediatoolbox, it crashed.

So I figured a rebuild was in order but couldn't be arsed so left it since the machine still booted and allowed for use of OS4 nicely.

Now, the machine does not detect the keyboard or mouse - the machine boots as normal but U-boot complains about no keyboard

if I fiddle with the connection sometimes it works but I think there is something fundamentally wrong!

The mouse does not work at all and the keyboard is never seen in OS4 now (i.e. it does not work.)

the fan sounds a bit crappy but always has done as it is original - I have not tried another kb as yet but wondered if anyone else had had this problem?

Is is a tell tale sign of HW failure or something else?

Hmm, how do i unmount a driver safely?
assign DD0: dismount (?)
Does this also tell the device to stop polling?

(The clicking sound is as enerving as it ever was)

And i assume that mounting two DD disks at the same time is
also not good? (i.e. PC DD and Amiga DD)

I don't have a second drive here, just playing with one floppy.

Is there a way to incorporate the CW drivers as with the
A1Floppy.device? (Having two [three, four, five] devices on
screen - FD0, PC0 - but only one is readable?)

OS4 doesnt support 680x0 processors. How compatible will the "emulation" be with old 680x0 software (f.i. Kick 2.0 -> ).

My PPC setup is 210mhz (I think) and I have 256 mb fastmem with Mediator and Voodoo3

Is it worth the trouble getting OS4 or should I wait until Amiga Inc. (or other developers) releases new hardware?

the ability of the Mach kernel to run multiple OSes at the same time.

Mufasa wrote:
@LiveForIt

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My program is called WHDLoad just like the old 68k program, the only difference is instead of emulating anything, it writes a start-up script for the game in question and boot up AmigaDOS under E-UAE and then executes the game startup script and 68k version of WHDLoad.

I'm glad to hear it. So it seem there is no problems at all.
BTW: Where can I download this version of WHDLoad ?

I hope there is some instructions in how to use this version of WHDLoad aswell.

AGA chipset and a 68k CPU for WHDLoad installed games

And under "Icon Info" WHDLoad just has to be replaced with this tool. It may be difficult - but not impossible - to create.

Under AmigaOS, there is nothing like a superuser or Administrator, and no file is really protected by any means, so any malware started inadvertently by a user will have the fullest control over the system.

Just imagine an Amiga as a workstation at a public place (a university or a library), you certainly wouldn't want someone to impersonate you to get a book from a library and never return it.

Jurassicc wrote:
@Rogue

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Given the ability of a single program on AmigaOS taking down the entire system, there is no doubt that this is an unacceptable state of affairs.

Agreed, not strictly related to MP. You mention malware etc that we may encounter in the future as the user base grows.
Will anything be done to automatically, without user intervention, protect kickstart modules / startup-sequences etc. Perhaps at the DOS level against malware.

*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environmentF6A778 (FFF02778 tra7
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment19823d) 0FF9F7DC (FFF377DC tran
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment67f00

pls read carefully... it won't have benefit if we didn't manage to earn more devloper's interest for the platform.

This isn't possible yet, just because the development system is not even fully useable (latest SDK isn't there, gdb is more work to guess the failure than a help etc.).

All I say is that we should concentrate right now on the OS/development system before we put useless efforts on theories that will possibly last another 5-6 years before they become reality.

It's all the same when such discussions emerge: Everybody is talking about fine "must have" features that are just a pancake on the top, if they will appear one day in the far future, but the flaws of the system that exist yet will be forgotten every time.

Nobody is seriously using the possibilities AmigaOS bears right now.

Where are the really good games everybody wants to see?

Some SDL based efforts were made (ports), that's it. The often demanded development tools? Well, some half-finished ports, again. Very few AmigaOS only programs saw the light of the world until now.

OS4 is transformed to a never ending construction site, because lots of the new features and enhancements we just have don't get the attention they badly need because everybody is dreaming of things like MP and so on.

What about AmigaInput? What about the USB subsystem? What about 2D/3D hardware acceleration? More SCSI drivers?

A real good debugger?

More development documentation? I can ask the whole day on, there will be no satisfying answer.

I really know that there are not as much developers as needed, but to dream every day of new things to implement to the OS won't make the situation better.

All I ask is to start to use the things we have right now, polish them, make them more useful, expand them where it is badly needed (there are lots of fields to explore, polish and expand, believe me).

we have enough time to implement e.g. MP half a year or a year later. AmigaOS cannot compete in the actual market in this half finished state it is in, regardless if it bears MP facilties or not. It could,

even without MP, if it would be in a better state than it is yet.

P.S.: I own a OS4 system and I'm quite happy with it as a user, but not as a developer. I don't like command line developing using e.g. vi or NotePad, abcshell and a command line gcc with make.

We all know that there were gui driven development tools in the past (and they weren't such bad as was said again and again)

and that other platforms have these tools for years now. But for AmigaOS such tools are simply not possible,

because lots of people don't see the point and keep on dreaming about things they don't need that urgently.

Atheist wrote:
Hi Everyone,

I still didn't really get an answer to my question, so I'll start with one only.


IF only resource tracking was implemented in AOS4.0, would all, or some, or none of the old Amiga 1.0 to 3.9 and 4.0 SW break?