@Lio

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Hi @acefnq

Enjoy the memories.

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I finally found my copy of BattleChess. I discovered I can't use the A1 floppy to load it.
Why is this?
So, I formatted a 880 floppy in the A1 OK, but the A1200 doesn't recognize it! I formatted a another in the A1200 and the A1 says that cylinder '0' is invalid.
So what's wrong with the track-disk floppy?

@Jack

Quote:No DVD burner in the A1, or why did you transfer the ISO image to another computer?

Quote:For a 3.8 GB image a SFS\2 partition isn't required, only for files > 4 GB.

@emeck

Quote:

Atm, all fits into 3.8GB here. Perfect for single-media-backup I recall the days I had backups spanning over 15 floppies
Even with all the hassle to transfer the iso to other box (btw: m68k ftpd managed to utilize almost full bandwidth of the network here, 7MB/s over 100 MBit ethernet, eating 75% of 1GHz G4).

Oh, one more factor that allowed to perform the backup: the ~4GB image was created on SFS2 parition, Joerg strikes agaain

Jack

Hi all,
I am unable to login to some sites after some weeks and when I could, it would not let me post

I tried to clear the caches, cookies and passwords and this problem is still here and I am seriously thinking of a reinstall.

Anyone else notice this pb with latest IBrowse (2.4) ?

Read it and laugh your head off

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/09/amazon_outrage/

Also, check out how many are available, (look closely)

reminds me to backup my stuff too...

@Jack

Yes, it is really nice. I like to have backup CDs (yes, CDs, not DVDs) for my Workbench, Programs and Data partitions. Then if I need to, just copy them over again and thats almost all you need to restore.

I'm glad you could finish the backup without any problems. Last one I did, after hearing some strange clicks from my HD, it stopped at the middle of the Programs backup, and never started again :( Luckily, the Data backup had finished and got a previous one for WB and Programs partition

Its been some months without my A1SE now, but I'm waiting a bit more before buying a new disk and a SATA card. I?ll be moving soon to Barcelona and then I'll have some time.

Meanwhile, I use my new Dell Inspiron 1521 with Debian Lenny. It's very nice, but not the same.

Edit: typo

@cygnusEd

Excellent work, I?m waiting in excitement

@cygnusEd

Any news on rootless feature? :) Would be nice to have hw accelerated window moving.

Hi all,

I just want to share the pleasant Amiga-experience I just had.
Yesterday the HD twice sounded a click and system froze.
I schecked the drive using smartmontools and found it ok. Rechecked the cabling and (hopefully) nailed it: the power cable of the HD was a bit stressed (stretched), I used other conector on a longer cable and all seems well.
Anyway, I decided to backup all the Amiga stuff:

OS is on separate partition, apps on another, one is for data and one for storage/grbage/etc.
Archived everyrhing except the OS onto samba-mounted external HD hooked to linux
Added the backup utilities I used (one partition is lha without compression, then bzip2, other two I tried with ABackup, so lha+bzip2+abackup joined the archives)
Created SYS:backup
Softlinked the archives dir to there
Fired up AmiDVD, clicked AmigaOS4 and UBoot in bootable section, created the iso containing SYS:
Launched rc-ftpd, copied he iso to the linux samba was crawling) and burned it
Inserted the DVD into DVD drive and it boots into my WB (couple of complaints about read only media when trying to set the network up, but who cares!)


That's the way I like it! Kudos to Joerg (AmiDVD), to the OS and others that whoose software was involved!!!

Jack

@SZAMAN

There is already an AOS4 theme and 2 others. Surely the substance is more important and by that I mean the programs that run on it. The authors have already done a fantastic job in the theming area.

ace

@cygnusEd

AmiCygnix - maybe with standard AmigaOS 4 theme?

http://os4depot.net/share/graphics/theme/aosx11-theme.lha

Aqua is fine, but this is Mac theme. ;)

@Mikey_C

Sorry, the most wanted and sensible answer but NAH.

ace

@cygnusEd

What can I say. Brilliant work. All of a sudden we get an XCel capable spreadsheet to match the already available (and I have used it many, many times) Abiword. Don't forget we have the very capable PowerPoint viewr PointRider as well (native).

I started playing with Cygnix tonight just to see how fast or slow it is under the latest update, believe me it is no slouch as it stands so any improvement will be great.

Thanks go to you and your team for the great work.

ace

@spotUP

Sorry for the long silence. I think you're right, it's time for some news

The reason for the silence is, that I have recompiled the Cygnix package completely. Cygnix will be renamed to "AmiCygnix", because on Windows exists a similar system with the same name.

This is new:

* Compiled with newlib instead of clib2. The performance is better and the binaries are smaller now.
*The Unix paths are removed now. No USR:, ETC: ... is needed anymore. This will avoid collisions with
other Unix ports and with the SDK.
* Environment variables must be located in "ENVARC:Cygnix" now. This is also done to remove collisions.

This also means, that old software will not run on the new Cygnix anymore. Maybe I include a "compatibility
mode".


Here are some new programs, which are nearly finished:

To make the Gnome-Office package more complete, I've compiled the spreadsheet Gnumeric 1.63. Here is
a screenshot:









I don't know, if this is interresting for someone, but these programs are also compiled. Would be nice, if you can
give me some feedback:

* Bluefish. A nice editor with syntax highlighting and online help for programmers. Easier to understand than VIM:









* Pidgin 2.2.0. The latest version of the chat software.

* Pioneers 0.11.3. A "sedlers of catan" clone with internet support:









* gmysqlcc 0.2.6. A mysql admin tool with MySQL 5.0.58 support. Also the commandline client are available.

* xpdf 3.02 - the original PDF viewer.

* Xaos 3.1.2 - a fractal renderer.

* and some more...


I'm think it will need some more months for a new release of Cygnix. A report in the Amiga-Future magazine said,
that there will be a Update 4 available soon, but this is not true.
As said above, the next version will be a release called "AmiCygnix" and will (hopefully) contain
an enhanced X server (If I can make it, it will be version X11R7.3, but I'm not sure,
if I can make it).

Greetings
CygnusEd

@acefnq

Er!! is it da first 1?

@magic

Have you heaqrd since you left.

1. Both parties came to an agreement.
2. Ack's HW was released.
3. ACube's HW was released.
4. Both Ack and ACube got licensed.
5. OS5 is available for both platforms.

Only one of these staements is true, guess which, maybe I should start a poll.

ace

PS Nice to have you back.

@magic

Oh gawd! Party's over guys, he's back

Just kidding, nice to see you back really.

Im back...!:) Finaly got my broadband line sorted out cant beleave its been nearly two months since ive been here i think. I hate not having the internet