@ktadd
Cool, I haven't been up in that area too far, but my wife's family are from the Bay area just south of San Francisco, in Redwood City.

I have never been to Amiwest either, but have been thinking about it. Of course it is about an 8 hr drive for me. But maybe can combine it with a trip to the in-laws for my wife and kids.

@ktadd
Cool! Thanks for sharing.

What part of CA are you in? I am in North County San Diego area.

Happy Birthday, OS4!

Hope we can still look forward to more advancements and updates.

@eliyahu

How is Amiphoto?

I purchased it on the Amistore, but it never gave me a serial number. And it won't let me use it or even close it with out it.

BTW

I have tried to contact both Amistore and Alinea, but niether offered any help, so I just gave up.

@AlfredOne

Impressive score.

@AmigaOldskooler


Onedrive

Not sure how to upload the picture. This is a link to it.

score 176620
1/18/24
livebyfaith74

Good follow up video. It looks like your X5000 runs wayfarer a little bit better than my G5 does. SO far I have had better luck with youtube in OS4 on odyssey, than with Wayfarer on MorphOS.

Have you tried the Chrysalis pack? It is a collection of extras you can download for it.

Yeah,
I like Wayfarer as well, but it is just too slow to be useful for me on my G5. Iris is a nice modern looking email client for MorphOS as well.

IBrowse and Odyssey can get most of the Amiga related sites for me. And Odyssey works for me to use Outlook, Facebook, and Youtube to an extent. It even does gmail too, but google keeps giving a message that they will end support next month in February.

So far I have been enjoying OS4 so much on my x5000, I have lost much interest in trying Morphos on it. (partially from fear I could ruin my setup for OS4!)

I was able to get SMB set up eventually in OS4, but it was not as easy as Windows or Mac. So I would like to see that made a little easier too.

I look forward to your next videos of your experience.

I'll be watching. I want to know how you like MorphOS compared to OS4 and how it runs on your x5000. I have MorphOS on a G5 Mac at 1.8 ghz and not sure if I should bother trying to run in on my X5000/40.

My HP officejet 4630 is found on my network in airscan, however when I click to add the scanner. AIrscan says it is retrieving scanner information, but hen eventually returns to idle without adding my scanner to the list. I can repeat this steps many time and I always get the same result.

I believe my printer supports airprint, at least according to HPs support page.

Anyone else have this problem and find any solutions?

Regarding emulation and support for it, my personal take as just a consumer, is that anything that increases the overall number of users of OS4 is a good thing.

Being able to quickly and inexpensively try and use OS4 in emulation is what got me back into the idea of being an Amiga user once again and eventually what fueled me to buy an x5000.

But even when I thought I wouldn't be able to find one as I could not even find any for sale online for sometime, I was willing to invest in a high end PC, just to be able to emulate OS4 at the highest level.

So personally I think that it will drive people to PPC hardware in the short term while it is available. But eventually it will also allow us to have access to hardware when supplies run out or the current offerings break or become outdated.

I don't see any down sides.

Unfortunately, I don't have any solutions yet. I have just noticed that when my system has those problems it correlates with the problem with the system clock.

Also I have read on the forums here that the x5000 has some issues with clock that are yet unresolved.

Hopefully we will get a solution soon.

Out of curiosity do you have an issue with the clock as well? Does the clock stay updated when the system is off? I notice that I continue to have problems with the clock having to be corrected after every time I have shut it down.

And when this happens sometimes the system will not update and then will cause Amidock not to work and sometimes a full crash.

This behaviour seems to go away if I am able to set the time after starttup and it corrects the system time.


The issues seems to be related on my X5000.

@geennaam

That might boost the sales of all available PPC hardware, sure would make the value of an x5000/40 much higher.

@AmigaOldskooler

Great idea! Thanks for taking the time to try all these, hopefully you will find some hidden gems.

@SinanSam460

Awesome work! Thanks for doing this! I have never played this game before, but it is exactly my kind of game. I had just finished playing M.A.C.E. Tower Defense and was hoping to find something on Os4.1 that I could play. This one should keep me going for quite some time.

Is there a way to support your work? I really hope you continue to bring games like this to OS4.

One question, while the game is playing fine for me (on a x5000 40, radeon rx 550) when I load the game I get a message saying it can't find extra assets. I did copy the assests folder into the directory, so it is there. I think there may be a version difference. Do you know what version it is looking for or know where I can get the compatible assets for this version?

Thank you again.

I was thinking that I would love to see the makers of M.A.C.E. Tower Defense to make an RTS game in the M.A.C.E. universe. It would also be great to add cross platform multiplayer support as well.

@kas1e

Congrats on finishing the game.

I bought this game shortly after getting my X5000 about 2 months ago and have been playing daily. After struggling on many levels, I think I am on a roll now as I seem to be able to pass most on the first try or by the second.

I havn't finished it yet, but I really hope they keep publishing games for OS4. The quality of this game and the original M.A.C.E., which I got with my X5000, are at a high level, and I would love to see more from them.

@eliyahu

Very cool guide, very informative.

Thank you.

@sananaman

I got my X5000 5040 from Amedia as well and I am in the US. Honestly I was just excited to actually be able to get one. It cost me more than a top of the line PC, but I love the experience so far. It has been worth it. I had them build the system for me and it has been great. Did have a problem with the video card in shipping, and had to buy another, but Amedia is taking care of that for me.

I recommend reaching out to them if anyone is looking for a system as they will guide you through it and will ship internationally.