Good news! Hope Heretic 2 does get patched.

Thank you - This is much appreciated.

Cheers fella, once again, much appreciated.

Once again an Excellent roundup.

Cheers

@AmigaOldskooler

Thank you. Another excellent monthly round up.

@walkero

Find me on #Amigans.

@daveyw

Upgrade to 2.11 - OS4Depot.

@walkero
THANKS!

It was the version of Wookiechat that was the issue. Was on 2.9 - Now on the last version of 2.11.

Looks like development ceased over a decade ago. Too bad, I would have given the developer a little thank you via a donation.

Cheers fella.

I took my MicroA1 to work and plugged it into the external network.

It doesn't work on there either.

I suspect there is an issue with OS4/Internet Prefs or Wookiechat is no longer system friendly.

I believe that leaves us with ZERO IRC Clients for OS4.

@daveyw

I'm on Plusnet. (Am gonna install an IRC Client on my Windows box just to check)

Just out of interest. Is Wookiechat the only OS4 native irc client left? I thought there was a copy of AMIRC that run on PPC?

Cheers

@walkero

Using Wookiechat...

[21:10:04] [Connect] Attempting to connect to 85.25.152.36 (5555)
[21:10:04] [Server] Connected
[21:10:04] -DE.AmigaWorld.net- *** Looking up your hostname...
[21:10:04] -DE.AmigaWorld.net- *** Checking Ident
[21:10:04] -DE.AmigaWorld.net- *** Found your hostname
[21:10:14] -DE.AmigaWorld.net- *** No Ident response
[21:10:44] [Server] Link: 127.0.0.1 (Connection timed out)
[21:10:44] [Server] Disconnected
[21:10:44] [Error] gethostbyname() Failed.


I am puzzled. Have tried to move my internet connection on internet prefs from DHCP to Static. Same result.

Can anyone help out an old fart please?

Cheers

Hey guys

So is Amigans IRC Dead?

Have finally found space for my MicroA1 in the house, switched it on, testing stuff, but no IRC.

Connection times out then Gethostbyname failures

Have tried all servers and even ip addresses with either 5555 or 6667 no luck.

@AmigaOldskooler

Cheers fella - I hope the Tabor makes an appearence sometime im my lifetime. Otherwise, I may have to wait for reincarnation.

Thank you.

Most informative. Keep it going

Ouch! What a Pain!

@AmigaOldskooler

Thank you for your efforts. I had honestly given up on Amiga & OS4.x - It's heartening to hear that maybe, just maybe Libre office will come out and that there is a new updated Browser at long last. Thanks to Kas1e.

Who knows, I may be tempted to dust down the old girl from the cupboard and fire her up if things do actually materialise from Trevor

This may come as a stupid question.

But did anyone managed to get any graphics card to work on a MicroA1?

@walkero

I managed to get an SSD to work on my MicroA1, though if I recall correctly I had to considerably drop the speed in order for it to work.

A PCI graphics card into my MicroA1 - It is but a dream. To be honest, I even tried to put a USB-2 Card into it, but that didn't work. - You are stuck at the snails pace of USB1 standard. Ugh!

Overall, the MicroA1 is the Amiga equivalent of a Fiat Multipla

@khayoz

That's the thing. Get a new Amiga and then do what exactly with it? It will still have the same lack of decent Office app and web browser.

I really want to get back, but I can't justify it.

@Tohe

When we get a decent office application and a decent web browser that actually works with all websites I will buy a new Next gen Amiga OS4.x computer

Until then, I'll save the pennies.

I am happy to report that Chris H replied to my text message.

Have informed him that his fellow Amiga users are enquiring about him on here.