Hi All,

It would be great if we could efficiently run PPC Mac OSX
software... Essentially anything that would run up through
OSuX 10.4.

I'd always heard about and even bought Jim Drew's iFusion, yet
never heard of a single, solitary person that could ever get it
to run.

Does that mean it isn't possible?

Obviously Mac-On-Linux was able to work somewhere; but without
loonix memory protection, I'd imagine it would blow up AmigaOS
if it could be compiled to native.

So is there any MacPPC emulator that does it's own housekeeping
in house (!!) that would work? Sheepshaver?

It would even be helpful progress if the Basilisk - the 68K Mac
emulation - could be made to either use SANA (like Shapeshifter
did so well) or could access the RAM Disk without blowing up.

It's a pity that my 30 year old 68K 4000 ran MacOS stuff way
better than (a Mac or) my X5K.

It would be great if that could be fixed.

Thanks,

PJS

Hi nubechecorre,

To open a single AmiCygnix application, Edgar has provided a
"...standalone.bat" script file which will open that app in
a window on the Workbench.

For example, take AbiWord... If you go into the /software/
dir of AmiCygnix, then into /AbiWord-2.8/ you will see that
script file.

You can just double-click on the script and AmiCygnix will open
a configuration window where you can set how AbiWord will be
opened. Of course in the Amiga-like way of things, you can
then "Save" or "Use" how you want to use AbiWord.

In my case, I have taken these "standalone.bat" files and
dropped them AmiDock so apps like AbiWord and Gnumeric are
readilly available.

Great stuff! THANKS EDGAR!

Enjoy,

PJS

@AmigaOldskooler

Great round up as always! Thanks for your work on this!

Can I make one suggestion... Your page mostly shows fine in
IBrowse, but your YT video links never appear in the page.

I'm guessing you might be embedding YT video code in the page
that IB just isn't catching.

Only when I run YT.rexx on your page do I get all the videos and
then I can play them on my Amiga splendidly.

Any chance you could also provide the straight HTML links to
your YT vids beside the embedded video code in future?

TIA!

PJS

Hi Utri007,

Is this a Sam440mini? Is it possibly your power supply isn't
putting out enough power to drive all those drives?

You could try pulling a few drives and seeing if the other ones
work correctly. Then alternate to the others and try again.

With my Sam440mini I ended up replacing the original power
supply from ACube with a higher wattage mini-ITX model.

I think this might be the one I got:

http://www.mini-box.com/picoPSU-160-XT-192W-Adapter-Power-Kit

Maybe that might help you?

Good luck!!

PJS

@smarkusg

Hi,

Figured I should follow up on the sporadic issue of static YT
streams ending a few seconds (5-15secs) before their proper
ends....

I tried a bunch of different combinations of the suggested
forceidx, cache-min & cache arguments in the config file,
tried repeatedly playing the same streams over and over until
YT seemed to lock me out (for the day).

Unfortunately, I still kept getting the sporadic early endings.

It's not the end of the world by any whatsoever means... All in
all MPlayer has otherwise been working great.

Thanks for the efforts in any case!

PJS

Hi all,

I just went to the new poll and it let me vote (apparently?)
without having to log-in. I'm wondering, if it's possible,
should being logged into Amigans be a requirement for voting?

Just to keep all pancakers out... ;D

PJS

@smarkusg

Thanks for the feedback!

I went back through and found a news video that stopped playing
prematurely without the cache change - stopping around 4m11s
instead of playing to the full 4m33s. Unfortunately, while it
happened a couple times, it wasn't consistent. :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgQPCOuUgKQ

Then I tried setting the cache to 20480 as suggested. It
most often meant there was a 15-20 second delay before playing,
but I also didn't see the premature shut-off in a repeated
plays. Maybe it was the inconsistency at play?

I also tried playing that video with a January 2020 build from
Mick and it repeatedly played the video to the end.

When I wasn't playing the video with the 20480 setting in the
config file, I renamed the config file out of view to avoid any
other deviations.

I also made a point not to do any seeking back or forwards to
try to keep that variable out of the mix when playing.

