tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82604630564475989172024-02-25T17:14:30.075+10:30Epsilon's Amiga BlogFocused on Next Generation and Classic AmigasEpsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.comBlogger301125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-1983295138429313562020-10-18T19:16:00.001+10:302020-11-03T22:29:40.466+10:30Moving all new posts to Epsilon's World Blog<p>I have decided to unify all my various blogs under one unified blog called Epsilon's World.</p><p>All articles I have written for Epsilon's Amiga Blog, Epsilons C64 Blog, Interesting Trains and Virtualised (I'll bet you never read that one) are now all available on the new blog. This allows me the freedom to blog on any topic without being typecast and maintaining multiple blogs.</p><p>This particular blog will remain as it is now, due to the large number of internet website and social media linking directly to articles here.</p><p>However all new blog posts will now appear on Epsilon's World. No new articles will be added here.</p><p>The address to go to for Epsilon's World blog is:</p><p><a href="https://epsilonsworld.com/?view=sidebar" target="_blank">https://epsilonsworld.com/</a><br /></p><p>See you there!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-39691626918805229802020-10-10T23:09:00.003+10:302020-10-11T12:38:08.741+10:30Wayfarer 1.1 Web browser using MorphOS 3.14 on X5000<p>It is good to be back talking about NextGen Amiga updates again in 2020. Today I am taking a look at a very exciting new web browser for MorphOS called Wayfarer version 1.1, promising modern web browser functionality using the latest Webkit version. It needs the recently released MorphOS 3.14 installed on my AmigaOne X5000 first, so let's dive in!</p><p><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="1295" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1iamROP1YXylc43Kcdtb93_meH4Gsb40zY7FeJKJu_ll7oQcWdHymyIgXwXlzWcbS8klh5cfo6rdDkpaYBaDxPgbFQCxUhyphenhyphengwNNKa3skD8vJbrLAhoHqr0TvoCP-9SjX9fIgoWBx7ReU/w640-h508/MOS314_012.png" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /></p><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">To start with, I downloaded the latest MorphOS 3.14 ISO from the <a href="http://morphos-team.net" target="_blank">morphos-team.net</a> website and burned to CD-R. You can also use a USB stick based image install method, but old habits die hard and I already started burning it when I realised that. Heh.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><u><br /></u></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmRZ523aAduzo-2hWVnZclEZGdmaYCSVBWHI-bdJGxVABNfYd1sTHSG5wWbC0p4n-JOj6rVlK4zag0-1NplFmW_Gkys6NEwHVhoKBquAFEoV1YqHQFbMVxeqmQfaSvJJx6zMK-_KvjnU4/s2048/IMG_8533.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmRZ523aAduzo-2hWVnZclEZGdmaYCSVBWHI-bdJGxVABNfYd1sTHSG5wWbC0p4n-JOj6rVlK4zag0-1NplFmW_Gkys6NEwHVhoKBquAFEoV1YqHQFbMVxeqmQfaSvJJx6zMK-_KvjnU4/w640-h480/IMG_8533.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Now that my AmigaOne X5000 is a dedicated MorphOS computer after a number of attempts in the past, it is great to see regular OS updates for MorphOS, with this latest one released just this week. It is great to see development of NextGen Amiga operating systems continuing in 2020.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiihT-bgL5idvigmP2VTWgaOquMVwZwFa3LYp7CFH0_gpp_TIzvXgUxqU0n69Fq-04AJe0O3pfRb6vYvQRNM1IfbL8qmqypxHrm2bfHxgoPjOmtAbn2vn227t5UuD5ZOknVFIBPE_JXxU4/s2048/IMG_8534.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiihT-bgL5idvigmP2VTWgaOquMVwZwFa3LYp7CFH0_gpp_TIzvXgUxqU0n69Fq-04AJe0O3pfRb6vYvQRNM1IfbL8qmqypxHrm2bfHxgoPjOmtAbn2vn227t5UuD5ZOknVFIBPE_JXxU4/w640-h480/IMG_8534.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I booted off the CDROM by hitting escape on the boot screen above, then selecting to boot MorphOS, which then detects the CDROM is a MorphOS bootCD and boots off it:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkiNYGxW8buw8YNHLHZI_QmgJDiegJrpktmXK-Y2t_blNIp9u5IoWXKkmTbmqxdAI1tUUKVex1myWVCuFyMBBgnj5K3es0rcdg9RkajX40enRxoG-xAJaWu4bL77gbAU7rcj99OMqL-BM/s2048/IMG_8536.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkiNYGxW8buw8YNHLHZI_QmgJDiegJrpktmXK-Y2t_blNIp9u5IoWXKkmTbmqxdAI1tUUKVex1myWVCuFyMBBgnj5K3es0rcdg9RkajX40enRxoG-xAJaWu4bL77gbAU7rcj99OMqL-BM/w640-h480/IMG_8536.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>MorphOS 3.14 then boots off the live CD:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglgNCU5hBU9iYS0QPvAn04kzcGON8yhCe882JaUd_-M0qjpxtO8JF-gKRba-54ZgIhl1W7GDboyk1GE2cJ56c1vJF5AVxpBQqoCR1gi5RhBNKyNgEDt5NVZaONf_vStywdDqGeLTfazTQ/s2048/IMG_8538.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglgNCU5hBU9iYS0QPvAn04kzcGON8yhCe882JaUd_-M0qjpxtO8JF-gKRba-54ZgIhl1W7GDboyk1GE2cJ56c1vJF5AVxpBQqoCR1gi5RhBNKyNgEDt5NVZaONf_vStywdDqGeLTfazTQ/w640-h480/IMG_8538.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>With the selection of US keyboard, I then get the Ambient desktop, with the First Flight window open and ready for me to start the installation process:</div><div><p style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5AkwzQDaOcVmcHeEjnMrATlLZVKzfBIllq8Ru2Ho8VL6B367BNofFSWSx1jti4dK2I43gQnb-tys1OL1kT359vvBXjzCd5nDFfa-89VnWzqYPSD7reVn5CRppPgz_s0t7wY0f6PW5cm8/s2048/IMG_8539.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5AkwzQDaOcVmcHeEjnMrATlLZVKzfBIllq8Ru2Ho8VL6B367BNofFSWSx1jti4dK2I43gQnb-tys1OL1kT359vvBXjzCd5nDFfa-89VnWzqYPSD7reVn5CRppPgz_s0t7wY0f6PW5cm8/w640-h480/IMG_8539.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvDFR6xrSfCxkHqZ7kdtH9_6W8e8uNoFMALKMokTqmtJx2EB_4-j4Zub3lhE9MSNrJe9YLwchtOJNTuzuJJ0M4woHqisR295vD3b6uUPkgSpn3c6sGuTPCTHopqO7UmlkxqBTDqX3NOgM/s960/MOS314_003.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvDFR6xrSfCxkHqZ7kdtH9_6W8e8uNoFMALKMokTqmtJx2EB_4-j4Zub3lhE9MSNrJe9YLwchtOJNTuzuJJ0M4woHqisR295vD3b6uUPkgSpn3c6sGuTPCTHopqO7UmlkxqBTDqX3NOgM/w640-h360/MOS314_003.png" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div>I checked the About MorphOS in the titlebar menu of Ambient desktop to confirm I am indeed running MorphOS 3.14 booted from the live CD.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNdSKCK-YtoFwpwkYQTierl0_LsB5ZcXwfqlk-4j5nhbuHZPWucroMIxvqrw_zSVCXfw7bzTz-KPlX3Ob0giA1eCr2oNkbCEL1vepnADsK_Rxu2A_-hhELmJe_VrqGRdnJWR9DcvbTKzU/s1920/MOS314_001.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNdSKCK-YtoFwpwkYQTierl0_LsB5ZcXwfqlk-4j5nhbuHZPWucroMIxvqrw_zSVCXfw7bzTz-KPlX3Ob0giA1eCr2oNkbCEL1vepnADsK_Rxu2A_-hhELmJe_VrqGRdnJWR9DcvbTKzU/w640-h360/MOS314_001.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I then reviewed the Readme for the installation instructions. The process is basically unchanged from previous versions of MorphOS I have installed.</div><p><img border="0" data-original-height="969" data-original-width="706" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQA-oUwgPnsJNyATp7h-fwxIT1eLeiJmQ_gz_X9glV6IXX1BOXOxhlWwFoF33VwhXITkj47IpjzQl0EmkTQeHQrfsOAuqDIIL3Xv7FUtWxfpacCyundVQwvwd73s5KKvK1qCd3U1fzkgw/w291-h400/MOS314_004.png" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;" width="291" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9_eHX_nlkrmOaPS0gXTBVZcppi2SpkJKIOxldxWs-ea9evIdlZyW8jmpcMx8LD0xFD8sgdODc_XvZ95BBSH-rbqQFbzidJ_2_uNGR2Q9MYbNBqY-LEm_a5Eh1bf8NhTjRjyS0R-sKyHU/s969/MOS314_005.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="969" data-original-width="706" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9_eHX_nlkrmOaPS0gXTBVZcppi2SpkJKIOxldxWs-ea9evIdlZyW8jmpcMx8LD0xFD8sgdODc_XvZ95BBSH-rbqQFbzidJ_2_uNGR2Q9MYbNBqY-LEm_a5Eh1bf8NhTjRjyS0R-sKyHU/w291-h400/MOS314_005.png" width="291" /></a></p><p>I then started the installation process:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMAvK6353RyCtnKmSRq2jkKH1Lk2lqbl_-i18dk-XF4vTSXCjbkvsbzWLgMu1184NNW3PULxZRpxpSm7SBfehv0JaR2giaKDg4JK-mxrt0VRdSfF_0NrqWuPHqkVhl6keTEyUVDGyYUzU/s954/MOS314_006.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="954" data-original-width="678" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMAvK6353RyCtnKmSRq2jkKH1Lk2lqbl_-i18dk-XF4vTSXCjbkvsbzWLgMu1184NNW3PULxZRpxpSm7SBfehv0JaR2giaKDg4JK-mxrt0VRdSfF_0NrqWuPHqkVhl6keTEyUVDGyYUzU/w454-h640/MOS314_006.png" width="454" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Since I already have MorphOS 3.13 installed on my X5000, I am doing the Upgrade Installation option here.</div><div><br /></div><div>It checks and confirms 3.13 is installed and ready to upgrade it:</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAMmjRneJyY1VSQcff169-Oy_fMGi8N5uTBkucrd2KmJd8y0jybg59B90V4zS7rq9VA58db1QKsJHGBMx477GsZVeuzGIz3wKYzazc57gPaLFaED-5Ux_fsjQMTaBTSq_PaqDflzLnfrQ/s954/MOS314_007.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="954" data-original-width="678" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAMmjRneJyY1VSQcff169-Oy_fMGi8N5uTBkucrd2KmJd8y0jybg59B90V4zS7rq9VA58db1QKsJHGBMx477GsZVeuzGIz3wKYzazc57gPaLFaED-5Ux_fsjQMTaBTSq_PaqDflzLnfrQ/w454-h640/MOS314_007.png" width="454" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><p>I then grab a coffee as it installs the files on the system hard disk. Eventually the installation process completes, and ready for rebooting:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMrXMnu1eQ86lwPl9YcWdv4kyQ4rneSDthZYNBp9p9XWj3B9D7hUwiPlrtMIPBBP-vFaaFqPPh1IRKz5xDYaVaANh4hsS0AeeRJpnXW7aSji58N3OLgwJFRt29_pY1Ck81-A8RdIG6dyE/s954/MOS314_010.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="954" data-original-width="678" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMrXMnu1eQ86lwPl9YcWdv4kyQ4rneSDthZYNBp9p9XWj3B9D7hUwiPlrtMIPBBP-vFaaFqPPh1IRKz5xDYaVaANh4hsS0AeeRJpnXW7aSji58N3OLgwJFRt29_pY1Ck81-A8RdIG6dyE/w454-h640/MOS314_010.png" width="454" /></a></div><p>I then successfully boot into MorphOS 3.14 on my X5000. As this release is a bug fix release rather than having new features, I don't plan to spend any time on the changes as they are in the background rather than any new features to explore. </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDGI_PMJdZ6xoj-LPgcCcjK2NJVt5vbCjcHhS1VYHQLalCttkyRnfV8beLSIlTmfcKdqRTk8tXxHAdRqSdjdbHacqslubcDd4viOGcUZdeFBP_OxV3akAjvNvrS1jet-h1WFQf0_FR6k8/s545/MOS314_002.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="545" height="626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDGI_PMJdZ6xoj-LPgcCcjK2NJVt5vbCjcHhS1VYHQLalCttkyRnfV8beLSIlTmfcKdqRTk8tXxHAdRqSdjdbHacqslubcDd4viOGcUZdeFBP_OxV3akAjvNvrS1jet-h1WFQf0_FR6k8/w640-h626/MOS314_002.png" width="640" /></a></p><div><p>I covered MorphOS in more detail in previous blog entries <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2020/01/morphos-312-on-x5000.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2020/03/morphos-313-and-iris-beta-71-email-on.html" target="_blank">here</a> if you want to see more details about the system itself.</p></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="714" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMytg7HDB7v1bvOwueoSU88RHdWP5FLPkWUbNkJmrWd-gLgC4zpVHe69wECULtjlmuBY5NRmmK2k2ZrZ1FIsJW8-sJKf8tHjX34-MWnrZqBnYfULxLVJBni_vEOkA2aeWHIMehqDAULmY/w640-h452/MOS314_011.png" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /></div><div><br /></div><p>I next set about downloading and installing Wayfarer v1.1 web browser, which as mentioned requires MorphOS 3.14 to work. You can get Wayfarer from <a href="https://wayfarer.icu/" target="_blank">https://wayfarer.icu/</a></p><p><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="1295" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1iamROP1YXylc43Kcdtb93_meH4Gsb40zY7FeJKJu_ll7oQcWdHymyIgXwXlzWcbS8klh5cfo6rdDkpaYBaDxPgbFQCxUhyphenhyphengwNNKa3skD8vJbrLAhoHqr0TvoCP-9SjX9fIgoWBx7ReU/w640-h508/MOS314_012.png" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /></p><div>This is genuinely big news for the Amiga community as it has been a while since we have seen any genuine improvements in the website compatibility of our web browsers. This release is definitely a big step forward, although there is more work to be done. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="544" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLbrpkM8a3zJ6e0TA4nEUJ7_s-T7siQJOui4Su7EzXALO6kvGvEkyStSgSzK0hQBxt4VUpHwLbLq00mWZ11cOxaHhgZjRAeN00MZJ7UlNBRqgWpJ4mY-9aeaM7xYAoTmyCFUpb77x9qig/w640-h374/MOS314_015.png" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /></div><div><br /></div><div>Once extracted to a drawer on the system drive, there is an Import OWB Data icon to allow you to import Bookmarks and Sessions from your OWB (Odyssey) Web browser under MorphOS into Wayfarer, which is quite handy - make sure you launch Wayfarer first and exit to create the initial setting file to then allow the import process to update it:</div><p style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="102" data-original-width="197" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs-zho8ASx4gVtPofb-ik0cVIl4DTafotBSvRA_Fqi4biKI7XZ2Rph-rhrRS7RZv7k05WIugaJ3725Zy_i2nth5qbfigzZCdD-a-SniWycyMpza1V4BOT0mzF-A4c68LHy9rMhBxhLmDI/w320-h166/MOS314_016.png" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;" width="320" /></p><div><br /></div><div><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="768" height="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZthtQr04HxFcJihd7ub3J3_rm04Hi40rQ9GnbIbutC0xVLX89MLZXJKduPgTDjBR_VBD0uKSrYfOeqErSEqeV7gnrOvuy-QP6-RAWktX1zX7CMm9nGVQen73MtBm8Rv48CO-5uCTvQ64/w640-h540/MOS314_017.png" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /></div><div><br /></div><p>Here is the new Wayfarer v1.1 web browser on first launch:</p><p><img border="0" data-original-height="985" data-original-width="1424" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg48Caaznud1DiaSYFt7y_oDS0DoyqLpXTJTEuc0FJ_XCqtlq77t5WI-BO9ZnKxYDVjCp1K2biAdAQ_oBs5ItsS129NpEA24L-E_0o9B4NRxz4HKnuEbxGlOA5iHeBULhGaAhW9hPPOLWY/w640-h442/MOS314_018.png" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /></p><div>Wayfarer Version info, v1.1 released October 9th 2020:</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="358" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl9KT8fO3T6V6kil1iUFZB1Tbzsck5oXDur6e7ohixFAqBaLWZHJ6_Pg6NNbgA7dJ9orB53ND9gaOgPhOmc7r3JlBE2mUvdjXkrqm6G9KvjPKG65BrTbgZcpGp54xkzNhD7o9kpTtnzEo/w504-h640/MOS314_019.png" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;" width="504" /></div><div><br /></div><p>Keen to dive in, I logged into Microsoft Office portal to try out Office online, something that has never worked at all on any Amiga web browser in the past in my testing. Wayfarer supported the dual factor authentication login and (although slow to load up) does display the Office online applications:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPBesFaeVdovr5oZwBRCphrQbdg-CQl9QrNBP0CRCpNxTr5yG96T0ip6kvKhoLh6RU6DHd6i4rZbjnnXvMo4bw7QQ5DSh-SRa7M62nlT2c91AMoY3-uhiLUMXQ-_bIPqtlMSzAeZv81Rs/s1424/MOS314_029c.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="985" data-original-width="1424" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPBesFaeVdovr5oZwBRCphrQbdg-CQl9QrNBP0CRCpNxTr5yG96T0ip6kvKhoLh6RU6DHd6i4rZbjnnXvMo4bw7QQ5DSh-SRa7M62nlT2c91AMoY3-uhiLUMXQ-_bIPqtlMSzAeZv81Rs/w640-h442/MOS314_029c.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Here is Excel Online, working well under Wayfarer 1.1 - I created this sheet in the web browser itself and it automatically saved to OneDrive:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi25h6RZDAYkBwTZF5uMosVIwaAKmGmvmjmb4iNbvP1WSb2l2I7cYvR5bB6f-svyQceaL8OFQ-YPGQyITAptzBDRYnLg6jw99-oMbz_0-8m5haBa7spO5AQMmBuUi1bDpt38l3F7-9O9X8/s1487/MOS314_032c.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="991" data-original-width="1487" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi25h6RZDAYkBwTZF5uMosVIwaAKmGmvmjmb4iNbvP1WSb2l2I7cYvR5bB6f-svyQceaL8OFQ-YPGQyITAptzBDRYnLg6jw99-oMbz_0-8m5haBa7spO5AQMmBuUi1bDpt38l3F7-9O9X8/w640-h426/MOS314_032c.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>Enjoying some music on MorphOS 3.14 while playing around in Excel on my X5000. Great to be able to do this finally!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja4eT97k4VvI265SZB0U6d6UJcMMxqNOvJo9xkKWIzHejqHpEV4_2Tql60TBmuZq786C0MWqt9eZl_w9FLYp5u5G_Uh8nw7pBw2p123pXhL0qUW_eP2nQeP5ebXOhzMBnu1XLDtYWgl9I/w640-h360/MOS314_033c.png" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /></div><div><br /></div><div>I found that Word and Powerpoint online were a little more prone to lock ups when playing with image manipulation in my limited testing - they work, slowly, but not 100% usable yet.</div><p style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="985" data-original-width="1424" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl-hCEl9UKPKZGxUMZFivAHngY-go1PSW5mlAKxUHM1IAKIrew54ArZmqlV4jNHvfcMGR83zFKmPXY0chU_wJPX1UQhtQm4lt-otC-V0CiqbmmlHx6Lp27TKCqfAVEPSqL9rXd7P8dvxE/w640-h442/MOS314_031.png" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /></p><div>Here is Powerpoint online working under Wayfarer v1.1 - I did a very quick presentation in the browser just to try it out, using a reconfigured theme as I was lazy:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj7GCgreE3Kz8N18iRHU1k1ev_Rzf651iCH0q7rs3RlItXBrZBNLSyLmIoR8McZu4M437iJCcebqtYS7PWUOWszDYgDodZapel-d91ywnDwQ3MDJqw5wdpirp2NIqa5o92z4mxcn5YfZc/s1486/MOS314_035c.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="908" data-original-width="1486" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj7GCgreE3Kz8N18iRHU1k1ev_Rzf651iCH0q7rs3RlItXBrZBNLSyLmIoR8McZu4M437iJCcebqtYS7PWUOWszDYgDodZapel-d91ywnDwQ3MDJqw5wdpirp2NIqa5o92z4mxcn5YfZc/w640-h392/MOS314_035c.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="908" data-original-width="1486" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4n4AYP0BsmJV-ABzsx4lIYhVKNnqJbtqm3KAQtL_8-3LfXvrFrIeU5oyBy2prO_pxxFRxZm-fbtV2-RDL6sCKPTwEWYshvOiDqOIBWDeR7xSM25gXxO-Kk2h2Y4ux6DKqARTQaBP95rk/w640-h392/MOS314_034c.png" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><p>I also looked at Outlook online, which runs in basic mode rather than the full normal web version, but works fine like this:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8QpvhK8iNLhyphenhyphenmk6kBhU-Wkzx7u6fvAPWd8hsz4q0lEUrFOqAXqlrhDybf9oAEUd5uhroQ7rDAUOQMq9ElUpSyoYnQfjxVWIyCorXQLB0Ydlqd8f-y2xv6yXSo2TEG5BULStLUAbbktMI/s1424/MOS314_028c.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="985" data-original-width="1424" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8QpvhK8iNLhyphenhyphenmk6kBhU-Wkzx7u6fvAPWd8hsz4q0lEUrFOqAXqlrhDybf9oAEUd5uhroQ7rDAUOQMq9ElUpSyoYnQfjxVWIyCorXQLB0Ydlqd8f-y2xv6yXSo2TEG5BULStLUAbbktMI/w640-h442/MOS314_028c.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I sent a test email in Outlook online and attached a file from the X5000 and it works fine:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="985" data-original-width="1424" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCaC1Ffv_qT9FNM-Qdv8x2JXHaZtcXwD4x5VdDmk77TfHo8auV3o9cEYg2cYdoWFRjf00elTOrKJLLhVmtu2wimr4L_nfEtjTZvCG92v95pFp82JKPL9-ABJ8G2JETV3A28cfFhOrOUYE/w640-h442/MOS314_027c.png" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /></div><div><br /></div><div>Lastly I checked accessing Microsoft Azure portal, which doesn't work correctly yet unfortunately, the extension fail to load.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijKsFVUzIj0vvJS48pU2MFixTjm9yqa_Qx4IsBenU5bLEv4VQyEKtP-qf_kYGjDpWl0AIqPZSGVb43qpF8ffx6VZpBkDhJrf18M0Omhj9lg0g1kUcafg1dxIHzhFS6OcONNuzdDqTLBgM/s1472/MOS314_055c.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijKsFVUzIj0vvJS48pU2MFixTjm9yqa_Qx4IsBenU5bLEv4VQyEKtP-qf_kYGjDpWl0AIqPZSGVb43qpF8ffx6VZpBkDhJrf18M0Omhj9lg0g1kUcafg1dxIHzhFS6OcONNuzdDqTLBgM/w640-h426/MOS314_055c.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>I then switched attention to Google Online web stuff next - Google Drive, Google Docs, which work ok, with plenty of warnings about the browser not being supported any more:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6pXSSl9ONPzN0pExVIH7LdGJQa4AbiRr3ZPySn5NAJKZeE7WN8V6A-z5VS51CJKXAPM4vS2lqDbcdddmJkP6UunhUfaqwIO3nS9EekaZMpDEGa4bw9KNg5t14DqeKD9OviS78FsqrUoU/s1456/MOS314_038c.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="895" data-original-width="1456" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6pXSSl9ONPzN0pExVIH7LdGJQa4AbiRr3ZPySn5NAJKZeE7WN8V6A-z5VS51CJKXAPM4vS2lqDbcdddmJkP6UunhUfaqwIO3nS9EekaZMpDEGa4bw9KNg5t14DqeKD9OviS78FsqrUoU/w640-h394/MOS314_038c.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>Google Docs documents open ok though:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTLb8e8x1EBH4OQri3X_e6COKq_-XCRr7cW5SU-CD7-qde8Q0vnGS5zMg63Z-rjXdRi8F-KaKhfoG5wSB6DrAi9FaUfRexop1RNwnTLhXOYo-oU3JFetfAHgpM_CRpzoNEOd6r_6rZkSI/s1456/MOS314_036c.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="895" data-original-width="1456" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTLb8e8x1EBH4OQri3X_e6COKq_-XCRr7cW5SU-CD7-qde8Q0vnGS5zMg63Z-rjXdRi8F-KaKhfoG5wSB6DrAi9FaUfRexop1RNwnTLhXOYo-oU3JFetfAHgpM_CRpzoNEOd6r_6rZkSI/w640-h394/MOS314_036c.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div></div><div>Viewing images stored in Google Drive also works ok:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr_NcVZ4ACyFkaYR4hT5eP3HOClYipuHcMWQOMC1Oy2zsvCsxojIsjPhDVrJYYqv-ollND_OgSUeSC9qjQp86uPyO-GJ7mkQAYvQwCJF8D_EeNhQ2OeLVsbsyqeMA6tDsd3k_ML3w9Mbw/s1456/MOS314_039c.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="895" data-original-width="1456" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr_NcVZ4ACyFkaYR4hT5eP3HOClYipuHcMWQOMC1Oy2zsvCsxojIsjPhDVrJYYqv-ollND_OgSUeSC9qjQp86uPyO-GJ7mkQAYvQwCJF8D_EeNhQ2OeLVsbsyqeMA6tDsd3k_ML3w9Mbw/w640-h394/MOS314_039c.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>It works, but limited. The online presence drops out and Gmail only operates in legacy compatibility mode on this browser.</div><div><br />The big disappointment of my testing was YouTube, which flat out won't play any videos and gives errors about the browser not being able to play the videos. </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="985" data-original-width="1424" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFhKQDmgFZLv9RkTjcEz52P2sgD52tvxYPHbgtQ1ma5fmYOsccdNvv7FcrL02rz-V5oeOSnKhHH79ETI1bwNa8QNuU0RJOHQv34c0eKJzj91DfI8uK_zf1dQA8rb1GYsdq0R-ZOXIHC88/w640-h442/MOS314_021.png" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /></div><div> </div><div>In Wayfarer, there are settings you can set to spoof the browser version (like in Odyssey), but now you can tailor it to each website specifically, which is a great addition:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqPG6OjhZW9ccQhMnMhXYoPS_B8gKH5jvXmSAK-orbLr95Dq_ImKZjSor0aMPZ_etNDe9yM1swyBgo31MAHwEl2R5VEyvLoIWqzxBIPouUMNJyvFVox4cfFUhOjscEz2AYOIKL484GDG0/s1424/MOS314_022.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="985" data-original-width="1424" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqPG6OjhZW9ccQhMnMhXYoPS_B8gKH5jvXmSAK-orbLr95Dq_ImKZjSor0aMPZ_etNDe9yM1swyBgo31MAHwEl2R5VEyvLoIWqzxBIPouUMNJyvFVox4cfFUhOjscEz2AYOIKL484GDG0/w640-h442/MOS314_022.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Spoofing as Chrome or Safari made no impact though on YouTube - videos would not play at all.</div><div><br /></div><div>I subsequently found out from the author of Wayfarer on the forums that video/audio support is not added yet. Also FTP is not planned to be implemented, so we will still need OWB or another FTP application on MorphOS for that.</div><div><br /></div><div>With the video/audio limitation now in mind, I tried a few other modern websites to see how they render using Wayfarer 1.1 under MorphOS 3.14. </div><div><br /></div><div>Facebook loads and display in Dark mode theme I selected for my profile, which doesn't render well on the browser with black text on black background and is very slow to load, but looks ok-ish. It did lock the application a few times trying to navigate between pages.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdrJ0NuNoBFAAsKpQd_r6g5BFC30KhhNqwD7qBoh_3OgCvD0T-A8dEWlnnBYKB1eQURJzC2jmO_8Jx42JCYLYY7NoLkTvwQBq7JnTgkhS3lVaboyKn7JmDfk38Q8rdAK3Te5453o3nJ4g/s1405/MOS314_040c.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="893" data-original-width="1405" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdrJ0NuNoBFAAsKpQd_r6g5BFC30KhhNqwD7qBoh_3OgCvD0T-A8dEWlnnBYKB1eQURJzC2jmO_8Jx42JCYLYY7NoLkTvwQBq7JnTgkhS3lVaboyKn7JmDfk38Q8rdAK3Te5453o3nJ4g/w640-h406/MOS314_040c.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Using the mobile version of Facebook website works much better in Wayfarer and loads quickly, obviously looks a lot less pretty though.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgnW_jdpxPLALEFfk_TmxtuUXMAQbYO8mE3xln2199r7Ui4jIcbAn-w4o3iuc2_2PFLzqpfrZhubkfwhMXU9VFTz8Na4AS_Z5t4S_Osb9Yssi7no4zHHyxJQNJ-hBpLoNNvTVSVrecDBI/s1472/MOS314_053c.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgnW_jdpxPLALEFfk_TmxtuUXMAQbYO8mE3xln2199r7Ui4jIcbAn-w4o3iuc2_2PFLzqpfrZhubkfwhMXU9VFTz8Na4AS_Z5t4S_Osb9Yssi7no4zHHyxJQNJ-hBpLoNNvTVSVrecDBI/w640-h426/MOS314_053c.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I know I can't watch videos yet using Wayfarer, but I loaded in my Twitch live stream website next, which renders the page quite well, but it ignored the dark mode theme I selected in my profile:<br /><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoYBdyaFYkb97MlvJYNMdjXn7Iai-WyT6R477XQqHK5dVy1dXFiwdhtDofQOdPiI_r3aLWInyBKzXvDkudv7qzk0pB3VZERIlu4WEIjVtiFN7EnF9jQnp-MSXEI4d_POLtproowypmD1s/s1472/MOS314_041.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoYBdyaFYkb97MlvJYNMdjXn7Iai-WyT6R477XQqHK5dVy1dXFiwdhtDofQOdPiI_r3aLWInyBKzXvDkudv7qzk0pB3VZERIlu4WEIjVtiFN7EnF9jQnp-MSXEI4d_POLtproowypmD1s/w640-h426/MOS314_041.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Loading Twitter in the browser results in messages about the browser no longer being supported, but apart from not playing videos, it displays well in Wayfarer:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifWH6s9yRctaiyXyrNyJed8uMFEAt84BROUL3Fhn4g4EMGvH01GuVmTlk5N-9mGgXRs3Hr4gM2R_kj_pCKswgGw8K-3a40iyWn27EKjW83uhRc-sg5sR3qSC2TAPr8qK37NEuT0rP5EyI/s1472/MOS314_042.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifWH6s9yRctaiyXyrNyJed8uMFEAt84BROUL3Fhn4g4EMGvH01GuVmTlk5N-9mGgXRs3Hr4gM2R_kj_pCKswgGw8K-3a40iyWn27EKjW83uhRc-sg5sR3qSC2TAPr8qK37NEuT0rP5EyI/w640-h426/MOS314_042.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwt8YfvjywQjDpyEi9MQRMP2BRi1xa3QmdkLM5BorIFCnxD7ogujfHcaPbrdPVieMPdNqccX2lpdQbL0DJa0xVw3V85UWRItUBmx2LblSk7msTPuv2hpYmz189iJ2YrtYh06dxc8kg_Gk/s1472/MOS314_043.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwt8YfvjywQjDpyEi9MQRMP2BRi1xa3QmdkLM5BorIFCnxD7ogujfHcaPbrdPVieMPdNqccX2lpdQbL0DJa0xVw3V85UWRItUBmx2LblSk7msTPuv2hpYmz189iJ2YrtYh06dxc8kg_Gk/w640-h426/MOS314_043.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Instagram also displays well in Wayfarer, as long as you don't play any videos.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD6fbg1fxbWjCGRtpP84gkHjw-7kxLoHW-HtUlfFNz2vxMRf4XBz5x_PbyFGeGr-x_xyGVHMZa4DHTw4N5pfCss0gua2he-oOvMeNCdtZWrof4WGFy3HQQf1Cx_Ih1GROv56sq8oyW56U/s1472/MOS314_045.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD6fbg1fxbWjCGRtpP84gkHjw-7kxLoHW-HtUlfFNz2vxMRf4XBz5x_PbyFGeGr-x_xyGVHMZa4DHTw4N5pfCss0gua2he-oOvMeNCdtZWrof4WGFy3HQQf1Cx_Ih1GROv56sq8oyW56U/w640-h426/MOS314_045.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I fired up two news websites next in Australia - ABC News and The Advertiser. Both display ok in Wayfarer:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvvm7bfKUoDsUv4ibW3vqopZM2WO6HQ8iIa7pCIqyprMPqzoaY_1SyUP8eKl1xbpqvYCFEhw3DVMUYW76edmQC7-zkLogvmPSPcb6bdBZsIkdqBrZ0gY_B-TMfz8Pc3fS8jWrL1u2UFXg/s1472/MOS314_046.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvvm7bfKUoDsUv4ibW3vqopZM2WO6HQ8iIa7pCIqyprMPqzoaY_1SyUP8eKl1xbpqvYCFEhw3DVMUYW76edmQC7-zkLogvmPSPcb6bdBZsIkdqBrZ0gY_B-TMfz8Pc3fS8jWrL1u2UFXg/w640-h426/MOS314_046.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRI0zpNQ-kn_FwTgNUaq8McTJgnCVLJR91Q5x_iZnuB8BkmfENAGL7TbZ7qE8OufRMXWFHyN-lAf53-YKThNdR13NC-66xYiQ9noIErV_x8SmY2iPtvG5YC97yfgkZvw0UMLh3zdTlTIE/w640-h426/MOS314_056.png" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /></div><div><br /></div>Discord website renders well in Wayfarer too - below I am catching up on news in the official Apollo Team channel (Classic Amiga Vampire accelerators) and reviewing some tips for Animal Crossing New Horizons (I play it with my wife):</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqIluX7fDYqdi7GI-Vs7JuUOTrvdbhiZl0xObT3m-rVJ_77LzjE5L91QDb5PzEh7HYMH3tweimgL6Jl53TapdoTYRV31VTCDbPgOqdEvcd41_GLNGheE6bwM7Jvzb7K1Z0gBoK64Oj12I/s1472/MOS314_047c.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqIluX7fDYqdi7GI-Vs7JuUOTrvdbhiZl0xObT3m-rVJ_77LzjE5L91QDb5PzEh7HYMH3tweimgL6Jl53TapdoTYRV31VTCDbPgOqdEvcd41_GLNGheE6bwM7Jvzb7K1Z0gBoK64Oj12I/w640-h426/MOS314_047c.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVs-a5N6-GzJi7IGh41k98r94vYKChFiDcNCVNES0gy1lTDbxUHIEOsUOFMGV0pfO7ITVx3DadVQpySRny7Za3Zu02TIEW5rCnUFgHysmkEvWqakPaOFQ012RpAD67dGn_GbZ-zp8-t4c/s1472/MOS314_048c.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVs-a5N6-GzJi7IGh41k98r94vYKChFiDcNCVNES0gy1lTDbxUHIEOsUOFMGV0pfO7ITVx3DadVQpySRny7Za3Zu02TIEW5rCnUFgHysmkEvWqakPaOFQ012RpAD67dGn_GbZ-zp8-t4c/w640-h426/MOS314_048c.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>I should mention that when downloading files using Wayfarer, it now uses a downloads tab in the browser rather than a separate window that Odyssey uses. I like this, it is much tidier:</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPk0lQv-q-1GeIXZGb00kctaX7emlGlJE74HeNAnSRL4ukTCd0-eNboZP_TgWF6NkgEQkm8O7TUEFmmATpDinrRo6gWlZGu60nGf4UmZf9Duf5Q0DIHc_zf2OTART0dxsa4f5J-sEz9_g/s1472/MOS314_050.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPk0lQv-q-1GeIXZGb00kctaX7emlGlJE74HeNAnSRL4ukTCd0-eNboZP_TgWF6NkgEQkm8O7TUEFmmATpDinrRo6gWlZGu60nGf4UmZf9Duf5Q0DIHc_zf2OTART0dxsa4f5J-sEz9_g/w640-h426/MOS314_050.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>As you would expect, Amiga websites render perfectly:</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5wXyoYdEigK_N_ahBFxgN7Wb4tBOrD9sBoKx-RYbZM2rHymLOrB97ldhAJvgcbJATR58e9ojuOxV7pZt6dgc63JcrH8MxIHStn1jglVDjWHlzhBrk6SooIqiBOhTiPva_Y45ngjTt2Q8/w640-h426/MOS314_049.png" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><u><br /></u></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">I also downloaded the recently released music streaming software RNORadio for MorphOS and enjoyed some internet streamed Nectarine demoscene music while checking out these websites for this blog entry:</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWNXy1MhlX7BNcfElYN4aei8EK455JZbI9icGfFfwm5vPlrMi3IFZOtyCo-bukYLJFQ3Vjcwnj6uBORrWCePATy6j5Ag0u9oldEh-tIrPMv8LJpVN3XjppW9aJ2agWRXFWVZmwz10rdag/s1920/MOS314_051.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWNXy1MhlX7BNcfElYN4aei8EK455JZbI9icGfFfwm5vPlrMi3IFZOtyCo-bukYLJFQ3Vjcwnj6uBORrWCePATy6j5Ag0u9oldEh-tIrPMv8LJpVN3XjppW9aJ2agWRXFWVZmwz10rdag/w640-h360/MOS314_051.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>eBay displays well, as does F1.com:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZvIr6gIfYEM1_XIs9wQIOkcwQFCVFh-x4PnrDQVWE2mibg3IgG4AgtEEMAZg7WLI-g0Of4tuBPVxKqFj4-PNnC-cK2u2bRcpJ4NuT7HMEhfF5Fh-JhHD7NxiDCbeU24Dh9Z3s8C2gvbU/s1472/MOS314_052.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZvIr6gIfYEM1_XIs9wQIOkcwQFCVFh-x4PnrDQVWE2mibg3IgG4AgtEEMAZg7WLI-g0Of4tuBPVxKqFj4-PNnC-cK2u2bRcpJ4NuT7HMEhfF5Fh-JhHD7NxiDCbeU24Dh9Z3s8C2gvbU/w640-h426/MOS314_052.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVbw0U6uAoj_OxFKlCiEJRzHiUfocd8XNUe7IGQJRYrJJZ5VJQL9lyFT2NQJ_QYGCXCTLn4Dp8x_ZMHQXW48y3230dmsjNv_oZQxbbsZn47mjH9QJKvMhQUsKoUJqaPzRvGvqhqIDmspE/w640-h426/MOS314_057.png" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /></div><div><br /></div>My blog works ok as well. I didn't try editing my blog in Wayfarer yet though.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh72dnt_Ug-XATC5ArC7Xv0pl86MyOUrSRkdd5S5FEKsDwp6ZoyQ4K5z4-kDknRDWHhxmGHDxQ0mrfwbofzAsJvP3YkxhlShysErRXuCCeoZUPcVpmcyZUivwkJ95LkPSi8e_d0KYnDP8/s1472/MOS314_054.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh72dnt_Ug-XATC5ArC7Xv0pl86MyOUrSRkdd5S5FEKsDwp6ZoyQ4K5z4-kDknRDWHhxmGHDxQ0mrfwbofzAsJvP3YkxhlShysErRXuCCeoZUPcVpmcyZUivwkJ95LkPSi8e_d0KYnDP8/w640-h426/MOS314_054.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>In general, web page rendering speed in Wayfarer is slow, but I expect it will improve. </div><div><br /></div><div>Wayfarer web browser is a big step forward for Next Gen Amiga OS systems. I look forward to seeing the updates that improve it even further, the all important video and audio support, and more. I hope to see it on AmigaOS 4.1 in the future too!</div><div><br /><div><br /></div></div>Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-38389184267562404382020-09-05T18:57:00.003+09:302020-09-05T18:57:32.615+09:30A Tale of Two Vampires<p>Sorry for the delay in blog posts, but today I try to make up for it as I bring you a tale of two Vampires, featuring AmiKit XE. And even a bit of Gotek to boot. This work was carried out throughout the whole of August.</p><p><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH3baoUbOFkpp_PlRZ9TaqNGz0Q7ii3WmMKI1fL7tQ-O4hXfkLUsJ1-pgKOqluRCExB7ROB36Dt52oaLXgDfLmQ4kJgKka1ylKM8LnqB2-xVFZ6CV5YLQ-9ytUK0uB3eNJg5utMn6XB1Y/s640/IMG_8011.jpeg" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /></p><div>Touching quickly on the Gotek - I already have a Gotek drive installed in my Amiga 500 Checkmate A1500 plus system:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyCFxdJCC3yFIwgNHFgOlMXQl_TeTMU0hWhzc1BAEq9lX1dhsyB_hTE_JQ6lL7th3zPOBs_OojhiaOEYBCkhFtTvDFoMPG2IFhhOA4PDwIEUGDDxeFGT3qdUll_F8io1Y2iq1X8iz8Wuk/s2048/IMG_7764.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyCFxdJCC3yFIwgNHFgOlMXQl_TeTMU0hWhzc1BAEq9lX1dhsyB_hTE_JQ6lL7th3zPOBs_OojhiaOEYBCkhFtTvDFoMPG2IFhhOA4PDwIEUGDDxeFGT3qdUll_F8io1Y2iq1X8iz8Wuk/s640/IMG_7764.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Trouble is the old style digit display. These days the Gotek come with fancy OLED displays to show the name of the floppy disk image and other goodies. I was keen to try it and bought one before COVID-19 started, with the intention of swapping the Gotek in the Checkmate A1500 plus case the next time I did any work in it.<div><br /></div><div>With the release of AmiKit XE for Vampire enabled Classic systems, I had the excuse to swap the Gotek out. Here is the new one:<br /><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvTdS_I74TDunM0B1oojJlJS_Vr179cQ5LVbmkFLsgaQeZwG-EqkA4PbmUuNXNpG6zHCgrP3oaD-hKiVzeocczT8KHkqt4l5LF6W40e5KQ3yFyI5q9sCYH6DE7DQG8_4W_78LG7hgkcy4/s2048/IMG_7765.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvTdS_I74TDunM0B1oojJlJS_Vr179cQ5LVbmkFLsgaQeZwG-EqkA4PbmUuNXNpG6zHCgrP3oaD-hKiVzeocczT8KHkqt4l5LF6W40e5KQ3yFyI5q9sCYH6DE7DQG8_4W_78LG7hgkcy4/s640/IMG_7765.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUyfOvZWWhUOYsF3eCw8iuM6HJmkWoiucUkU0XwulMTro1MprzSoWwksEpVmITSQNKMWfJx-0d19nqvB_mVVe9wrimKCxjHiBWHuRGyBQk65DRMbfznLrB4X4xrW57EmJwfvjy1vo8mUE/s2048/IMG_7766.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUyfOvZWWhUOYsF3eCw8iuM6HJmkWoiucUkU0XwulMTro1MprzSoWwksEpVmITSQNKMWfJx-0d19nqvB_mVVe9wrimKCxjHiBWHuRGyBQk65DRMbfznLrB4X4xrW57EmJwfvjy1vo8mUE/s640/IMG_7766.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I then started the task of disassembling the Checkmate A1500 plus case to replace the Gotek drive with the new one:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid9awrwdO7xdxQeVspZHWZzKUZkInxrm-SHoB78pJt2rNSQryt_bVzTb_GruihWcis_dnX88PrNzCwVNR7Cje7N1t7reioGse6ms-Sq8CoW_gIVBpRjKHj4MF6vudgeL1r9hrvr8VTqA4/s2048/IMG_7768.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid9awrwdO7xdxQeVspZHWZzKUZkInxrm-SHoB78pJt2rNSQryt_bVzTb_GruihWcis_dnX88PrNzCwVNR7Cje7N1t7reioGse6ms-Sq8CoW_gIVBpRjKHj4MF6vudgeL1r9hrvr8VTqA4/s640/IMG_7768.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>With the old drive removed, I connected the new Gotek, ready to screw into the drive bay expansion.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWspq8j0hKKtvBo9T_zVbtt6RrrVX01irzr5CgNqANNPq6jIHQ0MuWhoM8SBSyHtsQqfzgP33gvqFZAH1lPSxzcG6raJScS_yWeC57CellLtQk6hGsxOQh8ohEubfgV5JVNlAjYdDKUU/s2048/IMG_7769.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWspq8j0hKKtvBo9T_zVbtt6RrrVX01irzr5CgNqANNPq6jIHQ0MuWhoM8SBSyHtsQqfzgP33gvqFZAH1lPSxzcG6raJScS_yWeC57CellLtQk6hGsxOQh8ohEubfgV5JVNlAjYdDKUU/s640/IMG_7769.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I screwed it in and here is the comparison. Note I picked a black 3d printed mounting bay for the new one so it would look better in my black case.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIUxLmVhzWCQRD3bOpjsjT1JreqAPllngNyUR9BaT0xr3P2w4KshNZHIplA8ePTX-JEhk3hMC21bdXU_-HfWT4RwofgzqIljFIpMk6sk9g0EgnkO3Ub4tKhXDSswWGEE9B6wqaqyYsYPc/s2048/IMG_7771.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIUxLmVhzWCQRD3bOpjsjT1JreqAPllngNyUR9BaT0xr3P2w4KshNZHIplA8ePTX-JEhk3hMC21bdXU_-HfWT4RwofgzqIljFIpMk6sk9g0EgnkO3Ub4tKhXDSswWGEE9B6wqaqyYsYPc/s640/IMG_7771.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The new one only has mounting holes in two places that I could screw into the expansion bay.