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Re: Status of the A1 X1k successor (A1 X 5k?)?

Posted on: 2016/7/18 11:06 #61

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@Atheist
Quote:

Atheist wrote:

AmigaWorld.Net
Under "Amiga OS4 Hardware"
Thread$ ="Is the pre-order for X5000 going to start?"

Here http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/v ... 140&viewmode=flat&order=0
...

Yeah - thank you - but I already know this thread.
What I'm actually looking for is a link to this pre-order page.
Unfortunately the thread on AW.net does not have a link to the pre-order page...

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Dandy

Re: Status of the A1 X1k successor (A1 X 5k?)?

Posted on: 2016/7/13 9:27 #62

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@Antique

"...the preorder x5000 something thread..."
Link?

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Dandy

Re: Status of the A1 X1k successor (A1 X 5k?)?

Posted on: 2016/7/13 9:26 #63

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@ChrisH

"...Matthew has promised that the "registration of interest" page will go live soon..."

Can you provide a link to this pre-order page?

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Dandy

Re: 3d printing with Amiga?

Posted on: 2016/7/13 8:18 #64

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Thanks for your replies so far. Keep the ideas coming!

Well, I got this idea when I read about Andy Warhol using an Amiga 1000 and DPaint for his 'Pop Art' back in 1985.

I asked myself how Amiga cuold be used for art nowadays. Then I realised that 3d printing is becoming more and more popular and I asked myself if this couls also be supported on the Amiga platform.

But it could not only be used for producing art (3d sculptures), it could also be used to produce spare parts for technical devices in the household...

Of course we could say: let's use WIntel boxes and periphals for that - there everything is readily available.
But where would be the fun in that?
Finally the Amiga is our Hobby...

Ciao,
Dandy
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He got his brain accidently - the bone marrow in his back would have been sufficient for him!
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3d printing with Amiga?

Posted on: 2016/7/12 18:37 #65

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Has anyone ever thought about operating 3d scanners and 3d printers with an Amiga?

Could this work, e.g. on an A1 X1k?

Could Xena be of help here?

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Dandy

Re: pci souncard compatible with amiga os4.1fe and amiga os 3.9 with mediator

Posted on: 2016/6/28 10:57 #66

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@nubechecorre

Well, I use a Terratec 512i digital (with optical output) in the Mediator of my towered A4kPPC with AOS 3.9(BBs I & II)/WarpOS 16.1.

I have an "experimental" Installation of AOS 4.0 classic, but rarely use it, as it doesn't Support my HW Setup sufficiently (just USB 1.1, just 10 mBit NIC, just very limited support for Mediator and PCI cards).

No idea if it works with AOS 4.1 classic FE...

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Dandy

Status of the A1 X1k successor (A1 X 5k?)?

Posted on: 2016/6/28 10:47 #67

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Where can I find up-to-date Information regarding the stautus of the AmigaOne X5000 project?

I've heard the AmigaOne X1000 is sold out - but I can't find any new Info regarding the AmigaOne X5000 status...
(or I just looked in the wrong places)

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Dandy

Re: Aladdin 4D compatibility problem

Posted on: 2016/6/28 10:39 #68

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@LiveForIt

Quote:

LiveForIt wrote:

@Dandy

In any case AmigaOS4.1 Classic runs on Classic Amiga, ...

But just as long as you happen to own an PPC accelerator card (like I do)...

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Dandy

Re: Aladdin 4D compatibility problem

Posted on: 2015/11/23 11:14 #69

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@interrogative

Quote:

interrogative wrote:

Good day all,

The other day, I decided to do some modeling and rendering with Aladdin 4D. It was the first time I've tried it under OS4.1 FE. A4D triggered a grim reaper. I clicked on "continue program" only to have another grim reaper that only gave the option of killing the program or rebooting the SAM460ex. I rebooted.

I checked compatibility prefs, making sure that A4D was in the list. It was. I imagine that A4D somehow conflicts with 4.1 FE.
...

