@walkero
i asumed it would be an iso download or for original cd would have to pay :)

Hi Hitman,

I am very aware of your port - I used to run it and would often check for a new version, which for reasons you've just said didn't happen very often!

The codebase for MAME is changing still, though - v1.07 (I think it was) apparently had a MAJOR video-code rewrite which I need to find out more about.

I don't like relying on SDL - I'm sure it's not optimal and I reckon we could do so much more with MAME and MESS to bring it up to the level of MAME32 with nice GUIs and stuff built in rather than third party ones (or maybe merging a 3rd-party one in so it's more tightly linked?)

I still want to try and do a WarpOS version (a simple uni-CPU one) just for the heck of it but I need to find a way of making a cross-compiler for AOS 4 and WarpOS and nobody seems to have one! Hence I may be limited to AOS 4.....

Would it help you to maintain the port if you had two people working on it? I'd really like to see MAME/MESS properly supported...

AFAIK we will only get an iso to download without buying it again - but only time will tell.

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Erm, you ask between the difference of Alien Breed 3 Tower Assault and Alien Breed 3D?

Alien Breed 3D is an First Person Shooter placed in the Alien Breed Universe - but i personally don't liked it. The Demo looked IMHO nicer than the full release (the demo has other 3D Alien Models) and Alien Breed 3 Tower Assault is an old school 2D Top Down action games which inludes in the CD32 version some FMV sequences and Alien Breed 2.

My favorite Games are:
Alien Breed 3 - Tower Assault
Der Clou! (The Clue!)
Flink
Pirates! Gold

and some others i can't remember.

btw: if i remember correctly i had bought an second copy of Alien Breed 3 TA a few years ago - i will check this tonight.

Hello to all!
I'd like to ask you something. When OS4 Final will be released, anyone of us who has the prereleases will have to pay for a copy, or are we gonna download an iso image from Hyperion's server.

I'm not asking because I do not intent to buy it, because I will, but will they make us to buy it?

Thanks for your time!!!

@hitman: does the WarpOS version runs on os4 and amigaones? I would love to try it - it doesn't matter for me that it is an old version - i had many roms in an old version file format that i can't use with the actual MAME version under linux and windows

@Angus
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Actually, pdfs are viewable using gs (from geekgadget). Apdf requires CPU>=68020 and if you have one it's better than gs (which is probably a pain in the behind when viewing pdfs with 68000).

Good luck,
Jack

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Power-user elitist!

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Lives? LIVES??!!! You clearly don't have enough Amigas in the house. Remedy the matter at once!

@Hitman
Good post, put's things into a bit more perspective especially for us "want to haves". I found the SDL compiled version very usable on my a1 g4 933, it would be even better with a joystick.

cheers
ace

@AmigaHeretic

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@samwel

I'd say Kickstart/ATIRadeon.chip is the one doing all the work.
Check the version, i got ATIRadeon.chip 51.13 (06.06.2005).

What screenmodes did you put in the Monitor file, the exact line,
please. It has to look like this: MODE=800x600@60

I'd always use 60Hz at the end, unless you KNOW your monitor can
handle more Hz

Could you post the complete Tooltypes here, maybe you got a
glitch somewhere else?

I just think the word "amigans.net" needs to stand out a little more. People like me with poor eyesight have a hard time reading it.

Hey there.

You may remember a port of MAME to the Amiga from a few years ago called WarpMAME. It was a Warp Up specific version that I myself ported and that was a dual CPU port. The PPC did the emulation and the 68k did the graphics rendering and sound. I put a huge amount of effort into it and it was the fastest version of MAME for the Amiga - certainly much faster than a quick SDL port.

However I was forced to abandon the port because MAME is actually a really badly written program. The separation between the OS independent parts and the OS depdendent parts is not done well, which means that whenever a new version of MAME was released, I basically had to re-port it to the Amiga, repeating the same work again and again. Sometimes it would take as long as a month to get a new version working! After a while I simply got bored and fed up with repeating this same work time after time, not to mention that each version seemed to be slower than the previous one, even when emulating older games, so it was becoming unusable on a Cyberstorm PPC.

Anyway, I guess that you are wondering why I am writing such a negative post. It's just that as an ex-maintainer of an Amiga port I wanted to let people know that it's not just a simple matter of a recompile. The SDL version is too slow and a native port is too much work! MAME is a really wonderful program but it is also very badly coded, and the MAME team seem to hide away so you can't get your patches upstream.

It's fun to play with but horrible to port!

Carried out

Just a thought on this, maybe it should be in AmigaGuide and published in different parts for different revisions of the OS.

Does anyone know if there is a tool for generating AmigaGuides to another format ( like a Wiki )?

@samwel

We're all a buncha non-conformist conformists, aren't we?

I've been experimenting with ipf because I am quite adept with iptables on Linux.

I also had a great email from the old-skool genuis behind Amithlon Bernd Meyer on whose input the whole section on stack attacks will have to change!

Thank you Bernd.

If anyone is even slightly concerned about attribution don't be please I will do my best to credit every source of information in full. If you aren't happy with how I have reworded your submission I'll revise the FAQ.

Desperately need the Wiki though, isn't there a general Amiga Wiki somewhere I read about started by one of the #amiga.org channel members?

If anyone has a link please post it.

To kick it off:

(source) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6213644.stm

Flatulence leads US jet to divert

An American Airlines plane made an emergency landing in Nashville after passengers reported the smell of sulphur from burning matches.

The matches were found on the seat of a woman who had attempted to conceal the odour of flatulence with the matches, Nashville airport authorities said.

Stories to make you sit up and go "what!?"