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv20sGD8NkHHprgdFjWlAuECoXrn-bW1NYDG0mbeBguLlerAkeebvWKFdJt4eSbXAvptdat0bwufvfLx7cRzJ-oBVV9gexuEQvKYiHRIq3oNT1zSoxHgRgPKWYuRYBGziyMABK9zahQcU/s2048/IMG_7772.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv20sGD8NkHHprgdFjWlAuECoXrn-bW1NYDG0mbeBguLlerAkeebvWKFdJt4eSbXAvptdat0bwufvfLx7cRzJ-oBVV9gexuEQvKYiHRIq3oNT1zSoxHgRgPKWYuRYBGziyMABK9zahQcU/s640/IMG_7772.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Putting the expansion bay back into the case, I checked the alignment of the new Gotek to the drive bay hole. The news wasn't good:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgattF2deN9ASrcnj1fmiqgcwsNXD2M82sTm-5O6vJDvwyh239rw1JNyBPzP4y8Gn9-HSOXffI1nTb_G-eeOwpSpY-oHhBfRQ7AUA8Dz6s_HyKxa19ITp1t97gsfbpTmuAir3BBfgsdKOc/s2048/IMG_7773.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgattF2deN9ASrcnj1fmiqgcwsNXD2M82sTm-5O6vJDvwyh239rw1JNyBPzP4y8Gn9-HSOXffI1nTb_G-eeOwpSpY-oHhBfRQ7AUA8Dz6s_HyKxa19ITp1t97gsfbpTmuAir3BBfgsdKOc/s640/IMG_7773.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>It is much lower than the old one was! It doesn't fit!</div><div><br /></div><div>I put them together to show the problem - the new one (on the right) is positioned much lower on the drive mount tray than the old one. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggWVDqZ8JrOlGqO2anGSITeVW3WhvU5JVIzJy2zycVnfJRpx85yUHW8x3Xll2QpCAifB6T1GiKvjpOa2q6TKdGjNUV5_mc0ULFTbwoiGC1Qq7WoRfx0eEUfDFP6HieI_f7DoR2gBP_Kj8/s2048/IMG_7775.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggWVDqZ8JrOlGqO2anGSITeVW3WhvU5JVIzJy2zycVnfJRpx85yUHW8x3Xll2QpCAifB6T1GiKvjpOa2q6TKdGjNUV5_mc0ULFTbwoiGC1Qq7WoRfx0eEUfDFP6HieI_f7DoR2gBP_Kj8/s640/IMG_7775.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>This means the 3D print drive mount is probably intended for an A600 or A1200, rather than a A500 floppy drive mounting. That is a shame, as it means I couldn't use it. I put the old one back in for now. That was a bust!</div><div><br /></div><div>Moving quickly on, I was very excited to see the new <a href="amikit.amiga.sk" target="_blank">AmiKit XE version released</a>, especially written for Vampire accelerator owners of Classic Amigas, and even supports the new Vampire V4 Standalone system recently released.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGKZukCnggaGJLhe_IffO1qB1emEsG8tPl2IM6kx1apLRtSGltidtRv4O6wOMSiD5USlWpeRv1ME9uueak0_ddwI1oDmiaP3DGMNFdki5uZd8JeS3k45F6WcNLzH-D0hkMaOg96e1hMyA/s1992/Screen+Shot+2020-09-03+at+6.43.23+pm.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1222" data-original-width="1992" height="383" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGKZukCnggaGJLhe_IffO1qB1emEsG8tPl2IM6kx1apLRtSGltidtRv4O6wOMSiD5USlWpeRv1ME9uueak0_ddwI1oDmiaP3DGMNFdki5uZd8JeS3k45F6WcNLzH-D0hkMaOg96e1hMyA/w625-h383/Screen+Shot+2020-09-03+at+6.43.23+pm.png" width="625" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>It is clear a lot of work has gone into the release, and as with other recent previous versions of AmiKit, is a commercial product that you need to purchase.</div><div><br /></div><div>You can buy it in a preloaded CF card, shipped to your door, or buy and download the zip file only and create the CF card yourself using the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/18TSFPV62gznqmiSmbm9ZKSbfzW-o1iWrUExNbU8dyb4/edit" target="_blank">detailed instructions</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzNbPKt4-wgq5DB6hguZ2cOl_YR0lyc3bR_DfCNeHPwxVePwRHTuTLbM2YreDasTvVOrvbhNUcGwSdJ9dBGG21i0eGy2MENVbpDuw1xULlMLhWqDxTDn32ajmfOgNogXAsYcX9euD50zk/s1430/Screen+Shot+2020-09-03+at+6.47.24+pm.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1430" data-original-width="1284" height="625" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzNbPKt4-wgq5DB6hguZ2cOl_YR0lyc3bR_DfCNeHPwxVePwRHTuTLbM2YreDasTvVOrvbhNUcGwSdJ9dBGG21i0eGy2MENVbpDuw1xULlMLhWqDxTDn32ajmfOgNogXAsYcX9euD50zk/w561-h625/Screen+Shot+2020-09-03+at+6.47.24+pm.png" width="561" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>In return for this purchase, you get a fully configured, RTG enabled AmigaOS system with all the bells and whistles, which is able to be installed with AmigaOS 3.1, AmigaOS 3.1.4, AmigaOS 3.9, AmigaOS 4 or Amiga Forever which you supply during the installation as qualifying products.</div><div><br /></div><div>I have covered <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/06/amikit-xe-on-windows-macos-and-linux.html" target="_blank">AmiKit XE previously in this blog</a>, which is already available under PC emulation (Windows, Linux) or MacOS.</div><div><br /></div><div>You can also run a cutdown free AmiKit Real 9 for Classic Amigas without a Vampire (minimum 030 accelerator), which <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/amikit-real-9-on-a4000t-and-a1200.html" target="_blank">I also covered on this blog</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>But now at last you can have the full featured AmiKit XE on your Classic Amiga (with Vampire accelerator) with the latest AmiKit XE release.</div><div><br /></div><div>I have to make a special mention of the awesome real time technical support I received from the author of AmiKit XE (Jan) throughout the installation process and my many troubles, which has turned out to have nothing to do with AmiKit XE. </div><div><br /></div><div>I wanted to share more details about the many features of AmiKit XE as part of the blog entry, but fate had other plans, as you will see. I did get to enjoy it fully working for exactly 30 minutes. Hopefully that is enough to tempt more people to try it out :-)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>The first Vampire Tale: The V500 V2 AmiKit XE installation</u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div>For those who follow my blog regularly, you would know that I have run the Vampire 500 V2 in my Checkmate 1500 Plus cased Amiga 500 system for a while now.</div><div><br /></div><div>It currently runs CoffinOS r54 from a 32GB CF card, which is <ahem> not very legal unless you legitimately own AmigaOS 3.9 which it is distributed with. Fortunately I do own it legitimately.</div><div><br /></div><div>That said, I was excited at the prospect of running AmiKit XE for Vampire on this system. I bought the downloadable version and downloaded the zip file, and extracted it on my Amiga 4000D system, using a USB disk to transfer. I then downloaded the various prerequisites from the installation guide:</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinA932XBS7XtSIUoNf0Dr4rK7yiIlbs-IY3QnMhKmeU-4O-FiUkJ7vLgZBptAtrMYexZuyyfq73Ijlvc33dfudfp2i5ZbhTBricug6sVema0jaBNfKN__yXfHfB-T_4rSn0HvnMklszlg/s2048/IMG_7776.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinA932XBS7XtSIUoNf0Dr4rK7yiIlbs-IY3QnMhKmeU-4O-FiUkJ7vLgZBptAtrMYexZuyyfq73Ijlvc33dfudfp2i5ZbhTBricug6sVema0jaBNfKN__yXfHfB-T_4rSn0HvnMklszlg/s640/IMG_7776.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I originally tried prepping a 32GB CF card (with USB to CF converter) using HDToolbox on my Amiga 4000D. I set it as per the instructions, using PFS3 as the file system.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1ufffE327kRFry6_WBISSAAHkmCkl0kivum440IjMx8MaRkGN5-TVW6g5izITvDVIv4ktnhGPTO6F920wioaTk0Ww-zbzvZipThmvWutBGj4gML7manUpyHE2BFh0QbiGrYw7NQcQrKk/s2048/IMG_7777.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1ufffE327kRFry6_WBISSAAHkmCkl0kivum440IjMx8MaRkGN5-TVW6g5izITvDVIv4ktnhGPTO6F920wioaTk0Ww-zbzvZipThmvWutBGj4gML7manUpyHE2BFh0QbiGrYw7NQcQrKk/s640/IMG_7777.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I then formatted the CF card with PFSformat:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi64EtMJOZyI9IXRyP3Yv83M2-7Br1wZ-FCPKuTgPTwNQnrUP6vNXasnnvScriSzyOHtbIXNkYBGVRx3I4LqTqxVFgiiSbN8MDevLKkvmNf8MiTcMhupVgKbNjvNgvrAoVUBIfEaAP2iH4/s2048/IMG_7779.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi64EtMJOZyI9IXRyP3Yv83M2-7Br1wZ-FCPKuTgPTwNQnrUP6vNXasnnvScriSzyOHtbIXNkYBGVRx3I4LqTqxVFgiiSbN8MDevLKkvmNf8MiTcMhupVgKbNjvNgvrAoVUBIfEaAP2iH4/s640/IMG_7779.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I then downloaded the lzx archive needed to extract the archive to the CF card, and installed it on my Amiga 4000D.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx60otwAJQhCh8ZSSpSUMliLaTQ8c9HgwXo67QDRQH2mkYR7vgkyAappWRMkIVTS37wZNHjL2HW6bm1DkDBocfyDivMw0YLiJrRsdsm-NUh2FvHBgH2uuUzNkFxcNq1BOhDewRv3vFlXk/s2048/IMG_7780.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx60otwAJQhCh8ZSSpSUMliLaTQ8c9HgwXo67QDRQH2mkYR7vgkyAappWRMkIVTS37wZNHjL2HW6bm1DkDBocfyDivMw0YLiJrRsdsm-NUh2FvHBgH2uuUzNkFxcNq1BOhDewRv3vFlXk/s640/IMG_7780.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIxJAQoZ0wc3mVkDVb1HO5kPke_jb9izCM-kNPdt0h-BxrLz90rY274WHqb-Ga5M57T7lHugO_Nyh4oIlK1r874FaQmWWHQbuL3CfU_jfKq2BwUChlWndjUX0R9daI70SGeUFPG16Vu70/s2048/IMG_7781.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIxJAQoZ0wc3mVkDVb1HO5kPke_jb9izCM-kNPdt0h-BxrLz90rY274WHqb-Ga5M57T7lHugO_Nyh4oIlK1r874FaQmWWHQbuL3CfU_jfKq2BwUChlWndjUX0R9daI70SGeUFPG16Vu70/s640/IMG_7781.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I then started extracting the archive to the CF card partition (connected using USB to CF converter). </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOnmIpqquXb12LfyIoDhbbobdjwF7K0SuUvDq-vKRsxN5F4eGQ8rH8JClDHUVQ9PYeStIrigRjKmaRrGw6HZpcVLR1V8okf1WcqkB0_jOYMev2iZQJH19MUNDs7LVicPx_kwIfcU23tmw/s640/IMG_7786.jpeg" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><u><br /></u></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">It didn't go well. After a while I got write errors:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmBtw8VVpQGARM0KdrWAilAoXF_pZO2jUsfftAp4jWbstdi7LX5vd-x13WDQUWw62ryMCnlfQgOfj-__IzCjbaDZCcQO64TZJx6pkewqSw0rPBh5fXFONGpjtr7wPF-JIKpuYWFVSxyJw/s2048/IMG_7785.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmBtw8VVpQGARM0KdrWAilAoXF_pZO2jUsfftAp4jWbstdi7LX5vd-x13WDQUWw62ryMCnlfQgOfj-__IzCjbaDZCcQO64TZJx6pkewqSw0rPBh5fXFONGpjtr7wPF-JIKpuYWFVSxyJw/s640/IMG_7785.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFInPoj2CQaE0hq_JTe6gWQGw-trJl2h7GJhRCSqHjCep5x9-2pr-sMQ8vxjF66L_q02HptgiOywWTMJ7WaZLu-LDaUitvLfuuhr1fsJNgYUCS4rQUj8ap0h_9uzV4jRtLDPGHp6w-rng/s2048/IMG_7787.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFInPoj2CQaE0hq_JTe6gWQGw-trJl2h7GJhRCSqHjCep5x9-2pr-sMQ8vxjF66L_q02HptgiOywWTMJ7WaZLu-LDaUitvLfuuhr1fsJNgYUCS4rQUj8ap0h_9uzV4jRtLDPGHp6w-rng/s640/IMG_7787.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgojfW6nI6ys2DCgEeY3sf8UZCsnhmSfUrXeUXSqTt5covU2AP4MaSuNDYCuQlANH1kcpIML1Omw54OGmEWUu7MjBd7xbFMD8mPSvUGK0jZ_tGT4r-U7cgDbfd5SWtKHKTwADK5ai6K_Z4/s2048/IMG_7791.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgojfW6nI6ys2DCgEeY3sf8UZCsnhmSfUrXeUXSqTt5covU2AP4MaSuNDYCuQlANH1kcpIML1Omw54OGmEWUu7MjBd7xbFMD8mPSvUGK0jZ_tGT4r-U7cgDbfd5SWtKHKTwADK5ai6K_Z4/s640/IMG_7791.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I thought I would copy the archive to the CF card first, then extract on the actual CF card. Previously I was extracting from the Amiga 4000D data partition to the CF card.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR9U5eMLh22BZ1x7sWq6P9ZQkyg2Azo1t9zAahRfeArl7BO_SPid29OOiDBqxC7XNFxs7kdmH6IUzB7ei_jtaoavsIUxFaA2FmHoe7lxUNmbiI7CLZ3YCWx2M5rpsvBDfeCyk8MmXm5hQ/s2048/IMG_7793.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR9U5eMLh22BZ1x7sWq6P9ZQkyg2Azo1t9zAahRfeArl7BO_SPid29OOiDBqxC7XNFxs7kdmH6IUzB7ei_jtaoavsIUxFaA2FmHoe7lxUNmbiI7CLZ3YCWx2M5rpsvBDfeCyk8MmXm5hQ/s640/IMG_7793.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>It is clear that this was not going well either, with constant write failures.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5sKwTgN2TfA0VSlqRYJRvJzWEfw2rPNXDrs4PdTTIRcztWzb8E1lsGV-q_Aqa3LwYXyVoipfN8mDmSaCCRBxWCVibvpPMHy2N1ObI7LWX6No-IyVlrJlK9pQDk7Ddo6wEn4NKnCjVko4/s2048/IMG_7794.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5sKwTgN2TfA0VSlqRYJRvJzWEfw2rPNXDrs4PdTTIRcztWzb8E1lsGV-q_Aqa3LwYXyVoipfN8mDmSaCCRBxWCVibvpPMHy2N1ObI7LWX6No-IyVlrJlK9pQDk7Ddo6wEn4NKnCjVko4/s640/IMG_7794.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Unfortunately after a while it came up with an even worse write error:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVeGLGBGLjNPGRtqeyNLMCIyqgt7ZvBNuTOsy1Ruj1BCobMBzBMjzBzyfJKnfAvSewwkRaZYcWtknFI0OT2VQi4VidoMzoxrbKq4bPDqb76EKLToNgY-ooXxFwLOpTrjNqXd5lklM9JoA/s2048/IMG_7797.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVeGLGBGLjNPGRtqeyNLMCIyqgt7ZvBNuTOsy1Ruj1BCobMBzBMjzBzyfJKnfAvSewwkRaZYcWtknFI0OT2VQi4VidoMzoxrbKq4bPDqb76EKLToNgY-ooXxFwLOpTrjNqXd5lklM9JoA/s640/IMG_7797.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I gave up and connected the CF card directly to the IDE interface on the Amiga 4000D. Then it copied successfully. The moral of the story extracting a large number of files over USB is a game of lottery of whether it works or not.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilaMM8bQVyu_jdpU1Kakuyp-6j7O262eqI0zLpFQfdhvJUxyvWzzSgi7cw9zZQK9VNRDMjGEkaRuUIJrBSRAtBg03TpBstgu03dsdrJle6VGTC-M2Z-PM6gewYR_awtBidUytYT-YFYnY/s2048/IMG_7798.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilaMM8bQVyu_jdpU1Kakuyp-6j7O262eqI0zLpFQfdhvJUxyvWzzSgi7cw9zZQK9VNRDMjGEkaRuUIJrBSRAtBg03TpBstgu03dsdrJle6VGTC-M2Z-PM6gewYR_awtBidUytYT-YFYnY/s640/IMG_7798.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Anyway, with the extraction of files done to the CF card, I then made sure I had all the files needed for the initial install, as per the installation guide. </div><div><br /></div><div>Initially I was trying to use AmigaOS 3.1.4 and had the required files in the AmiKit:Expansion/InstallFiles drawer, as below:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ZPlc-w3ieEeZ5pnMoHBg0bWbrClz12YVypNIWjg75jOVTQkmBDSTs-EW9QQUtLPAEQj8jyVKnsoUiWKRXvcFOlsbBUPeROmMa1dAVx94cXfQzUAzX32gJuY8ZoDmbNuSIqZItkk5BQ0/s2048/IMG_7799.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ZPlc-w3ieEeZ5pnMoHBg0bWbrClz12YVypNIWjg75jOVTQkmBDSTs-EW9QQUtLPAEQj8jyVKnsoUiWKRXvcFOlsbBUPeROmMa1dAVx94cXfQzUAzX32gJuY8ZoDmbNuSIqZItkk5BQ0/s640/IMG_7799.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I moved the CF card to my Vampire 500V2 enabled Amiga 500 system and came up with this prompt:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRPmVc4NopA5uc4-H4k7mqtVB4DDjtP1UBC2tX2AeYgmGPOOf2dpg68e9HFzZ7Wq-3zRlYLLAPdLykp0U9T6OeHWyqyx_v7DjALWS4gEb7Qzqr6v3aoYCli_Q2j0Z3Jn3n5CG2fPYUpyM/s2048/IMG_7802.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRPmVc4NopA5uc4-H4k7mqtVB4DDjtP1UBC2tX2AeYgmGPOOf2dpg68e9HFzZ7Wq-3zRlYLLAPdLykp0U9T6OeHWyqyx_v7DjALWS4gEb7Qzqr6v3aoYCli_Q2j0Z3Jn3n5CG2fPYUpyM/s640/IMG_7802.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>After a reboot it told me I needed to upgrade my Vampire Core version to 2.12. Currently I was running 2.11 Core. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0rAR6Vx5c7ookh7rQRE9cSRW6cThKpF7BqzVKhw1pk0dczL8JlKjhgaRIaUr83iV2ZOJNWywBS_RSdg1qr2AC20K-ylq9riUj9DHRtU_fOmus7Qc50iYgmUJr8_01kWMYzxKkI6vIRgs/s2048/IMG_7804.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0rAR6Vx5c7ookh7rQRE9cSRW6cThKpF7BqzVKhw1pk0dczL8JlKjhgaRIaUr83iV2ZOJNWywBS_RSdg1qr2AC20K-ylq9riUj9DHRtU_fOmus7Qc50iYgmUJr8_01kWMYzxKkI6vIRgs/s640/IMG_7804.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>So I downloaded the required AmigaOS updatable 2.12 core files to try to upgrade the Vampire Core before trying the install again. The upgrade is not included with the AmiKit XE setup. Here is the drawer from the archive I download from the Apollo website, ready to run the installer.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB0nSishziSSQgsSMzn_jIeAo-7_dH_J3sN7or9XHZzRgNoXA3wn-4f0CV5e9znTQMGUABMceOkz36u0yR97W0oqVfdQOyphWmKEUZrffwH1hyphenhyphenTSM3-lUKw_iraYdkV5Ucpzz64h_-s3U/s2048/IMG_7805.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB0nSishziSSQgsSMzn_jIeAo-7_dH_J3sN7or9XHZzRgNoXA3wn-4f0CV5e9znTQMGUABMceOkz36u0yR97W0oqVfdQOyphWmKEUZrffwH1hyphenhyphenTSM3-lUKw_iraYdkV5Ucpzz64h_-s3U/s640/IMG_7805.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>And, it didn't work. Program failed. Great...</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlMzfw0O8ae1P4pHjuFmAEDjRgX76uNZOhvoPPzrrddDJeuaswwCX1fq7PIDuc4IJXkYnn7XcqvMJ7VNzs9oAxuwyZgnDsazVhtHXL-yVGxHNPIq-lwH6Htw5GuJYT7qReRCIJTUAsPvA/s2048/IMG_7808.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlMzfw0O8ae1P4pHjuFmAEDjRgX76uNZOhvoPPzrrddDJeuaswwCX1fq7PIDuc4IJXkYnn7XcqvMJ7VNzs9oAxuwyZgnDsazVhtHXL-yVGxHNPIq-lwH6Htw5GuJYT7qReRCIJTUAsPvA/s640/IMG_7808.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I tried a number of times but it gave me the same error every time. I previously upgraded the core from 2.10 to 2.11 without a problem on the Amiga, so I have no idea why this upgrade doesn't work.</div><div><br /></div><div>So, I decided to ignore it, and just use the existing onboard rom rather than remapping another rom. I copied the AmigaOS 3.9 files from the original CD to the InstallFiles drawer on the CF card to use instead of the 3.1.4 files, which require the remapped 3.1.4 kickstart rom in order to work. OS3.9 doesn't need the remapped rom since it is the same one included in the Vampire itself.</div><div><br /></div><div>With that done, the pre-flight checks for the installation of the AmkitXE passed without a problem and I could get the install underway:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbdG3iO_qPQpoi8kVGPMRFXXiEjtvD5gQ3ITNAqGIHJH8G6Y2UPaDZj-CjCWFTCoWGr3Py7rRcz_bqyWXCJPlT02QltnTGplXYdWIt-bbPMn1qs1iztVkxzGFVeOOtLyHFEYTPllgrzPw/s2048/IMG_7840.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbdG3iO_qPQpoi8kVGPMRFXXiEjtvD5gQ3ITNAqGIHJH8G6Y2UPaDZj-CjCWFTCoWGr3Py7rRcz_bqyWXCJPlT02QltnTGplXYdWIt-bbPMn1qs1iztVkxzGFVeOOtLyHFEYTPllgrzPw/s640/IMG_7840.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>With the install completed, it rebooted into a wonderful AmiKit XE customised RTG Workbench, and looks very beautiful.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgstYdHBXidVyEDufu47KKLHmb-oPMZmg1w1cOvXXmoyeG3PO0zraam3KMmOgk8_fgTq1wBo84LcKdHQpD-PSMSHF4aBvbApVKwydhYi4XGRKaV7ImMRoTPn4AJnx2mtGCFub8LIraVu3Y/s2048/IMG_7857.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgstYdHBXidVyEDufu47KKLHmb-oPMZmg1w1cOvXXmoyeG3PO0zraam3KMmOgk8_fgTq1wBo84LcKdHQpD-PSMSHF4aBvbApVKwydhYi4XGRKaV7ImMRoTPn4AJnx2mtGCFub8LIraVu3Y/s640/IMG_7857.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Having used this version under emulation, I can say in my brief play with it that it works just as well.</div><div><br />I ran a game or two from WHDLoad games I copied to the CF Card to try out once the install completed.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG_hP8cUlsPb9jwnh0oy3LpBe55vszF-aTVlb2VmG7Qjvs8gHtRwuysRODBQKTrVe7F_nybi7gido8MD9FWucBiBBtR1X5IKqzs7WEG8s6koZFIgxPhe9KzEVpRrOLlqAG_KVLSceoty0/s2048/IMG_7871.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG_hP8cUlsPb9jwnh0oy3LpBe55vszF-aTVlb2VmG7Qjvs8gHtRwuysRODBQKTrVe7F_nybi7gido8MD9FWucBiBBtR1X5IKqzs7WEG8s6koZFIgxPhe9KzEVpRrOLlqAG_KVLSceoty0/s640/IMG_7871.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>However, being me, I wasn't content to leave it like this. The main reason is because although the system worked, the screen display was patchy at 720p output. I need to set a lower screen resolution in order to have a stable display. It is believed the issue was the firmware installed, and that I really did need to install the 2.12 core, which is the minimum required for AmiKit XE.</div><div><br /></div><div>Since the AmigaOS upgrade method didn't work (as noted above), I purchased a USB Blaster from Bay and after a serious disinfection when it arrived from China, I connected it to the Vampire 500V2.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-LsdNKNHhM_ncwDHj1vAsV5qk3M-vcVr8ynV9ROZHAvKZdb_0riBgAnl4JkYb9gMgAVcvyMcSedOxdj75Qc0AK12V5PKcQtyegk7Vc4wr7oKMQHe5gFmxSmMHUTj6MmWAv3Yc7GNq1hw/s2048/IMG_7987.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-LsdNKNHhM_ncwDHj1vAsV5qk3M-vcVr8ynV9ROZHAvKZdb_0riBgAnl4JkYb9gMgAVcvyMcSedOxdj75Qc0AK12V5PKcQtyegk7Vc4wr7oKMQHe5gFmxSmMHUTj6MmWAv3Yc7GNq1hw/s640/IMG_7987.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Closer view of the USB Blaster connected to the JTAG connector on the Vampire V500 V2.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA5HIGbS-NOZci7YFH3ZA23Iatj3-NdNEUwtJImnA85mSbjnrkpmyArjJIkUct9NYNvQmkZV8ST1DFE_LqrqpK-H-dMR076oxj5ffxRacz9qGEzsUtnC002mtyVDZoxpZ_CI9xRzJiGm0/s2048/IMG_7988.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA5HIGbS-NOZci7YFH3ZA23Iatj3-NdNEUwtJImnA85mSbjnrkpmyArjJIkUct9NYNvQmkZV8ST1DFE_LqrqpK-H-dMR076oxj5ffxRacz9qGEzsUtnC002mtyVDZoxpZ_CI9xRzJiGm0/s640/IMG_7988.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I removed the CF card to prevent issues while flashing the Vampire 500. I needed a Windows PC or Linux machine for the next step, as I needed to download the Intel FPGA Quartus programmers toolkit. I am grateful to the <a href="https://wiki.apollo-accelerators.com" target="_blank">Apollo Vampire Wiki</a> for the instructions on what is needed here, as I have never flashed a FPGA core via a USB blaster before.</div><div><br /></div><div>To be honest it shouldn't be necessary either, considering there is an AmigaOS patch method which I definitely prefer - it is much simpler. But it didn't work, so...</div><div><br /></div><div>I had to read the instructions carefully, register to Intel's developer network to download the required free software. I used my Surface Go to run the software, as it was the easiest way to connect a PC to my Vampire in a separate room to my main day to day computers.</div><div><br /></div><div>I did get it downloaded and installed on the Surface Go.</div><div><br />Getting the USB hardware to recognise under Windows 10 was annoying, and needed some manual intervention. </div><div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoxKnes_Op11gMjlJr0-gtSuo9STve_OJlLqsUN_gr9wVPya0tL1qmoWauUt9V58ueEgmSjquLgoCf0DERBOMA7q24oiPLi-NKtVUCpE8Z3Gmp3poCYu3q9FF5TFNWCIYDnj9IfOj48oo/s1800/_FPGA001.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="1800" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoxKnes_Op11gMjlJr0-gtSuo9STve_OJlLqsUN_gr9wVPya0tL1qmoWauUt9V58ueEgmSjquLgoCf0DERBOMA7q24oiPLi-NKtVUCpE8Z3Gmp3poCYu3q9FF5TFNWCIYDnj9IfOj48oo/w625-h398/_FPGA001.PNG" width="625" /></a></div><div><br /></div>As you see, even though I installed the drivers and software, it is not detected:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbslAWN1m2rdeq5UbntcgYd3AdTuW5eay3uZiWLebK8zuHN9TKb0XVohfWzqlBSRzWKJ3znne6sqvjKDQwwVfMS8TM8JbX53xSCY2mE8P4mJg7LAHSGxRk_9WPG5bEVCT6JwSKpT6b-gg/s1171/_FPGA002.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="1171" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbslAWN1m2rdeq5UbntcgYd3AdTuW5eay3uZiWLebK8zuHN9TKb0XVohfWzqlBSRzWKJ3znne6sqvjKDQwwVfMS8TM8JbX53xSCY2mE8P4mJg7LAHSGxRk_9WPG5bEVCT6JwSKpT6b-gg/w625-h458/_FPGA002.PNG" width="625" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The not documented trick to get it working is to locate the inf file for the USB Blaster driver, helpfully installed in an obscure folder as part of of the Intel Quartus FPGA programmer tool installation:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuBKjSC43JHm_u0jporvlN2ywgHTfUMC3u_hJjybOBxy6_TwkDWbIUYV6a5ZETIuXNu-FcsHIor3dOJwGbU4-a1J1ivhZYeCe_Ox2-e7-fr0mCaJsVhkJMzQnpE-t-baK0emzTtnIuS3Y/s1201/_FPGA003.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="1201" height="431" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuBKjSC43JHm_u0jporvlN2ywgHTfUMC3u_hJjybOBxy6_TwkDWbIUYV6a5ZETIuXNu-FcsHIor3dOJwGbU4-a1J1ivhZYeCe_Ox2-e7-fr0mCaJsVhkJMzQnpE-t-baK0emzTtnIuS3Y/w625-h431/_FPGA003.PNG" width="625" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Right clicked on the usbblstr.inf and select install. After that, the Device was picked up correctly. Isn't Windows wonderful...</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-d4tFjCdegezUBdmPnRzel0M73n9h9MY2KkvA3IbDdXzqLl97l0Q7gLUrkru291wHeQbxbIjlBDhog2OLSTwaniZclLNlukUsxP46V9aQQvogyuJ8PJmSeMBt1OlpobSWad4iolDjIfU/s1171/_FPGA004.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="1171" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-d4tFjCdegezUBdmPnRzel0M73n9h9MY2KkvA3IbDdXzqLl97l0Q7gLUrkru291wHeQbxbIjlBDhog2OLSTwaniZclLNlukUsxP46V9aQQvogyuJ8PJmSeMBt1OlpobSWad4iolDjIfU/w625-h458/_FPGA004.PNG" width="625" /></a></div><div><br /></div>With that done, I could set up the Programmer software to use the USB blaster hardware:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5ImhRbYNncfKyNJmy5NAfg4Xhmk87FfP4gRsCBjV-NdSM1JX641fc9kjgE78XY3ysDnhl-bByiz7qDSvEv-9ip90KJa4TBWgnJ0yGDgPxgcWu7JTwp0DavNIKSjrVFn0bqGeO_UEa4zo/s859/_FPGA005.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="859" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5ImhRbYNncfKyNJmy5NAfg4Xhmk87FfP4gRsCBjV-NdSM1JX641fc9kjgE78XY3ysDnhl-bByiz7qDSvEv-9ip90KJa4TBWgnJ0yGDgPxgcWu7JTwp0DavNIKSjrVFn0bqGeO_UEa4zo/w625-h420/_FPGA005.PNG" width="625" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiansxQbjnJ2tr8mkfNzl0oNz8g5ZmH0tchW1JIwP_BJ2NHj9oY21o5YwRMBR8wNYOad8GA1bALoUkAwKQlmjF-6sQRP-UDcPLxkc-RyRL5bNFkuLn6IngWcaNfS0do26RTrdvo-9FeTms/s859/_FPGA006.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="859" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiansxQbjnJ2tr8mkfNzl0oNz8g5ZmH0tchW1JIwP_BJ2NHj9oY21o5YwRMBR8wNYOad8GA1bALoUkAwKQlmjF-6sQRP-UDcPLxkc-RyRL5bNFkuLn6IngWcaNfS0do26RTrdvo-9FeTms/w625-h420/_FPGA006.PNG" width="625" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Ok, ready to load the 2.12 core. I chose the slowest x11 core as the Vampire 500V2 is not so fast and that is supposed to be the most compatible core.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiff_oto395et6i0wc5wDfm4NYOZQPuqxEiXcKPcRhbOF7jeSHPBa1W6kkaaMSAlk7p3Ocfs0hc-1uYJBb4Uu4B1myOwIF1fhrPuxYgVx9FyboY4RObhCUS_qXEz8HgN2pBSAtPLdmpF9w/s1800/_FPGA007.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="1800" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiff_oto395et6i0wc5wDfm4NYOZQPuqxEiXcKPcRhbOF7jeSHPBa1W6kkaaMSAlk7p3Ocfs0hc-1uYJBb4Uu4B1myOwIF1fhrPuxYgVx9FyboY4RObhCUS_qXEz8HgN2pBSAtPLdmpF9w/w625-h398/_FPGA007.PNG" width="625" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Just to remind ourselves, all I wanted to do was get the core updated. I had to waste a bunch of time learning about fpga reprogrammers, setups and more just to do that. This is not something the average Amiga fan would ever do....only crazy Amiga fans like me. And maybe you, since you are reading this! :-)</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway, following the instructions from the Apollo Vampire wiki on how to flash the core, I select the program/configure and verify flags for the 2.12 core file I selected.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv7kuKP1Cvzx-Y985kWrduKUJujTPV_fyjvDC5ASGElP8qEe1a5BJ83DEbuALMfptUbKa2M6_sgjUk4qaGwZlFC70rotxuVkh_kYPMGoYvJ8Iru3hVJsA6u1zp0frByqaWs3i7SbQdn3E/s1800/_FPGA008.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="1800" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv7kuKP1Cvzx-Y985kWrduKUJujTPV_fyjvDC5ASGElP8qEe1a5BJ83DEbuALMfptUbKa2M6_sgjUk4qaGwZlFC70rotxuVkh_kYPMGoYvJ8Iru3hVJsA6u1zp0frByqaWs3i7SbQdn3E/w625-h398/_FPGA008.PNG" width="625" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I then turned on the Amiga 500 (so that Vampire has power) and started the Core update process.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRAWtURXE4SliTMHhsSNULF13tdEcoJQHK50rVRfKWEOR1FVjRsSFv8wS6iZEhUWvi0mIJC500cXJLs7pNzudhQwggYn7n_jMmtCvetUIyBHR1C1j767RjwVZ7LxgKSPYYenb4dLN5Cw4/s2048/IMG_7999.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRAWtURXE4SliTMHhsSNULF13tdEcoJQHK50rVRfKWEOR1FVjRsSFv8wS6iZEhUWvi0mIJC500cXJLs7pNzudhQwggYn7n_jMmtCvetUIyBHR1C1j767RjwVZ7LxgKSPYYenb4dLN5Cw4/s640/IMG_7999.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>It is working:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis0pGrWijhWdzBDZqQ5a6r39yl-1fxJIaLNk8ciX3KqYePglzhbGNmfvt10GpES4jdOQlcaiQRxITZihRt08j-VJeAHxOqdTaWF4pp2zejChHAmc67HdIqhpjpMp76zbknuhiLm0S4WyQ/s1800/_FPGA009.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="1800" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis0pGrWijhWdzBDZqQ5a6r39yl-1fxJIaLNk8ciX3KqYePglzhbGNmfvt10GpES4jdOQlcaiQRxITZihRt08j-VJeAHxOqdTaWF4pp2zejChHAmc67HdIqhpjpMp76zbknuhiLm0S4WyQ/w625-h398/_FPGA009.PNG" width="625" /></a></div><div><br /></div>All done and flashed successfully. Why couldn't I use the AmigaOS updater....this is much more difficult.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi5kLU15eKXHyGAI2eZKdiLJz4E_eA4JE7Sd5OfkJFbdgLgx1edvh6OSkFIDUXlCZWt0keE1irTr_Agr37sCCupq12sLH-bYJ8KG-Qh77Bxg_Y6Jqa0eXn9xD3VPUubDUc3hwb17yZz5o/s1800/_FPGA010.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="1800" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi5kLU15eKXHyGAI2eZKdiLJz4E_eA4JE7Sd5OfkJFbdgLgx1edvh6OSkFIDUXlCZWt0keE1irTr_Agr37sCCupq12sLH-bYJ8KG-Qh77Bxg_Y6Jqa0eXn9xD3VPUubDUc3hwb17yZz5o/w625-h398/_FPGA010.PNG" width="625" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway, now the Vampire V500 v2 is flashed and running the correct 2.12 x11 core.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8Ht7SASigt94bswvnCbzllOoTKQOw3IKiWaR2mLR_m3uLaSIjNiBGgPhUEEMGW_2fHT3b2HbbTDTwfalwB1U57J_71LTVoKgDwobAZlpvOJfA6LB4Nn23LtLL_hAPX7djxDUKok1Gl0/s2048/IMG_8003.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8Ht7SASigt94bswvnCbzllOoTKQOw3IKiWaR2mLR_m3uLaSIjNiBGgPhUEEMGW_2fHT3b2HbbTDTwfalwB1U57J_71LTVoKgDwobAZlpvOJfA6LB4Nn23LtLL_hAPX7djxDUKok1Gl0/s640/IMG_8003.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>You can see the new version number here:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVucitcvTNgQxjOT_jxXlxMyO3pUz0y0Q3Bh3L7S1EEo7rxnNlggZizgeEoE57fdiKTAlRtgbE6xg4FUDFfiMn3CQ-mvwvRJApBGRJKuEfkApEqgD6vo4Tz-RFQjnSh405maRO2-7_NEA/s2048/IMG_8005.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVucitcvTNgQxjOT_jxXlxMyO3pUz0y0Q3Bh3L7S1EEo7rxnNlggZizgeEoE57fdiKTAlRtgbE6xg4FUDFfiMn3CQ-mvwvRJApBGRJKuEfkApEqgD6vo4Tz-RFQjnSh405maRO2-7_NEA/s640/IMG_8005.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>But, the problems with the 720p screen resolution persisted and now the system was unstable too, failing to boot to workbench every 3 out of 4 times. </div><div><br /></div><div>When I changed the AmiKit XE CF card I created, and booted my CoffinOS CF card, it now has a green workbench screen and it was unstable and crashing now too. So now the position of the system is worse than before.</div><div><br /></div><div>So yeah, not sure that really worked out well. Oh, and mapping the 3.1, 3.9 or 3.1.4 legitimate kickstart roms via VampireMap still doesn't work.</div><div><br /></div><div>At this point the developer of AmiKit XE suggested he send me a pre-prepped AmiKit XE CF card to work with, just to rule out something I might have done to stuff things up.</div><div><br /></div><div>I was grateful to receive it. It soon arrived from Europe, as below:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGMDZvy0wYSpMjOL8Xhr_H30QMNbwBaeRtBp-AwVb_03BNjNmLyEiQAb_SDd_6pOBSERgJoZSggIYbDTrjYkOfsXRQO6WKnsdjfFUvX3t_20lH9Ddolf9ChfG4drp4RRxpVD3F9kMYPBg/s2048/IMG_8009.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGMDZvy0wYSpMjOL8Xhr_H30QMNbwBaeRtBp-AwVb_03BNjNmLyEiQAb_SDd_6pOBSERgJoZSggIYbDTrjYkOfsXRQO6WKnsdjfFUvX3t_20lH9Ddolf9ChfG4drp4RRxpVD3F9kMYPBg/s640/IMG_8009.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSIhOW-xwioNVdaFIB-lvy3orHIdWT7w2tyf9WNnbsoApnzYOs8Vj5aZMeKrgs1VMYbms8fHkHYatQWV-t0xV0H8p1kHKnGZQHvYpbF9AhW5r71ryyVBBPq-S_RkzH5uLVmPTQGgETj38/s2048/IMG_8010.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSIhOW-xwioNVdaFIB-lvy3orHIdWT7w2tyf9WNnbsoApnzYOs8Vj5aZMeKrgs1VMYbms8fHkHYatQWV-t0xV0H8p1kHKnGZQHvYpbF9AhW5r71ryyVBBPq-S_RkzH5uLVmPTQGgETj38/s640/IMG_8010.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I backed it up to an image file using my Windows PC, copied the required install files into the dedicated FAT partition on the CF card on my PC also, and then installed it into my Vampire 500V2, ready for installation to begin. The Fat partition make this process much easier than creating the CF card yourself. I recommend getting the CF card version for a very easy setup process:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH3baoUbOFkpp_PlRZ9TaqNGz0Q7ii3WmMKI1fL7tQ-O4hXfkLUsJ1-pgKOqluRCExB7ROB36Dt52oaLXgDfLmQ4kJgKka1ylKM8LnqB2-xVFZ6CV5YLQ-9ytUK0uB3eNJg5utMn6XB1Y/s2048/IMG_8011.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH3baoUbOFkpp_PlRZ9TaqNGz0Q7ii3WmMKI1fL7tQ-O4hXfkLUsJ1-pgKOqluRCExB7ROB36Dt52oaLXgDfLmQ4kJgKka1ylKM8LnqB2-xVFZ6CV5YLQ-9ytUK0uB3eNJg5utMn6XB1Y/s640/IMG_8011.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFyIKXMZizB8PN5Sg48rSbFGM8IpzsI887JXNFb-kqTKoNLKXZ5Er72rFHeJxd-r4QNgRKRkhB6Aiv6FoOfdewXBHY4emrLsjJSKyjT2HylraOcAY0ml7N4YCwrl_9T00n6l3IkeU1od0/s2048/IMG_8013.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFyIKXMZizB8PN5Sg48rSbFGM8IpzsI887JXNFb-kqTKoNLKXZ5Er72rFHeJxd-r4QNgRKRkhB6Aiv6FoOfdewXBHY4emrLsjJSKyjT2HylraOcAY0ml7N4YCwrl_9T00n6l3IkeU1od0/s640/IMG_8013.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Here the installation is underway using the Amikit XE branded CF card:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIjuR2-Y_93ANKdL90q5fLKraSHZE6P6zTC56QNPyJDcENH_-6BlhUVR7DWU2I6KNKyfsgnIGqhoasIuEAqhLlkC7o_k7-rHVlay9DGOxGKOhdW56RVwu1DQyggT4pJUyqCTHOYbbth4E/s2048/IMG_8014.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIjuR2-Y_93ANKdL90q5fLKraSHZE6P6zTC56QNPyJDcENH_-6BlhUVR7DWU2I6KNKyfsgnIGqhoasIuEAqhLlkC7o_k7-rHVlay9DGOxGKOhdW56RVwu1DQyggT4pJUyqCTHOYbbth4E/s640/IMG_8014.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAod1UwSNyX9QjpojrDyFXw0jkKrA0VXjb7599rpB5nlS_nwUq5KyEzprEx-b59D-QROYuO2ctWZGuPBy1QDJ2DR0wLFvTU2ELDhKIEETKblsYFb0XpUzGWnZBPdXw5JoJ_hqVTrVkx6s/s2048/IMG_8015.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAod1UwSNyX9QjpojrDyFXw0jkKrA0VXjb7599rpB5nlS_nwUq5KyEzprEx-b59D-QROYuO2ctWZGuPBy1QDJ2DR0wLFvTU2ELDhKIEETKblsYFb0XpUzGWnZBPdXw5JoJ_hqVTrVkx6s/s640/IMG_8015.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhgNwnkIOJ7BSOSabFAToPB5Agg6s_o7FQV317xGsrqPBWQ62V8OK9GqTm-aUfRpz2BQr-aOTGbdD5wtKPDN97WtgVjbpS8rtzHKY0UACyWzRUeP2o7yt20x2FgqdmfkMfSLH30pjk3C4/s2048/IMG_8016.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhgNwnkIOJ7BSOSabFAToPB5Agg6s_o7FQV317xGsrqPBWQ62V8OK9GqTm-aUfRpz2BQr-aOTGbdD5wtKPDN97WtgVjbpS8rtzHKY0UACyWzRUeP2o7yt20x2FgqdmfkMfSLH30pjk3C4/s640/IMG_8016.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>All is proceeding normally:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaIlGsN-FzApgDyP2pOOcZ7qhspnMt4HxAgmu4SDqHkXIRcbhweYcPBFe550Xje0BWDjy71h_5N5cvBR2BUVMwjNm1Z_aAGOSI07qZWImQSWDqlgiSQvzAPP0AGEbPAWINi0r86zih57w/s2048/IMG_8017.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaIlGsN-FzApgDyP2pOOcZ7qhspnMt4HxAgmu4SDqHkXIRcbhweYcPBFe550Xje0BWDjy71h_5N5cvBR2BUVMwjNm1Z_aAGOSI07qZWImQSWDqlgiSQvzAPP0AGEbPAWINi0r86zih57w/s640/IMG_8017.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Install done, reboot time:</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXRteq1iraFNml_e3O2cX19eJEeHbnWdGMdPVMMoXRx6piRwJbAWHx0ICO3SOEqMDAD5q2-ApI1MI9WQSg7Hjfgit8o9oNtTjrHFheVaStj4KgFUSjltK-4Rr0FYYFvScS327n2YN3lxw/s2048/IMG_8019.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXRteq1iraFNml_e3O2cX19eJEeHbnWdGMdPVMMoXRx6piRwJbAWHx0ICO3SOEqMDAD5q2-ApI1MI9WQSg7Hjfgit8o9oNtTjrHFheVaStj4KgFUSjltK-4Rr0FYYFvScS327n2YN3lxw/s640/IMG_8019.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I was working live with the developer via Slack to do this installation to make sure it went well. I am so grateful for the assistance and the support was very very welcome. </div><div><br /></div><div>I set the CF card speed to "2" the recommended speed.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqXlV6YSzu2C9w97F2DHrjhBEz-G4eS1syZRKv1exw8pIaRIIaSXbdi14S8zlo-81ThHHtDWmFYeZo12_VSnfvMYhFn3SY1D_dh9jSNUH4QrE5prfT41kqVqW5dsMOhCpxsZZR6aoITAg/s2048/IMG_8020.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqXlV6YSzu2C9w97F2DHrjhBEz-G4eS1syZRKv1exw8pIaRIIaSXbdi14S8zlo-81ThHHtDWmFYeZo12_VSnfvMYhFn3SY1D_dh9jSNUH4QrE5prfT41kqVqW5dsMOhCpxsZZR6aoITAg/s640/IMG_8020.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Screenmode setting time:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvYDnaK1FI69Lm9cEFrYBALEp0eTbGetGHvXQvAjC_8PDEhuXh9gjkmpa7PxhnR00DRiqQnVb0Oqgu5xmKHqzCTYkui8VcXSkQNdl_A4aGkHS_8XuXtuBQ7UTlMws7p0381vUq7d0Qqso/s2048/IMG_8021.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvYDnaK1FI69Lm9cEFrYBALEp0eTbGetGHvXQvAjC_8PDEhuXh9gjkmpa7PxhnR00DRiqQnVb0Oqgu5xmKHqzCTYkui8VcXSkQNdl_A4aGkHS_8XuXtuBQ7UTlMws7p0381vUq7d0Qqso/s640/IMG_8021.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I set the screen mode settings to 720p. Turns out you need to set 24bit mode, not 32bit mode.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_v_oPgoMzdQzl7u3JHqL2PeFlldOpoZnT6utyEUEBoBcnUH5J7q9q0x2l5aarDzJTFl8ZmWofI0A4v_O3eDpnvT0Yc9y9v-hwXyK-IHBXLF22Bfffa-CQwSWxFTxtYQzG7CD63JyavKg/s2048/IMG_8022.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_v_oPgoMzdQzl7u3JHqL2PeFlldOpoZnT6utyEUEBoBcnUH5J7q9q0x2l5aarDzJTFl8ZmWofI0A4v_O3eDpnvT0Yc9y9v-hwXyK-IHBXLF22Bfffa-CQwSWxFTxtYQzG7CD63JyavKg/s640/IMG_8022.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDC_O2k8XbXV1jYYibwyONeuGohhyphenhyphen16ww1a8i_kAHa1F6jG0YVDgIaYz8AEGVSg5HV5C8D9jgrIu4TcxKv0PJWi8fjJzS2OUIqcWp2cwBT7Zt1KejkhAGHwnBvApvq3fG364jBPcxhmYY/s2048/IMG_8023.