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Re: 68K Plotting Library/PLPLOT

Posted on: 2017/5/17 10:46 #1

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@ferrels

Thank you for providing the links.
And sorry for forgetting to mention that I use RTG on my Amiga exclusively - the native (classic) Amiga graphic modes are too tiring for my aging eyes - especially on old Amiga Monitors (CBM 1081 (S), 1084 (S), 1940/42)...

EDIT:

Strange things are happening here.
After submitting this reply, all of a sudden the pictures you inserted in the first posting were visible.

I didn't change any setting here in my InternetExplorer 11, version 11.0.9600.18638CO - I have absolutely no clue what could be the reason for this...

Edited by Dandy on 2017/5/17 11:01:19

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Re: Workbench Explorer feedback

Posted on: 2017/5/17 6:44 #2

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@mritter0

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Original by mritter0:
@Dandy

Multiple tabs, not listers.

Yeah, I noticed the "Tabs"-item in the preferences window, but was not sure if that is comparable with multiple instances like in DOpus5.x. That is not bad, just that I'm used to the style of DOpus4.16 and by that prefer this design. A matter of personal taste, I think.

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Original by mritter0:

It's not the 1990s any more.

I know, but do you refuse e.g. to ride on a highway that was built in the 1990s, just because it was built in the 1990s?

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Original by mritter0:

And unless your destination lister changes to what you want magically, then what is the difference with WEx and tabs?

As I wrote before, I cannot test WB-Explorer, as I have to solve the issue with the harddrive failures in my old A4kPPC first. Once my harddrive (or possibly SSD) works reliable again I can continue setting up the OS 4.1FE u1 setup and test WB-Explorer.

This said, I can imagine that WB-Explorer with tabs is as usable as is DOpus5.x.
Just that my personal preference is the DOpus4.16 style...
As I said - I see the advantage of it in having to select source and destination just once in 'DOpus 4.16'.
That's why I went back to DOpus4.16 after testing DOpus5.x ...

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Dandy

Re: 68K Plotting Library/PLPLOT

Posted on: 2017/5/16 12:55 #3

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@ferrels
Quote:

Original by ferrels:
@Dandy

I just uploaded some plots created by the example programs on my A1200 using the High GFX driver.

Unfortunately all I can see is this:
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No link to click on, no URL displayed somewhere...

The initial screenshot you had in here obviously had a very low resolution (the plot was shown very 'pixelated') - do the new screenshots live up to the name 'High GFX'?

Like this one, for example:
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Edited by Dandy on 2017/5/17 6:47:52

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Re: Workbench Explorer feedback

Posted on: 2017/5/16 11:38 #4

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@ChrisH
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Original by ChrisH:

Some initial observations of Mr Ritter's newly release WorkbenchExplorer. Feel free to add your own comments!

As my 'AOS 4.1FE u1' setup is not operational yet (harddrive failures - possibly due to instable voltages caused by drying caps in the psu of my towered A4kPPC) I cannot test the 'WorkbenchExplorer' myself.

I can only form an opinion by looking at the screenshots at your link.

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Original by ChrisH:

It looks like a very promising start to what could be a Filer (or light-weight DOpus5) replacement (except a bit more inspired by Windows Explorer than I'd personally prefer).

I agree entirely!
What annoys me most with 'WindowsExplorer' (or with 'WindowsExplorer'-alikes) is that it just has one lister window.

Back in the old M$-DOS days there was the 'Norton Commander', which could be set to operate in one-window-mode or two-window-mode.

In 'WindowsExplorer', I have to click through the directory tree until I reach the location where the file I want to copy is located.
Then I can mark it and select an action (e.g. 'Copy').

And now comes the 'unnecessary part' (from my POV) - I have to click through the tree again to select the destination!

And the most annoying part is that I have to select source and destination each time I want to perform an action, while in 'DOpus 4.16' I select source and destination just once.

Maybe it is down to my own preference, but I prefer the way e.g. 'DOpus 4.16' does it.

It offers two lister windows where you can assign 'source' to one window and 'destination' to the other.
That's why I'm still using 'DOpus 4.16' instead of moving on to 'DOpus 5.x' or 'Magellan' (with OS 3.9/WarpOS, that is).

In my opinion it should at least offer the option to switch to a 'two lister windows'-mode in 'DOpus 4.16'-style.

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Dandy

Re: where's the 'quote' button with the new site??

