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Re: Cinema4D

Posted on: 2012/11/16 11:42 #81

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sicky wrote:

I have now found my original Cinema4D CD, it was in the back of a smaller manual 'CD Edition Addendum'

I have installed it but when I try to register it and put in my serial number I get an error message stating Inadequate information or something like that!

I have two numbers, a serial number and a Magic Link number, I have tried both and filled out all the fields, like name, addtess, telephon number etc!

Anyone have any ides or memories how to solve this?

Hmmm - after Maxon left the Amiga market they released Cinema4D on several Amiga magazine CDs. From a German Amiga magazine I have the Cd containing it. And I have it installed on my A4kPPC - so installation works. How about a copy of that?

I don't thinkl this would be illegal, since it was published on a cover disc and you furthermore own a non-working original of the commercial version with key...

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Re: Turboprint

Posted on: 2012/11/16 11:30 #82

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sicky wrote:
@JosDuchIt

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If yes, What about scanning and OCR. Does it work? What SW do you use?

Not tried that, what software would I need, have a copy of FXScan knocking about somewhere but not sure it would support it!

Hmmm - I'm interested in the answer as well.

On my Amiga4000PPC with AOS 3.9 I use ScanQuix5 and the latest (registered) version of FxScan. This version allows to generate .pdf-documents and also does OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

As I have no working NG-Amiga environment, I cannot check if ScanQuix and FxScan work with OS 4.1, but it has always been emphasised that all system conform pre-OS-4 software would run flawlessly with OS 4.x by integrated emulation.

So if you own the latest, registered versions of ScanQuix and FxScan and if they really run flawlessly with OS 4.x you have a good chance that scanning and OCR work for you...

Ciao,
Dandy
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Re: X1000

Posted on: 2012/11/16 10:40 #83

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Thanks to all for the replies.
It seems that USB, connectivity speed and TurboPrint are no problem.

But how is the situation for other things - is there e.g. a way to use all my SCSI periphery devices with the A1X1k?

Currently I use SCSI exclusively in my A4kPPC - HDs, CD & DVD Rom/RW, tape streamer and scanner. My SCSI chain consists of both - UW-SCSI (68 pin) and SCSI-II (50 pin).

Up to now I haven't heard of anyone producing UW-SCSI host adaptor cards for the A1X1k/OS 4.x - correct me, if I'm wrong.

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Re: X1000

Posted on: 2012/11/14 10:35 #84

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I also registered my interest for an A1X1k at Amigakit.
As far as I remember, there currently is no USB 2.0 highspeed support in OS 4.x (not to mention USB 3.0).

Also last time I looked there only was support for 10 mBit network cards. But maybe this was for OS 4.1 classic. No support for 100 mBit cards (not to mention gigabit cards).

About half a year ago some tried to convince me, that I would not notice the speed difference between USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 highspeed (at least not in my A4kPPC). But for me the speed difference between my new Deneb USB 2.0 in Zorro III and the SpiderUSB 2.0 in Mediator was huge and easy to notice.
Last weekend I had the chance to see the speed difference between USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 highspeed in an old x86 WinXP PC that someone donated to my Mum. The MoBo originally only came with USB 1.1. As the DVD also didn't work I had to connect my ext. hardisk to the USB port. Copying or installing via USB 1.1 was incredibly slow.
Then I found an USB 2.0 pci card that I had laying around.
I fitted it and it worked like a charme.
And please - noone ever come again and tell me the speed difference would not be obvious.
This myth is busted now!

And I suspect the same is valid for the speed difference between 10 mBit and 100 mBit cards .

Before I make my final buying decision, I'd like to know
the current situation, as I don't want to go back from USB 2.0 highspeed in my good old Amiga 4000 PPC with OS 3.9 to USB 1.1 in AmigaOne X1000 with OS 4.2. I also don't want to make the annoying 10 mBit experience after having 100 mBit in my Amiga 4000 PPC with OS 3.9 and the oh-so-inferior-Mediator-hack-solution.
I prefer the 100 mBit oh-so-inferior-Mediator-DMA-hack-solution in my Amiga 4000 PPC with OS 3.9 over the clean 10 mBit support on an A1X1k with OS 4.2 any time...

So what's the current situation?
Are USB 2.0 highspeed (or even USB 3.0) and 100 mBit NICs meanwhile supported in in the latest updates of OS 4.1?
And how about satisfying native printer support?
Or does at least TurboPrint v7.1 run with OS 4.1 and so allow for flawless printing?

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Re: OS4 netbook!