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDC_O2k8XbXV1jYYibwyONeuGohhyphenhyphen16ww1a8i_kAHa1F6jG0YVDgIaYz8AEGVSg5HV5C8D9jgrIu4TcxKv0PJWi8fjJzS2OUIqcWp2cwBT7Zt1KejkhAGHwnBvApvq3fG364jBPcxhmYY/s640/IMG_8023.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The system worked, but it was still unstable. The Vampire would lock up quite often on booting or on the Workbench, and the screen resolution was limited to 576p for a stable display without glitching.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhes5a5mXqE0H0GdaVDLCGfyrte982hbvvv2xHpya8NvApN4K0yVf6ukwU4S2CK4KSsMHCyhB-AP7v0mvktmkbmwEiP2qZ0f1ctr1D-Otp7Kh0rQvKpmMoOIKwekl4su6EZOzk39BVVf_s/s2048/IMG_7867.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhes5a5mXqE0H0GdaVDLCGfyrte982hbvvv2xHpya8NvApN4K0yVf6ukwU4S2CK4KSsMHCyhB-AP7v0mvktmkbmwEiP2qZ0f1ctr1D-Otp7Kh0rQvKpmMoOIKwekl4su6EZOzk39BVVf_s/s640/IMG_7867.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>I can hear someone probably tell me something like, you need to upgrade the SAGA drivers, or some other inevitable update I missed somewhere. But after all this mucking around and still not having a stable system, I had had enough. The developer and other beta testers suggested my Vampire 500 is faulty. The card cost me $800....great.</div><div><br /></div><div>I am sorry to Vampire fans out there, but this Vampire 500 V2 hardware is too flaky. It is too unstable and has too many issues to get it working, and to keep it working.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Maybe your experience is different. I really hope so. I read plenty of good stories from people loving their Vampires. But I am burnt now. I am not going to buy another one to replace it.</div><div><br /></div><div>I decided to rip it out and restore the ACA500 accelerator and 68000 CPU back in the Amiga 500 system with a normal AmigaOS 3.1.4 ROM install running (as it was before I installed the Vampire 500 in it). With that done, the Amiga 500 system rans rock solid reliable and no further lockup or other issues since.</div><div><br /></div><div>As those who may remember a while ago, I actually have two Vampire accelerators. I also have one for my Amiga 600 too. This leads me nicely onto the second tale.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>The second Vampire Tale: The V600 V2 AmiKit XE installation</u></b></div><div><br /></div><div>My Vampire 600 has sat inside the dead Amiga 600 it killed for a long time now. I was so angry it killed the system. <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2018/08/vampire-600-v2-accelerator-on-amiga-600.html" target="_blank">This blog post covers the Vampire 600 I did.</a> At that time it briefly worked.</div><div><br /></div><div>However, after a few days, every time the system booted, the first audio to come out of the system was a high pitched sound and would completely lock the Amiga system solid everytime. If I used AHI to set audio to null device it would boot, but of course, no sound. I wanted to destroy the Vampire with a hammer for destroying a perfectly functional system until I installed it in it.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/amigaos-3141-on-amiga-600-and-500.html" target="_blank">I bought another Amiga 600 to replace it</a> as I lack the skills to fix such a fault.</div><div><br /></div><div>Unfortunately the audio output on the replacement Amiga 600 was not perfect, but it least it worked without locking up the system everytime. I left it in a fairly stock state for a long time with no Vampire, running AmigaOS 3.1.4 with A604n, Subway USB and Indivision ECS output. It worked perfectly.</div><div><br /></div><div>So it was with a lot of trepidation I decided to install the Vampire 600V2 in the Amiga 600 for AmiKit XE, given the failed state of the V500 install.</div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4dzWFtvxUvrHMrtZAuYNaRxIc6jgHUvbLUsrA7qGUs6gMbrMizSYgkHraFwE-GOWdrgXBmg3WTPCxX0Zc52xyLXUO84_djY7C_8cgzV-G23h4stNqmqscZch5QfRaKpaTYX-AcrtHFCM/s2048/IMG_8047.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4dzWFtvxUvrHMrtZAuYNaRxIc6jgHUvbLUsrA7qGUs6gMbrMizSYgkHraFwE-GOWdrgXBmg3WTPCxX0Zc52xyLXUO84_djY7C_8cgzV-G23h4stNqmqscZch5QfRaKpaTYX-AcrtHFCM/s640/IMG_8047.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Here is the Vampire 600 installed in the system. I am using a Amiga converted PC ATX PSU from Amigakit to supply more power as I know all these expansion in the A600 need a beefier PSU than the standard one in order to work properly.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkPTjkPDXSpZR6DHOD1aLL78W7fmYmhBHIxfUhPrNSIksYqZZj4mTKzLOdBetljGh_S8u3eC9-xAHB8DWVpHvvpABqrnlUrb9Iu0OoLw3LIkb1SMcyho0NDMGTUEwtnJRc9_h4FNqBey0/s2048/IMG_8051.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkPTjkPDXSpZR6DHOD1aLL78W7fmYmhBHIxfUhPrNSIksYqZZj4mTKzLOdBetljGh_S8u3eC9-xAHB8DWVpHvvpABqrnlUrb9Iu0OoLw3LIkb1SMcyho0NDMGTUEwtnJRc9_h4FNqBey0/s640/IMG_8051.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>This Vampire has been out of use for a long time, so it is still running the 2.10 gold core. Much older than the 2.11 core in the V500.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdA7drD0Xp5SwoP1nBrRVss65sFe2OQv5l5SzrwcJHyVUl2K5eDzTitrMiIItHQB29QMebNj2Ptp5boijNw2uptfOjuGdJrrraW3d7bzp8CXHacNAGu0Bk2OlY2jjeTP8YYmfx2C3SyQk/s2048/IMG_8052.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdA7drD0Xp5SwoP1nBrRVss65sFe2OQv5l5SzrwcJHyVUl2K5eDzTitrMiIItHQB29QMebNj2Ptp5boijNw2uptfOjuGdJrrraW3d7bzp8CXHacNAGu0Bk2OlY2jjeTP8YYmfx2C3SyQk/s640/IMG_8052.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>But, it worked perfectly out of the box with AmiKit XE. I mean, perfectly! everything works, the remapping works, the 720p output works, no lockups.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ6uZyvn9xfAmJVKXg7xI5Q4nbuQgkFRflqNbw7an1wlEwMwF47J_cdJ9yjM1ht7Mk1mYT-PQv-gjrwaTjEy8F-4NJLmZrhMeQqknBfuHhii-1f_nnMB3_OO4H1s4uxb22sTQK6VabzLI/s2048/IMG_8055.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ6uZyvn9xfAmJVKXg7xI5Q4nbuQgkFRflqNbw7an1wlEwMwF47J_cdJ9yjM1ht7Mk1mYT-PQv-gjrwaTjEy8F-4NJLmZrhMeQqknBfuHhii-1f_nnMB3_OO4H1s4uxb22sTQK6VabzLI/s640/IMG_8055.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I couldn't believe it. Wow, a working Vampire system with no issues! I was so happy.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaAS_vSf8l37sLH3ikEYiE-BxEk0vGUhm89kT7aY6hU3ULA7YvGNUTGfPX3LiF39__nXqT1Y43Rn9mFFSf6rs6iwjQ6WV9ty-ausOGmLTDCu_pBW4E0W_EdhzPoo1b57c844YIcbzNkLo/s2048/IMG_8056.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaAS_vSf8l37sLH3ikEYiE-BxEk0vGUhm89kT7aY6hU3ULA7YvGNUTGfPX3LiF39__nXqT1Y43Rn9mFFSf6rs6iwjQ6WV9ty-ausOGmLTDCu_pBW4E0W_EdhzPoo1b57c844YIcbzNkLo/s640/IMG_8056.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I fired up OpenTyrian on it and was delighted to be able to enjoy this on my Amiga 600:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJYybmts21_WNTflRoVmSQwMxktFaZSDWIiApRb0SKycuT92HFq2ghpFcOVhpS-8wybM7ZtlkP4Zd4dvKey8QLfU9dv8CtrUJa1-zJyLw8ZmDh6FbUM3umaPSEJFzgJdrCNStP1XItprQ/s2048/IMG_8058.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJYybmts21_WNTflRoVmSQwMxktFaZSDWIiApRb0SKycuT92HFq2ghpFcOVhpS-8wybM7ZtlkP4Zd4dvKey8QLfU9dv8CtrUJa1-zJyLw8ZmDh6FbUM3umaPSEJFzgJdrCNStP1XItprQ/s640/IMG_8058.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgtcceMKcLg84WLpTGLOaC6SfOXJ4yVkZWxOC4wmFJ4ne2F5AiHlPJx8IAm6eGPJBg1Kn86dSn-ispJWaTq4Hpvu40jhgjlxYwJNRnDNxrhkEdHJRsvJoMHMpGOdELx1eylCifY0l9rbQ/s2048/IMG_8059.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgtcceMKcLg84WLpTGLOaC6SfOXJ4yVkZWxOC4wmFJ4ne2F5AiHlPJx8IAm6eGPJBg1Kn86dSn-ispJWaTq4Hpvu40jhgjlxYwJNRnDNxrhkEdHJRsvJoMHMpGOdELx1eylCifY0l9rbQ/s640/IMG_8059.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I had a look at the Dracula wizard to help with common configuration changes under AmiKit XE:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm9q52-plxYJTnxY0fEDDRXrmykQFK1mhX5vzJT61voG8TbhHrR9USmqCQPeE3Uz33fb9hML9MzcT54rMCtRQ9smAui5AcUCJ38J5G71MUBFcA9qB7On7TUcHldc84nKrb3ErpbXBryAg/s2048/IMG_8061.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm9q52-plxYJTnxY0fEDDRXrmykQFK1mhX5vzJT61voG8TbhHrR9USmqCQPeE3Uz33fb9hML9MzcT54rMCtRQ9smAui5AcUCJ38J5G71MUBFcA9qB7On7TUcHldc84nKrb3ErpbXBryAg/s640/IMG_8061.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiibUmiMFmT4yNBZA1Zfk0lNXjasOgNR9tqNtiXeHxw4Og2YH8efsRLcuTaqVGFfIdTJJvwuzInYo3qoAC9wx15mcdLeTsyxUNkEJE_oLvDcsABaJKqjFusyqxsEThEUydOgcXlFuLZgc/s2048/IMG_8062.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiibUmiMFmT4yNBZA1Zfk0lNXjasOgNR9tqNtiXeHxw4Og2YH8efsRLcuTaqVGFfIdTJJvwuzInYo3qoAC9wx15mcdLeTsyxUNkEJE_oLvDcsABaJKqjFusyqxsEThEUydOgcXlFuLZgc/s640/IMG_8062.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I was happily listening to mods and feeling good about all things Vampire. I fired up Worthy for some more recent gaming fun.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4X1lXcCHSKGM1LHd_HKGdgfu7HhFgB4YSENUuOkHXmp84tEOdODPuGSbeYifoWwAQl-Y3e3xS7ODxlEeVmtdscEp4WA90DsK9Jaz9YNN9h6qgE1RbteTUQ6bwNYqP_C__Ld38chkrc-o/s2048/IMG_8071.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4X1lXcCHSKGM1LHd_HKGdgfu7HhFgB4YSENUuOkHXmp84tEOdODPuGSbeYifoWwAQl-Y3e3xS7ODxlEeVmtdscEp4WA90DsK9Jaz9YNN9h6qgE1RbteTUQ6bwNYqP_C__Ld38chkrc-o/s640/IMG_8071.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I then decided I really should update my Vampire core from 2.10 to the 2.11 core being recommended. So I did that:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-b5llmU46j0ENEyMPKMYioInalLuRok6wOu9JK4xLVZxAVfyKV7movv2D-350EYDuBk7syL3VoGgsUEIFBRFjeR8e4zV1Jx71EwzPn21HwjmamuGkB3KtCtd4jUt3YT_IBXZYxZpZuIE/s2048/IMG_8073.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-b5llmU46j0ENEyMPKMYioInalLuRok6wOu9JK4xLVZxAVfyKV7movv2D-350EYDuBk7syL3VoGgsUEIFBRFjeR8e4zV1Jx71EwzPn21HwjmamuGkB3KtCtd4jUt3YT_IBXZYxZpZuIE/s640/IMG_8073.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5nXCJFpYSMOHzT8hiAMZoXEdYtRLdOuQT68oUnEiq9Do8wt2LrYVUDcg6cHjfghqL8cbP0Gm56l00pUvUtEU1w365fQCFnm9TOXxwfusXm2H6zUmuCEGVpfM6-iqMKw7h1NU3lgXoYwY/s2048/IMG_8074.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5nXCJFpYSMOHzT8hiAMZoXEdYtRLdOuQT68oUnEiq9Do8wt2LrYVUDcg6cHjfghqL8cbP0Gm56l00pUvUtEU1w365fQCFnm9TOXxwfusXm2H6zUmuCEGVpfM6-iqMKw7h1NU3lgXoYwY/s640/IMG_8074.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>All went well with that, and I was soon back on the AmiKit XE desktop, running 060 demos on my Amiga 600 and enjoying the full power of the Vampire:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ8oPwoQj7XdSsYB_HnlEUP5UavvmuXeWnRdrg7DYB7LbmG5X-sND0GjqL1wDbmnVmvQyLb7WPmvcGX7qa1Cqajmh4LdVA00M371zgs4GNGYC_mLVITL18TNbWKSiVTKCjl7jCL-L_pqo/s2048/IMG_8076.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ8oPwoQj7XdSsYB_HnlEUP5UavvmuXeWnRdrg7DYB7LbmG5X-sND0GjqL1wDbmnVmvQyLb7WPmvcGX7qa1Cqajmh4LdVA00M371zgs4GNGYC_mLVITL18TNbWKSiVTKCjl7jCL-L_pqo/s640/IMG_8076.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Playback of music videos at 720p is just awesome.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I had a converter that allows the CF card to be positioned over the PCMCIA slot, away from the Vampire. 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But I can't fix this - I don't have the soldering skills. So my Amiga 600 is now a useless machine. Again.</div><div><br /></div><div>I was so upset and so angry. </div><div><br /></div><div>I finally got a Vampire working well, with AmiKit XE, and then the machine let me down again by me trying to protect it from the very damage that ultimately killed the Ide port.</div><div><br /></div><div>I angrily scooped up the lot and threw it in the cupboard. And so ends the second tale of Vampires.</div><div><br /></div><div>To finish this entry, I moved my Amiga 1200 to have more space on the desk, and fixed up the IDE CF card which had decided to corrupt itself for unknown reasons while sitting off and idle for months. </div><div><br /></div><div>I have a backup CF image I took of this system, and I can reflash when this happens so it doesn't take long to fix. </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGpUkiWs5PorPgW7NXuZwcDOZKedPwQBIoDituVNx9pd2Y51noAL8fal8_SaxW4tHno3EHGXVjEcNq-0igNXiRwLtgHMjQwSDDBOkY4BLqn8Oy4H9byd3jLNb6UhgM5zrCzFchd8K7maI/s2048/IMG_8091.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGpUkiWs5PorPgW7NXuZwcDOZKedPwQBIoDituVNx9pd2Y51noAL8fal8_SaxW4tHno3EHGXVjEcNq-0igNXiRwLtgHMjQwSDDBOkY4BLqn8Oy4H9byd3jLNb6UhgM5zrCzFchd8K7maI/s640/IMG_8091.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>I then enjoyed some 030 AGA demos and promised myself not to buy or play with Vampires again for a long time.</p></div></div>Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-14519882116040052582020-07-11T20:53:00.003+09:302020-07-11T20:53:59.194+09:30Microbee CGA to VGA upscaler on Amiga 1000Today I wanted to take a look at the Microbee CGA to VGA upscaler, which is able to be used on the Amiga to scan double and de-interlace the Amiga native RGB output to a modern TFT screen.<br />
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I must first apologise for the lateness in blog posts. I have been very busy with my new job, which I started recently. I have also been distracted by other projects and training I am working on that are not Amiga related to keep learning new IT skills.<br />
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However, last week I received notification from Facebook that Microbee finally had <a href="http://www.microbeetechnology.com.au/store/cga-to-hdmi-converter-assembled-tested.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">stock of their upscaler devices</a>, (HDMI or <a href="http://www.microbeetechnology.com.au/store/cga-to-vga-converter-assembled-tested.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">VGA output</a>) which are compatible with Amiga's too.<br />
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Normally these units sell out VERY quickly and I have missed out multiple times in the past, so I quickly jumped on their website to grab a VGA version (AUD$129), and the optional Amiga RGB to CGA cable (AUD$22).<br />
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It arrived in the post the other day, and after the usual heavy cleaning due to COVID-19, I could use it.<br />
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I bought this device for use on my Amiga 1000. It is the only Amiga I own without a scan doubler installed. The indivision ECS doesn't fit in the A1000 due to the daughterboard on top.<br />
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Until now I have been using a <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2017/12/acer-lcd-screen-that-supports-amiga.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">15khz compatible TFT screen with the Amiga 1000</a>, connected to a <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2018/08/amiga-500-updates.html" target="_blank">AmiVGA connector to the RGB port</a>.<br />
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Problem with this is mainly that interlace modes don't look good, and the fixed resolution on a 16:9 screen looks a bit funny, with some screen artefacts (lines) that make it less than optimal.<br />
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Enter the Microbee upscaler. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroBee" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Microbee is an interesting company</a>, having made the local Australian built Microbee computers in the 1980's which were used in schools and homes too. I used one myself in computer classes in the 1980's in Perth.<br />
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I remember learning LOGO on the Microbee computers. I also remember that they were networked to a master "server", which would routinely crash when too many people were using the Microbee computers simultaneously...usually just before you finished typing a long amount of code to run.<br />
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I never owned a Microbee myself sadly. The company these days makes this Upscaler to enable the Microbee computer to be displayed on a TFT screen (CGA to VGA). To make it appeal to a broader market they made an Amiga RGB to CGA cable and tweaked the settings to make it work with the Amiga (and other systems like Commodore 128, etc).<br />
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Close up of the Amiga cable - it uses a real DB23 connector, not a shaved 25 pin one, which is great:<br />
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Pin outs for the RGB to CGA cable were included. Fortunately they build the cable for you nowadays rather than having to make it yourself (which you used to have to do).<br />
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On the front of the unit is the Analog/Digital switch and the CGA input port.<br />
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On the back is the VGA port and power input (power adapter is included) to power the unit.<br />
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I set to work connecting up the cables to the Amiga 1000.<br />
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The Amiga cable is very short, so the upscaler unit needs to be close the Amiga 1000 RGB port.<br />
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With it all hooked up, time to test it. On power on, I get the ACA500 boot screen (as <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2016/02/aca500-on-amiga-1000.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I have an ACA500 attached to the Zorro port on the A1000</a>). You can see some blue display garbage at the bottom of the screen, but otherwise looks nice:<br />
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I adjusted the screen settings on my Viewsonic TFT 19" screen to move the display down a bit to remove the blue bit from view and have a nice clear scan doubled Amiga display:<br />
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I booted up my Amiga Workbench 1.3 from CF hard disk:<br />
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The Standard Amiga lores screen works great, although I should mention that there is still some screen artifacting on closer inspection in demos and games. I used a demo "Interference" from Sanity to show this - the purple edging has some artifacting:<br />
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So, well, it is not perfect. But it is not too bad. Compared to some of my other very old scan doublers, this looks much better! Especially when using the Workbench and applications.<br />
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The artifacting is much less noticeable on black backgrounds:<br />
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The output is crisp and looks quite nice actually:<br />
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I tested interlace next and it displays very nicely with no flicker visible:<br />
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When using the normal workbench 1.3 with mouse pointer, I noticed some strange "watery artifacts around the mouse when moving. Not really annoying, but noticeable.<br />
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I am not sure if there is much you can do to optimise this (I assume the serial cable allows connection to the board inside to customise it), but it is ok for normal use and I haven't played with the board setup at all. Strictly tested as it was delivered to me.<br />
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I fired up some more demos that I know use some weird screen tricks (like Wild Copper) and it works well:<br />
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I also tested a game - APB - and with this game you can really see the artifacting up close with a purple backdrop. This is a shame as it kinda ruins things a bit:<br />
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In short, the Microbee upscaler is good, but not perfect for the Amiga 1000. When I have some more time I will try to use it on some other Amigas as well to confirm if the issues I saw are Amiga 1000 specific or not. For now I will keep using it on the A1000 as it looks nicer than using a 16:9 screen and interlace works well.<br />
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<br />Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-12429047324511269672020-05-14T13:30:00.003+09:302020-05-14T13:30:31.562+09:30Live Streaming AmigaOne X1000Sorry for the long wait for another blog post. Today I wanted to look at the setup I have done recently which allows me to live stream the output of the AmigaOne X1000 with AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 1 to the internet via Twitch!<br />
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The last month has been very difficult for me to say the least. </div>
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Work was very busy with the company being taken over, and then finding out that all the IT operations would be moved to Queensland. I was made redundant in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic last week with many of my colleagues. This is like many others globally too I know. </div>
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Unlike many others affected in Australia by this, I am unable to get government financial assistance as the company I worked for was not impacted much by COVID-19, making me ineligible for government help...great.</div>
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Fortunately I saved money for a rainy day, and now it is here. I will be ok for a bit, while looking for a new job. With the market right now being very tough job-wise, I don't expect to find anything for a while.</div>
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This of course means I have some significant free time on my hands, for the first time in many many years.</div>
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I decided first to up skill in various IT I am weak in currently, and one of those areas was streaming technologies. I decided to learn more about how it works, what is needed to set it up, and try to weave my love of all things Amiga into it too by streaming some Amiga generated content out to the world live!</div>
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I was inspired watching some of my favourite F1 drivers live streaming their esports sim gaming (while motorsports are all stopped) to keep their skills sharp. It was a great way to get to know their real personalities better too outside the cockpit.</div>
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To say there was a lot of work to do to get this working was an understatement. But getting it working and live streaming the X1000 on the internet was very satisfying.<br />
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I enjoy gaming too, and in addition to the AmigaOne X1000 I was keen to connect my PC, Nintendo Switch and PS4 to stream as well.<br />
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To do this I needed a lot of things. Fortunately I had most of them already, and for things I didn't have (like a dedicated webcam) I found an innovative solution from Newtek (remember them?) to use my iPad as a dedicated webcam.<br />
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For the capture of the HDMI output from the X1000, I needed a game capture card. Because I plan to use my Mac as the streaming machine (to keep the load off the PC and other devices), I needed to get an external game capture device.</div>
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Previously I had purchased a Game Capture HD device for this purpose, but didn't get far with it, as it is limited to using it's own software on the Mac for streaming, which didn't allow me much freedom with how I wanted to stream content. Also, it couldn't stream 1080p, only 720p due to limits of USB2. (it will though pass through 1080p to your screen)</div>
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The newer devices are sold out worldwide, and so I found one (Elgato HD60S) second hand, and still boxed, on Ebay. After a thorough cleaning after arrival, I could get to work setting it up.<br />
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These Elgato capture devices work by taking an input HDMI source (like PS4, PC, Switch, etc), and passing through the signal to HDMI out port to your normal screen.<br />
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They have a USB cable connection to your streaming PC running the software to grab that HDMI data and give it to the PC to process, either to record to the local disk, or stream live to YouTube, Twitch, Facebook live and more.<br />
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I then use a HDMI switch box to take multiple HDMI inputs (PC, Switch, X1000), and output to this HD60S.<br />
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Something to keep in mind is that this capture device is limited to 1080p60 pass through, so no 4K HDMI connections are possible. The newer HD60s+ model supports this I believe, but I was unable to find one. In any case, most of the systems I am currently using (apart from my PC) are outputting 1080p anyway, so it is not such a big hassle. I changed the PC to output 1080p for now.<br />
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One obvious hassle I knew I would hit early on is the audio from the X1000. Unlike the PS4, Switch, PC, etc, the AmigaOne X1000 does not output audio via its HDMI output. Instead it uses a standard line out phono plug via the onboard HDAudio.<br />
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So I needed to think outside the box on how to fix this and merge the audio into the HDMI output somehow, before it reaches the capture card.<br />
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There is an audio in phono port on the HD60S (unlike the Game Capture HD I was using before), but it is intended to be used for the chatlink function of the PS4, so that audio from the PS4 controller audio input is spliced into the HDMI output. I don't want to use that, since I intended to use it for that purpose later on, and also it is annoying and expensive to buy another set of RCA audio switch box setups and more cables to accomodate different inbound streams in a convenient manner.<br />
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The Radeon Southern Island card installed in the X1000 has DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs, as below.<br />
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I purchased a VGA to HDMI converter from Jaycar Electronics, which has VGA and RCA audio input, with HDMI blended video + audio output. It uses a USB power source.<br />
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I then used a DVI to VGA converter to connect the X1000 to the converter. I then ran a phono to RCA audio cable from the X1000 HDAudio out to the converter.<br />
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I then hooked it up and connected to my HDMI switchbox, which then allowed me to see the output on my screen to confirm the normal output was working<br />
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I checked the audio output was working using the VGA converter to HDMI and pleased to say it worked perfectly:<br />
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Naturally I soon got distracted and tested the audio in a game or two...<br />
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With that done, I turned my attention to the streaming part of this setup, which is connected to my "Trashcan" 2013 Mac Pro.<br />
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I bought this system second hand from Ebay a few years ago (for a fraction of the price of it new) to replace my similarly ageing 2013 MacBook Pro, which was necessary as the battery had ballooned and made the system unusable. The quote to replace the battery was ridiculous so I replaced with a second hand system instead.<br />
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This system is still running Mojave, rather than the newer Catalina. The reason for this is because Catalina dropped 32bit application support, and I still have a number of applications and games that are 32 bit and will not run on Catalina. Including AmiKit XE...I am looking forward to the upgrade for that soon please...<br />
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The software provided by Elgato is functional for basic streaming, but I really wanted to use all the cool features that the freeware OBS Studio makes available for streaming.<br />
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There is an open source variant of this called Streamlabs, which is the software I wanted to use for streaming, and is based on OBS with some other features added to make streaming easier. It allows to use of themes and programming different inputs and screen layouts to make the stream more professional.<br />
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This needed the HD60S device in order to work on MacOS, due to the need to use OBS Link software to connect the game capture device to OBS running under Streamlabs. The older Game Capture HD device doesn't work with OBS Link.<br />
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With that working now with Streamlabs (as above), I turned my attention to the webcam so people can see me when streaming.<br />
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As you may know quality webcams are in high demand due to the working from home happening globally due to the Coronavirus pandemic. In Australia, it is basically impossible to buy one that support 720p or 1080p streaming right now.<br />
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In addition, many countries are simply not shipping to Australia now due to the removal of most flights to/from Australia. This further limits my options!<br />
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I do have an Apple Thunderbolt display, and yes, I could use the 720p webcam on that, but I can't easily re-position the screen in the right place while I am streaming, and since it contains the streaming software too, it would be distracting to look at it while streaming live. I don't want to have to move it every time.<br />
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I know that I could buy an Elgato Camlink to take a camera input, but that would mean spending more money, which in my current position I don't want to do for obvious reasons.<br />
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So, I did some research and found out you can connect iPads and iPhones as webcams over WiFi in Streamlabs using NDI software from Newtek (yep, the Amiga guys) on the iPad! This month Newtek is offering the NDI app on the App store for free so I took full advantage of it.<br />
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This meant I could get an easily movable webcam solution without spending any money! Awesome.<br />
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Here is the setup, showing the X1000, iPad, PC, Xbox One, with the Mac out of shot on the left.<br />
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In the meantime I have working output from the X1000 with audio, ready to stream to the world.<br />
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I did this stream on the 13th May 2020 via Twitch. My Twitch profile is here:<br />
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<a href="http://twitch.tv/EpsilonAUS" target="_blank">http://twitch.tv/EpsilonAUS</a><br />
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If you follow me on Twitch you can be advised when I go live with new streams to view, listen and chat live, or just view the older broadcasts if you miss the live streams. There are some C64 Max and PC gaming streams you can still view too.<br />
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You can see the broadcast for another 14 days from when I wrote this blog post - from this link: <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/videos/619530703" target="_blank">https://www.twitch.tv/videos/619530703</a><br />
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In case you missed that, I also recorded this particular stream locally, and uploaded it to YouTube. You can view it below but recommend you click the link instead: <a href="https://youtu.be/GsYZiXf7AlI" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/GsYZiXf7AlI</a><br />
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Despite my best efforts, I will soon have to mute sections of the YouTube video audio since YouTube are annoying when it comes to copyright claims. The audio they claim copyright is from Supertuxkart and Prototype games when I was playing them. Seriously? freeware games?<br />
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This is why people use Twitch and not Youtube for live streaming. Anyway..<br />
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It was fun doing this, and I have a new high respect for the excellent work of Bill Borsari doing the live streams from AMIWest every year. It is a lot more difficult and involved to setup a professional stream than people think - thanks Bill for your hard work to make that happen.<br />
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I learnt a lot more now about the technologies involved in live internet streaming, and finally getting my AmigaOne X1000 live streaming to the world. I am sure there will be more to follow.<br />
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I hope you enjoy the stream and future ones too!<br />
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<br />Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-76658076190551757652020-04-05T14:44:00.000+09:302020-06-28T08:13:57.020+09:30PiMiga v1.2b for Raspberry Pi 4BThis weekend I decided to take a look at the recently released PiMiga V1.2B Lockdown Edition pre-setup Amiga emulation Amiga 1200/4000 build for Raspberry Pi 4.<br />
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But I made sure to make time this weekend. I really needed a break from work and virus news to play with something new and fun!</div>
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To use PiMiga, I of course needed a Raspberry Pi 4.<br />
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I picked mine up locally in AU for $177 from <a href="https://core-electronics.com.au/raspberry-pi-4-model-b-1gb.html" target="_blank">Core Electronics</a>. As a side note they also sell the very cool <a href="https://core-electronics.com.au/retroflag-gpi-case.html" target="_blank">Gameboy inspired Retroflag GPi case</a>!</div>
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I bought the official Pi case, keyboard and mouse too - the base Pi 4B 4GB board was $102:</div>
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PiMiga includes the latest AmiBerry Amiga emulation, but setup on an almost ready to run bootable image for the Raspberry Pi 4.</div>
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You can get the latest version of PiMiga from the recently setup dedicate Facebook page - just search for PiMiga. The Facebook page includes the link to get the multi-part 7zip archive files (around 16GB worth), and also includes the password needed to extract the files from the archive:</div>
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I then got to work writing out the 30GB image file to a 64GB MicroSD card using my Windows 10 PC and Win32 Disk Imager:</div>
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Once the image file is written out, the only thing we need to do before putting it in the Raspberry Pi 4 is drop the kickstart roms files into the required partition location, as these can't be included in the distribution for copyright reasons. These steps are included in the PDF in the PiMiga archive. </div>
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As per the instructions, the Image once written out to the MicroSD card results in two partitions, one unreadable under Windows 10, and one readable called KICK, which is where we need to copy our legally obtained kickstart roms.</div>
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You can buy them from Cloanto. I got them as part of the Amiga Forever package, so I copied the 3.1 A1200 and A4000 kickstart roms (and the rom.key needed to decrypt) across to the MicroSD card KICK drive:<br />
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Once there, I needed to rename the two kickstart files to the convention required by the instructions in the PDF, as below:<br />
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Excellent. Now we are ready to try it out on the Raspberry Pi 4! I put the MicroSD card in the Pi4 and powered on. After some quick setup stuff that was invisible it rebooted into the PiMiga environment with a nice splash boot screen and boot sound:</div>
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Here is the booted Amiga 1200 Hard disk emulated Workbench 3.1 desktop - looks pretty awesome:</div>
