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Re: Amiupdate
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2025-06-29 AmiUpdate 2.57 has been released. Thank you Rigo.
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Re: Introducing the Rear Window blog
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@walkeroQuote: walkero wrote:@trixie
I enjoyed reading your article. And I agree with the majority of what you wrote and the way of thinking.
But, this is the best approach for developers and people who want to dive deeper in the OS. For plain users, and we have observed that happening, the whole situation seems frustrating and they leave the community. There is a need to keep a healthy and productive environment for people to feel that things are moving forward. I just hope that the number of people who would care about the survival and expandability of the platform will increase every year. I agree on all points
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Re: Introducing the Rear Window blog
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@trixie Thank you very much! It was a very pleasant read! 
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Re: AmigaOS port of libsmb2
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@cygnusEd I wasn't able to create a username with spaces nor in macOS, Linux or WindowSO to test the scenario, but I read in the smb2fs.lha documentation that it is possible to use an alternative login method, namely
Startup = "smb://username:password@host/port/share/path VOLUME=Shared-method1"
instead of
Startup = "smb://host/path USER=username PASSWORD=secretpassword VOLUME=Shared-method2"
..probably you tried that already.. maybe try without any VOLUME argument, maybe it is parsed as one line if it can't find any args..
Startup = "smb://user name:password@host/port/share/path"
edit: the last example with a space in the "user name" it doesn't work edit 2: This doesn't give any error, maybe it works.
Edited by Tuvok on 2025/6/23 18:35:01
Edited by Tuvok on 2025/6/23 18:35:55
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Re: Discussion point: what is AmigaOS missing? in 1995?
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@ChrisQuote: Chris wrote:@NinjaCyborg
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Something else menu-wise that OS3.2 has but OS4.1 doesn't, is depiction of the Shift key in menu shortcuts.
I love that new feature a lot too! It is so much more intuitive! And as we are at it, to me (and hopefully not only to me) it would help recognisability if either all the letters of the shortcuts were written in lowercase (I know, many may say it looks ugly) or to make sure, that a font is used, that visually distinguishes between I and l and 1 and also between 0 and O.
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Re: Discussion point: what is AmigaOS missing? in 1995?
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@NinjaCyborgQuote: NinjaCyborg wrote:
@Tuvok Unfortunately adding utf8 support is not simple. When Symbian switched from single byte characters to double and variable byte characters, they completely broke backwards compatibility, only source compatibility was retained. @LiveForIt can explain it better than I can I'm sure, he's a subject matter expert. I think the best we could hope for would be a hack like the old FAT long file names - using the Comment parameter or a TOOLTYPE to store a utf8 name, which would then only be shown cosmetically in apps that supported it, Workbench or ASL. The true file name would still be used for everything else. And even then you won't get CJK, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Devanagari, Emoji etc.
Love hearing all the ideas and wishlists ! Keep going! I did not clarify it, UTF-8 support was intended as a suggestion for OS4. On OS3 it does not make much sense, you are right. Unless I misunderstood, that idea with the name in tooltypes doesn't make any sense to me, it would be even more confusing, when a file or drawer has "two different names". One for Workbench and ASL and the real name for CLI etc.. Even if it breaks compatibility. Sooner or later a decision has to be taken about where to head with os4: stuck in the past or embrace all the efforts that are presently being made to better and enhance it, with the purpose of coming to the present and going to the future. I didn't know you worked for Nokia, cool stuff!
Edited by Tuvok on 2025/6/13 8:28:38
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Re: Discussion point: what is AmigaOS missing? in 1995?
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@LiveForIt I didn't cross path with that yet, so I was not aware of the Tab issue. Maybe Camila is willing to address that? Do you want to post somewhere she reads it? I can too.
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Re: Discussion point: what is AmigaOS missing? in 1995?
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@NinjaCyborg
- UTF-8 (system-wide. the filesystem, for those of us not using only ASCII characters for file names or when receiving files from other users outside of our bubble)
- proper keyboard navigation in the UI. ASL, RAWBinfo etcetera, most keyboard shortcuts do not work, or can not be activated when a textfield gadget is active (and the textfield gadget can not be quit without pressing "enter" which might close the whole requester.
- Updated Style-Guide and e.g. consistent keyboard shortcuts. The very same functions have different keyboard shortcuts in ASL, Workbench and Apps. That is so annoying!
And there is more: Some functions/entries in e.g. requesters have a "RightAmiga+xy" keyboard shortcut and at the same time in the same requester, a different shortcut without the "RightAmiga key" using a totally different letter "z". Why?!?!
All of the above mainly on OS3, since OS4 has had some good rework, but still; and in some areas OS3 (TextEdit) has received some great improvements which would be great to have in OS4!