Posted on: 2017/5/16 10:17 #5

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@tlosm

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Original by tlosm:

Quote:

Original by 328gts:

yes I'm dense but I can't find how to quote a previous post with the new site revision

when you reply you will finde a gadget "plain text" click there and select "Dhtml xcode" and wallaaaa

Apparently 328gts was happy with your answer, but initially I thought he was asking for a button to carry over the entire text from the posting one wants to reply to and puts it inside the proper html quotation tags.

Yes, you're right - there is a "Quote"-button when you switch the editor to "Dhtml xcode".

But this "Quote"-button just opens a wizzard where you can input the text you like to be quoted.

It does not carry over the entire text from the posting I want to reply to to the editor and enwraps it with html quotation tags.
The way it is I see no alternative to marking the text in the original posting, copying it to the clipboard, then pressing the "Reply"-button below the posting, pasting the text from the clipboard into the editor window and adding the html-quoting-tags manually.

On all other fora where I'm active there's another "Quote"-button below the editor window, which automatically quotes the entire posting - like over at AmigaWorld:
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If I - for example - click on the "Reply"-button below the posting
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I get an blank editor window:
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After clicking on the "Quote"-button below the editor window, the entire posting text is carried over to the editor window:
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Adding this functionality would make replying to postings on Amigans.net a lot more easier and comfortable...

Isn't it possible to implement this feature?
Perhaps it's already implemented and just needs to be enabled?

EDIT:
Strange - sometimes the Images are displayed in 'normal size' and sometimes in 'thumbnail size'. If I get the 'thumbnail size' I have to use the "Back"/"Forward"-buttons of the browser to get them displayed in 'normal size'...

What could be the reason?

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Re: Cinnamon Writer 0.69 IV released

Posted on: 2017/5/15 7:59 #6

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@trixie
Quote:

Original by trixie:

You are mixing up Cinnamon Writer (by Desler) and Papyrus Office (by Titan Computer).
...

You're right.
My fault - sorry.
Must have been due to my progressing senilism...

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Dandy

Re: Cinnamon Writer 0.69 IV released

Posted on: 2017/5/12 13:41 #7

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@desler
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Original by desler:

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After some struggle, I have now made the newest version of CW available.
...
Download it now!

I have a weak remembrance that CinamonWriter once was developed by or for "Titan Computer" and could run on OS 3.x - but on your hp I can only see versions for OS4 and MorphOS.

Is the OS 3.x version still available somewhere?
Which was the last version number of the old CW?

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Dandy

Re: The Xena Research Project Part 1

Posted on: 2017/5/12 10:21 #8

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@LiveForIt
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Original by LiveForIt:

@Dandy

I feel a lot safer if there was a board with Optokoppler to connect between
...
The risk of overloading or short circuit something is dramatically reduced, you might even hot plug things out and in, this nice instead of powering down the system.

No matter if the risk of overloading or short-circuiting something is real or not - connecting all Xorro cards via such a protection circuit (reasonably priced) will comfort cautious users.

I don't mean one protection circuit for each connected Xorro card, but making the (unprotected) onboard XORRO slot protected by plugging in the protection circuit, which provides the protected slot.

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Dandy

Re: The Xena Research Project Part 1

Posted on: 2017/5/12 9:49 #9

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@LiveForIt
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Original by LiveForIt:

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You probably make a advanced floppy controller, or even migrate a few chipsets from UAE into XZorro card, but that’s about it.

Well, the Xorro thingie might also be useful for things like e.g. robot controls.
"...making it ideal for ultra-low latency data sampling applications and extremely easy to turn into control hardware for... well, virtually anything.", as A-Eon put it.

I envision 'robotics' as a broadly defined field of application. Small to medium-scale flexible production cells spring to my mind, or 3d scanning/printing, or controlling model railways, or drones, or..., or "virtually anything".

Back in the old days my clique and I loved e.g. to make a pcb from a schematic in some tech mag and make it work (e.g. a sound digitiser for A500). Or I went to some small electronics store and bought assembly sets for amplifiers, mixing desk, clavilux, loudspeaker boxes or to tinker with electronic Leslie systems for sound effects.

Today I'm missing such inspirations for do-it-yourselfers - handiwork and tech tinkering seem to be out of fashion. Obviously the majority of not-only-youngsters today prefers scrawling, playing games or 'social networking' on their mobile devices (even when crossing roads) over tech tinkering.

So I think while the Xorro thingie is inspiring for me, it might not appeal to todays target audiences. The problem seems to be getting them interested in something going beyond their mobile devices...

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Dandy

Re: The Xena Research Project Part 1

Posted on: 2017/5/12 6:12 #10

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@ChrisH
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Original by ChrisH:

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IMHO the biggest problem with Xena/Xorro is the risk of blowing-up your expensive X1000/X5000 motherboard, if you wire Xorro up wrongly (or program Xena's I/O ports wrongly), during development.
...

