@328gts

Why would you give Matty one third of the $$$ that alfkil
deserves for his hard work on Qt6 ???

@alfkil

Alfkil, please avoid anything to do with Matty. I'm glad
to contribute for further development, just don't feed the
weasel.

It would be even better if I could use an Amiga browser to
make the contribution! ;D

Keep up the great work!

Thanks,

PJS

@alfkil

I can't help with the code, but I really appreciate your
efforts on this project and am hopeful for its success.

OTOH, I can help otherwise... But Oddity no longer works
in PayPal. :(

I contributed for your work on Qt6 (and an Amiga browser)
with droid. :/

Please keep up the great work! The TextEdit app was
really impressive.

THANKS,

PJS

Hi all,

I think we have bear in mind, Timberwolf were just progress builds...
Beta releases.

I found that it could be made to run most reliably by making it start from
scratch every time. Somehow it seemed to collect bad ju ju as it ran. To
that end, I added these line to the beginning of its "Timberworlf" startup
script:

-------------------
if exists CurrentUserProfile NOREQ
delete CurrentUserProfile/#? all force
endif
-------------------

But in the end, TW just stopped working on most sites. I suspect that's
likely due to its decades old SSL code.

For as great an HTML 4 browser as IBrowse is, the lack of a more modern
browser is dire threat to the modern Amiga world.

At least those with the money are now working on new clocks, docks
and replacement C: commands. Brilliant!

Thanks,

PJS

I wonder about the Polls functionality of Amigans. There's
the link there and a few old polls. Don't know how or if
they work. Presumably they are Amiga friendly/usable?

hmmm...

PJS

Yeah, Didn't work in OS4 IBrowse 2.5.5 (released today!)
either...

I guess the poll was to see what peecee users wanted
AmigaOS to be?

;)

Who knows?

PJS

Interesting, you make it sound like ASB/Amigastore has done the same
thing you have been doing for a many years...

Laying legal claims of ownership to things you did not create... Did
Amigakit create the "Amiga"? No. Create the 1200? 4000? No. Create
the boing ball? No.

And yet you have played legal games to lay claims to all those and then
attacked and deprived others who also wanted to relate to OUR shared
Amiga history.

AFAIK, that kind of agressiveness hasn't been demonstrated by any other
Amiga retailer that has borrowed Amiga for their branding.

Now you claim an exclusive connection to Amiga history because you played
the legal card first, without any shred of additional validity?

"The Amiga Store"

heh

And, yes, a lawyer might agree with your name game, but is it ethical?
That's your defense? Standing with the ethics of lawyers? Sounds about
right.

What's next? Going after more "Amiga" names? "Ami" prefixes? Attacking
more people/things that predate your existence? How dare people use their
C= A3000's with Amiga badges on them without AmigaKit licensing!?

PJS

@eliyahu

Yes, many of us know Matty in person. I don't think he
dares act in person like he does while hiding on the
internet. The consequences would be more.. umm.. tangible.

I used to make excuses for him and his behavior. "It's
a small company, they're short handed and have no money".

But Matty's abuse of customers, losing people's hardware,
failing to answer problems, nickel'n'dime-ing folks
exceeds anything excusable. It's his mindset

We've told him time and time again, IN PERSON, to take
care of customers. I've done so. You have. Trevor has
done so. Matty has ignored it all.

MattyOS is the poster child of the Matty approach.
Overwriting 35 years of development with his naked,
half-baked power grab.

His behavior is not an "accident" of circumstance but
a reflection of Matty's persona.

Anyone feeding him dollars, pounds or euro's feeds the
behavior. Do NOT feed the weasel.

PJS

Hi folks,

So we've got this earnest Amiga dealer out there that has
been recommended to me by many users...

https://amigastore.eu/

The other day I wanted to check out their offerings and
typed in the wrong URL.

So I'm wondering....

WHAT SPECIES OF WEASEL WOULD DO THIS ???

http://amigastore.com/

or what about this....

http://amigastore.net/

This really appears as one of the lowest examples of
sleazy behavior exhibited in our little community.

Please click those links. I'd suggest Amigastore was
abused.

Tell me whether the linked business is one that should
be patronized by our community?

It would be nice to see this sleaziness driven out.

Thanks,

PJS

@kas1e

Taking money to pay HDR for his work on the graphics systems? Great!

But Matty wants us to give him our $$$ to pay for overwriting parts
of AmigaOS. Why should users be financing Matty making a land
grab in the shadow of Hyperion's incompetence?

It's for the love of AmigaOS that Matty's trashing it shouldn't be
supported.

