Great, got the new update to 2.55.

Just a suggestion - after the update, AmiUpdate prompts for a soft reboot. But many of us have RX cards now and can't soft-reboot. I would reommend an option for a full reboot.

I second the recommendation of FFMpegGUI and FFMpeg. I started playing around with both of them around 2012, now I use FFMpeg for my job (unfortunately, not on an Amiga, it would be too slow).

I have played around a little bit with Kevin's VideoClipper, and it seems like a useful package. Sadly, I have never managed to get Blender to run on my X5000.

Also, if they're Mpegs, you can actually stick them together with the AmigaDOS join command, although that's not something I would recommend. :)

Congrats! I hope you'll enjoy it.

I can still remember getting my X5000. Can't believe it was way back in 2017. I bought just the motherboard from Amigakit. Had it delivered to work. Arrived on a Friday, started building it that night when I got home.

Sadly don't get enough time with it these days, but I will get a vicarious thrill watching your videos.

@walkero

Personally, I would like to see screenshots in their intended size, even its 4K. Back in the 2010s djrikki uploaded screenshots that were scaled "to keep you browser experience sane", which might've been true back then, but now they just look small and lacking detail.

@Sbaitso

Sadly, Amiga Auckland in New Zealand no longer exists. Noel Fuller passed away a few years ago and we voted to dissolve.

Yeah, I'd recommend getting an X5000 if you can afford it.

Counterpoint - get a new SAM instead of the A1222+.

Amistore is telling me I have £3.27 balance, but there doesn't seem to be any way for me to spend this - if I try and make a purchase, I am prompted to add the full price of the item.

I have been stymied by the low-profile bracket on my graphics card!

Anyone know where you can get high-profile brackets from?

@MartinW

Thanks, I am interested in trying Morphos but my priority is getting Linux back which I lost when I upgraded to an RX card.

I am wary about using a 4x to 16x ribbon extender because it would mean, as all my case slots line up with pci/e connectors, it would be jammed up against an unoccupied motherboard pci connecter. Hence my plan to get a simple connector adapter and use that. I can see Skateman seems to not have this problem but I'm not sure my case will be as accommodating.

It's amazing that the latest Sam is the only motherboard to provide a practical solution to this problem.

@Hypex

I have an existing RX560 plugged into the 16x slot. I can't plug a 16 lane graphics card into anything other than a 16 x slot. Poor choice of words on my part, I guess I should say "adapter" rather than "extender".

@AmigaSociety

Thanks TJ, yes that was very helpful. Looks like I don't need power. My case doesn't have any right angle slots so my plan is to get a simple 1x to 16x slot adapter and plug into that.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006147522340.html

Hi all,

I have been thinking about fitting a second GFX card to my X5000 so I can use Linux and MOS without downgrading my current RX card. So I need a 2 (or possibly 4) x --> 16x PCIe.

However, I see some simply plug into the PCIe slot and the card plugs into them, while others use an external power.

Which would I need?

@daveyw

Actually, I think the latest version of NGF has been officially released with the A1222+, but I don't know if it is compatible with the X5000.

@slygon

3. Long time ago someone recommended OMC SSDs for Mac, because they manage trim themselves (no Amiga filesystem does this). Personally, I use a Samsung.

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ssd/owc

Took a look at them the other night and they aren't too expensive.

4. I got an updated UBOOT from AmigaKit last year, but Matthew was my vendor. Drop him a line, see if he can oblige.

5. If you can, try and get the updated version of NGF filesystem. It has not been officially released. I have emailed Tony but got no reply. It's not backwards compatible with the release version of NGF, so if you're rebuilding from scratch its ideal.

@Maijestro

X5000/20 with Sapphire RX560

StarBox Benchmark 1.0
Resolution: 1920 * 1080
Fullscreen
FPS: 404.41

@AmigaSociety

I recommend Night of the Zombies

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfil ... /night_of_the_zombies.lha

It's a fun game, and its free.

@joerg

Well, PartitionWizard on my system doesn't run anymore. I get a message "This process terminated without replying to the Workbench startup message, this program is probably for CLI use only."

@MamePPCA1

As someone else said, this is really hard to diagnose and address remotely, and I think you will need to find someone in Europe who can help you in person.

One last thing you can try, Thomas Rapp's RDBRecov2. You can find it here.
https://thomas-rapp.hier-im-netz.de/download.html

I'm going to add alot of warnings here:

I have never used it
I don't know how to use it
It could irrevocably destroy your partitions

@dfstudiosQuote:

RAM disk will always show 100%, because it dynamically resizes to accomodate whatever is stored in it.

Quote:

You shouldn't really need a SWAP partition. AmigaOS can only address 2GB RAM, so you should only use a swap partition if you have less than 2 GB physical RAM. The modules available for most "modern" PPC Amigas (i.e., Sam, AEON machines) should be relatively cheap and plentiful to afford 2GB

BTW, just tested on my X5000, no problems copying a 1 GB file to RAM disk.

@ktadd

Kinda glad I'm not the only one who found configuring AllKeys a little confusing...