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Something I found out though is that I needed to use the Micro HDMI port closest to the USB-C power adapter port on the Pi 4B to hear any audio output.<br />
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With that done the mod sounds came through loud and clear and I was very happy indeed!<br />
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Under the hood, This is a Debian linux distribution, running the latest AmiBerry 3.1.3 Amiga emulation distribution. If you press the Function + F12 on the Raspberry Pi keyboard (F12 on a normal full sized keyboard) you get the Amiberry GUI, which allows you to view and change the Amiga emulation configuration, to reset the Amiga emulation, or shutdown the Pi 4 system:<br />
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Clicking through the various emulation options, you can see the A1200 configuration used by default is running 68020 AGA system, with 8MB chip and 128MB fast memory:<br />
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Being an A1200 emulation, it is using the AGA chipset:<br />
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Interesting part next is the hard disk folder setup. This shows that the various folders under linux are mapped to DHx devices under the emulation:<br />
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If you hit Quit or if AmiBerry crashes during the emulation for any reason, you can return to the command line login prompt for linux. You will need the username 'pi' and password 'pima' to login. then type 'sudo reboot' to reboot the system back into the PiMiga system environment.</div>
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There are two configurations in AmiBerry, one for A1200 and one for A4000. The main differences are the memory (256MB versus 128MB), CPU (020 versus 040) - the drives map to the same folders under linux under either system.</div>
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One other thing you do need to do here is configure your USB joystick (if you have one). I have one attached, so I go into the Input settings - by default the emulation is using the keyboard as a joystick:</div>
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With that done, let's now take a look at the PiMiga pre-staged Workbench 3.1 hard disk environment as provided:</div>
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The author of the PiMiga package has gone to a lot of effort to do nice icons, and a logical structure to the program locations:<br />
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The prefs icons are unusual - I haven't seen icons like this before!<br />
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The backdrops of the windows for each drawer are colourful:<br />
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There are icons on the desktop for UAE Control parameters you can change, and also shortcuts to drawers - it is clear this appears to be using ClassicWB distribution which is modified a lot:<br />
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There are a number of emulators preinstalled, but I haven't tried these yet:<br />
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There is a large number of WHDLoad games preloaded on the PiMiga image, ready to run:<br />
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There are a bunch of demos too. Note that some need the A4000 configuration to run, some need the A1200 configuration to run, depending on their CPU requirements.<br />
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A close up of the drive icons, modelled on Mac Mini systems of old - but looks pretty cool:<br />
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There are a few example movies you can play out of the box on the PiMiga system:<br />
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Being a huge fan of modules, I am pleased to see there are a number of modules out of the box to enjoy, although I plan to add my own large collection to this in due course.<br />
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iGame is setup on the PiMiga system, and indexed with all the thousands of WHDLoad games ready to run on the system:<br />
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I have to admit, I am impressed with the work done on this setup, and grateful it saves me the time to do it myself!<br />
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I ran the SysInfo tool, which surprise surprise resulted in a very fast Amiga, way faster than any real Amiga can run!<br />
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Final Writer 68k is also included, and it was nice to use under PiMiga:<br />
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The shell is VincEd Shell, which I am glad to see has been setup for tab completion for paths, etc.<br />
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There are a number of applications included, like AHX for chip tune composing:<br />
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Perfect Paint is installed for your graphic file manipulation needs:<br />
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Octamed Sound Studio is also installed:<br />
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I shutdown the system and mounted the MicroSD on my separate Linux Mint system, so I could copy my mods, demos, ADF files and more to the card - you can see the Kick drive and rootfs are mounted on:<br />
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I copied a number of ADF's into to currently empty /home/pi/pimiga/adf folder on the MicroSD card:<br />
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I realise with the WHDLoad games on the HD you probably don't need ADF files, but I prefer to have them handy just in case.<br />
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I also put my Amiga 2000 HDF (taken from my real Amiga 2000 hard disk) into the empty HDF folder - I don't plan to set this up right now, but will do so at a later time.<br />
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Under the /home/pi/pimiga folder on the MicroSD you can see the various folders mounted as drives under PiMiga (AmiBerry):<br />
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I quickly added my favourite modules and demos to these folders:<br />
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I unmounted the MicroSD, removed from the Linux PC and inserted back into the Raspberry Pi 4B and booted again. The backdrop changes on each boot:<br />
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I tested some WHDLoad games, such as Agony, which ran well:<br />
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Shadow of the Beast also ran well:<br />
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The USB Joystick also works perfectly:<br />
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I also ran a few demos, as included on the distribution. There seems a small issue with iconx as provided in this image for icon launching of some demos, but apart from that, the demos run fine from the Amiga shell (which is how I normally run them anyway).<br />
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TBL's Starstruck demo runs flawlessly on the Pi4 using the A4000 configuration in Amiberry, which is great news!<br />
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Other demos, such as this one from Focus Design also ran well in A1200 020 configuration:<br />
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For me, the big thing was that AGA 060 demos run perfectly at full speed on the Pi4. I am very happy to see this, and makes the Raspberry Pi 4B a cheap and full speed Amiga emulation platform.<br />
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PiMiga is a free distribution to download and use, and is definitely worth trying out on your Raspberry Pi 4 today! (there is also a Raspberry Pi 3 version but I haven't tested that)<br />
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Please all keep safe out there!<br />
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Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com58tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-60678343575633802482020-03-15T17:51:00.003+10:302020-03-15T18:04:54.812+10:30MorphOS 3.13 and Iris Beta 71 Email on X5000First off I must apologise for the slowness of blog updates this month. I have been quite ill for the past two weeks (especially the last week) with some kind of bad flu thingy. And no, I haven't travelled anywhere overseas or even Australia recently...I am still recovering, so I have been isolating and working from home (just in case) to protect work colleagues and family.<br />
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Despite this, I have still been doing some Amiga stuff this month.<br />
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Before I start on MorphOS 3.13, one thing I have been enjoying on weekends and evenings while being sick at home has been playing Worthy, Blood Money, Pinball Illusions and Simulcra on Classic Amiga 1200 and 500, as part of a monthly gaming high score competition being held on the <a href="http://amigaretro.com/" target="_blank">amigaretro.com</a> forum, run out of Brisbane, Australia for Australian (and other) Amiga users!<br />
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I didn't win, but did finish second in Worthy and Pinball Illusions (Babewatch table) high score competitions last month:<br />
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This month's ECS high score game is Simulcra, and I am leading the high scores so far :-)<br />
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My high score on Simulcra is 25725 - can you do better?<br />
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Feel free to join in on <a href="http://amigaretro.com/" target="_blank">amigaretro.com</a> forums if you want to take part too.<br />
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With the Coronavirus forcing a lot of people locally and globally to be at home, I am hoping more people will try to beat the high scores on their Amiga systems!<br />
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One other thing I have sorted out last week is my new NBN internet access. Since moving to my new home in January last year, I have been waiting for NBN to be available at this address, and using mobile 4GX internet in the meantime.<br />
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For those not in Australia, NBN (National Broadband Network) is Australia's new crappy internet to replace the even crappier ADSL we used before. Hand crafted by the best accountants in Canberra, the final version of the NBN supplied to most households is a mishmash of shitty technologies, resulting in far from optimal performance. For IT people like myself, it is incredibly frustrating to see the final crappy resulting internet rolled out to many homes (including mine).<br />
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Now it is available and it is installed in my house. I now have the maximum available NBN 100Mbps download speed (theoretically) to my house. In reality it is around 90Mbps during peak evening usage, but a big improvement on 16Mbps variable internet performance under 4GX and 8Mbps under ADSL I had before...so, it is better. My AmigaOne X5000, X1000 and other Classic Amiga systems can all use it too:<br />
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In reality, in the global scheme of Internet, Australia's internet speed is still awful. Truly awful. I had 1Gbps fibre internet direct to my apartment when living in Tokyo 10 years ago. 10Gbps is the standard now, with 100Gbps trials underway in Tokyo for the next phase...we are soo far behind.<br />
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Anyway, it is what it is. Here I now have 100Mbps download speed via Hybrid Fibre Coaxial Connection (Coaxial Cable from the nearest fibre node to my house) with 20Mbps upload. This makes doing blog posts much easier now for image uploading. On ADSL at my old place I have been uploading at 512kbps!! It took so long to upload photos for a single blog entry for years and years, but now no more!<br />
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Let's move onto MorphOS 3.13, released recently as a bug fixed version of MorphOS 3.12 released late last year.<br />
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We now have our first 2020 NG Amiga OS released which is exciting! I burned off the CD-R ISO image from the MorphOS team website to load onto my AmigaOne X5000.<br />
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I covered <a href="https://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2020/01/morphos-312-on-x5000.html" target="_blank">MorphOS 3.12 installation</a> in some detail on my blog <a href="https://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2020/01/morphos-312-on-x5000.html" target="_blank">here</a> in January, so I am not going into the same detail again here as I am just upgrading it to the new version.<br />
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The CD live booted into 3.13 and I started the installation process:<br />
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The installation prompts to upgrade the existing installation or start a new installation. I want to upgrade my current MorphOS 3.12 so I select that option:<br />
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The setup detects my 3.12 installation on the X5000, which I can select and then click on Update:<br />
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The copy then gets underway - time for a coffee and more fix me up pills...<br />
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Setup completed successfully:<br />
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With MorphOS 3.13 now installed I rebooted the AmigaOne X5000 to boot into the new environment. The main visual change is the window frame theme has been changed from the MorphOS original translucent gradient blue frames to the flat blue (more Workbench 3.1 looking) theme. I like the new theme actually, feels more Amiga now:<br />
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Because my purchased registration file is already installed on the system, the upgrade OS is already fully activated and works without any restrictions. It runs well.<br />
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I also took the opportunity to upgrade my Powerbook G4 15" to the latest 3.13 MorphOS release, which worked perfectly as well:<br />
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I returned to my AmigaOne X5000 to download and try out the <a href="https://iris-morphos.com/" target="_blank">new Iris email program (Beta 71)</a> under MorphOS 3.13. I am pleased to report it works very well with Gmail, supporting HTML format emails, embedded images in emails, and more.<br />
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There are some great developments going on for MorphOS like Iris, and provided at no cost for MorphOS users to get more value from their systems!<br />
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Some of the features of Iris email client are:<br />
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<li>Extensive IMAP support based on VMime, including local storage and folder management</li>
<li>OAuth2 authentication support for GMail, Outlook.com and Yahoo! Mail</li>
<li>Support for all common authentication and security methods</li>
<li>Support for custom / self-signed server certificates</li>
<li>Encryption of passwords and authentication keys via cryptostorage.library</li>
<li>Email account autoconfiguration</li>
<li>Multiple accounts</li>
<li>HTML email support within the application thanks to inclusion of WebKit</li>
<li>Rich text email editing, including a spell checker</li>
<li>Attachments including embedding images in emails</li>
<li>Full Unicode support, everywhere in the application</li>
<li>Massive multithreading for all of networking and I/O operations</li>
<li>Read-only offline mode</li>
<li>Support for OpenURL</li>
<li>PDF export of emails</li>
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This is an exciting step forward for Email clients on NG Amiga.<br />
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The big feature for me with Iris is the ability to work with Gmail accounts (and others) using IMAP connections, rather than the older fiddly to configure POP3 connections required before.<br />
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Note that I originally did some screenshots below from 3.12 MorphOS on the X5000, which uses the older window frame theme. Iris functionality is unchanged under 3.13, it just uses a different window theme now as the default.<br />
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There is a nice wizard that walks you through the process to add your Gmail account to Iris:<br />
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After putting in your Gmail credentials, you are automatically redirected using Odyssey to Google to login using your Google account and allow the Iris email program to access your emails.<br />
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You need to allow Iris to access your Google account for the email functionality to work:<br />
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Once done, you are prompted to close the Odyssey web browser window:<br />
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The setup was completed successfully in Iris:<br />
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It then populates the mailbox view with the Gmail content using IMAP:<br />
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Under 3.13 MorphOS it still works just as well, now with the new window theme.<br />
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Using Iris under MorphOS 3.13 I sent a test email from the X5000 to validate Iris sends email successfully from Gmail - I embedded an image in the email to test that too:<br />
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The email sent successfully and received in Iris (as I sent it to myself), so I can could see the HTML format email displays correctly with the embedded image in it. Success!<br />
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In the Iris settings, you can adjust the appearance of the columns, default font and spell check:<br />
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Under Accounts option in the Iris title bar menus, you can adjust the Gmail settings, and also your Email signature to use when composing emails, so you can tell everyone you are emailing them from your AmigaOne X5000! Spread the word!<br />
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Having now got Iris working well under MorphOS 3.13, I then relaxed listening to a MorphOS music disk demo from Uprough called Saturday at Joes EP - an oldie but a goodie:<br />
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That's it for today - I hope you enjoy playing around with MorphOS 3.13 on your AmigaOne X5000, Sam 460 or the other supported older PowerPC Mac systems!</div>
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Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-6638561129523267172020-02-10T11:11:00.001+10:302020-02-10T13:31:44.446+10:30WHDLoad games working under Workbench 1.3I found out this week how to get WHDLoad games working under Workbench 1.3!! I always thought it was impossible and that you needed a newer kickstart...I will share how I did it!<br />
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The reality is that WHDLoad itself DOES NOT work on Workbench 1.3, but using a separate program called JST you can run whdload slave files under Workbench 1.3.<br />
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I found out this information courtesy of Johnny Acevedo posting in the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1165510383471979/" target="_blank">Amiga Workbench 1.3 user Facebook group</a> recently.<br />
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JST is how I got this working on my Amiga 1000.<br />
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My Amiga 1000 uses a 2MB memory expansion, plus a ACA500 attached to the expansion slot, as below:<br />
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This allows me to boot Workbench 1.3 from CF card with a v1.3 kickstart - no need for kickstart or hd boot floppies! It was unstable when I <a href="https://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2016/02/aca500-on-amiga-1000.html" target="_blank">first tried this a while back</a> but after flashing the ACA500 firmware to the latest version it works very well and reliable now.<br />
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I am using a 2GB CF card for the Amiga boot drive. I set this CF card originally for the Amiga 3000, so the partition names are labelled WB_1.3 and WB_2.x to support the Superkickstart. But I am not using that here.<br />
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I copied my Amiga 2000 Workbench 1.3 Hard disk setup I did back in 1991 to the WB_1.3 partition, which features Simgen backdrop, tbar window frames and a changed font, upgraded shell, amongst many other customisations I did back then!<br />
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I took the CF card and put it in my A4000 (via USB) so I can copy across the files needed for JST to work on the A1000.<br />
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From the A4000 I downloaded the latest JST archive from the author's website <a href="https://jotd.pagesperso-orange.fr/amiga.html" target="_blank">here</a>. I then extracted the jst binary file from the zip and copied it to c: on the CF card.<br />
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I created a drawer called Kickstarts under the Devs drawer on the CF card, and I then copied the kick34005.A500 files to that drawer. This is needed by JST:<br />
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At the same time I was busy copying my favourite Amiga WHDLoad games from my A4000 hard disk to the Work partition on the CF card so I could try them out...<br />
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With that done, I put the CF Card back into my ACA500 on the Amiga 1000 and booted into the Workbench 1.3 environment.<br />
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To launch the whdload games using JST, you need to called each game slave file from JST in the Shell, as below:<br />
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The readme in the archive includes other parameters you can specify, but note that on a 68000 Amiga 1000 (like mine) most of these are not available to use.<br />
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The first game I tried was Gods - a bad choice as it turned out. Seems my A1000 doesn't have enough chip memory to run it:<br />
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So I picked an older game to start with, Beyond the Ice Palace, which I know works on the A1000 from floppy disk normally.<br />
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Voila! It works! I can play a non-dos game on my Amiga 1000 hard disk using JST with no floppies - how awesome!<br />
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I can even quit the game with F10 and return to the Workbench cleanly, as long as the key mapped for it on the game is on the keyboard...I found a few games use the '*' key on the numeric keypad, a key I just noticed that the A1000 keyboard doesn't have!<br />
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I tried the Nitro slave file next, and Nitro also worked perfectly also using JST!<br />
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Last, but not least I tried out Lotus 2 on Workbench 1.3, which again worked perfectly using JST. Look mum, no floppies!<br />
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I didn't have a lot of time to play with this during the weekend, but I was so excited by being able to play WHDLoad games under Workbench 1.3 I had to try it out quickly late last night, and share how I got it working in case anyone else wants to try it.<br />
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Next step is trying to get it to work from the game launch icons and working out how to remap the quit key without whdload being present. I think fixing the game launch icons is not as simple as copying jst to whdload in c: but stranger things have happened. I'll try it soon.<br />
<br />Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-45901699961771040202020-01-27T01:10:00.002+10:302020-01-27T01:19:10.377+10:30MorphOS 3.12 on X5000One of the interesting features of the AmigaOne X5000 is the compatibility of MorphOS 3.12 with it.<br />
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I was very keen to try this out but I read there are some sacrifices to be made if you want to run MorphOS 3.12 on the X5000. I have to downgrade the included graphics card to a much lower spec graphics card compatible with MorphOS.<br />
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By doing this I then stop AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 1 booting due it's reliance on graphical features of the updated drivers that need the new graphics card to work.<br />
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The X5000 doesn't have two PCI-e 16x sockets and doesn't support dual displays to my knowledge, so only one card can be installed. The X5000 also can't use a PCI Radeon 9250 graphics card (with or without a PCI-e card installed) to boot from - I tried it...<br />
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So you have to choose one or the other. Shame really.<br />
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I decided to try out MorphOS by downgrading to a Radeon X1950 Pro card that I bought from Ebay.<br />
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You can click on the images to supersize them, and see the specific model I bought.<br />
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Here is the card installed in the X5000:<br />
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I took a spare 2TB SATA hard disk to use for MorphOS, and removed the AmigaOS 4.1FE hard disk from the X5000 system.<br />
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This is beause the X5000 only has two SATA ports onboard (and one is for the DVD drive), that means I can only use one hard disk.<br />
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My X1000 is more flexible in this regard with 4 SATA ports built-in. You can add SATA PCI/PCI-e cards to the X5000 if you want more ports. You could also in theory set up a multi boot partition setup with AmigaOS4 and MorphOS but I have not tried that, so I don't know if that works.<br />
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For now I will run the X5000 purely as a MorphOS system. I will continue running AmigaOS 4.1 FE on my X1000, which was my intention when I bought the X5000.<br />
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Below is the X5000 booting up into MorphOS 3.12, from the CD I burnt from the MorphOS 3.12 ISO.<br />
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To do this I needed to select the Boot MorphOS option from the early boot menu (Press Escape on the X5000 boot logo while spinning).<br />
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I hooked up a HP 19" 4:3 TFT screen with DVI inputs to the graphics card initially, as MorphOS is quite picky about DVI output and I wanted to make sure it displayed before trying anything else. I pleased to say it works with the 3.12 CD which is great:<br />
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I tested it again with a DVI to HDMI converter and one of my X1000 HDMI screens. It worked also, and the install MorphOS program appears once MorphOS 3.12 has completed booting!<br />
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I then tried my main 32" HDMI screen with the X5000 running MorphOS 3.12 from the CD and it worked fine too, so exciting!<br />
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So I got on with the installation of MorphOS on the X5000 2TB hard disk:<br />
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After setting the usual screen resolution, date/time and network settings for the installation, I turned my attention to the partition setup. Given I have a 2TB hard disk, the default partition size is a bit small...I raised it up a bit. Later on I'll deal with the remaining space:<br />
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The MorphOS installer then went ahead and installed a bunch of files. Time for a coffee.<br />
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The install completed successfully, reboot time:<br />
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I get the X5000 logo and MorphOS logo as the MorphOS 3.12 system boots from the hard disk for the first time:<br />
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I only got a second to photograph the boot logo as it seriously boots really fast on the X5000 - way faster than AmigaOS 4 on the same system does:<br />
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MorphOS 3.12 desktop on my X5000 after the first boot:<br />
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I downloaded the fonts for the Odyssey web browser next so I could get online:<br />
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That done, I launched Odyssey, which is updated for MorphOS v3.12:<br />
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I visited the new <a href="http://amigaretro.com/" target="_blank">AmigaRetro.com</a> Australian Amiga forum website, started by the Amiga Retro Brisbane group members. I covered my December 2019 visit and presentation in the blog <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2020/01/amiga-retro-brisbane-december-2019.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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I am glad to be part of a new forum focused on Amiga in Australia. If you are in Australia please sign up today!<br />
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My MorphOS 3.12 installation is still the demo version, limited to 30 minutes before it slows downs dramatically and requires a reboot to reset the 30 minute timer. I will register it now that I know it works well on the X5000:<br />
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To do this I run the RegTool in the <b>System:Tools</b> drawer, which packages my details and some of my X5000 details (as a MorphOS license is tied to the physical machine) to send to MorphOS team.<br />
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You need to be connected to the internet for this part, as it submits the details to MorphOS team to process the registration:<br />
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After filling in all the details and submitting, the registration tool (but not the registration itself) is successfully completed. You receive an email later with instructions on payment for the license using PayPal.<br />
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With the payment done, you receive a license file via email that removes the 30 minutes time limit for MorphOS and instructions on how to install it. I found that Gmail tends to treat it as spam mail so if you use Gmail check your spam folders for it!<br />
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With that done, I now have a full MorphOS 3.12 installation on my X5000!<br />
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There is a great resource on getting started with MorphOS, called the <a href="https://library.morph.zone/" target="_blank">MorphOS library</a>. I recommend new users to MorphOS read this as it will help you with getting started using it:<br />
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<a href="https://www.morphos-storage.net/?page=Chrysalis" target="_blank">MorphOS Storage (WarmUp) </a>is another great site for downloading MorphOS software - especially the Chrysalis pack for updating the base MorphOS 3.12 installation to include application, games, emulation and more, all setup out of the box:<br />
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I downloaded the Chrysalis pack iso, and opened it (mounted automatically) to start with:<br />
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It is recommended to read the Installation Guide before proceeding. You need a fresh installation of MorphOS. You should not install the Chrysalis pack on an install of MorphOS that has had other tools, application, games installed as that can cause issues for the installer.<br />
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As my MorphOS 3.12 install is indeed a fresh install, I stepped through the installer for Chrysalis:<br />
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A lot of files then get copied across:<br />
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With the installation complete, I rebooted the system to finish the installation.<br />
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With the Chrysalis pack now installed on my X5000, I can next use Grunch to check for any updates of programs installed on my MorphOS 3.12 system:<br />
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It will show version differences, and you can also install any other software that you may not yet have on your MorphOS installation.<br />
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In order to run AmigaOS4 specific titles under MorphOS (well, a only a handful work), you will need a program called os4emu - note that a lot of AmigaOS 4 stuff still doesn't work under MorphOS, even with this tool installed, but it can help for some older AmigaOS 4 software.<br />
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The legal status of this tool is somewhat dodgy, so I don't include any links here (Google is your friend) and I leave it to you to decide if you want it or not.<br />
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Next, I turn my attention to the hard disk partition setup. Right off the bat I have to say that the HDConfig tool for MorphOS is nowhere near as nice to work with as AmigaOS 4 HDToolbox.<br />
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That said, it is the tool we have to use under MorphOS 3.12, located in the <b>System:Tools</b> drawer:<br />
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With my current partition setup (setup when I installed MorphOS 3.12), HDConfig shows I have a 40GB FFS/LNFS system partition (DH0) and a 128GB SFS Work (DH1) partition. I still have a lot of free space!<br />
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Initially I thought I could just use SFS for the remaining space, and indeed HDConfig will happily allow you to set this configuration - I set up 4 partitions using SFS around 420GB each:<br />
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Here is an example partition setup, DH2 in this case:<br />
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I then went to format the new partitions in HDConfig:<br />
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It asks to confirm:<br />
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It then returns this error message, saying SFS partitions can't be larger than 128GB!<br />
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Why doesn't it tell you that when creating the partitions!! Anyway, I then tried FFS/LNFS instead of SFS as the partition type:<br />
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Because I already tried formatting in HDConfig, it confusingly displays DH2.0 and DH2, and the same for the other partitions I created...<br />
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The format then worked, and I formatted the other 3 partitions the same way, using FFS/LNFS - I can now see them under MorphOS desktop, ready for use:<br />
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I have covered a complete MorphOS 3.10 build before on this blog (<a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2018/04/morphos-310-on-powerbook-g4-part-1.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a> and <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2018/05/morphos-310-on-powerbook-g4-part-2.html" target="_blank">Part 2</a>), covered in lots of detail step by step if you want to see how to do that, without cheating with the chrysalis pack.<br />
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Because of that I don't plan to cover the installation build again here, as I would just be rehashing the same ground again.<br />
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I did establish YouTube works well(ish) on the new Odyssey version under the X5000, which is great to see.<br />
