@abalaban

That's it! I got a newer version and am now able to get the screen shot. Now the problem is getting the jpeg into my photobucket account. I can't seem to get an upload in anymore from either AWeb OR OWB. Guess I'll need to put it on the USB stick and go to a Windoze machine with it.
Paul

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q2 ... nStude/Amiga/owbgrab1.jpg

@joerg

"He tried, but he couldn't do it. . . " (imagine refrain from Frito's potato chip commercial)

I have 296 MB free with the OWB window open. But I get an out of memory message window every time I try to run SGrab.

Paul

@A1200

What Spirantho said. I had a 68010 in my A1000 way back when. I really couldn't tell any difference.

Paul

@Swisso

forgot to mention above. . .

I finally got so tired of waiting for Irsee that we went out and bought a Minolta postscript laser. Some results are a little unporedictable using the generic Workbench PS driver, but overall it works.

Paul

@Hans

Not that I had much luck with cups a few years ago when the A1's only had linux to run at first. . . \

but. . .

Why would people pay 30 euros for a printer driver for Linux when cups and others systems are avaiable?

I got fed up with Irsee way back when there was no way they would provide the program in a format that could be installed on my A1. I didn't get TP running on the A1 until after I got a cat weasel and got it running, so I could get around the "registration via floppy" situation with their install routine.

Paul

@all

I agree with most... good progress in 1.17

Does anyone know about getting REALLY long addresses to work in PEB's address book? I'm talking about address for eBay motors that span 4-6 lines when editing the addresses in Notepad. Even dnet won't work if I put in an address beyond the simple stats.dnet.com or whatever it is that gets us to the first page. If I try to use an address to take myself directly to the OGR page, or -worse yet- directly to my personal stats on the OGR page, it just sits there, like the address wasn't even entered.

Paul

My Workbench is sort of crowded, and I'd like the appicon for dnet to default to a different location. Is there a way to specify where it will go after I open it from a docky?

Paul

@hotrod

OK, yes, saving to RAM: works here, too.

Paul

and letting it save a post.php file to RAM does just that, but either canceling that step or letting it save the post.php gets the message on the forum here.

@PEB

No problem getting the requester window. But the files don't seem to actually show up on my drive afterward. Is there some configuration necessary for downloading which I missed? I tried three different files from OS4 Depot

Paul

edit:

make that 5. I just tried Commander and Bubbleblanker, too.

ALso when I posted the original unedited version of this message, I got a save requestor after clicking "submit. I canceled, and to my surprise, it showed up here. But the last couple of versions of OWB let me post without that glitch.

Were any of the SObj's updated with this version?

@joerg,

1.13 is working nicely here. Older versions seemed to not release some memory when I closed OWB. That isn't happening now.

Thanks.

Paul

@poweramiga

Too bad I"m at work now. But all my problems with 1.10 went away once I rebuilt my font directory with typemanager, anyway.

I'll have to try 1.12 tonight if our electricity at home comes back on. (Stupid winter ice storms. . . . )

Paul

Thanks joerg

In lieu of a scroll bar, the mouse scroll wheel works nice. Didn't notice that before with 1.9

But I'm getting a lot of "recoverable alert" "press left mouse button" orange warning messages now which I didn't get before. After clicking through a few of these, I get a GR with a DSI error. I can tell it to ignore DSI errors, but the left mouse click are needed more and more often, to the point that it's really irritating.

This happens just moving from page to page within Amigans.net. WHen I go to entirely different sites it seems to happen more rapidly.

Is this behavioir related to the changes in font usage for special symbols? I seem to get a similar error with Pagestream PPC, which is also font related.

Anyway, nice work and good progress.

Paul

@Antique

Generally speaking, I think it's an open invitation for an otherwise stabler A1 to suddenly act like it's brain-damaged.