PJS

@kas1e

Why would I want support a ridiculous effort to waste
man-years of dev time to overwrite AmigaOS with lesser
components?

Selling the components separately would have made more
$$$ for the developers of quality improvements and
compliments to AmigaOS.

What a disappointing mess.

PJS

So I bought HDR's fantastic graphics drivers....
How do we get updates to just those WITHOUT the MattyOS
Clock, Dock & Schlock pack???

PJS

Agreed, reviving the old TW code is likely a fools errand...

OTOH, there's the potential of working with the TenForFox
guys... They have a PPC Firefox port, are Amiga aware and
know about OS4...

http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/

..or maybe we should look at "Goana", an unoxidized (i.e.,
Rust-less) branch of Mozilla?

http://www.moonchildproductions.info/goanna.shtml

In any case, we OBVIOUSLY need some progress on the
browser front.

...instead of the INFANTILE, MORONIC efforts to develop
the world's prettiest 24bit clock or overwrite AmigaOS
with retarded C command replacements [Thank you, MattyOS].

How can users help the browser situation?

PJS

@nubechecorre

The catweasel cards are supposed to let you access Amiga
classic floppies read/write. But you need a slot, etc.

Another option - external and USB based, but not
transparent - would be to use the KyroFlux interface and
a USB floppy drive.

https://www.kryoflux.com/

I can't say I have used either, but the KyroFlux is
supposed to deal better with old source media, etc.

Please let us know how things work out.

Good luck,

PJS

@white

hmmm... Odd that YT.rexx isn't working for you. I'd suggest it's likely
either a configuration problem or that you don't have the latest versions
of YT.rexx or Mplayer installed.

I'm able to stream your URL from IBrowse with this FAB Menu:

Action = ARexx
Command = internet:yt/yt.rexx
Args = %l silent autoplay skipdash

I was also able to load the stream URLs in IBowse using this FAB menu entry:

Action = ARexx
Command = internet:yt/yt.rexx
Args = %l html ibrowse silent

Otherwise, you could try sending MickJT a PM to see if he can help you.
There are some DRM videos that need his beta version to play, but it
doesn't look like your URL is one of them (??).

Good luck,

PJS

Hi & HNY guys,

I've collected a few notes and network cards over the years
for use in my X1K & X5K...

First, here are two gigabit PCI 8169 cards that users
reported working in their Amigas:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000FO6QWM
"unavailable" (010121)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008UG5588/
"new available" (010121)

Finally, I found this gigabit PCIe card I've been using in
my X5K for years. Apparently it uses a RTL 8168B chipset,
but it's been working with my AmigaOS 8169 driver:

https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Gigabit ... ss-TG-3468/dp/B003CFATNI/
"new available" (010121)

Good luck folks,

PJS

Well, FWIW, I found a new disk that wasn't in the gnudb
yet, so I filled in the data & ripped it (again).

I don't know when ADRipper makes it's data submission to
the server, but there were no complaints.

OTOH, going to the server's search page didn't immediately
reflect my submission either. Maybe it needs to be vetted,
seconded, didn't work or something?

Thanks,

PJS

@khayoz

Oh Cool! gnudb.org DID WORK!

Thanks khayoz for pointing that out!

I set ADRipper's settings to:

protocol = CDDBP
server = gnudb.gnudb.org
port = 8880

I left all the remaining query/submit paths as they were
and ADRipper was able to populate a CD contents.

I'm not yet sure whether the "submit" functionality works.
Will have to mess with that a bit more.

Fantastic in any case. Should stop by the used CD store
to celebrate! ;D

Thanks,

PJS

@nbache

gnudb.org may be another great option. Something I wonder
how hard would be to support.

Knowing little what they're doing, I wonder whether the proxy could somehow be spoofed through the "hosts" file?

Grasping at straws... ;)

Thanks,

PJS

@trixie

LOL

I guess I just don't see what more I want from a CD
ripper program. I'm a big fan of things that just work.

;)

I was hoping adapting ADRipper's CDDB/FreeDB code to make
it work with MusicBrainz wouldn't take that much effort.

Sorry.

PJS

Yeah, I just found an article on it all...

https://liliputing.com/2019/12/freedb- ... -free-music-database.html

...and found an alternate DB site called "MusicBrainz" that
is even supposed to have a FreeDB compatible API mirror...

http://mb.videolan.org/doc/FreeDB_Gateway

But (there's always one), that doesn't work with ADRipper
either. After "Querying CDDB..." it pops up the
connection error message again.

Bummer.

Reading the thread above, it looks like no more work is
intended for ADRipper...

Double Bummer.

It seemed to work great and I don't know why Trixie would
want to scrap it.

c'est la vie.

PJS