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Next up is getting E-UAE working. With the Chrysalis Pack installation, it includes an almost configured E-UAE setup for MorphOS, but you do need to supply the kickstart roms (available via Cloanto's Amiga Forever) into the Roms drawer under E-UAE, and then point to it from the configuration GUI called rhLaunch under MorphOS:<br />
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As you can see the kickstart rom folder is empty:<br />
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Having loaded some kickstart roms in (from my purchased Amiga forever software), I can now see them under the Roms tabs in rhLaunch:<br />
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I then need to change the Configurations one by one to use the correct kickstart rom file. You can use the search button to list the available roms to choose from:<br />
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Example after changing:<br />
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Don't forget the CD32 configuration needs the extra rom file specified:<br />
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You can set the location of your ADF files (Floppies section) as below in the Settings tab - I have them on a separate partition to the emulation as the ADF files use a lot of space:<br />
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What that done, rhLaunch will then scan the drawer (and sub-drawers) and list all ADF's to quick launch with a given configuration:</div>
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Hard disk files are not supplied as installed by Chrysalis Pack, so I needed to copy my hard disk backups used on my X5000/X1000 for use on this machine - for the A1200 I use my A4000 backup and add the Work partition from MorphOS as it contains my WHDLoad games, demos and music (the all important modules!):</div>
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With that work done, I then launch the emulation - normally it launches in full screen, but you can change the amiga_screen_type field from Custom to Public, and it will then run in a window, as below - make sure you check the height and width fields fit the window size:<br />
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Running on the MorphOS 3.12 Ambient desktop, the A1200/040 emulated system runs very well:<br />
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Thanks to the E-UAE JIT setup (similar as under AmigaOS 4), the 060 AGA demos run perfectly on the X5000 under MorphOS:<br />
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Feeling a bit ambitious to test the limits, I ran three E-UAE sessions simultaneously on the X5000 on the MorphOS Ambient Desktop:<br />
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I am happy to report they all work perfectly well on the X5000 simultaneously, although having three sets of audio at the same time is not so great!<br />
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Here I am running Battle Squadron, Red Sector's Cebit 90 demo and Sanity's Digital Innovation demo in three separate E-UAE instances under MorphOS on the X5000! Cool!<br />
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Here is some more information about the GFX card I have installed on the X5000, courtesy of the Graphics Board program under MorphOS:<br />
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I started copying across a backup of my MorphOS games from my Powerbook G4 system, which I had archived into one 2.0GB archive to make it easier to transfer. The transfer speed was around 20.6MB/s on the X5000.<br />
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I went back to Odyssey to see some real world examples of Web browsers with NG Amiga MorphOS 3.12 so people can know what to expect (and to keep your expectations in check!)<br />
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Accessing Facebook, I found it logged in ok, but the main page didn't display right - it was missing the content! I could see Odyssey was spoofing itself as an iPad from the way the Facebook screen was displayed:<br />
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I changed it to spoof Safari (MacOS) and things started working better and more compatible with Facebook. (no live Messenger though)<br />
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I use ProtonMail, and as expected with it's encryption requirements, after authenticating my account login, it gets no further.<br />
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Gmail works well, but only in backwards compatibility view mode - it doesn't use the modern mail web appearance.<br />
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Using YouTube in Odyssey, it plays video at 360p mostly ok, with some glitches. I suspect some optimisation of Mplayer settings is needed here:<br />
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If I manually select 720p in the settings for playback it is unwatchable in Odyssey:<br />
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The Australian ABC News website renders well, but can't playback video content:<br />
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The same applies to the BBC news website:<br />
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As you would expect, Amiga focused websites render well in Odyssey:<br />
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I tried to use Microsoft Outlook 365/Office365 - which only seems to make progress past the login page if I select to Spoof as Safari (Mac) in the Odyssey options:<br />
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Outlook 365 (Hotmail) works ok in Odyssey:<br />
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Things don't go so well when trying to use Word Online in Odyssey - CSS keeps trying to save as a download rather than being rendered in Odyssey:<br />
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Ultimately Microsoft Word online gives up and makes you exit:<br />
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The point of showing these rendering issues is to show how much progress is still needed on web browser development on NG Amigas. The same issues apply to AmigaOS 4 as well, which uses an older version of Odyssey than what runs on MorphOS 3.12.<br />
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A lot of progress has been made which is great, but there is still a lot more to do!<br />
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I hope all the remaining Amiga browser developers can unify their efforts under Odyssey and make it work with modern web applications and standards, really needed in 2020!<br />
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Next, I listened to some modules using Schismtracker for MorphOS.<br />
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I then tried out some of the MorphOS games from my Powerbook G4. Some work fine, some don't.<br />
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Gigalomania worked fine:<br />
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Voxelnoid worked ok for the most part:<br />
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Some other games that worked ok included Fruit'y, Giana Sisters Return, Open Tyrian, and more:<br />
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I was disappointed that Return To Castle Wolfenstein, GL Quake and some other 3D games either didn't run at all, or didn't render properly, like Neverball. These run perfectly on the Powerbook G4, so clearly the MorphOS 3.12 Graphics card 3D support for the X1950 card is likely the issue here. I had problems with many MorphOS demos too, likely for the same reason.<br />
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That said, many 3D games do run fine on the X5000 with the Radeon X1950 installed, so hopefully it can be fixed in a future release.<br />
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I have a lot more work to do on the MorphOS 3.12 build on my X5000 like setting up Iris email, applications, etc. However, at this point, with a working installation with music, games and classic Amiga emulation working seems to be a good point to end this blog post.<br />
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I plan to cover more about MorphOS 3.12 on the X5000 later on so stay tuned!<br />
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Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-5464748558787316092020-01-24T15:52:00.001+10:302020-01-24T15:52:58.498+10:30Amiga Retro Brisbane December 2019 meetingHappy New Year 2020 to all. I hope you had a great Xmas and New Years!<br />
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I got to visit the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/AmigaRetroBrisbane/" target="_blank">Amiga Retro Brisbane group</a> meeting on Dec 30, 2019 while I was on holiday in Brisbane over the new year period.<br />
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It was great to meet everyone there, enjoy the Amiga systems on display and I was invited to do a presentation about NG Amiga systems too.<br />
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I include a few pictures from the meeting here - please visit the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/AmigaRetroBrisbane/" target="_blank">Amiga Retro Brisbane Group </a>page for more photos from this and other Amiga events they host!<br />
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Amiberry running on a PS One mini:<br />
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Amiga CD32 with SX-1 expansion and playstation controller converter:<br />
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Specially made Amiga 500 PCB from scratch - Red Keg Technologies! A working Amiga 500 using the PCB was also at the meeting! Awesome work:<br />
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The working Amiga 500 PCB running:<br />
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Presentation of the Red Keg A500 board - so much work done and very impressive result.<br />
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Busy meeting and much Amiga chatter, just how I like it:<br />
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Amiga 2000, a little unhappy but got some TLC during the meeting:<br />
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Lemmings on Amiga 1200 using the new black Amiga 1200 case - <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/12/amiga-1200-new-case-build.html" target="_blank">I did a full build using the new case last year here</a>.<br />
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Custom arcade cabinet built locally with a Raspberry Pi and emulation station installed, running Amiga emulation with Blood Money:<br />
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AmiKit XE running Amiga AGA demos like TBL's awesome demos under emulation on my Surface Go at the meeting:<br />
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If you get a chance to attend a Amiga Retro Brisbane event, please do so - it was a great night!<br />
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Also, I visited the new <a href="http://amigaretro.com/" target="_blank">AmigaRetro.com</a> Australian Amiga forum website, started by the Amiga Retro Brisbane group members.<br />
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I am glad to be part of a new forum focused on Amiga in Australia. If you are in Australia (or even elsewhere) please sign up today!<br />
<br />Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-30866140510342516112019-12-08T21:28:00.001+10:302019-12-08T21:28:10.760+10:30Amiga 1200 new case buildFor my final blog post of 2019 I am taking a look at rebuilding my A1200 into the new Amiga 1200 case by A1200.net.<br />
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The new A1200 case was released by <a href="http://a1200.net/" target="_blank">A1200.net</a> via Kickstarter initially and later batches available to some Amiga dealers, including a new local Australian Amiga dealer called <a href="https://www.retrokit.com.au/" target="_blank">RetroKit</a>, which is where I got this case from in the last week. I took advantage of a Black Friday sale of the cases for AUD$105 instead of the usual $150.<br />
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One great thing about a local dealer is quick delivery - I got it within a few days!<br />
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I chose the blue case, mainly because it's my favourite colour, but also because it was much cheaper than the black, transparent, and white (cream) cases...here is the contents as delivered:<br />
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Below is my Amiga 1200, in it's original 1995-1996 Amiga Technologies era case. A lot of upgrades have been done to this system since I got it in 2016, most covered in this blog as below if you want to review as I don't plan to cover them again here:<br />
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<a href="https://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2016/10/amiga-1200-has-arrived.html" target="_blank">https://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2016/10/amiga-1200-has-arrived.html</a><br />
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<a href="https://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2016/10/upgrading-amiga-1200-part-1.html" target="_blank">https://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2016/10/upgrading-amiga-1200-part-1.html</a><br />
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<a href="https://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2016/10/upgrading-amiga-1200-part-2.html" target="_blank">https://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2016/10/upgrading-amiga-1200-part-2.html</a><br />
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<a href="https://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2016/10/upgrading-amiga-1200-part-3.html" target="_blank">https://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2016/10/upgrading-amiga-1200-part-3.html</a><br />
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<a href="https://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/amikit-real-9-on-a4000t-and-a1200.html" target="_blank">https://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/amikit-real-9-on-a4000t-and-a1200.html</a><br />
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There a lot of differences between the original case and this new case (apart from the obvious colour difference), which I will take a closer look at as I work on this build.<br />
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The thing that struck me when first looking at this new case is just how well made it is. It looks wonderful:<br />
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Looking at the back you can see the usual cutouts for the Amiga 1200 Motherboard:<br />
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On this side is the floppy drive hole and completely invisible space allowed for USB ports - more on this later.<br />
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Flipping the case over, you can see that they have created a vented cover for the accelerator/expansion bay, which allows the accelerator to breathe better in the new case.<br />
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In the old case, with 060/PowerPC accelerators you need to remove the non-vented cover altogether to prevent overheating! This is a great feature of the new case.<br />
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The case is made on new materials that don't discolour like the old case does, which is great for the future of my A1200 system!<br />
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Also included is a DVI port (for the rear extra bay), VGA (for the rear extra bay) and floppy eject button to use in place of the existing floppy drive eject button which is cream coloured and doesn't match the new case.<br />
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Some close ups with the old current A1200 system case and the new one side by side:<br />
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As I said, I am impressed with the quality finish of the new case.<br />
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Currently, my Amiga 1200 has an ugly arrangement for the USB ports connected to the Rapid Road USB expansion internally. Since the A1200 old case has nowhere for the usb ports to be mounted without hacking the case, I thread them in the gap between the DVI module for the Indivision AGA mk2 output at the rear of the case:<br />
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The new case has USB cutout ports pre-made, and small holes for the screws to secure the ports to the side of the A1200:<br />
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That said, they are not really cutouts, and getting the holes cut out was a lot harder than I expected. More on this soon. Do this step FIRST, before trying to put anything into the case, as it gets really messy...<br />
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In the meantime, I set about disassembling the old Amiga 1200 system case, so I can transplant the components into the new case:<br />
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After removing the floppy drive, make sure to keep the frame that attaches the floppy drive to the case (and holds the keyboard too) - you will need it in the new case as that part is not included. I then removed the BiFrost A1200 LEDS from the top half of the case.<br />
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Fortunately removing the motherboard is easily done, and you can remove the whole thing (frame and all) by unscrewing a few screws. Keep these screws too, as you will need them for the new case. Here is my empty old case:<br />
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Here is my A1200 motherboard removed, ready for transplanting into the new A1200 case:<br />
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Some interesting design differences are visible between the old and new cases in how they are screwed together. The new case has 3 extra long screw holes (and screws included) at the bottom rear to secure the top half to the bottom half. This is a lot easier than the old screw holes on each side of the case with easy to break clips inside to hold the top to the bottom. I am glad to see the last of those horrible clips:<br />
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With the new case opened up, you can also see the screwing points are populated to make screws more securely fastened, rather than just plastic that the screws screw into (as in the old case):<br />
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You can see in the photo above a potential cutout location for a Gotek/HXC floppy emulator display to be mounted to the top half of the new case if desired. This is a huge improvement over the old case where there was of course no option to easily do this. Mind you it is still not easy to do, but much clearer where the cuts need to be made...<br />
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I pulled out my USB 2 port/single connector from storage, as this type of connector is what the new USB port cutouts in the new case are expecting to have installed there. There is a cutout in the expansion bay also to allow for the cable to route through the case easily.<br />
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Here is the DVI plate included with the case, which allows (in theory) a DVI module from the Indivision AGA mk2 to use this and look like it was always part of the 1200! Unfortunately it doesn't quite do that, which I will show a bit later..<br />
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I turned my attention to the USB cutouts. Now I was hoping the cutouts would just push through, but they don't. They really don't. The plastic is far too thick for this to happen. It is disappointing that these ports were not created as real easy push out cutout ports. Instead you have to cut them out yourself....<br />
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I am not a DIY guy, and this kind of thing is not my forte. Before anyone criticises how badly I did these next steps, please bear that in mind. I know it can be done nicer, better, cleaner, etc. I get it. But no one is here to help me with this and I don't know any other way to make this happen.<br />
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I got a sharp blade, small flat head screwdriver and my wife's small hammer as I don't have a small one!<br />
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I worked away at making the usb port edges, using the pre-built small port indentations in the internal part of the case as a guide.<br />
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Essentially I slowly weakened the plastic around the indented edges of the port, trying to be as gentle as possible - as you can see the plastic on the outside is completely solid and no way you can push out the usb ports - this is a real design flaw in the new case in my view:<br />
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I also used a small drill bit to make the screw holes go through the outside of the case, and used a screwdriver to neaten that once done. I kept working at the usb port edges until I could clearly see the outlines of the ports on the outside of the case:<br />
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Unfortunately it still wouldn't budge, so I used the edge of the flat head screwdriver with a hammer to punch through the case wall in small bits. In retrospect maybe I should have done this step from the outside to prevent making a mess so much of the outside part, but heh, you live and learn:<br />
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Was about this point I realised it was going to be rougher than I had hoped, but no going back once you make the holes, so I pressed forward and eventually the port could be popped out - you can see how thick the plastic is - no way you can pop this out as delivered:<br />
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I smoothed the port edges with a knife and connected a USB stick through the port as tester to make sure it fitted and the ports aligned with the usb port correctly, which it did:<br />
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I then cut out the second USB slot with the same process as the first one:<br />
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The screws that come with the USB ports are too short to connect to the port with the A1200 case in between, so I found some longer ones.<br />
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I couldn't find the perfect fit so I put some washer in between to make it sit flush with the case - but the USB ports are now fitted into the new case:<br />
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I then turned my attention to mounting the A1200 motherboard into the new case:<br />
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I tried connecting the Indivision AGA mk2 DVI module to the DVI expansion plate included with the new case, but the screw holes on the module board don't line up with the single port hole on the case itself:<br />
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This shows the DVI port cutout was not designed for this DVI module...not sure what else could use it to be honest!<br />
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I removed the DVI cutout, and took out a DVI/VGA expansion port I bought a while back from AmigaKit, hoping that maybe it would fit the slot, but unfortunately the screw holes does not quite line up in the new case either - it is close but not close enough to screw it in securely. I guess it fits fine in the original A1200 case but I didn't test that:<br />
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So I gave up and went back to the previous way I had it setup in the old A1200, without a cutout installed:<br />
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When like this, the DVI module can screw successfully into the screw hole in the new case, as it does on the A1200 original case:<br />
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As others have reported in forums, the included floppy drive eject button does not fit the Floppy drive included with my A1200:<br />
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I had a spare A1200 floppy drive (different Chinon model) and it didn't fit that one either:<br />
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The new blue floppy drive eject button is too small for the normal A1200 floppy drive eject button gap in any case - it is clearly much less wide, even if it fitted to an A1200 floppy drive.<br />
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So it is pretty much useless and a real shame. To be honest it looks like it would fit a big box amiga floppy drive (eg. A2000 floppy drive with a front fascia and small drive eject button):<br />
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Anyway, swings and roundabouts right? I pulled out a PCMCIA card to make sure it fitted into the PCMCIA slot hole and connected to the port successfully, which it did:<br />
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Almost there, got the Rapid Road USB installed and connected to the new USB ports on the right side of the case:<br />
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I mounted the BiFrost A1200 LEDS to the top of the case and closed the lid:<br />
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I reckon this system looks very cool indeed:<br />
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The cream coloured floppy eject button doesn't look as bad as I thought it would.<br />
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I fired it up without screwing the lid to the bottom at this stage to make sure things worked. Pleased to say everything worked as expected:<br />
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The USB stick is picked up straight away under AmiKit Real and looks a fully integrated part of the A1200 now with the new case, rather than a messy cable solution around the back:<br />
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Some more shots:<br />
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I still need an Amiga 1200 label for this system, which I have on order from overseas. It is unlikely to arrive before Xmas so I decided not to wait an post this blog entry waiting for the final cosmetic bit to be installed:<br />
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I powered down and flipped the system over to screw in the final screws to secure the lid to the base of the case. I also noted the vented expansion bay slot looks great with my ACA1233n 030 accelerator and real time clock module installed:<br />
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With everything connected up and finished, time to enjoy the completed A1200 system in it's new case:<br />
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And what better way to do that than by running some favourite 030 AGA demos, Closer by CNCD:<br />
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My Kingdom by Scoopex:<br />
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Essence's 1996 Makaveli demo is wonderful on the A1200/030:<br />
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My A600 below alongside the A1200 in it's striking new case. I hope someone makes an A600 case replacement too, as the clips are long broken on my A600 case...I should put the Vampire into the A600 again too at some stage - maybe next year!<br />
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It has been a busy year, and I have done a lot of work on Classic Amigas and NG Amigas. The Amiga 3000, Amiga 500 Checkmate a1500 Plus builds covered in this blog were substantial work but the end results were very worth the effort.<br />
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I thought I'd take the opportunity to show the Classic Amiga room with all these systems now running very well, and seems a good way to finish on in 2019! In this shot you see the A1200, A600, A500 (in Checkmate 1500 Plus case), A4000T, and CDTV/CD32 using the big TV screen at the end:<br />
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On the other side is my Amiga 1000, Amiga 3000, Amiga 4000D and Amiga 2000HD:<br />
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Trying to fit everything in the one shot as a final photo:<br />
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As usual at this time of year I will be occupied with things other than Amigas (I know, hard to believe it right?).<br />
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But not entirely Amiga-less this time. I am planning to visit the Amiga Retro Group meeting in Brisbane after Xmas for the first time and look forward to meeting more Amiga fans there and share information about our latest projects!<br />
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I wish you and your family a very Merry Xmas and a wonderful new Year, and I look forward to sharing more of all things Amiga on this blog with you all in 2020!<br />
<br />Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-38277785603605218932019-11-27T10:41:00.003+10:302019-11-27T10:41:45.816+10:30Amiberry v3 on Pinebook ProHaving spent a lot of time this year doing Classic Amiga projects, I decided to do something a little different for my next Amiga project!<br />
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I decided to try out the <a href="https://blitterstudio.com/amiberry/" target="_blank">Amiberry v3 Amiga emulation</a> distribution for cheap Arm based systems like the Raspberry Pi 4 ($59), and the recently released $199 Pinebook Pro laptop.<br />
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Seems logical on first glance that running Amiga emulation on cheap Arm-based processor systems like these provides a potential cheap platform for Amiga right? Let's find out...<br />
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Let's look at the Pinebook Pro laptop. This laptop is an attempt to create a truly affordable Arm 64bit processor based linux laptop in 2019 for Linux users and developers, costing $199. Pine are also creating a PinePhone (running Linux) costing $149 and upcoming Pinetime (smart watch running linux) as well! You can order the Pinebook Pro laptop and phone (Early adopters) from the Pine <a href="https://store.pine64.org/" target="_blank">webstore here</a>. There is a cheaper lower spec Pinebook laptop for $99 but I didn't look at that.<br />
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Element 14 sells a Raspberry Pi 4 based laptop as well, called a Pi-top and locally in AU <a href="https://core-electronics.com.au/pi-top-with-inventors-kit-raspberry-pi-laptop.html" target="_blank">it costs over $660!</a> . It looks really cheap and plasticky, without being actually cheap to buy. My expectations for the Pinebook Pro were suitably low considering this, but it "looked" better built than the pi-top so I was hopeful...<br />
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I pre-ordered my Pinebook Pro back in August 2019, and I received it this month (November). Opening the packaging reveals a smart looking and well built laptop:<br />
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The Pinebook Pro is meant to be an alternative to mid-ranged Chromebooks that people convert into Linux laptops. It features:<br />
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<li>Magnesium alloy shell</li>
<li>64GB eMMC storage (Upgradable to 128GB eMMC)</li>
<li>10,000 mAh capacity battery </li>
<li><a href="http://rockchip.wikidot.com/rk3399" target="_blank">RK3399 SOC</a> </li>
<li>Privacy switches for the microphone, webcam</li>
<li>BT/WiFi module, and camera </li>
<li>4GB LPDDR4 system memory </li>
<li>128Mb SPI boot Flash. </li>
<li>The I/O includes: 1x micro SD card reader (bootable), 1x USB 2.0, 1x USB 3.0, 1x USB type C Host with DP 1.2 and power-in (3A 5V), PCIe 4x for an NVMe SSD drive (requires an optional adapter), and UART (via the headphone jack by setting an internal switch). </li>
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Keyboard and touchpad look nice. Simple design, but looks well built - to be honest I was surprised by that - reminds me a bit of the old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_(2006%E2%80%932012)" target="_blank">Macbook black laptops Apple used to make</a>, but this is much slimmer of course:<br />
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Pine Logo key in place of the usual Windows or Mac key - it can be used with the function keys to activate and deactivate wifi, microphone and built in web camera functionality as desired:<br />
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As mentioned, this system comes with a 64GB eMMC card inside, but this can be upgraded to 128GB, an optional internal NVMe SSD bridge can be installed to allow for larger data storage.<br />
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The right side of the laptop has a MicroSD card port also included for additional storage (and can boot images from it), along with USB3 port and headphone jack.<br />
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Flipping over the system, you can see actual normal screws! Coming from many years of sealed Apple laptops and non-upgradeable components, it is a breath of fresh air to have a system *designed* to allow users to get inside and upgrade it!<br />
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Opening up the back reveals the battery, main board, speakers, etc. The main board is really small.<br />
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As per the sticker you can connect the cables internally to bypass the battery and power the system without the battery installed.<br />
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There is an enable switch next to the 64GB eMMC card - here is the 64GB card removed from the eMMC system port - you can also see the reset button just above it, used when swapping eMMC cards, and a recovery button, which I have not had to use:<br />
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Never ceases to amaze me how small hard disks have become! After removing a 3.5 inch SCSI hard disk, (and 5/1/4 inch hard disks before that), these are so tiny!<br />
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I ordered an eMMC to USB converter from the Pine store, along with a 128GB eMMC card upgrade:<br />
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Out of the factory the eMMC didn't have a linux image installed on it (!), so I needed to use the USB to eMMC converter to load a downloaded Pinebook Pro compatible linux image (Bionic Debian) onto the eMMC card using my Windows 10 PC and Win32DiskImager:<br />
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With that done the system powers into life:<br />
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Satisfied that the system worked, I then imaged the 128GB eMMC card with Bionic Mate (based on Ubuntu Mate) and installed it into the laptop:<br />
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The system quickly boots up and presents the login page:<br />
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With the desktop now visible, I set to work patching and installing various linux software.<br />
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YouTube videos work well in Firefox on the Pinebook Pro - I am really enjoying the final season 6 of Silicon Valley at the moment:<br />
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MP3 Music playback well too (as expected), with OpenGL plugins working nicely:<br />
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But the focus here of course is Amiberry, the Amiga emulation. You can download it as an prebuilt image for Raspberry Pi systems, but for the Pinebook Pro things are not so straightforward.<br />
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There is a Pine64 build available for Amiberry, but there is work to do to get it working. You have to compile SDL2 for Pine64, related components and compile Amiberry itself too. There are a lot of instructions to follow. I followed <a href="https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/wiki/Compile-for-RockPro64" target="_blank">this tutorial to get things working</a>.<br />
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With the tutorial steps followed, I could run Amiberry from the linux terminal, presenting the familiar WinUAE style GUI launch configuration screen:<br />
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First thing I quickly found out is that the touch pad mouse doesn't work within the Amiberry emulation at all. I needed to connect a USB mouse to use the mouse within the emulation...<br />
