@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!?"

Thank you all whom have posted details so far.

@Jack

Can you try out doing a "netstat" or post a list of what is in the "bin" subdirectory of Amitcp:

Mitch,

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All this talk reminds me of Jack Handy who said:

"Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that's like a regular window."

True blonde story:

Last year I replaced all the windows in my house with those expensive double pane energy efficient kind, but this week, I got a call from the contractor who installed them. He was complaining that the work had been completed a whole year ago and I hadn't paid for them. Hellloooo?

Now just because I'm blonde doesn't mean that I am automatically stupid. So, I told him just what his fast talking sales guy had told ME last year.....namely, that in ONE YEAR these windows would pay for themselves! Helllooooo? It's been a year, I told him!

There was only silence at the other end of the line, so I finally just hung up.... He didn't call back. Guess I won that stupid argument.

A woman noticed that a man was masturbating in a hospital room with the door wide open. "Oh my God!" screamed the woman, "That's disgraceful! Why is he doing that?"

The doctor that was leading the tour explained, "I am very sorry...but this man has a serious condition where the testicles rapidly fill with semen. If he doesn't do that five times a day, they'll explode and he'll die within minutes."

"Oh, well in that case, I guess it's OK," commented the women.

In the very next room they could see that a female nurse was performing oral sex on a different male patient. Again the woman screamed: "Oh my God! How can THAT be justified?"

The doctor replied..."Same Illness ..Better health plan

One Sentence Short Story

Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl "Will you marry me?" The girl said,"NO" And the guy lived happily ever after and went fishing and hunting and played golf a lot and drank beer and left the toilet seat up.


THE END

Hey SyperHawk!

How is the BBS going? I need to log in sometime again.

Feels really comfortable here... I like it.

I wish it was all "new" members, but mostly people like me from other websites.

Would be nice to have "new" Amigans, but that will happen once there is a way to buy AmigaOS4!

Yep thank you all who help make this website what it is so far and what it will become.

Lots of fun here so far!

It's not bad, but yet I do feel it's lacking something. Not that I could do any better.