Sorry I didn't come up with a more clearcut results or clues.

Thanks,

PJS

Hi Capehill,

Thanks for a really handy program!

A really nice way to see what's happening on your Amiga.

One little thing I keep seeing when I start Tequilla from the
shell (even from inside the Tequilla dir), the Workbench or
AmiDock... I typically get a console output/window with this
line:

Failed to open catalog (205)

I'm running a fairly basic OS4 (old beta) install with the US
english locale.

Any ideas what might be missing?

Thanks again,

PJS

Hey guys,

First, thanks guys for your continued quiet, dilligent work
on MPlayer. No drama, just results. :D

I've been using this MPlayer:

MPlayer 1.5-rc2 (01/26/2024) SVN-r38440-snapshot-11.3.0

...mostly for YT streaming, etc. and I'm noticing that it most
often seems to quit before reaching the end of the stream.

I wondered if anyone else has noticed this or if any of the devs
working on this might have any insight on what's happening.

This is on my X5K using Mick's YT.rexx (directly or via
IBrowse) using the mostly default .config with whichever VO is
used with the RadeonHD 6450.

Thanks again,

PJS

@Maijestro

Guessing you're using YT.rexx to watch videos on YT, I hope you
caught that only "static" videos are shown with MPlayer, live
video on YT is played with FFplay.

I'd also guess the German TV channels are also "live" video
streams, so it seems like they are following the same pattern -
playing in FFplay, not in MPlayer.

So maybe you just need to configure however you're gonna watch
these streams to use FFPlay?

Thanks,

PJS

@Maijestro

Guessing you're using YT.rexx to watch videos on YT, I hope you
caught that only "static" videos are shown with MPlayer, live
video on YT is played with FFplay.

I'd also guess the German TV channels are also "live" video
streams, so it seems like they are following the same pattern -
playing in FFplay, not in MPlayer.

So maybe you just need to configure however you're gonna watch
these streams to use FFPlay?

Thanks,

PJS

@Maijestro

I tried one of the URLs with both MPlayer as well as FFmpeg's
ffplay and neither could play.

With MPlayer it just said "failed to play".

With ffplay it said "Server returned 403 Forbidden (access denied)".

It looks like a different kind of error than you described.
Maybe I'm geofenced from being able to watch German TV?

In any case, you might want to try the stream URL's with ffplay
instead of MPlayer. FWIW, live video streams on YouTube won't
play in MPlayer either.

Good luck,

PJS

@Gebrochen

Catching up with the threads...

I didn't see if you said which version of Limpid Clock you were
running.

When I looked for it, I saw there was a v1.17 from Nov 2006 on
OS4Depot, but if you go to Thomas Rapp's webpage, he's got a
slightly newer version - by date at least - listed:

https://thomas-rapp.hier-im-netz.de/amiga/limpidclock.html

I don't frankly understand why that's "v1.8" but with a later
date, but maybe that helps you?

Good luck,

PJS

@Gregor

Hi Gregor,

Just catching up with threads and I saw the issue with the
MPlayer scripts.

I'm not sure exactly how you're calling the scripts, but if you
want to run the volume scripts, you could wrap the message code
in there with a check for the MPLayer port, like this:

---
if (showlist('p','MPLAYER.1')=1) then do
address MPLAYER.1
VOLUME '-1'
end
---

Of course, if you're using ARexx scripts, it wouldn't be much
of a leap to loop testing for more MPLayer ports and address the
highest numbered port (or maybe even the one that was playing,
if the MPlayer command set allowed).

Alternately, you could use a CLI command line like this to
simply send the VOLUME command directly to the first MPlayer
ARexx port without any script:

---
rx "address MPLAYER.1 VOLUME '-1'"
---

If the port isn't found, you should just get some feedback
about the host environment not found, etc.

Good luck,

PJS

Hey guys,

Well, this same thing just happened to my X5K... My machine
has been on for days/weeks and I had a bunch of things open
(AmIRC, IB, Codebench, etc) and at the moment was alternating
between AmigaAmp and YT vids in MPlayer... and the X5K just
shut off. First time ever. :/

I restarted it and more closely watched the temps with Javier's
X5000temp docky - the CPU started at 51C and went to around 52.
But "PCIe" started at 78C and rose to 79C. But then it locked
up starting another YT vid in MPlayer.

