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The USB can be fixed very cheaply with a few resistors. If you don't mind taking out the motherboard and can use a soldering iron it is easy.

If this is too risky then a cheap USB hub, it doesn't even have to be powered, will also fix the USB problem.



Bill

@Valiant


I have my hard drives on an SII0680 card and my CD and DVD on the normal A1 IDE bus.

I did a SETENV IDE_MAXBUS 0 followed by SAVEENV which means that the CD and DVD do not get scanned at all during the initial UBOOT FLB. This speeds up the cold boot time a lot.

The CD and DVD are still seen and are accessible by OS4 so there is no need to scan them at all during UBOOT.

The only time you need to scan them is to BOOT from an OS4 update CD and how many times do you need to do that. It is only a little effort just to scan the CD drives on the few times you may need to.



Bill

> Hold Ctrl while pressing a link and it'll open in a new browser (new for 2.4).


Thanks for the tip. Neat feature


Bill.

> Sicky is a BT engineer

Send him round here immediately !


Bill.


Still crawling along at 24 kbps

The magazine arrived in today's post

No sign of the $*&(*&?% BT Engineer to fix my ADSL line though



Bill

For classic Amigas there is also HiSoft BASIC, which also has access to all the OS3 includes.

Be warned though that HSB nor anything it creates will work on OS4 so I use C nowadays.

However for runnng on classics and if you only need code that runs on a classic then HiSoft BASIC is very good.



Bill.

Not yet, keeping my fingers crossed for tomorrow

Hopefully that will also be the day the BT engineer finally turns up to fix the mess they made to by ADSL connection last week when digging up a hole next to the telephone pole. This 24 kbps dial up really sucks

Thanks for the tip, site now bookmarked

It seems to work well with IBrowse and TuneNet too !

Makes a great change from all the (C)Rap and Dance stuff that seems everywhere these days.


Bill.

> P.S. I wonder if it's Altivec enhanced?

As IBrowse 2.4 will only have a 68k version I doubt if Altivec would be possible.

However, maybe for the PPC version of IB 3, we can but hope.

Hi,


Well, you can't get better news than this and its official.

Have a look at http://www.ibrowse-dev.net/ for the latest news


Bill.

> Which one is that?

The one you go into the newsagents and quickly read the one page of Amiga stuff before putting it back on the shelf

I wish they would give Sven a bit more column space, I may buy MM a bit more often then !


Bill

I look forward to getting my copy soon then.

To be honest not really.

I have an 800MHz G4 Amiga One and by now would have expected any new Amiga hardware to be in the 1-3 GHz range and not running more slowly than what was recognised only as a developer board to get things going.

There seems to have been little progress and if anything a step backward.

But I guess any new hardware is better than none.

It will no doubt excite those that have bo OS4 hardware but I am not going rush out to replace my already faster A1 with one


Bill.

I am currently only compiling for OS4, but then again I only really started doing much coding since having my A-One and OS4.

I did once write some stuff for OS3 in HiSoft BASIC but that is unlikely ever to be finished as HiSoft BASIC and anything written with it refuses to run on OS4.

All my coding has been invoilved with converting OS3 software to OS4, to either fix problems or add features missing in the older versions. So OS3 versions do exist already, just older ones.

I personally think it is time to move on and leave OS3 for dead and concentrate on the future of the Amiga OS rather than compile for every variant and emulation of the OS that exists.

So my main concentration is OS4 only. IF it is possible and not too much effort I may compile for OS3 but not having any OS3 nor Morphos machines to test such a compile on I would not guarantee it working nor be able to give support to any cross compiles. Someone else said similar earlier about the importance of actually having the machines to test your stuff. My A1200 gave up long ago and had not been switched on for ages since OS4 was available on my A One.

Also when porting OS3 to OS4 one thing you can do is remove many of the limitations that the older versions had due to using old hardware and a less featured OS, so why look back

Some work in progress screenshots of my OS4 project can be seen at http://www.eavesweb.plus.com/testpage

Anyone wanting to run DU on 68k can always get version 1.03 which has been available for a long time at http://www.syz.com but don't expect that version to perform anything like the PPC native 1.5 version. That is an old version for old hardware and thus written in a limited way appropriate for the times. Likewise the PPC version expects an 800MHz G4 or similar as base level and 16 or 32 bit screenmodes only. An OS3 compile would probably be a waste of effort for little gain.

Let's look to the future not the past.


Bill.

> but often I have 3-4 shell windows open and it becomes
> quite an effort to shuffle them around, so there a
> nice tabbed feature like MUICon has would be very useful

Now that sounds really useful. It is so easy to lose shells behind other windows when you have several open.


Bill.