Edit: Duplicate post.
I used AmigaCygnix X Server also a lot in the past for software that was non existant or not yet ported to AmigaOS 4. For example with he Pidgin client I was able to use ICQ for chat. ICQ never got client for any version of AmigaOS.

Site seems to be offline right now.

X5000 for sure. MIDI will also benefit from faster speed. Additionally if you need to encode or decode mpeg streams, the speed will come very handy.

Hello,
I found for good price brand new ASUS Radeon RX 7800 XT 16GB Dual graphic card.

Shall I buy it for my AmigaOne X5000 or my AmigaOne X1000?

Will it provide me with any benefit over the AFox Radeon RX550 4GB that I have in my X5000 currently, or over the XFX Radeon Black Double D R9 280X 3GB DDR5 that I bought for X1000?

I've removed the XFX from X1000 because it was too noisy for my taste, but I can place it back if needed for tests or serous work (although recently I am more working with the X5000) and sometimes the Apollo Core V4+SA.

There were rumours about RAM: driver utilizing memory beyond 2 GB on AmigaOS 4 for RAM Disk: storage, hence the reason I still keep 8 GB in my X1000 since summer 2020. Now almost 4 years later, still no public available driver yet.

@vagappc

Windows 3.11 runs fine on DOSBox-JIT. Here is me installing it on X5000


You will also need to install audio drivers for proper gaming:


Windows 95 starts under DOSBox-JIT, but colors are not okay and freezes sometimes.


I think Windows 98 is possible too. I am not that experienced with Windows to debug where is the issue with these OSes. Probably some special drivers may fix the issues.

Long time ago I was able to run OpenGEM 6 and some other OSes under DOSBox, but it was more for curiosity, than for real usage.

QEmu can come useful for some machines emulation, for example PPC Macintosh. But for PC, DOSBox with JIT is very good already (old X86 machines emulation).

Even if QEmu is ported to AmigaOS, it will lack the speed of DOSBox! DOSBox has some endian troubles which I wrote about in the DOSBox thread, but most of the games work with excellent speed.

If you want many machines emulated, better look and try to port the latest version of MAME, which emulates PCs as well. I see it is still being backported to Windows XP (32-bit), so Amiga port is doable.

Recently I did many backups and then restores of Amiga, Apple Macintosh (68K and PPC) and PC hard drives (I have more than 100 HDDs already of various sizes, interfaces (IDE, SATA, SCSI, USB, ATAPI) and capacity.

The best utility for such task is dd (disk/data duplicator) on Linux operating system. dd on MacOS X (10.4 and 10.5) comes second. It is the best and easiest to use cloning software, since it preserves everything on the disk.

dd combined with gzip and sometimes split if needed to go for Flash drive, compresses the data in real time. It can ignore errors as well.

dd doesn't care about filesystem, partition table, etc.. It simply copies everything and I had case where I used the dd-ed image directly under QEmu without any issue.

Is there such utility like dd for Amiga?

From the invoice for my X5000:

AFox Radeon RX550 4GB graphic's card :
4GB GDDR5 video memory, GPU 1183MHz,
Core Cuda : 51, Bus 128Bit, Memory clock :
6GHz, 1 x HDMi + 1 x Display port + 1 x DVI

So far I am lazy and didn't got MiniGL working on it, but the GLExcess demo worked fine and I even was able to record the output.

On my 12 years old AmigaOS 4.1 install on microAmigaOne I got MiniGL working. Forgot how I did it back then.

@Skateman

On AmigaOS Workbench - press right mouse button, go to top left on the menus Workbench->Update software.
At least it is how I obtained it:

Video from this morning:

https://youtu.be/tZNVaKu6Ke0

I used DOSBox with JIT on my Amiga X5000 a lot recently and even installed Excel 5.0 under Windows 3.11 on it for serious use, but I came to very strange issue:

When I try to enter numbers in Excel spreadsheet cells, the accepted number is always rounded to a smaller number if it exceeds a certain value.