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I copied across my kickstart rom files from my purchased Amiga Forever distribution to use on Amiberry - I could then set up a base A500 and see the Insert disk screen of v1.3 kickstart:<br />
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Next, I set up my Amiga 2000 hard disk contents under the Amiberry folder on the Pinebook Pro, and then configured an Amiga 2000 configuration on AmiBerry, using the harddisk folder as a DH0 hard disk:<br />
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I forgot to change the volume label to System in these screenshots. I recreated the hard disk directory to change the volume name to System before moving on. (not pictured sorry!)<br />
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Checked the display settings to make sure using fullscreen and selected Frameskip:<br />
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Next I connect my USB Amiga joystick (that I use on my X5000) to the Pinebook Pro, and selected it in the Joystick configuration in AmiBerry, so I can use the joystick to play Classic Amiga games! By default it uses the keyboard to control it.<br />
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That done, I could then boot my Amiga 2000 hard disk under AmiBerry emulation on the Pinebook Pro:<br />
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I ran Hired Guns from hard disk and it worked well:<br />
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The game ran well, no slowdown or audio issues:<br />
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The important bit for me though, is demos...I started testing a few demos:<br />
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Unfortunately the performance from running complex ECS demos like Sanity's Interference demo is not perfect, and doesn't run 100% smooth.<br />
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It has choppy audio and video from time to time (not all the time, but for complex scenes). The system is clearly not able to keep up with the demands of the emulation.<br />
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I tested the Jesus on E's demo as well. For the most part it works ok and audio is fine, but for parts of it the video chops around and is not perfect:<br />
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But for ECS games, the Pinebook Pro works great. Here I am playing Magic pockets from ADF file under Amiberry:<br />
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Given the slowness of ECS demos on the Pinebook Pro, I didn't see much point in exploring AGA demos and 060 emulation that require even faster systems to work well under emulation.<br />
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Being thorough though, I decided to try it anyway to confirm this.<br />
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I setup a new configuration under Amiberry to emulate my Amiga 4000/060 system - two hard drive folder locations to mount for AmigaOS 3.9 and demos:<br />
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Setup CPU to 68040, enabled JIT and change speed to fastest:<br />
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Enabled AGA chipset, set Extra to A4000:<br />
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I then maxed out the Chip memory to 4MB, 256MB Zorro 3 Fast, and maxed out the onboard memory (16MB) and CPU board memory (128MB):<br />
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I then saved the configuration, and launched the emulation, which bombed out and dumped me back at the terminal screen with an exception!<br />
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I figure this is probably related to JIT, so I turned JIT off in the configuration, removed unnecessary extra memory as well (normal chip memory, etc) and then booted the emulation, and it worked as expected:<br />
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Without JIT the demos run too slow, so I pressed F12 to turn on JIT within the emulation, which didn't crash it to my surprise - well, for a little while anyway. I tested Focus Design's Storm Rider demo, which ran well enough:<br />
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Audio and video in sync, all good:<br />
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I then tried a little more ambitious with TBL's Rift demo, which got as far as the screenshot below and then crashed Amiberry, presumably because of the JIT being enabled breaking something:<br />
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The emulated A4000 system won't boot with JIT enabled, and AGA demos run too slowly without it being enabled within the emulation. With JIT enabled within the emulation after boot, demos crash quickly. I tried several more demos which all crashed out.<br />
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I also tried using an 020 AGA configuration (A1200), without the extra memory, etc, and it still crashed out when booting with JIT enabled. If disabled it boots, but JIT is needed to run demos at normal speed on this system. With it turned on within emulation, demos crash within 30 seconds...the same thing happened when testing 030 CPU and 68882 FPU.<br />
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At this point I feel I have covered the Amiberry emulation on Pinebook Pro as much as is useful to do!<br />
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Perhaps Raspberry Pi 4 runs AmiBerry better as the Pi is the target platform, but at the moment their pre-built image only supports Raspberry Pi 3. I bought a Raspberry Pi 4 a while back but haven't really used it:<br />
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I tried their suggestion of installing DietPi latest build on the Pi 4 and then adding Amiberry as per their instructions.<br />
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Made in the UK! Not often you see that nowadays, nice to see new hardware is not all coming from China:<br />
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But after initial boot of Diet Pi on the Pi 4 to login prompt, the keyboard doesn't work at all for some reason. The keyboard works fine when running Debian on it (as below)..Linux is so frustrating at times, especially on cheap hardware. Sometimes cheap is cheap for a reason...<br />
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I suppose buried somewhere deep on the internet in a wiki or forum post will be some right brain solution to fix it, but my patience for these sorts of Linux problems is very short at the moment. So I gave up on trying to test on the Pi4 for now.<br />
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Returning to the Pinebook Pro...<br />
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Basically, my recommendation is don't buy a Pinebook Pro for Amiga emulation unless you only want to play OCS/ECS games on it. At least until AmiBerry fix the JIT issues running Amiga emulation on this platform.<br />
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That said, the Pinebook Pro certainly fulfills it's intended purpose as competition to Chromebooks that people load Linux onto though! It is also surprisingly well built.<br />
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<br />Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-71034654033118314652019-11-07T10:32:00.001+10:302019-11-07T10:40:05.914+10:30Checkmate A1500 Plus with Vampire 500V2Following on from <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/10/checkmate-a1500-plus-with-amiga-500.html" target="_blank">my build of the Amiga 500 into the Checkmate 1500 Plus case</a>, I have now added a new RapidRoad/X-Surf 100 card, and also found a fix (and some needed bits and bobs) to allow me to install the Vampire 500v2 too!<br />
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At the completion of the work <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/10/checkmate-a1500-plus-with-amiga-500.html" target="_blank">in the last blog post</a>, I was waiting for some bits and pieces to allow me to finish the Checkmate A1500 Plus system the way I wanted to.<br />
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First up is the arrival of a new Rapid Road USB and X-Surf 100 boards, ordered directly from Individual Computers. I didn't have another set for this new (old?) system, so I had to buy new ones.<br />
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Because I plan to install it into a Zorro 2 slot on the Checkmate A1500 expansion module, I need to close the jumper on the X-Surf 100 to enable Zorro2 (Z2) mode of operation:<br />
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With that done, I then mounted the Rapid Road USB onto the X-Surf 100 using the port provided on the board. This then activates the USB ports on the back of the X-Surf 100 card.<br />
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I removed the Subway USB from the ACA500 as I will no longer need it (the RapidRoad is faster anyway), and removed the usb brackets from the back of the case that were used by the Subway.<br />
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I then installed the X-surf 100 card into the case. I needed to bend the end of the bracket slightly to get it to slide in smoothly.<br />
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View of the installed card from the top:<br />
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Being such a skinny card, the X-Surf is well clear of the ACA500.<br />
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I fired it up and it boots up, which is a good start.<br />
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Closer view from the front:<br />
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I needed to install the Rapid Road USB drivers so I pulled out my driver disk. I note that Individual Computers no longer includes the floppy disk and expects you to download it yourself. That is a shame, as the floppy disk is very useful.<br />
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I installed latest Poseidon 4.5 from the floppy disk, which also installed the RapidRoad drivers. I then ran the Trident prefs program and added the device in, but unfortunately it couldn't find it...I tried the Unit setting as 0 and 1 but no go.<br />
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I know this combination should work (well, it works with Vampire 500 setups from what I have read).<br />
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Very timely then that I got the bits I needed to finally install it!<br />
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I pulled out the Vampire 500V2. Last time I used it was in the Amiga 2000 back in December 2016. I did a lot of detailed setup information in my blog post at that time. Wow time has passed so fast!<br />
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<a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2016/12/vampire-500-v2-part-1.html" target="_blank">http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2016/12/vampire-500-v2-part-1.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2016/12/vampire-500-v2-part-2.html" target="_blank">http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2016/12/vampire-500-v2-part-2.html</a><br />
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The 8GB CF card is already fully setup and no further build is necessary to use the Vampire 500 with the Amiga 500. That said, I plan to do more as there have been many firmware updates since then...<br />
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The issue has been that the Vampire 500V2 board didn't sit high enough to clear the installed ACE2 2MB chip memory expansion board nearby in the Amiga 500.<br />
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Here is the solution, a pile of 32pin risers...<br />
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Carefully (and I do emphasize being very careful here as many people break the CPU pins on their Vampire doing this), I added the risers onto the bottom of the Vampire card, to raise the height.<br />
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Not sure how many I will need...<br />
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I removed the ACA500, attached ACA1233n accelerator and the Checkmate expansion extender board as they are not usable with the Vampire 500V2 installed. I did leave the new X-Surf 100 and RapidRoad USB installed though.<br />
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Next, I pulled out the Kickstart 3.1.4 rom - you can see how close the ACE2 expansion is, and why the Vampire needs to be raised to clear it:<br />
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I then removed the 68000 CPU next to it.<br />
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With both chips safely removed with chip extractor, I started testing the fit to work out how many risers were needed:<br />
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Two definitely not enough...<br />
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I found three was scraping the ACE2 chips, so I used 4 risers on each side:<br />
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Now it clears the ACE2 expansion with small room to spare:<br />
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I pushed the Vampire very gently into it's final position:<br />
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Some more views:<br />
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I am happy to finally be able to use the Vampire 500V2 on my Checkmate A1500 Plus system:<br />
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Next I needed to dig out an HDMI screen, which also have a SVGA port. I stole the screen I was using with the CDTV for now, as I don't have any more spare ones with the needed ports.<br />
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I connected the Indivision ECS SVGA output and the Vampire HDMI output to the same monitor, using the input select to switch between them - this is to avoid having two screens.<br />
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I then I fired up the system, and it worked first time, using the HDMI output:<br />
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Workbench appeared using the HDMI RTG screen modes (set to 1024x768x32bit colour for now), so things appear to be working ok with the Vampire installed:<br />
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The Vampire 500V2 has 128MB Fast memory installed, so I still keep the same memory on the Amiga 500 system as I did before with the ACA500 plus ACA1233n combination. The ACE2 expansion provides 2MB of chip memory separately too.<br />
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Now, I need to neaten things up. I purchased two HDMI converter cables from Ebay, one that goes from a bracket mountable female HDMI connector to male HDMI plug:<br />
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The second cable uses a right angled HDMI plug to female HDMI connector:<br />
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I then connected them together:<br />
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I then connected it up to the Vampire 500V2 HDMI port, and tested to make sure the cables worked fine.<br />
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They did, so now I need to mount them into a suitable bracket. I read from others that the best thing to use appears to a dual serial port bracket.<br />
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Luckily for me, I have an old IOBlix Serial Zorro card from my A2000 floating around not being used - it has the required two serial ports in the bracket:<br />
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Here is the bracket after removing it from the card.<br />
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I then mounted the Indivision ECS SVGA port and the new HDMI bracket mountable connector into the two ports. It was a very tight squeeze but they fitted!<br />
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Here is the bracket, now installed in the Checkmate A1500 Plus case:<br />
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I still have an issue though, as I don't have somewhere for the DF0 Selector switch to be mounted now!<br />
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<a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/10/checkmate-a1500-plus-with-amiga-500.html" target="_blank">I mentioned in my earlier blog post</a> that the hole above the old A500 power supply connector seems a logical place, but it needs a metal bracket mounted behind to hold the switch to.<br />
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I unscrewed a SCSI port mounting bracket from an old SCSI port module (from a SCSI card I am not using):<br />
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I lined up the bracket with the hole, ensuring a screw hole appears in the space between the expansion bracket bays and the rest of the case. I then mounted the switch through the former SCSI port hole. It is not perfect fit, I know. But it works.<br />
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I then added a screw with a metal frame to hold the bracket to the rear of the case:<br />
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It now stays in place and is easy enough to access as needed, to switch the Gotek as DF0, or the real floppy drive as DF0, both mounted internally in the case.<br />
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Here is the view from inside the case showing the DF0 selector switch mounting:<br />
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I took my Vampire IDE to CF adapter I bought recently to install in place of the previous CF converter I was using. The reason is because it doesn't need a ribbon cable, so it mounted nice and flush to the Vampire's onboard IDE connector, and allows ventilation a bit better above the board itself:<br />
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It also has an IDE port on top. I thought I would be clever and install the other CF Adapter (set to IDE slave) to allow me a bigger capacity disk:</div>
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Unfortunately it was not visible on the Workbench, and I couldn't see the drive in HDToolbox.<br />
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I decided to remove the extra IDE drive for now.<br />
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I closed up the case, with plenty of changes now to the expansion brackets from the initial build, now that the Vampire 500V2, X-Surf 100 and Rapid Road are installed:<br />
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Closer look:<br />
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With the case on, it makes the system look great again, now running the Vampire 500V2:<br />
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I had some cleanup work to do on the AmigaOS3.9 hard disk, as it was being used with the Amiga 2000 before, which had a Oktagon SCSI card, SCSI CDROM, and Prisma Megamix card installed.<br />
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This system doesn't have those of course, so I had to remove the CD0 dosdriver, and removed the hardware references in AmigaAmp etc.<br />
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The Vampire 500V2 definitely doesn't need the Prisma to playback Mp3 audio flawlessly anyway!<br />
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The system does now have a working X-Surf 100 and Rapid Road USB! I am pleased to report after removing the ACA500 and installing the Vampire 500V2, the RapidRoad is detected in the Checkmate Expansion module Zorro port and now works well.<br />
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As mentioned, the firmware version on my Vampire 500V2 is quite old, from back in 2016. So I wanted to upgrade it. As this CF is all setup to work with the old version, I decided to keep the CF card as a backup, and create a new CF card to work with. That way if I need to revert the firmware version it can be done easily from this CF card.<br />
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I decided to use a 32GB CF card, as above. I downloaded CoffinOS, which is a optimised build of AmigaOS 3.9 for use with the Vampire 500/600 cards.<br />
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It is a bit shady that they include AmigaOS 3.9 with the image, which is why I am not linking to it. But a quick Google will locate it. You need a Torrent client to download the 16GB compressed RAR file.<br />
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In my case I do own a paid license for AmigaOS 3.9 so it is not an issue for me to use it as distributed.<br />
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I extracted the archive on my Windows 10 PC to the full 32GB image file, and then used WinDiskImage to write it to the 32GB CF card, using a USB to CF reader.<br />
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With that done, I then installed the CF card into the Vampire 500V2:<br />
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On initial boot not much happened. I saw the Vampire boot screen and that was it. It didn't boot into Workbench.<br />
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I know there is a version detection section in the startup-sequence that (coffin-start) that checks the version of the Vampire card installed and prompts to install the latest (at the time of writing) v2.11 Gold firmware. I held down both mouse buttons on boot and selected to Boot no startup. I could then verify the lines in the coffin-start file as below:<br />
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The key bit is the C:GOLD211_V500 program, which is the bit that runs to update the core. So I ran it from the Shell and it then detected the Vampire 500V2 and asked to flash the Vampire with the latest 2.11 version:<br />
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The flashing process ran and completed successfully:<br />
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I then powered down and powered on again to use the new firmware v2.11 Gold version with Vampire 500 V2! It worked, and the updated splash boot screen shows the new version:<br />
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The setup process kicks off and asks me to setup the locale, language, mouse, and network settings:<br />
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I am in Australia of course, so I quickly change the default. After all, we don't all live in the US!<br />
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The workbench screen then appears, initially in a safe HDMI RTG 800x600 screenmode:<br />
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Personal thing, but I hate the CoffinOS default picture. I don't know about you, but each to their own!<br />
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The prebuilt CoffinOS is impressive, with full icon replacement and loads of software, application, games and demos all installed on the CF card, ready to run.<br />
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So I jumped right in, starting with Foundation Gold RTG - a game I could never run on the Amiga 500 before the Vampire:<br />
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I am also impressed with the speed of the Vampire, being able to handle MP3 playback without extra decoding hardware, and providing a beautiful RTG display on modern TFT screens:<br />
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Further proof of the speed of the Vampire is being able to run AmiQuake RTG full screen, on my Amiga 500!<br />
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You can also run Quake2 on the Amiga 500 with the Vampire, albeit at a low resolution compared to Quake. But still very impressive that an Amiga 500 can run Quake 2 :-)<br />
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I was surprised to see that ADescent runs very well on the Vampirised Amiga 500 too:<br />
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Really amazing to see an Amiga 500 do this!<br />
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Turning to the WHDLoad games installed on the CoffinOS CF card, I decided to have a go at Rainbow Islands:<br />
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Being a demoscene person, I had to try the demos next. I was so amazed to see demos I could only run on my Amiga 4000T with 060, run flawlessly on my Amiga 500 with Vampire 500V2:<br />
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Elude's We Come in Peace demo runs better on the Amiga 500 than it does on my Amiga 4000T!<br />
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Last but not least, Ghostown's Metropolice demo, running faster on the A500 with Vampire 500V2 than it does on my Amiga 4000T with 060:<br />
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I have a lot more I still want to do with this setup.<br />
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However, I want to display this Checkmate A1500 Plus system at the Adelaide Retro Computing Group meeting on this Friday, so I will leave it in this working state for now!<br />
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<br />Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-24999498600955815262019-10-28T13:50:00.001+10:302019-10-28T13:50:31.493+10:30Checkmate A1500 Plus with Amiga 500Today I want to cover an Amiga project I have been working on all this month. I picked up a new <a href="http://www.amigasystems.com/" target="_blank">Checkmate A1500 Plus case from iMica Ltd</a>, with the extra bits needed to mount an Amiga 500 in it!<br />
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So I will take a look at the build process and what I found out along the way, which will hopefully help others as they build systems into this very interesting new case!<br />
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It has taken me a month to write this detailed blog post in conjunction with normal work and building the system of course. I hope the detailed information is of use to people!<br />
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I have a confession to make right at the start of this. I heard about the kickstarter for this case late on in the campaign and missed the deadline to register for the Kickstarter!<br />
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I was keen to get one, but of course there is a substantial waiting list for pre-orders for the post-kickstarter backer batch to follow in November 2019. I expected to miss out.<br />
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Luckily for me, one of the kickstart backers decided to sell his project case unopened on Ebay due to health reasons, and I was lucky enough to be able to buy it and get it shipped to me!<br />
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Stephen Jones and his team at iMica has done an amazing job seeing this project from concept to completion!<br />
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Here is the box after opening the package received, which looks great:<br />
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This box is a keeper :-)<br />
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The original kickstarter backer I bought this from has optioned the case for an Amiga 500 installation into the case. You can also install A1200, A600, A1222, Vampire (A500/A600/Standalone?), Raspberry Pi and other MicroATX/MiniATX PC boards too:<br />
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Having unboxed the case, here it is!<br />
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During the Kickstarter you could choose to buy a white (Ivory white) or black case. The original Kickstarter purchaser chose black, and I am very glad they did so. Included in the front fascia is a floppy drive and blanking plate on the right. Both are 5 1/4 inch bays, so you can put 5.25 or 3.5 drives in either bay. This is much more flexible than the A3000 case it is based on...<br />
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As mentioned, the Checkmate A1500 plus case is modelled on the original Classic Amiga 3000 desktop case. Since I am lucky enough to now own an Amiga 3000, here is a comparison shot:<br />
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The new case is a bit wider than the original Amiga 3000 case, which is to accommodate the much wider A500, A1200 system boards into the case.<br />
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There is a small cutout slot at the bottom of the front fascia to mount usb ports for PC motherboard systems. I suppose you could mount other things too of course!<br />
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There is a small hole in the left side of the case, which is clearly intended for the A1200/A600 PCMCIA slot so cards can be installed with the board installed in the case. iMica has really though about the uses and usual pain points for a case carefully when designing it:<br />
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Note that you do need the right case rear piece for the system you are installing into it. For the kickstarter backers they choose this when ordering the case. The one included in the case here is the rear case piece for the Amiga 500:<br />
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You can see the cutouts for the A500 motherboard at the bottom, the keyboard DIN plug (more on this later), the Zorro expansion bay slot and slot for things like Indivision ECS VGA out, USB ports, etc.<br />
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The power supply needs to be an SFX power supply, rather than the normal full form factor ATX power supply (more on this later).<br />
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Also included is a PC motherboard compliant rear case, that can be mounted instead of the A500 one. This one allows for the vertical mounting of expansion cards, and re-positioning of the psu since it no longer needs to sit above an A500 board - there is also more fan mountings since PC motherboards tend to need more cooling:<br />
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Turning the case vertical to look at the bottom, you can see the many different motherboard mount points that have been allowed for in the case. You can also see the vent hole to mount an additional internal larger fan for ventilation.<br />
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If you plan to use this for a PC system build project, keep in mind that you also need the optional case spacers to elevate the case high enough to provide ventilation through this fan.<br />
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Also optioned with this system, is the Amiga 500 keyboard mounting, which allows the original A500 keyboard from your A500 to be re-used with the Checkmate A1500 plus case. It includes all the various Keyboard converters and DIN plugs and keyboard cable too:<br />
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The cutouts for the A500 power and drive lights is very useful. There is a DIN plug connector hole on the back of the keyboard frame, and another hole for mounting a Keyrah (for using an Amiga keyboard as a USB keyboard with a PC system, if such a system is installed in the case):<br />
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Closer look inside the keyboard frame, which is two pieces (top and bottom), and the keyboard mounting frame inside to install the A500 keyboard in:<br />
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Also purchased with this case is the CDROM front fascia (for mounting a slot load cd drive), additional floppy drive fascia, and the keyboard garage supports to raise the case higher to potentially fit a keyboard underneath. Note that the A500 keyboard frame does not fit underneath, so it is intended for PC installations that need cooling and have a small enough USB keyboard to fit underneath.<br />
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Closer look at the cdrom fascia.<br />
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Close look at the floppy fascia:<br />
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I am excited to get started on the build. There is a lot to do!<br />
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But seriously, READ THE INCLUDED MANUAL first. You really do need to read it.</div>
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The last serious upgrade work I did on my Amiga 500 (that was covered on the blog) was <a href="https://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2018/12/amigaos-314-on-a500.html" target="_blank">installing AmigaOS 3.1.4 on it back in November 2018</a>.<br />
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This system has a number of upgrades on it, including Indivision ECS scan doubled graphics output to VGA, ACE2 2MB chip memory upgrade, DF0 selector, Gotek floppy drive emulator, ACA500 with twin IDE CF cards, subway USB and ACA1233N 030 accelerator attached. I covered <a href="https://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2018/11/classic-amiga-upgrades.html" target="_blank">all the upgrades on this blog</a>...<br />
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Here is the "before" shots, showing the Amiga 500 in it's original setup:<br />
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You can see the ACA500 to the side, with the ACA1233n accelerator in it, plus Subway USB using the clockport expansion on the ACA500:<br />
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You can see the Gotek installed in the A500 drive bay, with a DF0 selector to switch to boot DF0 from the external floppy drive when needed.<br />
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I opened up the Checkmate A1500 plus case, to see the internals for the first time. As this is for an A500, there is a special Expansion board already mounted into the case, as well as a 3D printed frame for mounting a slim laptop style CDROM drive into the case:<br />
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Here is a closer view of the expansion board. This board serves a number of important functions for the A500 installation. It provides a Zorro slot extension for the usual expansion slot on the left side of the A500, which would otherwise be unusable once in the case.<br />
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It also provides an additional Zorro II slot for adding an additional Zorro II board, an ATX power connector to supply the A500 with power (which means you don't need to power the A500 via it's normal power supply connector at the rear of the A500 board), and two fan power supplies if you require fans for cooling in the case:<br />
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It also has the power switch connector, which you can connect the included power switch cable from the right hand side power button to power on/off the system.<br />
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Note that Zorro expansion boards need to be flipped over to connect to the expansion module Zorro slots.<br />
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The LED's on the front of the case have dual connectors, based on whether a Classic Amiga motherboard or PC motherboard is being used:<br />
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Since this case is intended to use with an A500, the Power and HDD leads for the A500 have already been hooked up in the case.<br />
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I quickly got to work unscrewing the Amiga 500 case so I could get to the motherboard:<br />
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With the cover off, I set to work removing the Gotek floppy mount:<br />
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Here is a closer look at the ACE2 2MB chip expansion module I installed in a previous blog entry:<br />
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I then did the tedious job or removing the port screws for all the ports on the back of the motherboard that connect the metal shielding underneath the board to the motherboard itself.<br />
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I can then finally free the motherboard from the old system case:<br />
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This A500 system board is a Revision 7 board:<br />
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Next, moving to the Checkmate A1500 Plus case, I removed the drive bay mounting bracket (easily unscrew from the bottom of the case), so I can change the front fascias, held in by screws above and below the bay itself:<br />
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Note that you can't unscrew the front fascia's with the drive bay mounting bracket in place.<br />