Any idea what exactly the PCIe temp is reflecting? Some chip
related to the bus? Would that reflect gfx card temp or more
then that?

I saw someone in the X5K Case Fans thread mention the acceptable
range for the CPU being 15-105C. Any ideas on PCIe?

More importantly, is this simply a sign I need to add to add
more fans to the case? Maybe my PSU is going (it's the one from
original build)?

I'll take sometime to reseat things, vacuum things out and see
how things go....

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks,

PJS

@Chris

Hi Chris!

I just emailed you a capture from the shell as requested as well
an old Snoopy log and several serial logs on crashes.

Please let me know if you need anything else!

Thanks,

PJS

@Chris

Hi Chris,

I deleted the user/-name-/choices file and tried the test v3.12, build
03.01.2024 posted here, but Netsurf is still asking for guigfx.lib all
the time.

Specifically, when I started Netsurf choices-less I was presented a
screenmode requester, as soon as I selected a screen, the guigfx.lib
complainer was revealed underneath. As soon as I clear that, the Netsurf
splash window disappears and a new screen with Netsurf appears.

On restarts, I always see the guigfx.lib complainer. I tried setting
NetSurf to run on my 32bit Workbench (preferred), but still everytime
it also complains about guigfx.lib when starting on the WB.

I tried that Netsurf install on my X5K on some simple webpages with little
or no javascript and it seemed to work fine - very quickly even. I tried
a bunch of Amiga sites that loaded great and most of the time Slashdot did
too.

But everytime I entered Wikipedia's URL (http or https) or any heavier
JS sites, I just get "Fetching. Processing." and Netsurf is hung - totally
unresponsive. Close gadget doesn't work. Ctrl-C in the shell doesn't
work. Often it locked up my X5K.

I captured a number of crash and serial logs of the crashes in case you
want them. Please let me know.

While I did have Netsurf running I noticed a few other things...

- "snapshot window" doesn't actually snapshot - the window location is
not saved in "choices" until the menu "Save Settings" also selected.
Shouldn't the "Snapshot" menu do that job alone to fullfil its label?

- quitting always shows this in the console:

***Command 'NetSurf' returned with unfreed signals 01000000!

Meanwhile, the v3.11 build has been running pretty nicely on my vanilla
OS 4.1 FE update 2 SAM460. No further operational comments at the
moment.

Thanks & Congrats on a nice job!

PJS

@Chris

I did a couple installs of the new NetSurf... Interesting...

First, I put 3.11 on my X5K with an out of date beta system and
it did as others have reported... It complained about
guigfx.lib and could find no websites.

I installed the latest 2005 guigfx.lib package and that made no
difference. It seems like the complainer for that in Netsurf
is barking up the wrong tree.

I also tried installing the v3.11 on my vanilla 460 FE2 system
and it installed fine. No asking for guigfx and it was able to
find websites.

IMPRESSIVE WORK ON THAT MACHINE

It ran fairly quickly and did a nice job of rendering a few
parts of a few modern webpages. CONGRATS!

But then I tried your most recent v3.12 test build on my X5K...

I installed it, it complained about guigfx again and it just
hangs trying to access any websites.

That got me to thinking about the installs... In all cases I
ran your install script. It seemed like the installation on the
460 copied waaaaaaay more stuff than was installed on the X5K
with either build.

Is it possible this all is an installer config problem and that
parts are being left out depending on the systems and OS
versions?

Just some food for thought.

Thanks anyway for your work on this!

PJS

Given what it's based on, isn't AmiPDF supposed to be open source?

In theory that would mean the source should be avaialble.
Couldn't any bug fixes be ported from MattyOS back to AmigaOS
for everyne to use?

Thanks,

PJS

@Capehill

Thanks for looking into this! I'm sure MickJT will be happy
I stop bothering him about this. ;D

PJS