Hi all,

I'd like to hear from the entire (as in, users from all aspects, not every single user personally) Amiga community, about what they expect from an Amiga community portal? I am especially interested in hearing from Australian users.

If one were to create a local community portal, how would you use it? How often would you visit? What sort of content would you expect to see (what would make you come back again and again)?

Is there space in the current community for yet another portal site? What browsers would you be using to access the site? Which technologies would you hate to see in a new portal?

Also, if you run a current portal (especially more popular ones) would you be willing to share stats as to a count of users accessing the site, the percent of that count coming from Australia, browsers in use etc? I'm willing to do this part privately, as not everyone wants these figures out in the open for privacy reasons. I also realise that a publuic thread like this may be un-balanced by a vocal but minority group, so server stats from live, popular portals would be very interesting to me.

I have cross posted this to all the portals I visit, in order to get the widest coverage of Aussie Amigans, please don't hurt me

If you can read portals in other languages (I can only read English ), and there are features on the non-english portals you think would be good in an english speaking forum, please also let me know about it.

From this discussion I will most likely be posting an online survey for Aussie Amigans to fill out, so I can get some direction on the best way to go for a possible project.

Have at it!

Thanks,

tiffers

@Hondo

XChat is taking too long to download

Numbers are over 330 at aw.net

@DBAlex

Well it's responding but giving almost a blank page.

@angelheart

They so need to move away from 'nuke. vBulletin handles literally thousands of people online simultaneously

Can anyone suggest a nice web irc page I can get onto irc with?

@Hondo

Hyperion are not producing the hardware themselves. A company named A-Eon technology are making the hardware.

A-Eon is headed up by none other than Ben Hermans, Trevor Dickson (TrevorD on AW.net) and another fellow also from the UK (Anthony Moorley if memory serves).

Andrew Korn (apprently a well known / maybe respected?) Amiga Journo is the one behind the website of riddles.

And yes, the HTML comments indicate that tomorrow (today me for already) 5th Jan will be the final release of info. They will release 'all they can release'

Should be fun.

How do I convince my missus I should get one of these now. Hmm.

tiffers

@amigamaniac_aus

DING! Dec 18th is here. Received your parcel today?

@salass00

Surely you mean "no mmap functions in the currently available versions of AmigaOS 4.x"

If they're moving towards full memory protection and smp, would mmap play a part in that?

tiffers

@kas1e

I'd love to vote for this, but as I don't own AmigaOS4.x, I don't feel i have the right. Can't wait til I get OS4.1!!!

@jahc

You should code while she sleeps... that way you get more than 3.5 hours of coding a day

@amigamaniac_aus

Dude, you should have made the PCB compatible with the A520 cases.

I've been preparing to do the S-Video mod on an A520, and been thinking about making the S-Video out and actual S-Video port (like you have on your project) and mounting it inside the A520 somehow.

I need to figure out if I can rip out the upper mini-pcb of the A520 and replace it with a custom one which has an S-Video port on it, and then make some cut out panels from a similar plastic to cover the audio in / composite out holes and change the RF Out hole, to the new S-Video out port.

tiffers

@magic

In the Summer Follies promotion, they state:

* A case (from Full ATX down to mini-itx with a power supply of at least 60w
* A SATA CD/DVDROM (Optional)
* A SATA HDD
* USB Keyboard and mouse
* Suitable RAM (if you don't buy a board with RAM onboard)

tiffers

@thread

Any screenshots? I don't have an OS4 amiga, but I'd love to see screenshots all the same :D

tiffers

@Rogue

Quake II OS4 Native?

@Atheist
Quote:

Onthe NatAmi site (they have forums setup there now) Gunnar is talking about a $100 natami (if they can get the SuperAGA code embedded in a ColdFire SoC type CPU)

How many people would pay $100 for a NatAmi? :D

And they're talking about releasing (licensing?)this 'Natami on a Chip' @ about $20 / chip so _anyone_ can make a Natami in whatever formfactor they can think.. like the D64 joystick, a mini-itx board.. whatever your imagination can dream and your skills permit you to create.

tiffers

@evilrich

Quote:

Well, I was using --with-alsa and the output of configure showed it probing for alsa etc. I think make even did something there.. not sure as I found the real problem.

Quote:

Yeah slackware always installs the header/include files if you install a package. They don't separate runtime and developer bits for a package.

Quote:

The problem turned out to be that I had both of the following features 'configured':

--with-alsa
--with-sdl-sound

Now, most unix packages I've had experience with, this will compile in both abilities and then whatever works at runtime is used. UAE's configuration however seems to choose one over the other. In this case I noticed in the output of configure that the said:

checking for sound target to build... "SDL"

and so I removed it from my options and re-compiled and lo and behold, it said:

checking for sound target to build... "ALSA"

and of course the alsa options in the .uaerc file are recognized.

So there you go. Now, to work out why the RSI MegaDemo keeps getting a guru meditation after the first de-crunch phase...

tiffers

@Lio

Quote:

That's a big ask But yeah, it would be cool.

I'm a little bit keen on some improvements to the GTK+ GUI., and maybe some more documentation... ooh and floopy sound emulation

tiffers


P.S. I'm talking about a new version for non-amigaos platforms... such as Linux... which I run on my PC

@tiffers

Ok, I'm back to (Slackware) Linux on my PC again, and I'm keen to roll my own UAE binary.

It seems that other distros also have libasound.so.2(.x.x) as part of their libasound2 packages, so I am going to assume this is libasound2. The kernel is 2.6.21.5, so it's likely to be 'the latest'.

I guess I'll need to check out the slackware source repository and find out what headers there are to be included, unless someone can tell me I'm wrong in what I said above?

tiffers

On http://www.rcdrummond.net/uae/ E-UAE-0.8.29-WIP4 is the latest version available, and it was released on 2007-03-27, just over a year now.

Has there been any more progress on E-UAE? Can we expect a newer release sometime in the near future?

tiffers

@orgin

She's bump, she's bump, she's bump, she's in my head...

Hi,

I'm trying to install AmigaOS 3.9 from a genuine CD-ROM, and I'm getting some funny error messages:

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Pic2

It seems that the files are being copied across as read only from the cdrom. It seems the WB3.5 files are copied first, then the 3.9 files are copied over, and this is where the error message is.

I have tried to copy the files from the CD-ROM to a folder to see if that worked, but it failed to read the files from the CD-ROM for the audio and video directories, and possibly more (I gave up) but the CD-ROM is in good condition.

I'm installing to a hdf file (not RDB).

I have also noticed that even I have boot from the Emergency-disk, it still tells me I need to boot from said emergency disk before I try to install a clean copy of OS 3.9.

Has anyone got any suggestions?

tiffers