Wouldn't it be a logical step then to have a kind of 'protection circuit board' first, where you can connect your Xorro boards to, without having the risk of blowing-up the mobo?

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Dandy

Re: The Xena Research Project Part 1

Posted on: 2017/5/10 10:57 #11

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@apsturk
Quote:

Original by apsturk:

We at Amiga On The Lake have just started our new BLOG!

We are very pleased to introduce our first blog with a very special guest blogger and friend, Jamie Krueger from BITbyBIT Software Group

please enjoy *Also we have updated our donation page with last months $$$

The Xena Research Project Part 1

http://amigaonthelake.com/blog/

This great initiative is highly appreciated!
Finally some reliable infos on the XENA stuff!

The Blog states:
"It should be noted that in every other case (that I am aware of) the XMOS chips are programmed externally via a JTAG port, where as with the X5000 the JTAG interface is already connected to the CPU, allowing the Xena chip (and any further XMOS chips connected via the Xorro slot) to be programmed *from* the native AmigaOS4 Operating System.".

Wouldn't a "native AmigaOS4" version of the XMOS tool chain be required to program XMOS chips "*from* the native AmigaOS4 Operating System"? Hadn't there been talk ahead of the A1X1k-release about porting the XMOS tools to OS4? What's the state of that?

Really looking forward towards the next parts!

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Dandy

Re: 68K Plotting Library/PLPLOT

Posted on: 2017/4/28 8:40 #12

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@ferrels
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Original by ferrels:

After a 24 year hiatus I decided to drag my A1200 out of storage and brush up on classic Amiga development. I hope to do more development once I get my hands on the standalone Vampire. I normally develop LIDAR applications for Windows and OSX using XCode and Visual Studio. As a refresher I thought it would be a good exercise to compile PLPLOT 5.0.1 for classic Amigas since it was the last version that supported the classics and the latest version on Aminet is 2.6.

Wow!
A new function plotter for my Miggy!
That's great!
Thanks a lot, mate!

Back in the days I was studying mechanical engineering and frequently used programs like MathAMation with the mech. eng. module, function plotter, NewIO, MaxxonCAD, DynaCadd, Reflections and the like on my A500...

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Original by ferrels:

I was successful at compiling the library and building all the examples but not without some pain. Finding a "make" utility to process the included make file was troublesome but I finally found the correct one on Fred Fish Disk #69. The GNU make utility on Aminet may also work but I haven't tried it. You also have to link against the reqtools.library which is found on Aminet. The make file also needed some heavy editing but now everything builds fine using SAS C 6.58.

Too sad I never found enough spare time to learn to code for the Amiga.
I coded a lot on the CBM 620 that I had before the Amiga, but then I started to study and had to learn how to code for the PCs (Assembler, Fortran77, C, SPS, CNC and such...).

Just 5.99 years from now until I retire, if all goes well.
Maybe I'll find enough time then - provided my Amiga will still be in working condition then.
It's a real pity - I bought StormC and Hollywood and never had enough time to really use them...

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Original by ferrels:

I will upload the entire archive once Aminet is back online. Seems to be down at the moment.

Seems to be online again meanwhile...

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Original by ferrels:

Here's the output of PLPLOT's Example #8 using the High Graphics Screen Mode Driver and 256 colors. The library supports other modes as well and screen mode selection is menu driven. I will include all the binaries and PLPLOT link time library in the archive for those who want to use it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8aphzk05sia3dfr/shaded-plot.jpg?dl=0

...

To run the examples, extract the archive to your favorite hard disk such as DH1:
Then open a shell and create the following assign without quotes: "assign plplot: DH1:plplot"

Navigate to plplot/tmp and then run any of the examples such as X01c thru X19c.

Hmmm - I had a brief look at at the .readme.
It seems to tell a lot about compliling, but just a few lines of 'Amiga Release Notes'.

What I'm really missing is a documentation to learn how to use it, e.g. the syntax to enter functions.

Is there a usable documentation in the old version, or do you intend to release a documentation for the new release in the forseeable future?
It is so looooong ago since I used a function plotter on the Amiga the last time...

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Original by ferrels:

Looks like Aminet may be down a while so here's a DropBox link to the archive:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hpxzbd1dp48m0hy/plplot68K-5.0.1.lha?dl=0

As mentioned above - Aminet is working again...