And how does this problem (SAM460ex under OS4.1 FE) qualify for the "Amiga Classic" board?

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Dandy

Re: Wow!!

Posted on: 2015/11/23 11:04 #70

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@OldAmigan

Hmmmm - I paid 1.100 DM (would be 550 € today) just for the naked A4k motherboard with Buster 11 and 1 mB of CHIP RAM back in summer 1997...

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Dandy

Re: Preferences/Settings missing in IBrowse 2.4

Posted on: 2015/11/23 10:55 #71

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@Valiant

Well, I fixed it in my installation just by uncompressing the downloaded IB2.4 Archive again and copied the uncompressed default IBrowse 2.4 preferences file back to the correct location in the PROGDIR:.

The shortcoming of this method is that you have to re-do your personal settings and to save them as 'IBrowse.prefs' again, if the original is lost.

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Dandy

Re: AmiSSL status?

Posted on: 2015/11/23 10:41 #72

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@Cass

Quote:

Cass wrote:

A strange issue that I`ve noticed the other day : I tried to send a mail with YAM but it failed to do so, popping up a "failed TLSv1/SSLv3 initiation process to node smtp.mail.yahoo.com" message.

I have a yahoo account (as mentioned above), YAM 2.9p1 (18/04/2014) and nothing changed to system or settings, since the last successful try on 20/6/2015.

Any ideas?

Looking at this topic I quickly became confused by the different version numberings of AmiSSL, OpenSSL, SSL and TLS.

What I understsood so far is:

- AmiSSL is a shared library package port of OpenSSL version 0.9.4 (August
9th,1999): AmiSSL info

- Latest AmiSSL version is AmiSSL v3.6, downloadable from here: AmiSSL v3.6

- Latest OpenSSL version mentioned in the AmiSSL v3.6 docs is OpenSSL v0.9.7h

- AmiSSL v3.7 mentioned here - but with label "10 years ago" (???)
This could mean it will be based on OpenSSL v0.9.8 of July 5th, 2005 - but this is just my guess.

- OpenSSL version 1.0.2, Suite B, has support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2

- actual OpenSSL version 1.0.2d of July 9th, 2015

- OpenSSL version 1.1.0 is expected to release on April 28th 2016

- As of 2014 the 3.0 version of SSL (dating back to 1996) is considered insecure as it is vulnerable to the POODLE attack that affects all block ciphers in SSL; and RC4, the only non-block cipher supported by SSL 3.0, is also feasibly broken as used in SSL 3.0.

- TLS 1.0 (SSL v3.1) was first defined in RFC 2246 in January 1999 as an upgrade of SSL Version 3.0.

- TLS 1.1 was defined in RFC 4346 in April 2006.

- TLS 1.2 was defined in RFC 5246 in August 2008.

- As of October 2015, TLS 1.3 is a working draft, and details are provisional and incomplete. It is based on the earlier TLS 1.2 specification.

So I assume the latest AmiSSL v3.6 is based on OpenSSL v0.9.7g of 2005. This is the version that does not work with YAM 2.9p1, e.g. accessing securepop and securesmtp servers always results in error messages.

So what we would urgently need for our classic AmigaOS 3.x systems is something based on at least TLS 1.2 / OpenSSL v1.0.2d .

As far as I found out on the web today (23-Nov-2015), AmiSSL v.3.7 has only been mentioned so far and would best be based on OpenSSL v0.9.8 of July 5th, 2005.

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Dandy

Re: ANAIIS 1.02

Posted on: 2012/12/10 12:26 #73

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Would an USB networking card also work that way with an Amiga500 using an expansion providing a clockport (I have a weak remembrance that such expansions exists) and a clockport-USB-card (E3B) connected to it - at least in 10 mBit mode?
That would be a good way to exchange data between old Amigas...

I mean - if harddrives already work...

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Dandy

Re: Ultimate software pack bounty?