That being said, when I had my board off to revanche for the USB & DMA fixes, I asked Kurt to test one of his custom ram modules along with the 512MB module that came with my board from CompuQuick. He ran memtest with both modules installed and came across no errors. Unfortunately I haven't had the spare money to buy one of the modules yet.

Paul

@Helge

Mine is me standing by my 1950 Studebaker Land Cruiser. I hope to restore to original condition. Studebaker is an orphaned car brand, just like the Amiga is an orphaned computer.

The last few years, Studebaker's have been a lot more fun as a hobby. That hobby doesn't have all the evil trolls that take so much of the fun out of being involved with an orphaned computer platform.

Paul

@Snuffy

Late last night I got the Young Frankenthousand running again on the main drive. The other hard drive was toast.

But so far I haven't gotten another drive to work in it. I had a little 40 GB Barracuda sitting around, but it's not recognized by Media Toolbox. So the verdict is still out.

At least it's not dead right now.

Heh, heh. . . the battery was low again though! I had just changed it a couple months ago.

But all my problems with not being able to find the SLB are gone now.

Paul

@Snuffy

Guess what? The second A1 in Michigan is down as of last night, too!

First, the keyboard was unresponsive. Than after rebooting from the case reset button, I could hear the heart-breaking sound of a drive head swinging back and forth in a hard drive andn finding nothing.

It still shows the other hard drive working, so I either have my main drive or a back up that's only about 2 weeks old on the other drive. (Can't remember which one I had set up as which anymore.)

But if there's a way we can hook up a burner to my machine (I don't have one) once it's fixed, I could run a ROM burn for you if someone give me some instructions.

Paul

@Swisso

Quote:

Bah! Don't scare the poor guy unnecessarily. This is the 30th year for me. My wife has been great putting up with my Amiga's for 24 of those years. She even bought me an old car to restore this year in case the Amiga hobby dies off.

Paul

@Mlehto

Quote:

If it weren't for the intermittent nature (i.e., it's working OK again, now) of the problem, I'd disagree about it being the PSU. I have a REALLY good Antec PSU in there which is only about a year old, and has worked flawlessly since installation.

@Snuffy

Quote:

Yes, but only after the problem started showing up. Actually, it seemed kind of hit and miss when changing it from the UBoot menu, as far as saving what I had set. It seems like a few times when I ESC'd and saved settings, it didn't hold the boot1 var into a restart, but always seems to hold what I change from UBoot Prefs in the Prefs drawer.

Hmmm. I wonder if I have a bad contact between the flash mem chip and the socket?

Paul

@ssolie

Quote:

Since the UBoot prefs have been working (update 4 or final??), I've been setting from there. So I didn't try the "ide reset" command from the UBoot cursor. But the drives were all listed correctly when the hardware was reset each time.

"boot1" I asssume is the var for the first boot source? If so, I've reset as needed from within UBoot and from Uboot prefs.

Oddly, since getting home and trying it tonight, it has started booting correctly. It didn't the first three times. But since then, I've rebooted 5 or 6 times, and so far, it's come up with no problem.

Now if only one of the noisy case fans would quiet down!

Paul

I recently started having trouble on bootup. The screen says it finds all three bootable sources (two HD and CD if I have update4 CD in drive) as far as FLB, but it can't find any SLB.

Sometimes the uboot screen says something about not finding an ELF file, too. Sorry I don't have more specifics right now, but I"m writing from memory at work.

The only way I seem to be able to get it to finish booting is to unplug the power cord and let it sit quite a while before trying again.

Last time it did this, replacing the battery took care of the problem. But this time, changing the battery hasn't helped at all.

After installing the July update, I corrected the UBoot prefs back to what they should be. All partitions are SFS, but it was acting up like this before I updated to 1.273

The bootable partitions have their priorities set in descending order of preference. Basically, I have my main drive with one bootable partition, and a second drive devoted to back ups with two other bootable partitions.

Two-mouse-button boot does not give me a boot selector screen.

Any suggestions what else I should look at?

Thanks for any help.

Paul