@Paul

HI,

Sorry! I forgot to add a couple details on the use of
ghostscript... It is a fussy program!

I do have an assignment to ghostscript's directory
("GHOSTSCRIPT:") and I always cd to that directory before
using it.

Fortunately, with the Amiga shell that's trivial, type "gh",
hit the tab key and then return and you're there.

Then I usually set the stack to 1000000 to avoid other issues
with gs not allocating enough stack. Since I use gs a lot, I've
set an assignment ("ss") to do "stack 10000000" quickly.

Naturally, with an Amiga there are so many ways this all could
be automated... F.e., you could have an ARexx script running
to watch a PS files dir and having make/show PDF files for you
on the fly?

There's no end to Miggy hacking fun. :D

Good luck,

PJS

Yeah, apparently ko-fi doesn't care much for Miggies...

But I found at least the parts of the ko-fi page including the
screenshots will appear in IBrowse ONLY if you kill javascript
*BEFORE* going to the page.

Just go into IB prefs, URL settings and make an entry for
#?ko-fi.com#? that deactivate JS.

Aside from ko-fi, the work on Qt6 looks really impressive,
I hope the apps are holding together well and we get to play
with them soon!

...patience, patience, patience... ;D

/me fires up loonix to go make a contribution...

PJS

@Paul


"BTW, I've noticed that several PDF's from Pagestream Amiga didn't print."


Hi Paul,

I meant to answer earlier about Pagestream and PDFs... I make
a lot of PDF files with Pagestream (filling out forms for work)
and I've found the built in "Save as PDF" never works well.

OTOH, if you use the regular Pagestream printing system then
you can make great PDF files. Just follow these steps:

- In the Pagestream print set up window, set Pagestream to print
in "Postscipt" mode

- Select the PPD config file for the "HP/HPLaserJet4P-4MP300"
(I found that's one of the best printer descriptions for doing
this).

- Set to have "Font unload" set for the document.

- Set to send to disk file.

- Obviously, in the setup window you set page formatting for
your document.

- With send to disk file, the main print window will show a
"Save" button. When you click that, Pagestream will ask
for a filename and then create a postscript file there of your
Pagestream document.

- With the AmigaOS ghostscript CLI program or with AmiGS you
can then make a PDF file that will include all the fonts, etc.
that Pagestream typically misses in the PDF files it makes.
FYI, the command line for ghostscript I use (in an alias) is:

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sOutputFile=[PDF FILENAME] [PS FILENAME]

- Obviously, you should also be able to print directly from
ghostscript or AmiGS using their postscript outputs if the
drivers and printers accept postscript input.

You might even be able to use the same postscript printing
method to print directly to airprint as if it were a postscript
printer, but I haven't tried that yet. Just gotta get all the
bits to work together! ;)

Good luck,

PJS

Thanks petrol & davyw,

I downloaded & tried the heif-convert programs on OS4depot. As
near as I can tell, it seems to be an OS4 port from a 68K port?

In any case, both the -convert and -info programs both generate
DSI's and PThreads DSI's. No conversion ever happened.

:/

PJS

Hi all,

I just got sent a picture from an iphone user and saw that it
was an .heic file. Looking online it appears to be a newer
image format called "high efficiency image file format".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_Format

I tried a few different apps on my machine and nothing would
open it. I also didn't see anything listed on OS4depot for
"HEIFF". When I read about the MPEG connections, I even tried
MPlayer on the file, but that went nowhere.

Any suggestions on how to access this?

Is this a matter of an existing datatype needing to be extended
or a new one needing to be hatched? Thoughts?

Thanks,

PJS

Hey tekmage,

My collection of apps breaks down as follows:

All of the time:
- ARexx
- Shell
- AmIRC
- IBrowse
- SSHTerm
- AmigaAmp
- rVNCd
- SMBFS
- rnoXFer
- AOrganizer
- Notepad
- Multiview

Every day or two:
- Unarc
- AIOstreams
- YT.rexx
- MPlayer
- FFPlay
- unreleased YT search script
- Finalwriter
- AmiPDF
- PDFtoolkit.py
- Multiviewer

Weekly usage:
- ImageFX
- Mediavault
- Ignition
- Pagestream
- Gnumeric
- Abiword

Occasional usage:
- Codebench
- Cadepad
- DeepL tranlator
- Oddity
- Netsurf
- ADRipper
- Cranu
- ADripper
- PicView

Of course there are so many other miscellaneous things I use even more
sporadically and things I honestly don't get the time to play with.

Geez, I keep stumbling on thimgs with the OS I haven't played with yet!
Anyone customized their ENV:ContectMenu.cfg/ ??

;)

PJS

@mcleppa

Thanks for opening up the testing on this! I just tried it on
my X5K with an HP P4515 laserjet. My bug report was emailed to
your address.

THANKS AGAIN!

PJS

Hi all,

I've had Basilisk booting for a long time off a MacOS 7.6.1 system hard
disk file I used to use with Shapashifter. I'd imagine there are examples
of the installed images floating around the innerwebs.

For the sake of performance and saving the source images & Amiga drives,
I've long run a script that copies the MacOS system image to RAM: before
running Basilisk (Mac/Basilisk crashes can kill your image file(s)).

I saw a comment I didn't understand about not being able to specify
volumes... I've got the System (in RAM:) plus App and Data volumes
specified on the "Disk" tab in Basilisk and they all seem to appear fine.

