@Skov

Hi Skov.

I too have recently bought a couple of joypads to try and add AmigaInput support to my program, but alas I couldn't get either of them to work. They don't work in my program and the AmigaInput prefs don't work with them either. Unfortunately AmigaInput really needs a rewrite to work reliably with all joysticks/joypads.

It seems to work for some people - just not us.

@niceguy1979

Yep, count me in for sure!

@Mikey_C

Ok, I will PM Rigo and see if he is coming along, but will come up regardless of what happens.

I don't hold much hope for it though.

Hi.

Is anyone from ANT here on Amigaworld.net? My AmigaOne Micro died last week and I cannot seem to revive it. I was thinking that maybe I could bring it along to ANT at this week's meeting - does anyone come along who has some hardware expertise that might be able to have a look at it?

@spotUP

Ok. I have been doing a bit of work on Allegro and am planning to release a new build tomorrow night, so I will add him to the list.

@tails92

The status of Allegro is that it is mostly complete and has been for ages, and is sitting on my hard drive waiting for me to get my finger out and polish it off and release it. I am hoping to do that before the new year so that I can get back to my other projects.

BTW, I noticed that you send me source code for some nice Allegro games, but the question is... do I know you?!

@acefnq

Hi.

I am the porter of Allegro and its status is that it is almost ready for a first release. The main piece of work is to convert it to use the new .so shared library system so that I can then release bug fixes later on that won't require games to be recompiled.

It has been at this stage for a couple of months now but due to a new job that I got that has made me very busy I just haven't had a chance to work on it for a while. However I should hopefully be able to work on it again in another week or two, so a release shouldn't be too far away.

@nubechecorre

I had similar problems myself. The youtube_play script I was never able to get to work at all but that might be a firewall/routing problem given that I have an odd Internet setup at the moment.

However, the youtube_save&play script I got to work, but only after I had raised the stack to stop MPlayer from crashing. On the second line of the AREXX script, under the "/* youtube downloader */ comment, add the line:

PRAGMA('STACK',1000000)

I don't think it's enough to add it in the script file that launches MPlayer - it has to be done in the AREXX script itself. Once I did this it worked fine.

@Rigo

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What do you mean by "CMOS jumper?" Removing a jumper might be less troublesome than removing the battery.

@Rudei

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The odd thing is that for the first two years of its life, it was fine. The problem only developed later on.

Anyway, once I start work in the UK and have some ??? then I will completely overhaul my Amiga. New case (current one is too noisy), new HD (current one is f&?*ed) , new CD-ROM drive (current one won't boot OS4 CDs or play audio CDs as it doesn't follow the ATAPI standard). Yeah, this Amiga is a real lemon and I was always annoyed with my dealer for that.

Anyway, I thought a good overhaul might be a nice project for an ANT or 3CAG meeting. Anyone have ideas for a small *and* quiet case for a Micro A1? Also, finding a slimline CD-ROM/DVD drive that is ATAPI compliant is difficult too. All suggestions welcome!

@acefnq

No, I'm a Queenslander! Well, born in Newcastle NSW but bred in Queensland.

As for that Pommie beer, the lagers are ok and the stouts are great, but the ales... well they will take some serious getting used to!!!

@Rudei

You think it could be the PSU? The main symptom of late has been that if I unplug the power plug (which leads to a transformer brick and then to the wall socket) and plug it back in again, then I have to remove the battery and leave it out for a few minutes before the system will boot again.

I was hoping that buying a new case (and hence PSU) would somehow fix it. Nice to hear you suggest that it might.

@spotUP

I bought a new battery but it made no difference. It is much more bizarre than that! I have *no* knowledge of hardware related issues (I am 100% coder/software) but it seems to have something to do with static electricity. ie. Last weekend, I plugged a speaker cable into my system and it shorted it out the system and it wouldn't boot until I pulled out the battery and the IDE cable and left them unplugged for a few minutes. It is as though somehow the system has problems with static electricity. Similar things things happen if I unplug the power cable and sometimes, if I even *touch* the computer!

As I said I am a 100% software guy, but nevertheless in all of my years with C= and Amiga computers I have never seen anything like this. And the funny thing is that the problem only developed after 2 years of running happily. A new battery made no difference.

I also have a new 3.5 " HD here but I am not sure how to plug it in because the 2.5 " cables and 3.5 " cables have different data and power lines. Compiler guru I am. Cable guru I am not!

If any ANT/3CAG/SEAL users would like to organise a get together somewhere in London this weekend to "Help the new Aussie guy who is a great programmer but who has NO idea about hardware" to get his hardware reliable again, then it would be appreciated! I might even show you what I have been working on and hell, it's a good excuse for an Amigans' get together*!

* Yes I know that I was supposed to go to 3CAG *and* ANT but it was all the fault of British Railways that I didn't make it! Honest!

@Mikey_C

It's possible for the number of Amiga users to increase again - we just need that &*^%$ hardware! And it doesn't even need to be amazingly powerful. For all of my needs my 800 Mhz Micro A1 is more than enough! But it needs to be able to be purchased if someone decides that they want it! Otherwise we are sunk.

For instance, I have a lot of spare time on my hands at the moment so I am spending all of my time coding. But my Micro A1 is slowly dying (has trouble being switched on after being moved, hard drive is soon going to die) and if it stops working now, then *I* also have to stop working! I can't just say "Oh it's stuffed, I'll just buy a new one." Geez, I even considered buying one of those *cough* "Blue" computers that I saw recently on Amibench for ?100, simply so that if my Micro A1 dies, at least I will have something to keep me working on my software until I can get it fixed or buy a new one.

Anyway, apologies if this is a bit of a negative response - it was originally meant to be a positive one! I'm just worried about the health of my beloved Micro A1 and how bored I will be if I can't spend 10+ hours per day coding on it, as I am currently doing!

Hopefully I can make it to the next ANT, where people with more hardware knowledge than me can do some surgery on it!!!

Hey there.

You may remember a port of MAME to the Amiga from a few years ago called WarpMAME. It was a Warp Up specific version that I myself ported and that was a dual CPU port. The PPC did the emulation and the 68k did the graphics rendering and sound. I put a huge amount of effort into it and it was the fastest version of MAME for the Amiga - certainly much faster than a quick SDL port.

However I was forced to abandon the port because MAME is actually a really badly written program. The separation between the OS independent parts and the OS depdendent parts is not done well, which means that whenever a new version of MAME was released, I basically had to re-port it to the Amiga, repeating the same work again and again. Sometimes it would take as long as a month to get a new version working! After a while I simply got bored and fed up with repeating this same work time after time, not to mention that each version seemed to be slower than the previous one, even when emulating older games, so it was becoming unusable on a Cyberstorm PPC.

Anyway, I guess that you are wondering why I am writing such a negative post. It's just that as an ex-maintainer of an Amiga port I wanted to let people know that it's not just a simple matter of a recompile. The SDL version is too slow and a native port is too much work! MAME is a really wonderful program but it is also very badly coded, and the MAME team seem to hide away so you can't get your patches upstream.

It's fun to play with but horrible to port!