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Dandy

Re: Sharing data with host system with Amiga Forever & AmigaOS 4.1

Posted on: 2017/4/28 7:14 #13

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@Hans

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Original by Hans:
@Dandy

Quote:

Original by Dandy:

Which AmigaForever version do you use?

Amiga Forever 2016.

Ahh - same version like I have...

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Original by Hans:

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Original by Dandy:

And the "AmigaExplorer" does not work for you?

Haven't tried it. I was under the impression that was for communication with a real Amiga.

In my old AF setups I always used the "AmigaExplorer" to access the Amiga side from the PC side when using AmigaForever.
I would assume that it still works in AF 2016, but have not tried it yet.
I have to finish the the Amiga-OS installation first, as time permits...

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Re: Sharing data with host system with Amiga Forever & AmigaOS 4.1

Posted on: 2017/4/24 8:52 #14

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@Hans
Quote:

Original by Hans:

I've been playing with AmigaForever + AmigaOS 4.1. Mostly good so far, but one thing I haven't managed to figure out is how to share data between Windows & the emulated OS 4.1 system.

Which AmigaForever version do you use?
I am just in the process of setting up a new Amiga environment on my Win10/core i5 quadcore/64 Bit machine with AmigaForever 2016. I want to run OS 4.1 with it, but still have problems to install OS4.

And the "AmigaExplorer" does not work for you?

When I had my old AmigaForever 2006 running on my old XP machine, "AmigaExplorer" (part of the AmigaForever package) was the way to exchange files between the two systems...

Currently I have not reached a state where I could try the "AmigaExplorer" of AF 2016 with OS 4.x ...

Another way to exchange files between a WinXP-box and a real Amiga4000PPC was a combination of a registered version of Darren Eveland's 'RDesktop' and 'smbfs' - worked like a charm.

But I never tried the latter with AmigaForever...

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Re: Convert with OCR number only scanned pages

Posted on: 2017/3/28 8:49 #15

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@Amigo1
Quote:

Original by Amigo1:

I bought FxScan 5.x years ago. What puzzles me, I had 2 CDs but I can't find any of them anymore.

Bummer!
But 2 CDs for FxScan 5.x?
Did you have two copies of it, or were the two CDs 'FxScan 5.x' plus 'Betascan' or 'ScanQuix 5'?
As fxSCAN required an free 'Betascan'-driver or an already installed 'ScanQuix'...

But 'FxScan 5.x'?

From my memory I only know fxSCAN versions up to v4.05 - will have to check when I'm back home tonight...

Quote:

Original by Amigo1:

It might be it was using PDF v1.2 or v1.4?

Hummm - I created and edited a 'test.pdf', but cannot see any obvious errors:


%PDF-1.2

%âãÏÓ

1 0 obj

<<

/Producer (fxSCAN 4.0 PDF Export - see http://www.fxscan.com/)

>>

endobj

4 0 obj

<<

...

The PDF-version generated by fxSCAN seems to be v1.2.

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Re: Convert with OCR number only scanned pages

Posted on: 2017/3/27 7:04 #16

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@Amigo1
Quote:

Original by Amigo1:

on the amiga there was an OCR in fxScan as far as I remember.
...

I haven't used it for a while, but yes, there is an OCR function in fxScan and it is said to be adaptive.
This means that initially you may get "read errors" which you have to set aright manually. After a while of usage, the OCR function in fxScan produces less "read errors". IIRC, best scanning resolution for OCR-scans is 300 dpi.

Just for the records - fxScan also has a "create PDF" function, but I'm not sure if it is still usable today.
The last PDFs I created with it were not readable on e.g. WIN-PCs - I guess the PDF format fxScan uses is outdated meanwhile.
Can someone confirm this?

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Dandy

Making IBrowse v2.4 great again - errrmmmmm - I mean - a bit more usable today...

Posted on: 2017/3/7 10:05 #17

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Related to the recent release of AmiSSL 4.0 for AmigaOS 3.x/4.x, I stumbled across an instruction on how to enable TLS in IBrowse v2.4 and making it a bit more usable today by that.

Regarding the m68k version of AmiSSL 4.0, there was a news item at amiga-news.de on Feb 8th. At the end of this news item there is an 'editor's note':

editor's note: Those who are really still occasionally using IBrowse to surf the web should enable TLS to improve IBrowse's compatibility with encrypted websites significantly - even without AmiSSL-4-support.

Clicking on the "enable TLS"-link led me to an old news item of Feb 2016, where the original message of the IBrowse-development-team with an instruction on how to enable TLS in IBrowse v2.4 was linked.

Unfortunately I missed the news last year - and so I have not tested it up to now (And yes, I'm one of those infamous users "who are really still occasionally using IBrowse to surf the web").