It is annoying when 3rd party developers do not follow the style guidelines and the same function has a different keyboard shortcut (undo / redo comes to mind), But at least everything in the core OS should behave the same!!
- A menubar plug-in system and formatting capabilities to be able to display the added widgets, no let's call them "menugets" on the far right side of the menu.
Have these menugets be able to jump from one screen to another. I really would like a clock to be visible on each screen.
- context menus or at least magic menu functionality (available in os4)
- An updated Workbench (and AmiDock). The scattered icons thing can be annoying.
- right-mouse button menu for the Depth Gadgets (i.a. "DepthToFront" and "ScreentoFront" on the Depth and Screen gadgets)
- some basic window-management: right-mouse button menu for the minimise/change window size button to be able to tile the window to the left/right half of the screen, upper/bottom half of the screen. Quarter size.
- An updated Print-system. Maybe integration with CUPS or GutenPrint?
- A stable USB3 stack
- A way to communicate with the outside world.
- an enhanced TCP/IP stack
- a browser. (Why? Because the bare os needs so many enhancements, like the TCP-IP stack to be able to access Aminet and download what is needed).
- A WBStartup Preferences GUI, like the one on OS4, but enhanced: the ability to sort the list by name, by priority, by path. Select entries and Activate/disactivate more items at the same time. Change the priority in the list, rather than having to open RAWBinfo to change it.
Ok, I have plenty more things that come to mind, but same as some of the above, not all are "core" OS enhancements, they are more like "polishing the surface".
- but let me add one more, an option, maybe in input preferences, to be able to swap RightAmiga and LeftAmiga. (I got used to the way it always was, but it would be handy nevertheless. Maybe a very good brainstorming session would be needed to overhaul the whole concept of shortcuts).
To be very sincere, what I would like the CORE OS to provide, would be to be stable, very stable. Resource-tracking, memory protection or whatever makes it magically un-crashable. I know it is not possible to add in OS3x, very sad.
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Re: Updating system
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@skynet Quote: skynet wrote:When I received my X5000 from Amedia with the recovery key, I immediately created an Img version on my Mac just in case. Of course you did. Did John teach you, or was ist Sarah? 
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Re: Updating system
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@SteffJay Quote: SteffJay wrote:@Tuvok
Thanks for the reply.
I did have a USB thumb drive but that has now corrupted and left me unable to boot the machine.
I would prefer a CDrom. Yes, I read your previous post, so I knew you have a now corrupted thumb drive. That is very unfortunate, I am sorry. So am I right in my assumption that now you have neither a backup thumb drive, nor a CD/DVD with the system for your X5000?
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Re: Updating system
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@SteffJay
Do you have a CD/DVD with the system or a backup thumb Drive?
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Re: Updating system
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@smf
You are right, Thank you!I didn't think about that and forgot it. I don't have may X5000 at hand and haven't used it in quiet some time.
My apologies, I will correct my post.
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Re: Updating system
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@SteffJay Quote: SteffJay wrote:I will give that a try. The only problem is, when i disconnect the HDD, i can then load Workbench from my Thumb drive USB. However the Workbench does not recognise the HDD when i connect it to rename it :( What SkyNet meant with "rename it" is to rename the device name. Each partition has a "device name" e.g. DH0, DH1, DF0, SD0, HD4 etch and a Volume name or "label" e.g. "Workbench", "Work", "MyDataDisk", "Backup-Disk". You can not chance the device name from the workbench, you have to 1. start "Media Toolbox", 2. "Select the device to use" in the first window (p50x0sata.device) 3. select your hard drive and click on "Edit partitions and filesystems" 4. now, just above the the bottom gadget, you should see a string gadget named "Name" and the field could be "DH0". 5. This is what SkyNet meant You should rename to e.g. "DH0_0" or "NewDH0". 6. Click on "Ok - accept changes" 7. Click on "Save to disk" 8. Acknowledge again and click on "Yes, save." 9. when you click on the "Close gadget of Media Toolbox" it should ask you to reboot. 10. after rebooting it might be necessary to click on "cancel" on a screen similar to the one you posted. 11. When Workbench has fully loaded, you can proceed to format the HDD. p.s. Don't forget to turn off the machine when you connect or disconnect HDD's or SSD's!
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Re: Updating system
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@SteffJay Quote: Just to make sure, I ask how did you format the drive? Was it a "Quick" format or "format" format? (Quick format should be used)? But then again, I'm not sure I understand how you did the procedure. After partitioning the drive, you have to reboot in order to format the drive. When you are at the stage like in your screenshot, You can click on "Cancel" until the workbench appears. There you should try to click on the disk icon and choose "format" from the "Icons menu" on the workbench, and proceed with "Quick".
