@LiveForIt

thanks for ya suggestions guys, I think I discovered what is wrong... I deleted SWAP partition and It doesn't freeze one moment...

I never wanted virtual memory anyway!

LOL

adios!

Something hasn't quite been right with my machine but I couldn't quite put my finger on it... until I settled down to play The Last Remnant tonight

I began to watch the screen blanker... I noticed at times the drawing on the screen was slowing right down to practically stopping for just more than a second...

I began to count... it's the same time frame... not seconds but counting at a reasonable pace to 24...

Like I am typing into this window, it doesn't update the screen but after 1 second or so all the letters shoot out...

Please don't tell me there is something wrong with the board? What could be upsetting the timing like this?

It never crashes because of this... but the cpu just seems stick at whatever it is doing every 24 counts...

weird huh?

Any Ideas? I'm about to go to bed soon so won't be able to check back for about 17 hours after work...

@Hans

I had a feeling a few people knew something I obviously didn't and regretted asking the question in the first place... thanks for that Hans :)

And yes, I know you'd like a SAM of your own ;) :)

@Mrodfr

This is true, I'd say quite a few of us have got the original archives but this must be the case otherwise someone would have uploaded it ages ago

Should I be worried?

Ranger tells me this and the early boot up screen says it too... while we're on the early screen... is it normal for just one cache to be operational? 32k if I recall correctly

thanks for the insight

@Tuxedo

Probably some sort of infringement/copyright clause. Your suggestion seems way to obvious to have been overlooked for so long. Unless perhaps in the very early days storage space at OS4Depot was a consideration or the idea the host site would ever go down was unimaginable *ponder*

@spotUP

He'll either love you for it or live with it, either way there's no denying how vauable you've been to the OS4 community, so well done there also...

a small enquiry, how (if any) has your progress into the circlemud (complete) porting proceeded?

I recall quite a while back I had enquried about a possible release of diffs for it and had to settle for no response, I could probably generate the diffs between the code release and the offical release (although my skills in this area are rusty for the moment) but sort some sort of conversing as a result...

anyway, no harm done, just a query, thanks for listening

@ZeroG

I thought as much but had to ask, thanks for the verification

@jahc

Just you and me then? (since Hans hasn't quite got one?) and nice one on the custom oversight and the other variables... well, you've earned it I say :D

I did notice something too, apart from the wicked (well I thought it went together nicely and operates SO quiet I wonder if it's working) tower case I acquired (Thermaltake Matrix Case with 430w PSU - lol Overkill like in The Last Remnant ;) The harddrive I brought was SATA 2 whereas the DVDRW was SATA. I didn't notice till I got home... just wondering if there was any conflict with SATA 2 devices or was SATA considered too old?

@Atheist

You're very welcome, I've spent so much money on Amiga systems since 1986 I don't even think I could count it... so $1700 is really a lousy amount trust me...

I saw an ad for the sam-flex for 375 euro with no ram... hmmmm... LOL

I brough the tower the dvdrw and the harddrive for $395.00 I was so impressed with how it all went together I am considering just going down and buying it all again and store it for the next SAM in my life!

Amen

Now, if I can just work out what the device (if any) of the DVD section of MPlayer-GUI is looking for so it'll play a DVD on the SAM based DVDRW instead of selecting an actual file...

@Hans

Now I have the SAM up and running, is there another SDK for it? I have yet to reg the serial number for AmigaOS 4.1 which came with the SAM MB.

Damn, that'll mean I'm reg for classic, A1 and soon to be the SAM...

:D

@Faranheit

So why in the hell didn't they axe the PCI expansion and keep the potential 1 gig memory population option...

sometimes I know hardware developers need at least one
sensible power user (who will actually be using the end product) sitting in on ALL the meetings regarding finalising the design aspects of the motherboard/product

@TheDaddy

Sorry for hijacking your thread ;)

but to start on topic, I'm afraid the box thing is going
to be too late for me, my SAM finally made it to my hands
today and I'm off tommorrow to get all the bits and pieces
for it...

but since I will be also buying a SAM-flex or anything
else for that matter, we can look at something then!

@Other Kiwis

SO any other would be other Kiwi SAM purchasers out
there... the final cost for the SAM + 512megs + OS4.1
for SAM + (GST customs BS) was $1700.00 NZ

I won't update my Sig till I have the little beast
ticking away!

what took me by surprising is it has a SVIDEO output

heh... that's cool...

@Cammy

great concept

thanks for your hard work

now... if we could just get rid of the cat!

*8)

@Yaroze

Well that is good news... I got an email on the 22nd from ACube saying my board was sent now, and merry xmas.

It probably should have said merry new year instead lol

lets see what turns up :D

I'm sure they told me (after arriving back from an important show in munich) that my board would be shipped straight away (this was 15th November)

perhaps by some miracle it is actually enroute with this news...

would be good indeed :D

@jahc

Woo Hoo!!!! lol

I just want to get it going and then see about getting another one in a few months if it does the deed good!

@amigakit

I am still waiting for my Sam direct from ACube... they have had the money for 6 weeks

and I only went to ACube because you sold out...

dunno which is worse ;)

lol

no disrespect just laughing at my own predictament

@vodkasoda

If you enter a disk and you hear a grinding sound for a few seconds that's a definite sign it's a non-dos disk... after first checking it for a virus! that's right, old disks could contain one

hold down ctrl, AmigaL and AmigaR keys to do a warm reset and boot into the disk if it can... some non-dos disks are also data disks so don't boot as with non formatted or new disks...

I have a few A1200s myself including a tower setup for 060 etc but haven't turned them on for years either... still messing with A4000s... heh

good luck ,)

@tonyw

thanks for your comments

I'll try and get a more working knowledge of this machine as I go along... as I've said in the past however, I know alot about Amigas etc but nil about modern hardware...

so everyone I apologise for sounding like someone just wanting help in a second-just in a rush to get what I need to get it up and running and not afraid to spend a little more to get a solid machine booting...

I'll worry about my education later :p

also,

I have been keeping this 320g hd drive I removed from a usb external notebook which happens to be a sata harddrive since it wouldn't work with the A1... it was present so brand new... I am assuming I can use that?

ta :)

Aside from the fact that Acube contacted me last week (classic machine fell over and haven't had time till now to get it going again... 3 a4000 motherboards later... so just read and replied today...hoping they just sent it anyway, probably not!) and are short 15 euros of the agreed 631.50 (not my fault I followed the costs and directions exactly and paid my bank charges on this end) The Sam440ep with 512megs and OS4.1 for the Sam are coming soon...

SOOOoooo...

they arrive in the mail... and assuming I have nothing at all that I can use with it...

what do I need? :D

and we are talking style gentlemen, not bare essentials :)

I know I need to get sata harddrive and sata dvdrewriter and tower case with power supply... but what exactly exactly and what adapters do I need etc etc etc...

sometimes I hate modern hardware ;)

thanks for any information