Maybe this is now covered in AmiSSL 4.0 - but just in case it is not, I'd like to share this info with you on how to make IBrowse nevertheless access "https -sites"...

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Re: Amissl v4.0

Posted on: 2017/3/7 9:22 #18

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@Raziel

Not sure if this is the right place for this, as this thread obviously is for the OS4 version of AmiSSL 4.0.

Regarding the m68k version of AmiSSL 4.0, there was a news item at amiga-news.de on Feb 8th. At the end of this news item there was an 'editor's note':

editor's note: Those who are really still occasionally using IBrowse to surf the web should enable TLS to improve IBrowse's compatibility with encrypted websites significantly - even without AmiSSL-4-support.

Clicking on the "enable TLS"-link led me to an old news item of Feb 2016, where the original message of the IBrowse-development-team with an instruction on how to enable TLS in IBrowse v2.4 was linked.

Unfortunately I missed the news last year - and so I have not tested it up to now (And yes, I'm one of those infamous users "who are really still occasionally using IBrowse to surf the web").

Maybe this is now covered in AmiSSL 4.0 - but just in case it is not, I'd like to share this info with you on how to make IBrowse nevertheless access "https -sites"...

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Re: Db101 betatesters needed

Posted on: 2017/2/14 8:34 #19

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@alfkil

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Original by alfkil:

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if you want to do a testrun of db101 v.1.1.2, then send me a pm or an email.
...

For now I'd be happy if I could get some info somewhere what 'db101' is about...
I read the entire thread, but still am not sure what's it all about.
Before I download to test it, I'd like to know what's it about.

Is it a sort of compliler?

A link leading to a project page with further info would be nice...

A quick Google search for "db101" brought up this (and I don't think your file is somehow related to locomotives):
DB101

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BigRamPlus memory expansion and Zorro-III busboard by Mikronik

Posted on: 2017/1/26 13:17 #20

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I own an Amiga4000 with CSPPC, Mediator PCI busboard and Deneb USB - fitted in the "BigBox" tower-conversio-kit for the A4000 by Micronik (the first version - the "white" tower on the 'upper' photos).

As the 128 mB RAM on the CSPPC are absolutely insufficient nowadays (especially, if one wants to use OS 4.1 classic reasonably on it), I've been flirting with the idea of buying one of the Z-III memory expansions (BigRamPlus or ZorRam) for quite a while.

Nevertheless, warnings like
"BigRamPlus is a memory expansion with 256 MB RAM for any Amiga with Zorro-III slots, i.e. Amiga 3000, 3000T, 4000 and 4000T. BigRamPlus is only guaranteed to work with the original daughter boards of these computers; there is no warranty it will work properly with third party bus boards made by Micronik, Eagle, RBM or Elbox, etc. (BigRamPlus)"
and
"Note: This product is Zorro III only and will not work with Zorro II Amigas or some Zorro busboards. (ZorRAM)"
deterred me from actually buying one so far.

In spite of those warnings, I plucked up courage and ordered a BigRamPlus from Vesalia last Thursday, wich arrived at my home already on the other day - no 24 hours after ordering and paying (PayPal) I held the parcel in my hands!
A big compliment for that to Vesalia!

Last night the moment had finally come when it should turn out if the BigRamPlus works in my Micronik-Z-III busboard or not. I opened my Miggy, inserted the BigRamPlus into a free Zorro-III slot and then powered up the Miggy.

What can I say - booting worked flawlessly, the additional 256 mB of RAM were displayed immediately and the system (OS 3.9/WarpOS) ran stable so far!

So for the record:
First tests resulted in the BigRamPlus working flawlessly in the Zorro-III busboard of the "BigBox" tower-conversion-kit for the A4000 by Micronik (the first version - the "white" tower) in my OS 3.9/WarpOS system.

In my system there are a Mediator PCI busboard (with Voodoo4 graphics card, Terratec 512i digital soundkard and a 10/100 mBit network interface card), as well as a Deneb USB 2.0 highspeed host adapter working flawlessly together with the BigRamPlus in the Z-III busboard of the tower-conversion-kit for the A4000 by Micronik.

In spite of the numerous warnings of the Micronik-busboard I did not encounter any problems in the functional interaction of the BigRamPlus and other Zorro-III devices in my system config so far. It should also be mentioned that I have the Buster rev. 11 on my A4000 Motherboard.

As a next step I will order at least one more BigRamPlus and upgrade my "experimental installation of OS 4.0 classic" to "OS 4.1 Final Edition, Update 1"...

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