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Re: A new Odyssey is in development
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Thanks so much to all involved!
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Re: Updating system
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@SteffJay
You can choose between Standard filesystem", SFS\00, SFS\02 and NGF\00.
Until the newer NGFS is released, my suggestion is to choose SFS\00,that's what the author of the filesystem advised on the forums. Unless, as he said, you want to store single files bigger than 2GB on your system partition, in that case choose SFS\02.
Edit: Please Use NextGenerationFileSystem NGF as suggested in the video I linked above and also by @smf (thanks!)
Edited by Tuvok on 2025/6/9 8:28:10
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Re: Updating system
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@SteffJay Hi, if you can access YouTube, there is a tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDxj4BGBiW0starting form minute 4:36 it explains how to partition and format the drive. If it does not help, we be al here in the forum.
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Re: UAE BSDSocket support
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@Maijestro Quote: Maijestro wrote:@kikems
Yes, the keyboard layout of UAE is a bit confusing at the moment and does not match what is in the readme. I also haven't found out how to free the mouse pointer when I have captured it by clicking on the lock.
But I am sure that with the next version it will be a bit clearer which key combination we have to use. I dislike the new keyboard mapping, it feels like being on a windows machine. But at least it is possible to use Left and Right Amiga in the emulated environment, and have the real Amiga key for the Host OS (AmigaOS4.1).
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Re: UAE BSDSocket support
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@kikems
Search for the option
amiga.screen_type=custom
in the uae settings file and change it to
amiga.screen_type=ask
then choose a screen resolution that is higher than the one you will be using in the emulated environment and 32bit.
The following are the settings that work for me:
# Display settings
gfx_width=720
gfx_height=568
gfx_width_windowed=800
gfx_height_windowed=600
#gfx_width_fullscreen=720 ;as explained in UAE docs, not
#gfx_height_fullscreen=568 ;supported by e-uae on AmigaOS4.1 yet.
gfx_lores=false
gfx_linemode=double
gfx_correct_aspect=no
gfx_center_horizontal=smart
gfx_center_vertical=smart
#gfx_refreshrate=0
#gfx_vsync=false
#gfx_fullscreen_amiga=true
#gfx_fullscreen_picasso=true
#gfx_colour_mode=8bit
everything behind # is ignored by uae and is commented out.
When I launch uae, a requester opens and I choose 800x600 32bit screen. Or the native resolution of my monitor. In my experience it works best if you choose a 4:3 resolution or double of PAL (640x512 -> 1280x1024) However, I noticed that you better set your monitor to not expand ("stretch") the picture but to keep the aspect ratio. (should you have a wide monitor 16:9).
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Re: UAE BSDSocket support
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@LiveForIt Hi, thanks for replying. Quote: LiveForIt wrote:@Tuvok
If you are trying to display a 32bit or 16bit OS3.1 screen on AmigaOS4.1 8bit screen maybe? Well stop doing that… its stupid. that would be stupid indeed. I'm trying to do the opposite, open an "8bit AmigaOS3.1 screen" either on 32bit / 16bit AmigaOS4.1FEu2 screen (as a window) or a dedicated (amiga.screen_type=custom) screen. The custom screen opens, but the AmigaOS 3.1 (a.k.a. Workbench 3.1) colours are wrong. Most times what's default grey is yellowish, sometimes green, the default "titlebar blue" is red, orange is green. If I change the .uaerc setting to When I use your suggested keyboard combination (LAmiga-CTRL-s) and don't choose anything it will open a window on workbench and the colors are correct, most of the time. Quote: 8bit modes can’t display that many colors. (it should be converted to gray scale... but ended up Winkey.) press CTRL+WIN+S to select a different screen mode.
Also a AGA screen can't be displayed on Picasso96 8bit screen,
HAM is 4096 colors a normal 8bit screen is just 256 colors.
AmiGfx works differently then what you might be used to on SDL, on SDL you do not have control over the destination screen, on AmiGfx you decide what output format is.. 16bit output screens are often faster then 32bit output screens, and it can be really noticeable on slower systems.
In any case… I can’t fix things, if I don’t know what the problem is… what is display output screens screen format? What is screen you have on AmigaOS3.1.... Bugs an issues in OS3.2 is not accepted. After testing a lot, it seems to be a problem related to an option in the .uaerc setting file. If amiga.screen_type=custom then the colors are wrong. I changed to amiga.screen_type=ask and when I select a 32bit screen the colors are correct. 16bit screen or 8 bit screen will give wrong colors. the screen mode in emulated AmigaOS3.1 is set "PAL HiRes 32 colors".
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