Posted on: 2012/3/20 12:21 #85

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Tajmaster wrote:

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tommysammy wrote:

Releasedate is Q3/2012

Where did you hear that?

Lets hope they are on track to release it on time then eh!

He might have read it in post #1:
"- AmigaOS *is* running on the device, although in a very early state. There are questions to be answered still, so the tentative release date is somewhere near the middle of 2012."

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Re: David May, parallel processors. Xmos

Posted on: 2011/9/27 11:14 #86

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retro wrote:

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can you give any examples on what it can do for awage amiga ussers ???...can you do a ampliffer and then do some sound filthering ?
...

Hmmmm - given AEon's description "The uses are endless; control hardware, DSP functions, robotics, display - even SID chip and console emulators." I'd say it might even be possible to create a real 3d - holographic - video output. Already back in the late seventies/early eighties I was dreaming of an holographic 3d video combined with 8 channel 3d audio and made some experiments with 3d sound...

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Re: Is there interest in getting an OS4.x native port of DynaCadd?

Posted on: 2010/11/11 8:03 #87

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@billt

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billt wrote:
@Dandy

I think it'd be nice to have a CAD program. How out of date is this?

I think development of the Amiga version stopped roughly around the time Commodore went belly up with version 2.04 - I read somewhere on the web that v3 was announced but never published.

The last windows version of DynaCADD was DynaCADD 98, AFAIK.

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billt wrote:

I'd like to learn BRL CAD if I had time.

Are you an engineer?

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billt wrote:

That's supposed to be quite advanced and open-source, but would surely be a huge undertking in comparison to dynacad

Thanks for mentioning BRL CAD - I hadn't heard about it before.

From what I read it seems to have a good feature set - almost everything I'm missing in DynaCADD - except CNC functionality.
I'm not sure if it only offeres NURBS primitives or if it supports free definition of NURBS surfaces.
Given the "collection of more than 400 tools, utilities, and applications comprising more than a million lines of source code" and the fact that "The package is intentionally designed to be extensively cross-platform and is actively developed on and maintained for many common operating system environments including for BSD, Linux, Solaris, ...", I'd even prefer it over DynaCadd.

It's just the complexity of this program and its 400+ tools that makes me think that porting this beast to AOS 4.x might (in the light of the narrow resources in the Amiga market) take ages and so porting and overhauling DynaCADD might be "the lesser of two evils".

Anyway - my thinking is that implementing CNC/CAM features might perfectly make sense in the light of XENA's "control hardware & robotics"-capabilities in the A1X1k.

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Re: Is there interest in getting an OS4.x native port of DynaCadd?

Posted on: 2010/11/10 13:46 #88

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@afxgroup

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afxgroup wrote:
@Dandy

it depends from the source code. It is C or ASM? And what GUI is using? MUI? or what?

I seem to remember to have read somewhere that the code was written in C - but to be sure I will ask the owner.
I will also ask what GUI was used and what he meant with "realisation is possible... " - does it mean he will do the port himself (or his programmer), or does it mean he will give us (the Amiga community) the source code and we do the port. If the latter, will it be for free or at what price?

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Re: Is there interest in getting an OS4.x native port of DynaCadd?

Posted on: 2010/11/10 13:32 #89

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@pjs

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pjs wrote:
@Dandy

I have really mixed feelings about this... on one hand,
I'd either kill or pay thousands of dollars for a real,
productive & reliable CAD program on AmigaOS4. On the
other hand, I don't believe it will happen and it seems
like the bar is set really low.

Take DynaCADD - from what I recall (and I see in the
attached thread) it was a pretty crude program.

It was the best CAD program for the Amiga I know of.
Here is an extract of an review of DynaCADD 2.04 from a German Amiga magazine (Amiga Special No. 7/8 1992), translated by me:

...
User Interface

DynaCADD is fully mouse operated, but also a digitizing tablet is supported. Both options have their pros and cons and are personal decisions.
Keyboard entry is restricted to freely definable macros (Ctrl+A...Z), as well as to parts of the numeric input. All in all the intuitional user interface leaves a good mark and not just insiders sould get by with an extremely short learning phase and the internal online help comes in handy here. Also the hierarchically arranged gadgets greatly support the learning process. AutoCAD requires more studies because of the input via keyboard or tablet. DynaCADD is strongly geared to the user interfaces of the workstation programs "CADDS 4X" and "CIM-LINK". Some convenient functions are provided, e.g. the function to define PICTURES very easily. A PICTURE is a freely definable detail of the drawing, that is directly addressable anytime.
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pjs wrote:

IIRC, it
didn't even use windows or have an ability to open
multiple documents. That's pretty backwards.

