(EDIT: issues described in this post are solved, see #12)
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Okay, using a HD card did work; I used the Radeon 5450. But now I run into more issues.

First, here are some pictures of the kicklayout file/startup sequence from the current flash drive I have:

https://i.postimg.cc/fLfRd20b/20220416-213630.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/BQ6n8CZq/20220416-213924.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/sXsV3Y0C/20220416-213939.jpg

Also, I video of what I am trying to do and the fact that when I boot with this flash drive I just get a reset after what looks like a classic ROM screen.

On top of this, I cannot modify any files on the flash drive, which I did not expect. It looks like it is write protected.

Here is the video: https://youtu.be/TagA7dhr93Q

Okay

1 - I tried to register the serial number but it says "invalid". This is from an official looking Hyperion card. Not sure what "invalid" means. Whether it means he has already registered with it, or whether they key is just invalid - but I have now tried slowly, twice, with the same result.

2 - I never knew that I had to use a HD card. Could that be why I am getting a hang at: https://postimg.cc/CBNykgXG ?

I can ask the seller, but in the meantime, I wonder if I can perform grab an image of this USB stick and perform a hash on it and compare to the official hash to ensure there is no loss in data integrity. Of course, since I do not have the official ISO then I cannot even get the official hash.

But I also would think that a lot of X5000 users only were supplied with a USB Flash drive and could find themselves in a similar situation to mine. What would they do?

@kas1e

Then I guess it is something wrong with the flash drive.

Thanks for taking the time to answer, but I guess I now I need my other question answered:

- if I have AmigaOS4.1FE does that I can download the images for AmigaOS4.1FE for the X1000 / X5000? Presumably, these are different because the X1000 ISO will contain the amigaboot.of file, where as the X5000 one will not. I am not sure how different these are and whether it matters

In addition, I am confused by the "boota" option, I mean, if I do a "usb reset" it somehow magically knows to boot the usb drive, where as if I run it without a USB FD in then it knows to magically know to boot the HDD? It would make sense if there were boot priorities etc, but I cannot see how it knows which AmigaOS I wanted to boot. Is there a variable I can look at or a command?

So far, I find that CFE easier to understand and control.

(EDIT: issues described in this post are solved, see #12)
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When I got my X1000 I got a very useful guide with it that explained CFE. With the X5000 I bought (private) I have received no such guide.

Some commands are similar to CFE, but there are too many differences. On CFE I could actually perform something like: "help ls" and it seemed to offer me more information about that command, but this does not seem the case with UBoot.

The issue I am having at the moment is that I want to perform a totally clean installation of AmigaOS4 with my received machine. I am not fond of using someone else's installation.

What came with the X5000 was an AmigaOS4.1 FE USB flash drive. When I plug in the FD then the icons appear: "AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition", "Extras Installer" and "AmigaOS 4.1 FileSystems".

If I insert the FD either on a port at the front hub, or use the "proper" USB ports at the back and then selection the option to boot from mass storage things seem to be going okay at first. I get something like: loading files / execution from 0x200 etc. Then, I get the following (see image) and it just hangs, doing nothing.

https://i.postimg.cc/XqMVMNgz/20220416-194104.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/rFk8Qmsd/20220416-194858.jpg

My questions (the main one at the top):
- what am I doing wrong wrt. booting from the USB FD?
- if I have AmigaOS4.1FE does that I can download the images for AmigaOS4.1FE for the X1000 / X5000? Presumably, these are different because the X1000 ISO will contain the amigaboot.of file, where as the X5000 one will not. I am not sure how different these are and whether it matters
- what is the significance of the microSD card in the X5000? Is this just firmware for the motherboard? i.e. it is not the same as Amigaboot.of. I ask because sometimes the version of amigaboot.of needed to be different depending on what media you were trying to load... e.g. X1000 First Contact would only load with a lower version amigaboot.of

So guys, I haven't really researched into the X5's processor limitations all that much.

Is the performance from X5 better than X1 due to sheer Hz horse power only?

X5 was in a Corsair small case and that was black. Personally I just needed another fractal case. I wanted another fractal r4 like the X1, but hard to find or expensive to import. White cases seem so much less common. Ended up going for the fractal r7 which I do like anyway.

Will install a dvd drive and I think I just about get a floppy drive at the bottom of the fractal case to use with the catweasel. Means I need to pop the grills off to use the floppy drive which I seldom use anyway. The catweasel is in the x1 right now (you can just make it out on the motherboard shots in the drive bays of the X1) and I need to remove the side panel for access. Actually, the flash card reader in the 5.25 slot on the X1 is useless for me anyway because I have CF USB readers and they work fine with usb amigaos.

I could remove the flash 5.25 bay and replace with the floppy drive in the X1 but... not sure which machine I am going to use as my main now! The appeal of hardware accelerated playback is tugging at me. I love my x1 though. Hopefully SI radeonhd improvements come soon.

I was surprised that the x5 has no altivec support.

@origin

Right, I am confused by that. All I know is that I am in a room named "#amigaworld" (SE.AmigaWorld.net), if that is where most people from here are then that is fine.

I'll consider pidgin at some point too.

Okay, if irc.amigans.net is meant to forward me on to SE.AmigaWorld.net, then I guess there is no issue. Joining #amigaworld.

I ask because the IRC on from this website foes not seem to work for me. There is an IRC link at the top of this website.

Hello,

do people still use IRC, and what channels are you guys normally on?

I should probably discard that score and start again with version 1.2 on OS4DEPOT. I didn't intentionally cheat, but I also don't know how I got over 600 mill.

Honestly, I have no idea how to play the game. Not sure how I got that score

Thanks for that. It worked.

I have been playing around with the Prefs/Gui. I can modify a lot of things fine, such as the screen title bar. But, when I try and modify the Active Window Title Bar background to a solid colour then nothing happens.

I can modify things like the backdrop shadows and the border at the bottom of the window, but for some reason I just cannot change the colour of the Active/Inactive Window Title Bar background.

The default Active is like a blue to grey/white gradient from top to bottom. I just want a solid colour.

Okay, so the issue seems to be that AmiStore cannot handle special characters. Those that require a SHIFT modifier which has me super confused as to why I could log in to AmiStore all this time before all of this.

Now, I need to remove any special characters from my password, making it less secure, if I want to log in to AmiStore.

This was probably my fault actually. The reason I could log into the AmiStore before was no doubt because it was not registering the special character that I thought was in the password. Then, I trying to use that special character in Updater.

My fault.

Woah...

So, I manage to request a password reset for my AmiSphere account. How did I do that?

I ran "Updater" (green icon) and clicked on the yellow icon that asks you to insert your email address.

I waited for the email and it gave me a temporary password. I chanaged the password. Now, I am able to login to the AmiSphere account at the AmiSphere.com website. I am now also able to log in to "Updater" (green icon).

Guess what? Now, I cannot log in to AmiStore!

At the beginning, I could log into AmiStore but not Updater... Now it is the other way around.

What on Earth is going on?

When I try to log in to the AmiStore it says: checking account balance please wait... And then just kind of fails the log in (silently) and I do not have the normal options that tell me my purchases etc.

I don't know how I got that score. That was my first or second try. All the other scores have been mediocre. And I didn't hack the game code to display that number.