For example I can enter 1,2,but not 3 (it accepts 2), then 4 but when I enter 5 it enters 4, up to 8 where 8 is okay, but 9 returns 8 up to 16 etc..
Here is a video demonstrating the issue:


I will try to test if the same issue will happen on the MacOS X 10.4 or 10.5 versions of DOSBox with PPC JIT.

Software is stable and doesn't crash.

Does anyone else experience similar problem?

Is it because I am using fakeshar.exe and noshare.exe to simulate the share.exe which doesn't work under DOSBox from what I read or it is something else. Is there a way to fix this and use Excel 5.0 on Amiga?

Edit: I have tested same DOSBox Windows 3.11 installation on iBook G3 900 MHz with DOSBox JIT for MacOS under MacOS X 10.4.11 (Tiger) and same issues appear. Then I copied the same files to Windows PC running DOSBox-X and Excel worked fine there.

So, this is either endian issue, or some bug that is fixed with the DOSBox-X fork.

I've tried to run my installation on the original DOSBox on PC from DOSBox's site and Excel didn't start at all.

I also had issues with installing the latest AmiSSL from IBrowse's site (5.12) on my Amiga X5000. The Installer kept saying that some application is using AmiSSL, even after fresh boot, refusing to copy the new libraries. So I went to the LIBS folder, manually renamed the available AmiSSL libs with appending _OLD to their names, then copying the new libraries from the AmiSSL package and rebooting.

Everything worked fine after.

Nice update. Looks very fast on AmigaOne X5000. I use the browser very often for downloading files on both my PPC and Classic Amigas. With the latest SSL I can open wide variety of sites.

Here is short video that I've made, including visit to Amigans.net
https://youtu.be/39OXUDVzZ14

@TheMagicSN

Any chance of looking into MAME again? The latest version emulate lots of hardware, including Silicon Graphics Indy, C65, Macintosh, etc...

@LiveForIt

I've such devices. The output audio signal you are getting from the Amiga is still analog, even if you are converting it to digital. I've spend more than 6,000 € on hardware, to be able to record AmigaOne in high quality, only to see that with 300 € laptop and QEMU you can achieve better result in the Audio recording of AmigaOS 4 and AmigaOne.

Sorry to bring this again, but is there any chance (software or hardware hack) to bring sound over HDMI? The Apollo Core V4+ SA and the MiSTer FPGA both have output on the HDMI cable on the Amiga cores and I make excellent video recording from them, also I can use directly the display, without the need for external speakers or audio embedders.
On the AmigaOne I use separate 3.5 mm cable for the audio, with analog signal recording and background noise, which is clearly heard, because I need to amplify the volume to at least +12 dB.

@geennaam
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The Power platform is still alive, with Power 10 launched in 2021 with 7 nm technology node. But seeing the price of Power 10 solutions, it is prohibitely expensive, even for small to middle based business. On another hand currently the AmigaOne X5000 and the Sam are one of the few PowerPC based computers still being manufactured as listed on the PowerPC Wikipedia page.

If moving to ARM needs another decade, for AmigaOS 4 it will be better to stay with PowerPC and wait for some new PowerPC based hardware to appear. Desktop or Laptop.

I purchased brand new Amiga X5000/040 back in November and it came two weeks ago. So, new X5000 systems are available (can confirm). I still tinker with it. So far works fine, only issue is that the Antec case is more noisy than the X1000 Fractal case (may be the Radeon RX550 adds to this).

The AmigaOne X5000 is the best Amiga that I ever had (I used to have almost every Amiga model except A3000).

I also have Ultimate MiSTer FPGA and Apollo Core V4+ for newer Amiga experience, but I prefer the NG Amiga experience.

I use FSay and it works just like Say, without crashing:



Works fine on my different PPC based Amigas.

Is there any chance to have audio through the HDMI for X1000 and X5000, or it is not possible?

It is very hard for me when I am recording from the analog output together with the DVI to HDMI and having to boost volume for each different application.