I haven't used it for quite a while - I would have to fire up my Miggy at home and to check...
But don't forget that 1993 IS backwards...

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pjs wrote:

Yes, it's better than nothing... I don't really want
to be discouraging... but then I use CAD for a living
and, as such, it has to work *WELL*.

So you could count me in for moderate support, just to support the Amiga.

Give me an OS4 port of even the ancient MiniCAD 7 (with
more modern file import/export) and I'd be THRILLED...
and I'd be glad to pay exponentially more it.

Hmmm - from what I recall it actually worked WELL.
Back in 1989-1992, when I did my CAD analyst study, I used it at home on my trusty old A500. It was awfully slow, but it worked and I could repeat all the exercises we did at school on a SUN workstation with CADDS 4X.
It just wasn't able to do NURBS (Non Uniform Rational B-Splines), while it was capable of 3d modelling with boolean funtions, IIRC.

And of course it wasn't capable to convert the 3d model data to executable CNC programs, like it was possible with CADDS 4X (but I had a small tool for that and could test the converted data on a CNC machine at school), and also didn't have a shader (e.g. for collision examinations).

If the project to port it to OS 4.x should really get kicked off, I would vote for an "overhaul" to bring the missing things to DynaCADD, of course.

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Is there interest in getting an OS4.x native port of DynaCadd?

Posted on: 2010/11/9 13:10 #90

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I'm in touch with the owner of DynaCadd - the famous 3d CAD program (mechanical engineering) from the early ninetees. I asked him if there is a chance of porting DynaCadd to OS4 and he answered that the realisation is possible.

So I'm trying now to find out how much interest there is for such a port and which programmers would be willing to participate in such a project.

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Dandy

Re: 2D CAD programs that run under OS4.1u2

Posted on: 2010/9/26 18:33 #91

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@328gts

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328gts wrote:
@Dandy

that's great!...

Yeah.
And even greater is what?he replied:

Dear Mr. Zxxxxx,

I've read about your interest [in porting DynaCADD to Amiga OS 4.x], realisation is possible... I will talk to our developer internally. Thanks for your activity.

with kind regards

a.th. Kxxxx

[translation from German by me]

EDIT:
@ all coders for OS4.x:
It seems it's time to think about participating in this project...

Edited by Dandy on 2010/9/26 19:01:07

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Re: 2D CAD programs that run under OS4.1u2

Posted on: 2010/9/23 18:17 #92

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@328gts

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328gts wrote:
@JCC

would be great if you can get a scan done when you have time (even a few sections at a time as time permits is cool) ....

mines only v2 2D only but I'm sure your v4 manual will come in handy..many thanks for the offer

Perhaps it would be better to ask Mr. Koruk for permission or if he can provide a copy - in my mail to him I linked this thread...

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Re: 2D CAD programs that run under OS4.1u2

Posted on: 2010/9/23 18:11 #93

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@328gts

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328gts wrote:
@Dandy

...
let us know if you hear anything

Yes - Mr. Koruk got in touch with me faster than expected.

In my mail to him (sent just a minute ago) I summerised the history of the Amiga since the Commodore demise and asked him if he sees a chance to help us regarding an native OS4 port of DynaCADD.

So keep your fingers crossed...

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Re: A 4000 + GVP A4060 (TREX II) startproblems

Posted on: 2010/9/20 14:13 #94

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@Wilfred

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Wilfred wrote:
Hello!

I've got some misterious problems with my Amiga 4000 and the GVP A4060 accelerator (68060 @ 50 Mhz and 128 MB RAM):

Problem #1:

If I do a cold boot, the machine doesn`t start. That means, the Power-LED is on, but the screen remains black and there is no sign of disk activity.

Now I trigger a reset by keyboard. The system starts normal!!

OK. If I run Workbench-Versions like OS 3.1 where no "SetPatch" command is given, I can do reset by keyboard or software and the system come up again and again.

Problem #2:

If I now run OS 3.9 with SetPatch, the system starts regular, too. But if I do a restet or a crash happens, the system doesn`t start again. That means the Power-LED is flashing (very fast) and the screen is black. The only way out is: Turning off the computer and wait 3 minutes. After that, I can start again. The 68040/68060 libs are the versions of GVP, not the original libs of AmigaOS, of cause.