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I want to move the floppy drive fascia to the right side of the case so I can install the cd drive fascia in the middle instead.<br />
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I did a quick sanity check by placing the A500 board in the new case to work out the Motherboard screw-in points. I think labelling the screw-in points for each board (A500/A600/A1200/etc) would make this process a lot easier. Even using numbers for each screw-in point and covering it in the manual via diagrams...anyway, it is what it is.<br />
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Below (with the gold motherboard screw-in points attached) is the locations for the A500 motherboard for future reference:<br />
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I also confirmed some points I read from others who did this build and from the manual (yes, I did read it!) - you need to remove the expansion module to install the A500 board in the system case.<br />
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Here is the expansion module once unscrewed from the case:<br />
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Testing for fit and orientation, the A500 board fits the rear case cutouts perfectly:<br />
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Another (closer) view:<br />
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I then took the Amiga 500 motherboard back out, and connected the expansion module to the left hand side of the motherboard using the Zorro connector. This step MUST be done before installing the motherboard in the case.<br />
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It is easy to connect the module to the Zorro expansion on the A500 and does not need to be forced at all - the fit is perfect.<br />
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Closer view:<br />
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With that done, I then lowered the board carefully into the case - I screwed in the motherboard loosely initially:<br />
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I then rotated the case to put in the screws for the expansion module to attach it to the case. This is needed because I found one of the screws can't be reached easily otherwise!<br />
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I show which one with my screwdriver below - it is located under the ATX power connector:<br />
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The screws are included with the case:<br />
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With the system now screwed in, here's how things look:<br />
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Switching to the rear of the case, I set to work attaching the keyboard din connector and cable (supplied with the keyboard frame), as below:<br />
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With this DIN plug you could also use an Amiga 2000/3000/4000T keyboard if you wanted (or A4000D/CDTV with a DIN plug converter). I want to use the keyboard frame that came with this case.<br />
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Here is the DIN plug, connected to the keyboard port on the A500 motherboard:<br />
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Since the A500 uses the keyboard lights to show the Power and drive lights, the converter also includes a Power LED cable as well to connect to the power led on the front of the case, which is great. Note that this cable doesn't include a floppy cable to read the drive signal to a drive led on the front of the case.<br />
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I guess the makers assume you will route a hard disk led light to the drive light on the front of the case so you can see all three lights as needed. (Power light on keyboard/case, floppy drive light on the keyboard only, hdd drive light on the case only).<br />
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I will do more on the keyboard soon.<br />
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In the meantime, I turned my attention to the drive bay inside the case. Naturally I want to have my real floppy drive installed inside the case.<br />
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I could opt to run the Gotek inside the case, but the floppy fascia options with this system stop me doing that. There is a Gotek bay fascia option available to the kickstarter purchasers prior to shipping, but the person who ordered this case originally didn't get it. Until the next batch I can't get it.<br />
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So for now, let's get the floppy mounted. In the A500, normally the floppy drive has three spacer screws under the floppy drive to line it up with the case enclosure floppy opening.<br />
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These spacers need to be removed, and then the drive can be mounted to the Checkmate A1500 plus drive bay mounting, shown below:<br />
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The reason for the slightly offset nature of the eject button is to deal with A600 and A1200 floppy drives, which use a wider eject button than the A500 does.<br />
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I am pleased to say that the floppy drive lines up perfectly with the external fascia and I tested some floppy disks to make sure it inserted/ejected cleanly, which it does!<br />
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Disk inserted:<br />
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The system was optioned with this 3d printed mounting block for a LG DVD mini SATA slimline laptop drive, which is the drive coinfirmed to fit the optional slot load cdrom fascia included. Luckily the purchaser had bought the drive as well, so I could connect it and mount it to the drive bay mounter in the case.<br />
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After I removed the plastic cover on the 3D printed part of course :-)<br />
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Here is the 3D print frame attached to the drive bay mounting. Note that you must remove the drive bay mounting to screw in the floppy drive or cdrom to the case.<br />
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Annoyingly I had to remove the floppy drive too, in order to screw in the cdrom drive to the 3D printed frame...something else to keep in mind when building.<br />
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That done, I screwed in the mounting drive bay frame to the case. The screws for that are underneath the case, which proves to be quite interesting juggling act to hold the case, the drive bay with cd/floppy drives in the right spot while screwing in from the back of the case.<br />
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You can do it by yourself (I did), but if someone holds the bay for you it will be so much easier...<br />
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The drive lines up with the slot load, as I had hoped. Note that there is no way to eject discs from the front! There is a small hole that allows you to "press" the eject button inside using a paperclip or something. I think it would be nice to include something to do this. Instead I will need to use a software eject program under Workbench...anyway:<br />
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I still need some converters and bits for the mini SATA cdrom drive to work on a Classic Amiga (no SATA support), so after ordering them I got to work on other things to revisit this a little later in the build.<br />
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I turned my attention to the expansion bay slots on the Checkmate A1500 Plus.<br />
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It is my plan to connect my ACA500 (as I had in my original A500 setup), with the attached A1233n accelerator and Subway USB using the ACA500 clock port.<br />
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Note that iMica have advised that later ACA500 and current ACA500 Plus models are not compatible with the expansion module in the kickstarter verson of the A1500 plus case. I heard via the Facebook group this week that a fix has been found and can be applied to new setups. Fortunately mine is the original model, which is reported to work fine with the current expansion bay slots I have.<br />
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I also have an Indivision ECS and DF0 Selector switch too, so I set about finding a blanking plate with the "kind of" correct holes to connect them to.<br />
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The two slot has the USB ports from the Subway USB, and the bottom one uses a graphics card blanking plate with VGA, HDMI and DVI-D port gaps. This means I can hook up my Vampire 500 in the future using this same blanking plate for the HDMI port in the future if I want to.<br />
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I used the DVI-D port to screw the DF0 selector switch too. Yes I know, it's not perfect, but it stays in position and avoids drilling anything to install it. The space above the power connector in the A500 (normally used for A600/1200 boards) might be a good spot too, but nothing to screw it into as the gap is too big.<br />
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Here is the view from the other side, inside the case:<br />
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Next I installed the ACA500, with the ACA1233n 030 accelerator with subway usb attached to the clock port underneath:<br />
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This is where I find a problem with the width of the zorro slot expansion plane inside the case. With the cdrom installed, the ACA 500 doesn't sit flat inside the case.<br />
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Actually, to be fair, even if it DID fit, there is nothing to anchor the ACA board to inside the case to prevent it drooping down dangerously onto the motherboard. As it is now, it is 100% supported by the back of the cdrom drive.<br />
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An old style A2000 metal rod across the case would solve this but nowhere to put it without drilling holes...<br />
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If you had a 5.25inch full size CD drive in here, the ACA500 could not be installed in this case. If you rotated the drives around so the cdrom drive was at the other end, the floppy drive is higher than the slimline laptop drive here, so the zorro expansion would be angled up even more so.<br />
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This impacts what Zorro 2 cards you can put into the upper slot as the full width ones can touch the ACA500.<br />
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Keep this in mind if you plan to install an ACA500 in the case.<br />
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I removed the ACA500 next while assembling the keyboard. Actually, the keyboard install is pretty easy.<br />
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I grabbed the old A500 keyboard, and connect the cable to the converter supplied with the keyboard case. I then mounted the DIN plug to the rear of the keyboard frame:<br />
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I then screwed the case together and voila, one nice looking A500 keyboard!<br />
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Another view of the keyboard - they supplied plastic(!) screws for the outside but they wouldn't screw in (too flimsy) so I used normal screws instead:<br />
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In my case I also got the alignment of the keyboard slightly wrong, and had to push it down so the top row of keys could be pressed down - you can see the Escape key is pushed down a bit in the corner:<br />
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You can also see the included DIN cable to connect the keyboard to the Checkmate A1500 plus case, using the DIN plug connector I installed earlier on.<br />
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One of the (many) bits I had on order for this case arrived, which is an SFX power supply. I didn't have one so I had to order one especially. I went with the model I saw being tested with the case in Youtube videos since they are more expensive and I wanted to be sure it is the right one.<br />
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I got a 600W SFX power supply from Corsair, 80 Plus Gold certified.<br />
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Here is the power supply:<br />
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It is modular, and has separate cables for ATX power connection, SATA, Molex, PCI-e, etc.<br />
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First problem I found very quickly. The ATX power cable included with the power supply didn't reach the expansion module connector from the PSU mounting point of the case:<br />
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You can buy extender cables so I was not so concerned about that. I moved the PSU where it could reach safely:<br />
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However, on power on I got nothing. Absolutely nothing.<br />
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I took the ATX PSU from my Sam460 case, and connected the ATX power connectors to the Checkmate A1500 plus expansion module, and it fired up first time:<br />
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It lives!<br />
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However it looks like I need a new SFX PSU. I don't know if the PSU is faulty or it's funky two connector 24 pin ATX power connector conversion thingy doesn't play nice with the expansion module. I organised another one (different brand) to find out.<br />
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Moving back briefly to the SATA DVD drive issue. I received a USB to Mini-SATA converter which I thought would work well for this setup. I had routed two usb ports from the Subway internally to connect to the drive, one for power and one for the data.<br />
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The thinking was that I would mount the CD drive using a usbscsi.device based mountlist entry.<br />
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However the drive didn't receive sufficient power to run the drive. When I put a CD in I listened to it try to take the disc and fail due to insufficient power.<br />
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This makes things a bit tougher now. I could use a mini-SATA to SATA adapter, together with a SATA to IDE adapter, but the ACA500 gives me no IDE port to connect it to as it uses two for the two CF cards onboard, so it has no ide connector...<br />
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I could add a FastATA zorro card to the empty Zorro 2 slot perhaps...will try it later.<br />
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For now I decided to test the system minus the cdrom drive.<br />
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For those observant people who may be wondering, I was having some issues with the internal floppy drive initially, so I used one externally for a time, but I worked out the problem and got it working.<br />
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Note that you need a replacement long floppy drive cable to reach from the A500 floppy connector onboard to the new floppy drive location in the new case. The original one is nowhere near long enough. I ordered a longer one a while back for a different project - I think <a href="http://amigakit.amiga.store/index.php?cPath=21_69" target="_blank">AmigaKit sells them still.</a><br />
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This is the first time I booted the A500 installed in the Checkmate A1500 Plus case, and it works well. For now using the ATX power supply while awaiting another (hopefully working) SFX power supply.<br />
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I celebrated by some WHDLoad gaming - Awesome! (pun intended)<br />
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I also booted the game Solid Gold from floppy drive to confirm the drive worked and the drive led lights up on the keyboard, which it does. Fun little game too, btw.<br />
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Next I hooked up my MAS Player Evolution hardware to the parallel port to be able to playback MP3 music on my A500. I installed the software from the included floppy disk to use it under AmigaOS 3.1.4. I looked at this in detail <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2014/05/installing-mas-player-evolution-on-a600.html" target="_blank">before on this blog for the A600.</a><br />
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Here I am playing MP3's on the A500 using MAS Player:<br />
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I thought now was a good time to try out the extra Zorro slot available on the expansion module. It is Zorro 2 only, and I heard that not all Zorro 2 cards work.<br />
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I needed to remove the external usb ports covering the upper slot to make space for the cards.<br />
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I decided first to try the Picasso II RTG card, which is a working Zorro 2 card taken from my A2000.<br />
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I wanted to use this card as I could then have RTG Workbench support on the A500, and it also features a VGA pass through for the indivision ECS output, which means you don't need two monitor or to switch inputs between RTG and native Amiga output.<br />
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I installed the software from the Picasso II install disk, then powered down to install the card.<br />
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Here is the Picasso II card installed in the Checkmate A1500 plus case. It is a tight fit with the angled ACA500 and accelerator installed, but nothing touches:<br />
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You can tell I had issues with touching in the A2000 case, as I put electrical tape all over the back of the Picasso II to prevent that in the past.<br />
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As you can see, it does clear everything:<br />
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Unfortunately, the system wouldn't boot at all with it installed (it did power on, to a black screen only), so using the Picasso II card is out. Shame really.<br />
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Next I wanted to try to use the A2065 network card, also from my A2000.<br />
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Unfortunately this A2065 card is a lot wider than the Picasso II card:<br />
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The A2065 chips firmly touch the back of the ACA1233n accelerator when installed. It is not safe to run it like this so I didn't try it.<br />
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Previously I used a plipbox with the A500, but with the MAS Player installed in the same parallel port, I have to swap them around, rewire the audio pass-through each time and be forced to choose which functionality I want on each boot...<br />
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The more I mucked around with this, the more it became clear to me that although it is possible to run the ACA500 (original) in the case, I think it was built with using the Vampire 500 v2 in mind.<br />
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The Vampire doesn't need the expansion module since it replaces the 68000 cpu in it's slot.<br />
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However, the bulkiness of the ACE2 chip ram expansion currently in the A500 prevents installing the Vampire 500 v2. They can't co-exist. That is the reason why I didn't put the Vampire 500 v2 in.<br />
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I can't afford to lose the 2MB Chip mem expansion, as the Vampire does not provide any chip memory, only fast memory. The A500 only has 512k chip memory (unless you have a later model), so it is very limited functionality with so little chip memory available.<br />
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The Vampire 500v2 doesn't supply usb connection support either. I use the ACA500 with Subway USB connected to the clockport for that function. I would need a RapidRoad+X-Surf100 card installed. I don't have a spare one (I stole the one in my A2000 for the A3000 build!) so...<br />
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What to do, what to do....I decided to leave the Vampire out for now.<br />
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I turned my attention to trying to get an IDE zorro card working using the spare Zorro slot. These cards are small and don't get in the way of the ACA500 card.<br />
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I brought out my SATA to IDE converter with a 500GB SATA drive. I set this up ages ago but don't currently use it in any system.<br />
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First I tried using the Buddha IDE Zorro card, which was installed in my A3000 until recently, so I know it works perfectly.<br />
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Here it is, now installed in the expansion module upper Zorro slot.<br />
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I temporarily hooked the SATA hard disk (with IDE converter) to the IDE port to test, not mounted in the case yet.<br />
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The system boots as normal, but the drive is not found. I went into HDToolbox but the drive was not even detected.<br />
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I removed it, and connected my CF card that I was using on the A3000. I know it works perfectly as I was using this exact combination setup on the A3000 without any issues.<br />
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I connected it up, it boots up from the ACA500 as expected, but again, the drive on the Buddha card cannot be found.<br />
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Frustrating...<br />
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I recently bought a new Elbox FastATA Zorro card, and briefly thought I might be able to use it in this setup.<br />
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After reading the manual on the disk though, it is very clearly a Zorro 3 board, and so not compatible with the Zorro 2 slots on the expansion module in the Checkmate A1500 plus case. Shame...<br />
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At this point I was quite frustrated as none of the IDE cards worked in the Zorro slot.<br />
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This means the CDROM will not work either, since it relies on having the ide card working.<br />
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So, I decided to remove the cdrom drive for now, and install the Gotek floppy emulator (also originally in the A500) in it's place, routed to the external floppy drive connector this time.<br />
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I removed the drive bay mounting as the cdrom front Fascia needs to be changed over, and the Gotek will need to be fitted to the mounting bay.<br />
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First problem was quickly found though, the included cable from the External Floppy connector to the Gotek was not long enough to reach the mounting bay location, even when opening up the expansion bay in the middle for the most direct route:<br />
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I realised I could fix the issue by using an extension floppy drive cable. Actually, there is no such thing to my knowledge! Thinking outside the box, I remembered I have a straight through RGB port extender cable, which uses the same connectors.<br />
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I connected the cable extender up to the Gotek outside the case (as above), and then I fired it up, just to make sure it worked before I did anything else - the Gotek still worked fine:<br />
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Have to admit I got a bit distracted at this point with demos on the Gotek...<br />
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Having confirmed my solution would work, I hit the next problem - the floppy extender cable connector was too thick (just) to fit through the expansion slot hole in the case. I disassembled the connector so I could fit it through, and then re-assembled the connector afterwards.<br />
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That done, I swapped the front fascia from the CDROM to the additional floppy fascia I have:<br />
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I then got to work mounting the Gotek to the drive mounting bay bracket:<br />
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Not sure if it will line up right...seems a little off...<br />
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Sure enough, it was...<br />
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I removed the mounting screws from the bottom of the Gotek. I should have realised that wouldn't line up earlier! Once removed, the Gotek fitted ok into the floppy fascia - a little snug for the USB port, but it fits.<br />
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I wish I had the Gotek fascia to use, but the original kickstarter purchaser didn't get one so I have to live with it. To be honest it is no worse than it was when installed in the Amiga 500 floppy bay so I am ok with it.<br />
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I then partially re-attached the Expansion bay cover to help prevent dust getting in too much..with the floppy cable running through this is unfortunately permanent. Yes, I could drill a hole in the expansion port to neaten it up, but I don't know if I plan to keep this configuration forever so...<br />
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I pushed the extended cable connector to the gotek floppy drive connector underneath the drive bay mounting bracket. I might tape them together to prevent accidental disconnections before I put the case back on:<br />
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System is starting to come together nicely.<br />
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Inside the system case - just waiting on the new SFX PSU to install so I can finally close up the case.<br />
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You can see with the Gotek installed in place of the CDROM drive, the ACA500 sits much flatter than before.<br />
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I celebrated getting this far with some MP3's via the MAS player in the parallel port.<br />
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The final piece of the puzzle arrived with the new SFX power supply. I selected a Seasonic 300W unit this time.<br />
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As with the Corsair SFX power supply, the ATX power cable lead on the Seasonic was too short to reach the ATX power connector on the Expansion bay module in the case. My extension power lead will be used once again!<br />
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Here is the extension lead attached. Keep this mind for builds in this case with an A500/600/1200 - you need an extension cable for the ATX connector cable unless you are luckier than I was with your SFX power supply choice!<br />
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I did a quick connection and test without installing in the case to make sure it works. I am pleased to say it did, first time!<br />
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I then installed the new SFX power supply to the Checkmate A1500 Plus case.<br />
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I read others had issues screwing their SFX power supplies in due to alignment issues, but I had no issues with mine:<br />
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Here is an alternate view of the PSU now installed in the case.<br />
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I then put the ACA500 and accelerator back in (I had to remove it to route the ATX power cables underneath first).<br />
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Final setup inside the Checkmate A1500 Plus. I may do more upgrades later, but for now I am happy with this setup.<br />
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I then did a final test power on to check everything is ok before putting the case lid on! All good!<br />
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I then rotated the case around to put the lid on, which has to be angled in from the back of the case:<br />
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Finishing touches now - I wanted to attach the included Checkmate A1500 Plus labels to the front of the case and also on the Keyboard:<br />
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With that done, I could finally use the system enclosed as I have been very excited to do!<br />
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Performance of the system is the same as the A500 was before (with the various addons), which were all present in the original system...but packaged much nicer now all inside a beautiful case.<br />
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Some other views of the final system:<br />
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Whew, lots of work but glad to see the end result looking and running so well. I can recommend this case for system builders. You need to be comfortable with building systems yourself to do this, and some patience too, but the end result is so worth it!<br />
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Now if you'll excuse me, some games and demos on my Checkmate A1500Plus system require my undivided attention. :-)<br />
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<br />Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-51119468033014789422019-10-02T11:57:00.002+09:302019-10-02T11:57:58.339+09:30My Amiga 3000 Build Part 3This is final part (Part 3) of my Amiga 3000 build. Please read <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/my-amiga-3000-build-part-1.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a> and <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/09/my-amiga-3000-build-part-2.html" target="_blank">Part 2</a> first if you haven't read them yet - I am continuing on directly from <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/09/my-amiga-3000-build-part-2.html" target="_blank">Part 2</a> and assuming you have read it already.<br />
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Where I left things in <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/09/my-amiga-3000-build-part-2.html" target="_blank">Part 2</a> was planning to install AmigaOS 3.1.4 (creating a superkickstart file with bonus code to use the superkickstart 1.4) and also install a SCSI2SD to replace the 52MB SCSI hard disk I used in <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/my-amiga-3000-build-part-1.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a> while trying to sort out why the SCSI2SD didn't work...<br />
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To facilitate AmigaOS 3.1.4, I really need to sort out the 52MB scsi hard disk. This is because it has very little space to fit AmigaOS 3.1.4 on it. Another reason is because I want to keep my working setup built in <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/my-amiga-3000-build-part-1.html" target="_blank">Parts 1</a> and <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/09/my-amiga-3000-build-part-2.html" target="_blank">2</a> separately, and then add a new build based on SCSI2SD.<br />
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AS readers will know, the SCSI2SDv6 and Aztecmonster SCSI cards I have didn't work correctly. To get started with this I bought a new SCSI2SD with a 16GB MicroSD card (with SD Card converter in included). This came from Amigastore.eu with a 3D printed 3.5 inch drive bay enclosure to fit into the front bay of an Amiga 2000 or 4000. Unfortunately not so useful on the A3000...but no worries, this thing is going inside the A3000 anyway for now.<br />
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Closer look at the SCSI2SD and 3D printed enclosure:<br />
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A quick aside - recently I managed to buy a Freedom Zed desk (my favourite desks) second hand in a Salvation army store. After cleanup and assembly, I moved my Amiga room around a bit to fit it in.</div>
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The problem was that the Amiga 3000 purchase meant the A2000 no longer had a space to setup, and the A600 never did in the first place (it was set up in front of the A1000 temporarily while building).<br />
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The new desk solves that issue. I moved the A600 and A1200 together on the new (old) desk, and moved the A2000 to where the A1200 was before. Now all the systems are setup in the room - here is the A600/A1200 setup:<br />
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Anyway, let's move back to the A3000 build, since it now has it's permanent home!<br />
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I received the AmigaOS 3.1.4 roms and instructions in the post. I registered the roms on Hyperion's website so that I could download the kickstart rom file for the A3000. Because the A3000 rom configuration has two configurations (single combined rom file and two individual rom files for the actual two roms), I want to get the single kickstart rom file for the A3000.<br />
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With that done, the next step, as mentioned in <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/my-amiga-3000-build-part-1.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a>, is to attach the Bonus code to the Kickstart 3.1.4 A3000 file. As done in part 1, I used the MacOS X terminal to "cat" the bonus code to the file. (<a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/my-amiga-3000-build-part-1.html" target="_blank">Please see part 1</a> for the exact command to use)<br />
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As a reminder, this step needs to be done because the bonus code is needed by the Superkickstart 1.4 in the A3000, and must be located in the WB_2.x drive as Devs:kickstart so the A3000 can boot from it.<br />
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With the superkickstart 3.1.4 file now created on the Mac, I copied it via usb stick to my A4000D, and as <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/my-amiga-3000-build-part-1.html" target="_blank">per Part 1</a>, used Makesuperdisk to write out the 3.1.4 superkickstart file (and 1.3 superkickstart file created in part 1) to a floppy disk for use on the A3000:<br />
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This means that when I hold down both mouse buttons on the A3000 during power on, I can select to boot from the 2.X superkickstart floppy. And I happy to report it booted and worked first time, displaying the AmigaOS 3.1.4 kickstart screen:<br />
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So with that working, we can move onto the next step - prepping the new SCSI2SD hard drive for use in the Amiga 3000.<br />
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I need to setup the SCSI2SD to define the scsi devices to be available on the new MicroSD card. I decided to use my Linux Core i7 PC to do this bit. <br />
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I installed the SCSI2SD control software from here and then ran it and connected the SCSI2SD via USB cable to the PC.<br />
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The device was detected by the SCSI2SD-util software. I then selected to import the current configuration from the SCSI2SD card.<br />
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Amigastore.eu had already prepped the MicroSD card as a single
4GB partition running AmigaOS 3.1 (Cloanto) with license key, as below. However,
this configuration can't be used with the Superkickstart as it can't
"see" past the 2GB barrier:<br />
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So we need to setup a 2GB SCSI drive (for locating the WB_1.3 and WB_2.x
partitions to be visible to superkickstart 1.4), and then a larger
drive using the remaining 14GB to use with AmigaOS 3.1.4, which will be
visible once the AmigaOS 3.1.4 superkickstart is loaded. Makes sense?