Unfortunately, I've never gotten "shared directory" access to work without
a quick visit to the Grim Reaper.

AFAIK, no version of Baslisk has ever engaged the ethernet support that
Shapeshifter had. In Shapeshifter I used to run the "VLink" virtual
ethernet drivers pair to get flawless net access. While Olaf tells me
VLink should work out of the box with Roadshow, Basilish does not seem to
use it.

Without file or net access to the outside world, there's only so far you
can go with Basilisk. I really wish the development had gotten it to
maturity. Any chances?

Thanks,

PJS

Rigo's comment is as I recall.... You don't need to create the
SiteFile, just make the server entry and AmiUpdate will ask
you for the login and save it to the SiteFile for you.

Good luck,

PJS

Merry Christmas & Festivus and Happy Holidays all!

It's finally December! Break out the XMas avatars!

Have a great time guys. Cheers to better Amiga years.

PJS

@AmigaOldskooler

Along with all the others, THANKS for bringing the roundup back!

It's great to be reminded of the progress of the month and to
maybe catch anything you might have missed along the way.

:)

Thanks again,

PJS

@FlynnTheAvatar

ah, OK. Trying to make an ARexx script that will work in both
OS4 and OS3? An interesting challenge...

I just don't recall if there was anything like the OS4
requestchoice/requeststring/requestfile commands in the end
on OS3. Maybe they backported them in OS3.2 ??

If they were available, that would simplify things - to just
use a simple command line command to do what you want on both
systems.

Otherwise, you could check the system version at you script
start and then use whatever method best suited the system your
script was running on.

Well, good luck with your hacking!

PJS

@FlynnTheAvatar

Hi,

I was just wondering...

It looked like you were just creating a simple string requester.
Were you trying to do more then that?

Were just that, why not simply use the c:requeststring and avoid
the pitfalls of relying on a 3rd party library?

Curious,

PJS

@hotrod

Speaking of uncalled for....

Here people are trying to be constructive and walkero was just
posting on the code in the script that appears to download
videos for playback.

Are you sure you're on the right website? Maybe you should go
to AW.net to post comments with attitude like that??

Thank you,

PJS

@K-L and all

Please bear in mind, playing YT videos on an Amiga is a constant
battle against the dark powers of Goggles... They hate Amigas.

I've been working through new goggles issues with Mick and
they are trying to complicate video playing even more than ever
before. :/

FWIW, last weekend I was doing some testing and found the
"ANDROID" mode of playback with YT.rexx v3.1 still gets me
playable streams. Maybe Mick can come up with a better
solution...

As such, I suggest you change your YT.rexx autoplay arguments
to:

YT.rexx [STREAM URL] android silent autoplay

...that's been working for most everything for me.

Regarding the skips and glitches I saw people mention, you
might try the latest MPlayer (on OS4depot) in lieu of
Emotion - it seems to be better suited to streaming media.

Good luck,

PJS

@Chris

Thanks for the latest couple releases!

While both (10/1 & 10/4) builds still complain about the
guigfx.lib at start up, both of them now are loading most of the
pages linked on the NetSurf "home" page.

I say "most" because, as others reported, just clicking on the
google link, froze up Netsurf with "loading" in the bottom
corner.

I also found that while the ArsTechnica main page loaded,
clicking on a link in that page also resulted in the same
frozen "loading" state.

in both cases, I didn't see anything appear over the serial
port reflecting a crash, etc.

I hope this helps.

Again, thanks for the updates!

PJS

@Chris

Thanks for making the new 9/12 build. I just installed it on
my X5K and tried to run it.

As usual, it complained about requiring guigfx.lib and then
opened its window.

I clicked on the Slashdot link on the home page. It said
"Fetching. Processing" at the bottom and that was it.

Now it appears to be locked up. Entering Amigans URL doesn't
cause anything more to happen. Trying to quit doesn't work.

I see no GR and nothing on the serial except for this line:

[dVerify] verify timeout: Class=0x00002000 Code=0x0001 Window=0x66B8A458 Title=Welcome to NetSurf Name=(null) IMsg=0x669EB6B8

I don't know if that helps you any. Please let me know if
there's something else to test.

Thanks again for your efforts.

PJS

by trixie on 2024/8/27 8:46:02

@LiveForIt

Quote:

So in other words, you need to make a AHI server/driver, that USB driver can connect to.

IIRC one of the problems is that AHI (by its design) expects audio hardware to be physically installed at boot time, for the AHI driver to recognize it. This is not the case with USB audio hardware, which can be plugged in any time.

@trixie

EXACTLY!

@LiveForIt

heh

I ran it from the Workbench, in the directory with the new
build, double-cicking on the Netsurf icon. No APPDIR: muss
or fuss involved.

All in all, as a decades long betatester, I rarely rely on
APPDIR: for my app paths. I want to know exactly what I was
running and from where!

Thanks,

PJS

IIRC, a big problem with USB audio is its transient nature.

All advanced Amigas (and imitators) seem to rely on AHI (or
something like it??) and as I understand it it, AHI has no
provision audio sources/destinations changing without reboots.

IIRC, LyleHaze came up with a number of USB audio hacks over the
years, but the transient nature of USB made things touchy at
best.

So it's not that small a job for it ork well, AFAIK.

PJS