Have you tried cleaning the contacts betweeen CPU board and motherboard?
My A4000 with CyberstormPPC has similar probs from time to time.
Up to now I could always fix it by cleaning the contacts with commercial contact spray...

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Dandy

Re: 2D CAD programs that run under OS4.1u2

Posted on: 2010/9/20 14:01 #95

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@328gts

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328gts wrote:

got a hold of DynaCAD v2 and it looks like a great little 2D package! after a few minutes of messing with it I had a simple plan done and was dimensioning it..

anyone know where I can find a manual for it though

It also is 3d.
You can toggle between 2d and 3d by clicking the 2d / 3d button.

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Re: 2D CAD programs that run under OS4.1u2

Posted on: 2010/9/20 13:16 #96

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@328gts

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328gts wrote:
@Dandy

I sent off a few emails too but got no response to date...let us know if you hear anything

Hmmmm - I found a phone number for CRP Koruk on the web and just tried to ring them - but the number is no longer valid...

I'll try to find out what happened to them - maybe they don't exist anymore...

Update:
I just phoned with a lady from the city council of Konstanz - and she had a new address (snailmail) of CRP Koruk, but no e-mail or (official) phone number.

She just had a mobile number for their internal purpose.
I asked her to ring them and give them my e-mail address and to ask them to contact me.

She promised to do so - so now I have to wait until they contact me.

Edited by Dandy on 2010/9/20 13:58:00

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Re: blizzard ppc scsii problem

Posted on: 2010/9/16 11:48 #97

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@alfkil

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alfkil wrote:
@thomas

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Of course I'm not just trying "random" jumper settings, I'm just testing fx. different ID settings and so. And just to be sure: The red line of the cable goes with pin 1 on the connector, right??

Right.

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alfkil wrote:

There is a jumper saying smth with "termination", and I keep this on. I'm guessing this is right?

I don't know about the Blizzard PPC SCSI - I have the Cyberstorm PPC.
I assume you're talking about the jumpers at the back of your drive?
I have all "Term Power" and internal terminators switched off and use active terminstors on both ends of my SCSI chain.
My SCSI chain looks like this:
Active terminator (UW-SCSI)---CSPPC---4gB UW-SCSI HD---160gB IDE HD via Acard UW-SCSI->IDE adaptor---IDE-DVD-RW via Acard UW-SCSI->IDE adaptor---UW-SCSI to SCSI-II adaptor (actively terminating the upper 8 bit)---SCSI-II CD-ROM---SCSI-II CD-RW---SCSI-II tape streamer---slot bracket---external SCSI-II flatbed scanner---active SCSI-II terminator.

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alfkil wrote:

Anyways, I know I left the drive in a working state back when I lost the original cable, so I'm guessing that amigakit sent me a defective cable.
...

Not impossible, but unlikely. Is your drive correctly supplied with power?
I once had corrosion problems on one pin of my hd power connector and already thought the drive was defective when I noticed the corrosion. Once I had cleaned the pins with commercially available contact sprays the drive worked O.K. again...

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Dandy

Re: 2D CAD programs that run under OS4.1u2

Posted on: 2010/9/16 10:45 #98

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@pjs

Quote:

pjs wrote:
Hey guys,

@328gts

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328gts wrote:

would love to edit some of my AutoCad drawings on my Amiga ..a simple 2D CAD program that allows importing/exporting dxf files should do...

...
DynaCADD, Cycas and a few other Amiga CAD programs have appeared over the years. But none have ever been close to "modern"
...

At least back in 1989-1992 (when I made my CAD analyst degree) it was modern and close to professional CAD solutions like Cadds4x on Unix work stations...

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Dandy

Re: 2D CAD programs that run under OS4.1u2

Posted on: 2010/9/16 10:33 #99

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@kas1e

Quote:

kas1e wrote:
@ALL

What about getting DynaCADD and Cycas sources from authors, and then give it to me, and i will try to port it to aos4 native ?

I'm just trying to get in contact with the company that maketed it back then to ask them if they still have the DynaCADD Amiga sources and if they would be willing to release it to the community to port it to OS 4.x and "overhaul" it...

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Dandy

Re: 2D CAD programs that run under OS4.1u2

Posted on: 2010/9/16 10:24 #100

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@328gts

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328gts wrote:
@xenic

thanks for the info but I need more engineering/architectural 2D only CAD

Have you already tried Maxon CAD?
It seems it can still be downloaded here:

[Edit by afgroup]
Link to ROM removed
[/Edit]
Please don't put link to illegal software

Edited by afxgroup on 2010/9/16 10:50:46

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