@nbache

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Now I feel honoured

@rjd324

Sorry, no idea. I would expect a USB cable to be a USB cable, though.

But I've only ever bought the ATENs new, and those came with all connector bundles needed.

Best regards,

Niels

@nbache

The USB connector bundles... do they have to be branded or can I just use any connectors?

I just bought one of these from ebay but I think it will only come with the power cable. I also asked the seller.

Today google search works again for me with ibrowse 3 and Odydssey 1.23r5

@Cageman

same here on my X1000 with HD7950

@saimo

Thanks for the screenshot tip

and here's my tip...don't drink a few glasses of any adult beverage and play this game

here's my latest:
275,528

@rjd324

Yes.

That's what I'm doing, see the above description for the X1000. My X5000/40 is connected to port 3, and in port 2 I have a pc dual-booting Debian and Win7Pro.

I do have the issue that after having used Debian Linux and returning to AmigaOS or Windows, I have to pull the mouse receiver out of the KVM switch for some seconds and re-insert it, because until I do, the mouse pointer won't move. The keyboard is not affected.

This is probably something Debian does, because it wasn't always so. I think it started after upgrading Debian to Bookworm. I intend to upgrade it to Trixie soon, we'll see if it changes things.

But as for X1000 and X5000, I have no problems. Keyboard working fine in UBoot/CFE as well.


Best regards,

Niels

This might be "old news", but is does show one useful application:

I added an SD card and a serial port level shifter to a Xorro card. From the XMOS community I borrowed code fort a serial port and a filesystem for the SD card.

I set it up to capture and save all incoming text to the SD card, filename was generated by date and time. Then I hooked it up to the debug output of the X1000. Once it's "running", all debug output gets saved automatically.

You could browse and import the saved files to the Amiga or remove the card and read it from anything that can read SD cards.

Because it's independent of AmigaOS, it's capable of saving it all off even when the OS is having troubles.

Now, to make this more interesting: Both the X1000 serial port AND the serial on Xena are capable of WAY higher baud rates. The limiting part are the voltage level shifters. There's a small pin header on the X5000 that will let you pick up the serial output before that shifter, so it SHOULD be possible to run the serial speeds up as fast as the SD write routines can handle. I assume the X5000 serial port can also run faster..

Unfortunately I loaned out the Xorro board and it was never returned, so you'll have to take my word for it.

Granted it's not "rocket science", but saving debug without a second machine, and the possibility to run the debug so fast that any slowdown would be minimal.. Well, it's at least useful to programmers and beta testers!

@MichaelMerkel

Yes.. I save the monitor.

What machine are you on? I have tested with my X5000/020 (RX550) and X5000/040 (RX580).

Well, it’s usefulness I don’t know about… but honestly, I could say the same about Amiga in general . Anyways, Xena can do stuff on its own, and basically offload the cpu. The example I have on my blog (https://jaokim.github.io/amiga/2025/10/27/threading-water.html) is absolutely useless, but it shows that we can calculate a value on Xena and see it on the Amiga — no other peripherals involved.
So I think the uselessness of Xena has been greatly exaggerated, although its usefulness might not live up to the hype it got initially.
Lyle did get the localbus communication working, and I’ve managed to create some sort of data exchange scheme. Don’t know the exact speed, but it’s not as slow as jtag.

So, yes, Xena can do something without any extra add-ons — but I think it gets more fun when adding stuff.

These project boards are probably all still sitting unsold at AmigaKit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5LLqe62_J8

https://www.amigastore.com/xorro-project-board-p-1135.html

I guess it boils down to this question (and thanks for all the input)...

Will the CS1784A allow me to plug in one keyboard and one mouse (I can experiment with which USB ports are actually best) and allow me to switch their use between the X5000 and X1000, also working with CFE (X1000) and UBOOT (X5000) whether cold booting, warm booting, one computer on at the time, both on at the time?

Regards.

@manga303

Quake 2 is indeed different than Quake:
" The Quake engine was the only game engine to use QuakeC. Following engines used DLL game modules for customization written in C, and C++ from id Tech 4 on."
(Wikipedia)

In other words, for Quake the work was already done when the first port was released. There was no code in mods that would have needed work.

@jaokim

I agree. The only thing I know is what you can find on the internet, namely that it is a coprocessor that is programmable and has a clock speed of around 400/500 MHz.

There is no further information about example applications. So I'm also a little curious about that.

@jaokim

That sound great. For me to understand more about it, can you give some ideas how could be useful using xena for us? Can we push some tasks to it, while keeping the main cpu free? Does that need extra hardware to utilise xena, like a card in the xena port?

How could it be used?

Stupid ME just found out that "call of the Void" only work on the new remaster quake2. Now with the remastered Versions it get even more compilcated if mods are for the : new/classic/mint versions. *sigh* thought a new great addon is coming.

Well SORRY to trouble you

thank you very much!

indeed i´m in contact with steffen, but i also know he have much work with settlers2 and some upcoming things. i dont want to stress him out with old quake2. I buy his version of quake2 btw. ;) love his stuff and give him support.

I just thought that maybe some quake2 fans are here and do already modding on amiga. For Quake1 i get many mods running just by "quake +set game mod", quake2 should be the same "quake2 +set game mod" but many mods just have errors or missing files and dont know why it is so complicated.

Just if there is maybe some coder / fps fan / amiga freak reading, i want to remember that many "older" games are not dead and have a good running mod community and the quality of mods get very good this days and Amiga is the best way to play them

yes you are right "spoofer" is it called, so i would like to spoof (if mobile site = show mobile version). Facebook was only an exsample becouse the "normal" website wont work on 68k amiga but the mobile site, do somehow and there are "maybe" more websites that could work in a "mobile" Version.

I think http://frogfind.de/?lg=en-us use it to make many websites working on old computers.

i just though some ideas to make ibrowse a better experiance for everybody. i use it a lot maybe at first it "look" strange and bad but when you get used to it, a good way to focus on the text without any distress banner,popup, etc. now i cant live without.

But good idea, i will look into that spoof settings !

Thank you

@Tuvok

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Your screenshot is all wobbly: I hope it's just a matter of grabbing and not how you actually see the game.
Anyway, if you press [F1] any time a screenshot of the interal graphics will be saved to T: (for completeness, [F2] captures a screenshot of the graphics actually shown, instead; these are game features).

@tedzogh

can see it now and congrats on the top score !