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Re: Sheepshaver (MacOS PPC 9): any coder interested?
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Quote:

ddni wrote:
Reassuring to know that one day it may be possible to run PPC Mac stuff on Amiga.


It already is - my Amiga 4000 quintuple-boots AmigaOS 3.9, AmigaOS 4.1, MacOS 7.5.3, MacOS 8 and Windows 95, all at fully working speed (courtesy of a 50MHz bridgeboard and the CS-PPC). I boot different OSes by holding down Function keys while booting.

Unfortunately, the A4000 and A3000 are the only Amiga that can do this, but it is cool. :) I wouldn't hold your breath for NG Amigas to be able to do this any time soon, though, I'm afraid (And Mac-on-Linux is probably your best bet anyway).

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Re: Timberwolf, Warp3D and ARMA
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@Rogue

Thanks for the update.
As a coder I fully understand where you're coming from.

If I were you I'd redirect your DNS entry for "Amiga.org" to a site about fluffy bunnies and kittens, and then you should be safe from most of the partisan zealots. Seriously - don't let them get to you. There's a large number of us who really appreciate the work you've done and continue to do.
I would recommend not taking on too many projects at once, though!

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Re: How close are we to Eclipse?
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Yeah, that's my understanding of it - no GUI yet. But I imagine that'll come fairly soon now the framework is working (which is no mean feat!).
I just long for the day when I can run a program from my editor, debug it with the editor, and watch all the variables from the GUI and stuff - like Eclipse does, in other words :)

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How close are we to Eclipse?
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Hey everybody.

Just thinking.. as Jamiga is looking like it's making good progress (which is no mean feat!), how far away are we from a basic but functional version of Eclipse?

A proper GUI based IDE with integrated debugger would make developing SO much easier!

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Re: SID playing on the Catweasel MkIV
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You should connect your speakers to the audio output jack on your Catweasel. There is an internal audio connector too but I'm not certain it's stereo, and you'll need to enable the input on your sound card too.

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Re: Amiga userbase probably bigger than the pessemists think
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As someone who deals Amiga stuff, I can tell you right now there are more people out there than people think. People mistakenly believe that almost everyone using an Amiga visits forums and has the internet, and this definitely isn't the case.

People tend to make up statistics to back up their own point, so if you visit A.org you'll get a stat of about 300 users, but on AW.net you'd get 10 times that amount, probably.
Not sure what people on here would say because we're usually a bit more realistic. :)

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Re: Xmos XS1 ISA floppy controller
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Let's just say Trevor is aware of the idea. :)
What'll happen depends on a few things, really... but it's absolutely possible.

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Re: SID playing on the Catweasel MkIV
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You don't actually need the Touch command - but without it you need to reboot.

The reason for this is that when the catweasel.device is loaded into memory, it reads the prefs file. This tells the driver what kinds of drives are attached and all that.
When you change the prefs, it alters the catweasel.prefs file, but the catweasel.device doesn't know that it's been changed. The Touch command is used by the prefs program to alter the modified date of catweasel.device, forcing it to expunge from memory and be reloaded (thereby reloading the prefs). Without it, the prefs change will be ignored until reboot.

There may be an easier way of doing it, but this works. :)

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Re: SID playing on the Catweasel MkIV
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Did you try using the Prefs program to save the settings again? They've changed since 1.9... they're supposed to be compatible but I may have made a mistake as it was a long time ago that 1.9 was latest.

@ssolie
Thanks, will do :)

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Re: SID playing on the Catweasel MkIV
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Can you try
www.retroreview.com/iang/Catweasel/catweasel_20130701.lha please?

It's just my current versions of catweasel.device and catweaselsid.device, along with the current prefs program.
If you could let me know if this works better (with catweaselsid AND the disk drives) that'd be great!

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Re: SID playing on the Catweasel MkIV
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New version:

http://www.retroreview.com/iang/Catwe ... catweaselsid_20130630.lha

Now much better handling of files, better support for SIDs, and no longer slows down when the CPU gets busy! Using OWB on my Sam440ep and it's playing Cybernoid II theme without skipping a beat. Nice. :)

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Ian Gledhill
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SID playing on the Catweasel MkIV
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Hi everybody,

I've just finished a very very early preliminary not complete Pre-Alpha version of a SID player for the Catweasel Mk4!
If anybody has any comments please email them to me (ian.gledhill@btinternit.com but it's internEt not nIt).

On the plus side, it now more or less works. PSID files work better than RSID, as you'd expect, but RSID files usually do a fair rendition.
You'll find many SID files don't work properly, I'd imagine, but the ones that do will have that true SID sound (as it's a real SID!).
It's inefficient at the moment - just building the Catweasel FIFO each 1/50th or 1/60 of a second. Therefore you'll notice the tune slow down when it can't get the data fast enough.
You'll need the catweasel.device, catweaselsid.device and the executable "tinysid". It's actually a very heavily modified version of the Linux version of tinysid, hence the executable name (that'll change as it becomes less and less like tinysid).

Any comments by email or on this thread would be awesome. Enjoy!

Please note you need to set the stack size high before running the tinysid program - I use 2048000.

http://www.retroreview.com/iang/Catweasel/catweasel_tinysid.lha

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Re: AmiTV in update *shocker*. TV cards seen working!
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Yeah, but somebody looking on this thread might not have seen - best to answer it in both places. :)

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Re: AmiTV in update *shocker*. TV cards seen working!
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I already replied to this on AW.net, but for the record - if you press 'S' with the display window selected, it goes to S-Video mode and you get colour with an S-Video signal.

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Re: New riddle from Acube?
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Quote:

jabirulo wrote:
@ddni
My guess is that the envelope covers MOS, referring to MorphOS on the 460.

+1


I think that's incredibly unlikely.

For one thing, all other things on that list are bits of hardware. It wouldn't fit.
Secondly, and even more important - why would they be doing teasers about something that everybody knows about?

No, this is new hardware. Couple this teaser with the picture of the unknown board that Trevor's been putting up (in a very small size :) ) - it's got to be hardware.

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Ian Gledhill
ian.gledhill@btinternit.com (except it should be internEt of course...!)
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Re: Kryoflux software for AmigaOS?
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I thought about having a look at it but I don't know anything about coding USB, and I'm not sure how open the OS4 USB API is.... hence I just stuck to the Catweasel.

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Ian Gledhill
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Re: Would Minitube port be possible for us?
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It will be much slower until we get video acceleration, though.... so you're better off using Linux for now.

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Re: New riddle from Acube?
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Why would Acube release OS4 for a Mac Mini though? that wouldn't just be shooting themselves in the foot, it'd be taking a rocket launcher to both feet. They'd destroy sales of their own products - who would buy a 460 when you can get a faster mini for far, far less? And where would their revenue from Moana come?

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Ian Gledhill
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Re: Varisys acquired
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As long as Varisys make money from Trevor (which they do), I don't see why the relationship should be affected too much....

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Re: CATWEASEL MK4 PLUS
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Try another disk drive.....?

You set the Catweasel prefs correctly, yes? If you're using a PC 3.5" HD floppy the prefs should be set to that, on the correct unit (i.e. if your pc floppy has a twist between it and the CW, it's unit 0; if not it's unit 1). Also make sure if you mount TD0 then it's in the unit 0 position - I.e. after the twist.

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