Posted on: 2012/12/10 12:14 #74

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Quote:

On 11/29/2012, 0:31, vox wrote:

While overall I can agree, bear in mind that most of these apps are ... hmmm ... less useful by today standards and power of apps

Hmmm - that may depend on the apps you're thinking of.
I was thinking of e.g. DynaCadd, MaxonCAD, Cinema4d, CNCTool, NewIO, LogicWorks and the like.
And programs in this area are still useful. So much didn't change with view on the standardisation in machine engineering.

O.K. - the electronics engineering apps might need an upgrade, but that does not mean they're not useful at all these days. I can still do the same things I could do with them 20 yrs. ago.

And that's what I mean:
If I had to chose between having to use an 20 yrs. old 68k CAD program on an NG Amiga or not being able to do CAD at all on it, I'd do it with the 20 yr. old app.
Still much better than nothing.
Or are meanwhile apps comparable to DynaCadd natively available for AmigaOS 4.x?
Or will they be available in the foreseeable future?

Now I am in the position of having this desired old app - but what if a young machine engineering student with e.g. an A1X1k and AmigaOS 4.2 wants to use his setup to do e.g. CAD exercises?
He cannot - as no native machine engineering CAD programs for OS4 exist (or will become available any time soon).

So why not making things, that were available for the classics, available for the NG-Amigas as well? They can still be executed in emulation and benefit of the brute power of the latest Amiga hardware.

All it needs would be the authors/owners permission to store the old and discontinued apps in an AmiNet-like
database for public acess - be it for free or for a small fee.

Quote:

On 11/29/2012, 0:31, vox wrote:

only light AmigaOS 4 apps will see are either small user made apps or open source software ports like Blender, GIMP and Open Office.

Yeah - but AmigaNG platform not just needs "small user made apps" or "ported open source software".
Devs have not even thought about porting some of this open source software (e.g. CAD) to AmigaOS 4.x.
So if I want to start an engineering project on the Amiga, there is no other way than using these old 68k Amiga apps.
The good thing is these old apps will most likely "fly" on an A1X1k, one it is fully supported...

Quote:

Hollywood is OS4 native app, avail for Windows too.

I know.
I own the OS 3.x native version.

Quote:

Why do you think Jack lacks quality?
Just because owner is not able to test OS3 installer?

Exactly.
It is no hard task to set up AmigaForever or the free UAE on an cheapo, old WIntel-PC to test the classic Installer script.

If an developer is too lazy to take this tiny bit of effort to ensure the classic Version of his code is installable at all, I have every reason to believe that he has put similar effort in coding the app itself...

Or in other words:
I am alarmed and won't waste my time with trying this app, if I can't get it installed in the first place...

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Dandy

Re: Multifunctional program Jack 3.2.5

Posted on: 2012/12/3 8:08 #75

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Quote:

Original von djrikki:

Hi Dandy,

I have structured the code to work theoretically with Classic Amiga and WarpOS, however I have no hardware to test it on so unfortunately I cannot test the executable - or the installation script for that matter. The installation script was written closely with the AROS version in mind and asking questions and receiving answers from the community.

Guess work on my behalf and educated guess work from the community.

Sorry, I know that doesn't help your situation.

Hmmmm - is there hope the installer for the classic and WarpOS version will be fixed some time soon?

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Dandy

Re: Ultimate software pack bounty?

Posted on: 2012/11/27 11:14 #76

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@Joeled (#1):

Quote:

Original by Joeled:

Wouldnt it be nice and helpful if there was a Ultimate software pack for AOS4 beginners?

Hmmm - I see several problems with that:
1) everybody might have a different understanding of what "ultimate" means.
2) most programs that are "ultimate" to me are long discontinued and it might be hard to get the
author's/owner's permission.
3) As my "ultimate" programs are all pre-OS4.x, they're not native OS4 programs and either require to be run via
68k-emulation or a port to OS4. The latter might be hard, as the authors/owners might long have left the scene.

