@orgin

Thanks for adding the Classifieds area!

I was looking at how to get the area to show up on my home page,
but then I never found that control (using IB) and realized most
of the time I'm not logged in anyway.

;)

But I wonder, why not have classifieds on the homepage?

Thanks again!

PJS

@Chris

Barrier?

The question is: How hard would it be to port AND who wants to
do it? Is it even open source? (/me knows nothing about it)
Is it peer to peer or do we need a client & server?

;D

Thanks,

PJS

@TiredOfLife

Saw your post.  Please see your messages.

Thanks,

PJS

@kas1e

I emailed broadblues' color improved AmiVNC to you. If anyone
else wants to give it a spin, let me know here.

Thanks,

PJS

@MartinW

Apparently there is a really old Amiga client for a cross
platform keyboard/mouse sharing system called Synergy that I'm
told still works...

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfil ... work/misc/amisynergyc.lha

There's also an ARexx GUI for it...

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfil ... work/misc/asynergygui.lha

I haven't tried it myself.

Honestly, my Amigas are the only machines that are on 24/7, so a
server would be a lot more useful. ;D

Thanks,

PJS

Hey guys,

I'd suggest you will have a lot better luck installing the
YT.rexx scipt and MPlayer to stream YouTube.

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=video/misc/yt.lha

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfil ... o/play/mickjt-mplayer.lha

(As far as I know there are newer versions of both in the works)

With those installed, you can add context menus to Ody, IBrowse
and others and reliably stream static and live YouTube videos
with a lot more reliability.

Thanks,

PJS

@kas1e

FYI, AmiVNC is open source.

I've been using AmiVNC for years... Yes, it's slow and highly
dependent on net bandwidth and the efficiency of the VNC client.

It used to work flawlessly with the RealVNC client until RealVNC
"improved" their client. The ChickenOfTheVNC client on the PPC
Mac still works great with AmiVNC (if slower).

There's a slightly updated version of AmiVNC where the color
issue was improved by Broadblues (Thanks!). I'd need to check
with him to spread it around.

FWIW, there's also another (new, from scratch) VNC server in
works that I'd expect will break the surface soon. So far it's
faster than AmiNVC.

Stay tuned.

Thanks,

PJS

@ktadd

I don't know why you'd post remarks about a MattyOS bug on the
comments section of the YT.rexx.

Either uninstall MattyOS and run AmigaOS *OR* get Matty to fix
his hack job.

Good luck,

PJS

@ktadd

LOL

Thanks again for your work on this.... I look forward to your
next version.

PJS

@ktadd

That's a fantastic script!

@Maijestro

Great video!

I wanted to pass along one little hack I had already put in my
start_player script that lets me run streams in a single ongoing
player (instead of starting a new one each time you click "PLAY"):

Where it used to just call AmigaAmp like this:

---
Run <>NIL: APPDIR:AmigaAmp3 "{url}"
---

I replaced it with a test of whether AA had an ARexx port open
and send it an ARexx message to load the new stream instead,
like this:

---
WaitForPort "AMIGAAMP" 0
IF WARN
Run <>NIL: APPDIR:AmigaAmp3 "{url}"
ELSE
rx 'ADDRESS AmigaAmp "OPEN {url}"'
ENDIF
---

Fodder for an update if you'd like to include it in your script.

Thanks guys!

PJS

@walkero

Yay!

What a great developer!! Only on an Amiga!! You fixed it
without even doing anything!

;D

PJS

ahh, yes, same here!

If I click on "Popular" or "Trending" then I get the requester:

-----------
There was an error with the returned data.
Please try again or check your network.
-----------

If I search for the name of a station that I know was present,
it no longer finds it.

Probably some server "improvement" somewhere....

Thanks,

PJS

@logout

Na Zdravi!

Welcome to our little corner of the net! I hope you really
enjoy your experience with the new SAM460.

Yes, AmigaOS is quite different from other OS's, but it's also
very straightforward. A file is a file; a program; a program;
and you can actually understand all the pieces of the OS.

Being a small corner of the computing world with no big corporate
parents, we also have to do so many things ourselves. Our own apps,
tools and methods. That can be frustrating, especially if someone comes
from a spoonfed world.

But most have us appreciate, enjoy (are addicted to) the feel and
pleasure of using the Amiga. I hope you find it too.

Let us know what questions you've got and where us users can help.

Enjoy!

PJS

Hey guys,

FWIW, we had an HP LaserJet 4 -- a tank -- that worked great (*)
with the Amiga LPR driver for decades.

(*) = don't print too many pages at once. No bufferring in the
LPR driver.

When it eventually died, I found that several HP printers would
still print from the Amiga if I just changed the HP LJ4 output
to the new printer's IP address.

Granted it also seems that HP - while they claim to support
Postscript, LIES - if you send a straight postscipt file in
color or other than "letter" size (8x11), it ignores all that.

But at least it gives you basic printing most of the time.

Yes, we need at least some part of CUPS..... Hopefully without
Weasel Oil on it (that just gums up printers and kills Amigas).

Thanks & Good luck,

PJS

@davec555

The thread is coming up with good suggestions...

Any chance bad weather mighta zapped something? It could be
your gfx card, for example. It happened to my XE.

Once you've confirmed the motherboard is getting power to it
(LEDs as mentioned), then I'd suggest pulling all the cards
and seeing if it makes any more booting motions.

If so, plug in one card at a time (start with the gfx card)
and see how things change.

Obviously, changing the PSU is an option.

Please let us know how things go.

GOOD LUCK!

PJS

sheesh... Dupe post...

Bummer!

Have you tried replacing the battery too? It seems like most
all of the NG systems are sensitive to the battery being up to
snuff.

Otherwise, I'd suggest hooking up a serial cable and watching the output if you can. If you're lucky, that will tell you where
it might be failing.

Let us know what you find!

Thanks,

PJS

@elfpipe

You're having problems with your Amiga drives?

It seems like viruses on the Amiga, let alone OS4, are an unlikely
rarity these days (Thankfully).

But maybe you have a drive going bad?

If you're on one of the NG machines with a complete IDE/SATA
driver, you could run smartctl on your drives to see what it
tells you about its health:

smartctl -A [device]:[unit #]

example:

smartctl -A sii3114ide.device:0

Good luck & make a lot of backups! ;D

PJS

@elfpipe

Congratualtions!!

I can just guess at how steep a mountain it is you're climbing.
Thank you very much for your efforts.

It's like you're making it look easy!

;D

PJS

@walkero

It's great to read of your progress! Thanks walkero, rjd324,
afxgroup, jacadcaps and everyone working on the project.

Great little bit of holiday news.

:D

PJS