Hi everyone,

I have a Uniden-Bearcat 396XT scanner that can be programmed using a USB to PL2303 cable.

I'm not sure how to use this driver.

Thank you for your help.

ok now we're playing..list updated

Doing a little better.

Tested AmiUpdate 2.58 and it works perfectly including AmiSSL update. Thank you very much for the bug fix.

@all
Andrea did some good bunch of optimization including not calling check_abort() when not need it, as well as instead of line-buffering usefull buffering, and all f* (fwrite,fputs, etc) based functions now on the same speed level as newlib, same as pure puts(), and all vrptinf/string-formatting based ones also gain some speed , while still not as good as newlib because of this FILE * crap, but at least much better even with this FILE * left from clib2.

My "new" (April 2025/Made in 2018) X5000/40 has
PCB:46 CPU:66 PCIe Switch:59 celsius.

Don´t remember what my X5000/20 was at,
but my A1XE I got down to CPU:37 celsius with a copper cooler and a fan.

So I´m gonna look into what copper coolers may fit, or CNC one that fit.

I installed the big cooling fan I use in front of the processor, and the temperature dropped.

I went from 53 degrees for the PCB to 49 degrees

77 degrees for the CPU to 71 degrees

72 degrees for the PCIe to 59 degrees

@skynet

If the CPU heatsink is hot then thermal transfer is good. Maybe change for a better fan.

My X1000 never goes over 55°C.

Oh yes, I have also been playing for a while, forgot to upload my score, but here it is:
(X5000)

I touched the CPU heatsink, and it's boiling hot!

Would it be a good idea to change the thermal paste?

55-56 degrees is what i'm usually at with my 020.
I have the old mcu firmware that made the fan go crazy already at low temperatures so i had to add extra hardware to slow the fans down.

@Bifford

just wondering if you're running OS3.2?

I just checked my A4000 and it seems I don't have the latest firmware but like I said it's been running great since installing OS3.2

I's like to update it for completeness sake but getting cold fingers if something goes wrong with the firmware update and it gets bricked

@hotrod

Yeah, I should probably give the OS4 MMU protection another shot in QEMU with more memory. I already made a debug allocator on Windows using VirtualProtect functions to test this approach "live" and it seems to do what I need it to do. I still have to hunt down an OS4 disc for one of these systems though.

Yeah, I should probably give the OS4 MMU protection another shot in QEMU with more memory. I already made a debug allocator on Windows using VirtualProtect functions to test this approach "live" and it seems to do what I need it to do. I still have to hunt down an OS4 disc for one of these systems though.

@BSzili
I think PPC is unsupported in Debian for a while so you should try something contemporary to these machines or what's known to work on real machine. The most recent Debian I've found that supported AmigaNG machines was about Debian 8.11 and if you just want to run valgrind on it don't update it. Other Linux distros that are newer and still have PPC versions that might work are https://github.com/finnix/finnix-docs/blob/main/platforms.md (only old version) or https://www.adelielinux.org/download/ but maybe these only support -machine mac99,via=pmu which is closest to PowerMac3,1 (that is also listed for MorphOS on my page in the signature below). Maybe you could get AmigaOS running on one of the boards in QEMU and 2GB could be enough to debug it with the page protection trick. Or you can try a PPC64 distro with qemu-system-ppc64 that should still be able to run 32 bit PPC code. Those may be better supported for spapr for example but I don't have much experience with that.

@balaton
The most recent PPC Linux distro I managed to install in qemu was Debian 12, but it self-destructed after an update and it no longer boots. I had no success with smaller distros, usually I couldn't even get their installer to work.

Well, there you go

WinUAE 6.0.0 this time.

https://postimg.cc/Wt3TL2Y8

@hotrod

Thanks & it's all about playing and getting better as you play so please post one of your high scores when you can and also let us know what system you're playing it on