I have quite a collection of commercial Amiga Software and would love if a legal way could be found to build up a database holding all the old, discontinued Amiga killer software like e.g. DynaCadd , where on the one hand developers can pick up the task to try to port and overhaul/update those apps to OS4 or the other Amiga derivates and on the other hand users can download the old OS3.9-version or the new OS4-version.

My opinion is, that we need those old killer-Amiga-applications as a software base, until enough new high quality commercial applications are available for OS4 natively.

The OS is only useful in conjunction with applications to get the work done.
Without those apps the OS itself is useless.
Having such a repository for commercial old, discontinued Amiga killer software available might encourage more users (and hopefully also developers) to jump onboard the OS4-train.
The bigger the userbase, the bigger the chance to get the attention from developers and perhaps even software companies.

What OS4 needs is the availability of native high quality commercial applications like a decent office package (FinalOffice 97, good graphic programs like Cinema4d, ArtEffect and DynaCadd, professional audio ..., ... .

No doubt about it - it is a good thing to have the Aminet for OS3.x apps and OS4depot for OS4 apps - but as I just saw with the "multifunctional tool Jack" those apps often lack quality.
Fine, that someone made the effort and coded it - but if already the installer doesn't work, what was the devs effort good for? It was wasted time, as noone can use his program, when it is not installable...

I'm not saying that all apps stored on Aminet or OS4depot have such issues (I also found a lot of really useful stuff there) - but I've already downloaded a lot of stuff from Aminet that wasn't worth the hassle of downloading and installing, as it simply didn't what it should...

B.T.W. does a native OS4-Version of Hollywood exist?
At least Hollywod can generate OS4-code from a project...
If no OS4 version exists, it might be time to contact Andreas Falkenhahn - the sale of Hollywood is already stopped, although the development continues (as the appearance of v5.2 demonstrated).

Edited by Dandy on 2012/11/27 11:37:02
Edited by Dandy on 2012/11/27 11:42:36

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Dandy

Re: OS 4.0 / os 3.9 dual boot - how to?

Posted on: 2012/11/27 7:54 #77

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Quote:

Original by Lumby:

Can one off you tell me how to run this Script?

Quote:

Original by thomas:

here is a command to change boot priorities from a shell script

You can run it from a shell, but you can also put the script in the user-startup.

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Dandy

Multifunctional program Jack 3.2.5

Posted on: 2012/11/27 6:37 #78

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Has anyone here already tried the classic- or WarpOS-version of the multifunctional program Jack 3.2.5?
I can`t get installed any of the versions - the installer stops with some cryptc comments ("Destination must be a directory" - the selected destinatrion IS a directory...) that appear so fast that they`re hardly readable...

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Dandy

Re: BigRamPlus by Individual Computers

Posted on: 2012/11/23 9:09 #79

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@SLayeRDK:

Hmmmm - one of the beta testers reported the contrary:

Quote:

On Nov 22, Rotzlöffel wrote at amiga-news.de:

Well, my beta tests delivered the following results hereto:

- OS 4.0: does not boot at all with the BigRamPlus
- OS 4.1: automatically integrates the BigRamPlus as swap memory
- works in an A4000 only if it is equipped with the ORIGINAL Zorro-III Riser-Card
- BigRamPlus does not work properly with certain Busboards (like Micronik, RBM, ...) and does NOT qualify as swap memory in conjunction with those busboards -> system crashes while swapping

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Dandy

BigRamPlus by Individual Computers

Posted on: 2012/11/19 10:01 #80

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Since a few days the 'BigRamPlus' (scroll down) - a 256 mB RAM expansion for all Zorro3 equipped classic Amigas - is available from all Individual Computers resellers, e.g. from Vesalia.

Now I'm eager to know if this card will be recognised and used by OS 4.x - like e.g. Amigakit's ZorRAM?

Does anybody have more info on that?

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