Ok, great!<br />
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I then modified it as below. I deactivated Device 1, and I then set up one SCSI drive with ID6, with 2GB size on device 2: <br />
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I also set up a second SCSI drive on ID4, 14GB size, to use the remaining MicroSD space:<br />
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Last, but not least, We need to make sure the Enable SCSI2 mode is selected in the General tab. This is needed to work properly on the Amiga 3000. Make sure the SCSI terminator is enabled also.<br />
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I then saved the settings back to the MicroSD card:</div>
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With that done, I disconnected the SCSI2SD from my Linux PC and connected it to the Amiga 3000 internal SCSI port, replacing the 52MB SCSI hard disk:<br />
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For data transfer purposes, I kept the Buddha IDE CF card in the system at this time, but as mentioned, initially it won't be seen by the A3000 superkickstart 1.4 until AmigaOS 3.1.4 superkickstart is loaded.<br />
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I used the Superkickstart 3.1.4 to boot AmigaOS 3.1.4 kickstart from on the A3000 initially, and then booted from the AmigaOS 3.1.4 install disk to Workbench.<br />
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From there, I ran the HDToolbox on the install disk to prep the partitions. As mentioned we need to keep the superkickstart 1.4 visible partitions wb_1.3 and wb_2.x under the 2GB barrier.<br />
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The previous 52MB SCSI disk left me very little space for the AmigaOS 1.3 and 3.1 installs. Fortunately with 2GB to play with we can be a lot more generous. Since the AmigaOS 1.3 partition will be running my old A2000 workbench partition, I want to have more space for more demos, mods and games under 1.3.<br />
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I think 512MB should be enough for WB_1.3, set as bootable, with lower priority 0, since I want the 3.1.4 partition to have priority on normal booting, with the option to boot 1.3 as desired. Fastfilesystem must be used with no international mode or cache set, 512k block size:<br />
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Next up I did the WB_2.x partition for AmigaOS3.1.4. This partition has a higher priority booting so it will always boot on power on by default. As with the WB_1.3 partition, the WB_2.x needs to be fastfilesystem with no international mode or caching set, 512k block size:<br />
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This leaves me 512MB to reach to the 2GB barrier for the superkickstart 1.4 (and AmigaOS 1.3). I decided to use the 512MB left as a shared data partition called HD0, non-bootable. As per the others it has fastfilesystem and no international mode or caching, 512k block size.<br />
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This HD0 data share drive is very important for data transfer to AmigaOS 1.3 from AmigaOS 3.1.4. This is because AmigaOS 1.3 can't see those partitions beyond the 2GB barrier.<br />
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When booting from AmigaOS 3.1.4 using superkickstart the wb_1.3 partition is automatically hidden, so we can't copy any files to it from AmigaOS 3.1.4. By using the data share drive here I can copy to that drive from AmigaOS 3.1.4 (which will have USB support, networking and other goodies), and then boot AmigaOS 1.3 to see it and transfer it where needed - or just leave it there (the more likely scenario as I am lazy!)<br />
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Beyond the 2GB barrier I can do what I like, so the rest of the disk is prepped as a 2GB fastfilesystem partition (HD1) and a 10GB Fastfilesystem partition (HD2) with a 4096 block size. This block size minimum is needed for larger partitions like this otherwise the system will take 10 minutes to validate the partition on boot up each time!<br />
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With the drives prepped, setting saved to the drive in HDToolbox and a mandatory reboot later using the AmigaOS 3.1.4 Install floppy disk, we see the new partitions ready for formatting:<br />
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I formatted WB_1.3 as System1.3, and WB_2.x as System3.1.4. I am pleased to saw that unlike Part 1 with the SCSI2SD v6, with the new SCSI2SD device the format worked fine! Great news, we are in business!<br />
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I formatted HD0 as Data1, HD1 as Data2, HD2 as Data3 (expect to change this later).<br />
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Next I copied the commands I needed from the AmigaOS 3.1.4 Workbench floppy disk to RAM: so I could copy the superkickstart files from floppy disk to the DEVS drawer without having to swap disks all the time. I created the Devs drawer in System1.3 and System3.1.4 partitions and copied the respective superkickstart files from floppy disk to the respective devs drawer for each:<br />
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I then powered off, and powered on, holding both mouse buttons down. I wanted to check that the superkickstarts were correctly located on the partitions, and that I could boot 1.3 or 3.1.4 kickstarts from hard disk now - good start, the hard drive option for both is not greyed out:<br />
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However, when I selected WB_2.x, I quickly realised I forgot an important step...<br />
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Superkickstart 1.4 doesn't like the fastfilesystem version from AmigaOS 3.1.4. It is too new for it. I hit this problem back in <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/my-amiga-3000-build-part-1.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a> too and I am a bit annoyed at myself for forgetting it!<br />
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Anyway, I reverted to an older Workbench 2.0 kickstart (as I did before), so I can boot the Workbench 2.0 install disk and run HDToolbox to change the fastfilesystem. Yes, on reflection I probably could have done it from 3.1.4 too. Not sure why I did it this way, but I did probably because it worked when I prepped the 52MB drive...<br />
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As mentioned, I inserted a Workbench 1.3.2 floppy disk with an old fastfilesystem version and then deleted the newer one from the SCSI HD RDB and replaced it with the old version instead:<br />
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That done, I also copied the Workbench 1.3.2 floppy disk to the System1.3 partition, and then powered off. I powered on, held both mouse buttons and select WB_1.3 to boot from. Now it works:<br />
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Interestingly, AmigaOS 1.3 can see the 2GB Data2 partition I created up to the 4GB barrier. So it seems it is only superkickstart that can't see beyond 2GB. Interesting...anyway, makes data transfer that much easier!<br />
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Now, next I want to install AmigaOS 3.1.4 on the A3000, so I boot from superkickstart 3.1.4 floppy disk (not the hard disk since it is not installed on it yet), so I can start the installation:<br />
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The install proceeds as per the normal AmigaOS 3.1.4 installation that I have covered in <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/amigaos-3141-on-amiga-600-and-500.html" target="_blank">previous builds on the A600 and A500</a>.<br />
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I select the System3.1.4 partition to install the OS to:<br />
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I then swap out the disks as needed to install:<br />
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Install done, ready for reboot!<br />
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Here we are - AmigaOS 3.1.4 installed on my Amiga 3000 using superkickstart 1.4 - fantastic!<br />
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Next I installed the 3.1.4.1 update from floppy disk:<br />
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With that done and reboot completed, things are looking pretty good with AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 now running off the SCSI2SD:<br />
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Next I copied my Amiga 2000 hard disk setup to the System1.3 partition, as I did on the 52MB SCSI drive back in <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/my-amiga-3000-build-part-1.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a>:<br />
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While doing this I found a solution that allowed me to have my cake and eat it too! I saw that there is a SCSI2SD v5.5 in a small external SCSI 3D printed enclosure that can be simply attached to the rear SCSI port on the A3000, rather than using it internally and being unable to easily access the MicroSD card.<br />
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I ordered it from <a href="https://store.inertialcomputing.com/product-p/scsi2sd-v5.5.htm" target="_blank">Inertial computing</a>, and it soon arrived:<br />
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Looks nice and clean, and it is powered from the SCSI bus so no external power needed. The mini-usb port is to program the SCSI2SD that is inside. The other port is a MicroSD port for the drive itself.<br />
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Since I already setup the SCSI2SD parameters (which are saved to the MicroSD card) for the other SCSI2SD earlier, I can simply transfer the MicroSD to this new unit to try it out! Very convenient.<br />
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Here is the new SCSI2SD installed on the rear SCSI port on the A3000. I should get another one for the A2000!<br />
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The A3000 booted AmigaOS 1.3 and 3.1.4 just fine using the new SCSI2SD mounted externally!<br />
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Next up, I formatted the larger 12GB partition created earlier, now that AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 is installed and can "see" it.<br />
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I then copied the contents of the AmigaOS3.1.4 partition to the new drive. I decided to do the same trick I did on the original 52MB SCSI drive, and transfer control to the larger 12GB partition to boot AmigaOS 3.1.4.1, rather than using the smaller partition. I labelled the new large partition as AmigaOS314:<br />
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This also gives me flexibility to boot the smaller drive if something goes badly wrong with the system on the larger partition. Here is the new startup-sequence I created on the original System3.1.4 drive to reassign the key assigns to the HD2 partition and then boot from it.<br />
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This is the same as what I did in <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/my-amiga-3000-build-part-1.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a> using the 52MB scsi drive using AmigaOS3.1 calling the CF card to boot the larger AmigaOS 3.9 partition.<br />
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On reboot, it all worked as expected, and now I boot AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 from the larger 12GB partition, using the WB_2.x to get it started and transfer control.<br />
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Here is the new partition list, including the CF card mounted on the Buddha IDE card (GDH0-GDH3).<br />
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I next transferred all the data from the CF card partitions to the new SCSI2SD card 12GB partition. Once completed I intend to remove the CF card from the A3000.<br />
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Whilel I was waiting for this I thought it a good time to make a backup copy of the Workbench 2.0 install disk set. I realised I only have the original disk set and no backup disks! It gave me a good excuse to fire up the A1000 next to the A3000 to do this with my favourite Xcopy Pro, which I set up a bootable disk for a while back for the A1000.<br />
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With that done, I next installed Picasso96 on AmigaOS 3.1.4 on the A3000, to make use of the PicassoIV graphics card - I noticed a strange yellowish corrupt on the normal inbuilt display which only appears on 3.1.4 - never seen this before now:<br />
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After the install completed and system rebooted, I could then select the 640x480 resolution in true colour (as I did in <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/my-amiga-3000-build-part-1.html" target="_blank">part 1</a>), now running AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 - no issue with the screen now:<br />
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I installed Poseidon USB to get USB support, but I hit a problem with it when I allowed it to run automatically on boot - I kept getting constant recoverable errors, which was strange...<br />
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If I launch it after that manually from the Trident prefs program, it seems to be more stable. Not sure why that is, but not my biggest concern right now.<br />
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I commented out the PsdLoadModule loading line in the startup-sequence for now:<br />
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I later determined that the USB initialisation issue was the Buddha flash zorro card. Once I removed it the USB worked fine, as did my X-Surf 100 zorro card.<br />
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Next I copied the new Glowicons from the AmigaOS 3.1.4 floppy disk (<a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/amigaos-3141-on-amiga-600-and-500.html" target="_blank">as I did in previous AmigaOS 3.1.4 builds</a>) to the hard disk on the A3000. With that done, and using PicassoIV RTG screen mode, I can finally enjoy the full colour glowicons as they were intended to be seen:<br />
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I then proceeded to install the rest of the PicassoIV, Concierto, Paloma TV, MUI 5 and other software as I did in <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/09/my-amiga-3000-build-part-2.html" target="_blank">Part 2</a> on the AmigaOS 3.9 install. I won't bore you with repeating those steps here.<br />
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What I will mention though is that the Horny midi sequencer does not work under AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 at all. It is expecting AmigaOS 3.5 or 3.9. Not sure how I should fix that yet...<br />
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I got sidetracked and did a little more work on the Workbench 1.3 environment (now that I have a lot more disk space) to install many original disk games I have to the hard disk! I could never fit them on my old 52MB SCSI drive on the A2000 back in the day, but now I can!<br />
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I noticed there is a F1 2019 update for the original F1GP on Aminet - Might have to put that on too! :-)<br />
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I also setup SequencerOne to use the Roland SC-88 MIDI Sequencer (via my Serial MIDI expansion) on the Workbench 1.3 side of the A3000. I tried out some MIDI files and it works great.<br />
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I decided to switch back to the AmigaOS 3.1.4 environment again and work on getting internet working next. As you might recall from <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/09/my-amiga-3000-build-part-2.html" target="_blank">Part 2</a>, I couldn't get the X-Surf 100 network card working, and had to use the external Plipbox on the parallel port.<br />
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I want to fix this. Because this is AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 and not AmigaOS3.9, there is no Genesis/AmiTCP installed with it. This means I need to use EasyNet (AmigaKit), AmiTCP (with manual configuration) from Aminet, or try the other commercial option called Roadshow, which is also used under AmigaOS4.<br />
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I decided to try Roadshow (a commercial offering) for something different - I have never tried it on a Classic Amiga before. I purchased it from <a href="https://www.amigashop.org/product_info.php?products_id=200" target="_blank">here</a> and downloaded it from my Mac, and transferred via USB stick to the A3000.<br />
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With the installation completed, it reminds me that configuration is not yet done and needs to be completed to use Roadshow.<br />
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One disappointment with Roadshow (as a commercial product) is that it doesn't include a Preferences program to configure the settings. You have to edit the configuration files manually...frankly I am not impressed with that at all.<br />
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I followed the instructions in the installation.guide file to get things up and running. I already had the x-surf-100.device in my DEVS drawer, downloaded from the official Individual Computers <a href="http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">icomp.de wiki page.</a><br />
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I manually copied the Roadshow X-Surf-100 netinterface file from the Storage/Netinterfaces drawer to Devs/Netinterfaces drawer using the Shell:<br />
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Why couldn't this have been handled in the installation?<br />
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I then edited the X-Surf-100 file to add in the manual IP address configuration by un-commenting the required lines and commenting out the DHCP configuration. In my experience DHCP doesn't work well (indeed at all) on Classic Amigas. YMMV of course:<br />
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I then needed to manually edit the router file in Devs/netinterfaces to specific the default gateway router for the internet.<br />
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I also configured the external Plipbox ethernet card by following the instructions, but didn't leave it in the devs/Netinterfaces drawer, as I don't want to initialise it on each boot automatically. I tested it though to make sure it works, and it did:<br />
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I then moved it to the storage drawer, as everything in the Devs/Netinterfaces drawer is mounted on bootup. To stop this just uncomment the addnetinterface line in the user-startup and run the command manually. I needed to do this as the system would lock up when trying to initialise the card automatically, preventing me reaching the Workbench screen!<br />
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I then tried to manually initialise the X-Surf 100 interface from the shell as per the Roadshow instructions but it didn't work:<br />
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I eventually found the issue was the Buddha IDE flash zorro card (as mentioned earlier), so I removed it from the Amiga 3000 to try again.<br />
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I tried again without the Buddha card installed and it worked straight away:<br />
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I am glad to get the internet working on my A3000 AmigaOS 3.1.4 install using Roadshow, but it really should be easier to configure it.<br />
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I love the dual boot functionality of the Amiga 3000 running Superkickstart 1.4, allowing me to boot my old Amiga 2000 HD environment I setup on Workbench 1.3 back in 1991-1993, and also boot the very latest 2019 AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 release too!<br />
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Unfortunately this setup does mean I can't use my 060 accelerator with the A3000, since this means I have to lose the superkickstart 1.4 and replace it with the Kickstart 3.1.4 roms on the motherboard. The superkickstart roms can't use the 040/060 accelerators at all. It is limited to 030.<br />
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For now I have decided that I am happy enough with the Amiga 3000 setup like this, and will leave it at this point for the time being.<br />
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I hope this build has been interesting to read - I have really enjoyed doing this particular build!<br />
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Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-20050439581066891832019-09-17T16:35:00.001+09:302019-09-17T16:35:09.323+09:30Using the USB3 ports on X5000This blog post is a short one, but I wanted to quickly cover off an annoyance on my AmigaOne X5000 and how I fixed it this week. Specifically I am talking about the non-working USB3 ports on the top of the case it came in...<br />
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The AmigaOne X5000 system (complete with included tower case) does not use the USB3 ports at the top of the case (the ones people generally want to quickly use with USB sticks, etc). Indeed, they are not even connected up inside the case!<br />
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This is because the X5000 motherboard does not support USB3 and lacks the connectors for it. It has USB2 ports on the back of the case that can be used instead.<br />
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On the original AmigaOne X1000 tower case, it had 2xUSB2 ports and 1xUSB3 ports on the top of the case. Only the USB2 ports could be used with the X1000, and the 1xUSB3 ports are not hooked up.<br />
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It was not such a big deal on the X1000 because it had those USB2 ports active on the top of the case.<br />
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I can hear people say, "just use a usb hub from the USB2 ports at the back". I do that already of course.<br />
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But I want to use the USB3 ports on the top of the case on the X5000 anyway.<br />
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Fortunately there is an easy and very cheap solution - thanks to a USB3 to USB2 converter cable, which I bought new on Ebay for $3 and free shipping. :-)<br />
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This is the cable, showing the male USB3 port end, to connect to the USB3 cable from the USB3 ports on the case.<br />
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FYI I did a <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2016/02/new-case-for-amigaone-a1222.html" target="_blank">similar thing on my AmigaOne A1222 system a while back too</a>, as that case also had a similar problem.<br />
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As a small side track on the A1222, I am still busy working on AmigaOS 4 beta testing on the A1222 as an appointed AmigaOS4 beta tester, but unfortunately due to the NDA I can't discuss what I have been testing. I did do a significant chunk of new development testing over the previous weekend and I can also say that I am very glad AmigaOS4.1 development continues in 2019. I hope it continues for a long time to come!<br />
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Back to the topic at hand though - Here is the non-connected USB3 female cable end in the X5000 case, which is connected to the two USB3 ports on the top of the X5000 case:<br />
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On the X5000 motherboard, there is a spare unused USB2 header next to the onboard SATA ports:<br />
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I plugged in the USB2 end of the converter cable to the X5000 motherboard, and the male USB3 connector end to the female USB3 connector - which is connected to the USB3 ports.<br />
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And success! Working USB3 ports now on the X5000! Well, ok, they are really USB2 ports in terms of speed, etc. But they work now!<br />
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A quick upgrade, but for me it was totally worth it. I am really glad to now be able to use the top USB3 ports on the X5000 under AmigaOS4!<br />
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<br />Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-36596503047881151672019-09-07T11:58:00.001+09:302019-09-07T11:58:15.031+09:30My Amiga 3000 Build Part 2In this blog entry I will continue my new Amiga 3000 build. <a href="https://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/my-amiga-3000-build-part-1.html" target="_blank">Please review Part 1 of the build</a> so you know what has been done so far before diving in here, as I am just continuing straight on for this Part 2.<br />
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So let's dive in.<br />
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One of the frustrating things about the Picasso IV in the A3000 is that it doesn't pass through the initial Superkickstart 1.4 scandoubled screenmodes from the native output. This means that the initial boot screen, etc are simply not visible when booting.<br />
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This is not a problem if I want to boot AmigaOS 3.1 as it is the default (and it can see the Picasso IV). But if I want to boot Workbench 1.3 I need the superkickstart boot screen to select the other kickstart to boot from. I also have to use the native Amiga video output as the PicassoIV is not recognised by Kickstart 1.3 (requires at least 2.0 kickstart). This means I have to manually move the VGA cable between the native VGA port on the A3000 and the VGA output on the Picasso IV to do this.<br />
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As a fix, I got a VGA switchbox from my local Jaycar electronics shop, which requires USB power to function. Fortunately I have the RapidRoad USB installed in the A3000, with a connected powered USB hub. So I connected the USB power to it, and connected the output from the A3000 native VGA and Picasso to the switcher, and then connected it to the TFT screen.<br />
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So now I can switch easily at any time between the two outputs.<br />
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I identified the unknown USB card from <a href="https://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/my-amiga-3000-build-part-1.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a> as a Thylacine USB card. I did some research and found out it didn't work with USB sticks, which is a non-starter. I tested in Poseidon and confirmed that USB sticks didn't work - btw finding a Posiedon compatible driver for Thylacine is a real pain:<br />
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I decided to take the X-Surf 100 and RapidRoad USB expansion from my A2000 to use in the A3000, since the A2000 has issues with the mouse port still.<br />
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That done, I hit a snag when plugging in my Individual Computers X-Surf 100 and RapidRoad USB expansion to the A3000. Namely the red screen on boot...I traced it to the DKB3128 memory card and removed it.<br />
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Without it, the system then booted as normal. I decided to swap the BigRam expansion in my A4000D (256MB) with the 64MB DKB 3128 Zorro card.<br />
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With that done, I now have heaps of memory on the A3000, and it plays nicely with the X-Surf 100 and RapidRoad to allow the system to boot.<br />
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The 64MB DKB memory card works fine in the A4000D as well. It is a shame to lose some memory in the A4000D but to be honest I wasn't using all the memory in it anyway so no problem!<br />
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A close up showing the Bigram installed in the A3000 now.<br />
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With that done, the next step was getting the USB working, which meant installing Poseidon v4 (from disk) and the latest RapidRoad USB driver (downloaded from <a href="http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">icomp.de Wiki website</a>).<br />
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Pleased to say the RapidRoad USB worked straight away, giving me USB on the A3000 at last. This will make data transfer so much easier now.<br />
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I tested with a 32GB USB stick and it came up straight away:<br />
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I tried to get the X-Surf 100 network card working next, but unfortunately it didn't work. I have the latest driver from <a href="http://wiki.icomp.de/" target="_blank">wiki.icomp.de</a>, but when trying to initialise it in the Genesis wizard (AmigaOS 3.9) it locks up the machine completely every time...<br />
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I installed the latest AmiSSL4 from <a href="http://www.aminet.net/" target="_blank">Aminet </a>(downloaded from another machine) while thinking about what to do to fix the X-Surf 100:<br />
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Music helps too, so I loaded Digibooster onto my A3000 to give me some thinking music via my extensive Hoffman mod collection!<br />
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It didn't work to provide a solution alas.<br />
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A timely package then arrived with my new Drinksbench 1.3 mug, which was great as I needed a coffee at that moment! I love this mug - you can buy them on Ebay and they will customise the drawer names and the number of Sugarlumps as well!<br />
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I decided to turn my attention to the PicassoIV card, with it's Paloma TV and Concierto addons. I should also mention it has the Pablo IV addon installed too so it is fully kitted out...fantastic!<br />
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I got the disks I needed from <a href="http://amiga.resource.cx/" target="_blank">amiga.resource.cx</a> (PicassoIV entry), and extracted the ADF's to real floppies on the A3000. Yes, I know I could mount them with GoADF but I wanted to do it old school and some of the images were DMS files so I had to use floppy disk anyway :-)<br />
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As covered in Part 1, I hit some trouble with the higher resolution on the Picasso IV, and decided to use the lower screen resolution that worked fine.<br />
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This TFT screen support 1280x1024 16/24bit so it should work, but this is what I get when I try to use it (testing with Picasso96Mode):<br />
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If I do 1280x1024 in 256 colours (8bit) it displays fine after I adjust the vertical output to 75Hz and non-interlace:<br />
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I tried the same trick on 16/24bit modes at 1280x1024:<br />
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For a brief time, it looked like I nailed the problem - it worked at 1280x1024 at 24bit colour:<br />
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So much real estate and the icons are so small now!<br />
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Trouble is that the screen keeps dropping out of sync and turning off the display - constantly. I can power off/power on to temporarily restore the screen, but it keeps happening.<br />
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I tried fiddling around with PicassoModeTNG, installed as part of the PicassoIV install disk I extracted earlier. It made things worse:<br />
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I tried fiddling with the settings for the affected screenmodes, but it wouldn't allow me to keep the settings I got working for some reason...<br />
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Using PicassoMode TNG stuffed up the Piccaso96 config and when I rebooted I had no screen at all. Great....<br />
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I gave up on PicassoMode TNG, reinstalled Picasso96 to restore the original PicassoIV driver and settings. I then went back to the older Picasso96mode program again:<br />
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I cleaned up the resolutions and modes to inactive that I didn't want to use, and adjusted the lower screenmodes like 320x240, 640x480 to use a higher frequency than the standard 31hz.<br />
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I choose to keep using 640x480 resolution for now. Mainly because of the sync issues I hit with the higher resolutions, but also because the A3000 really slowed down a lot running at 1024x768 and 1280x1024 modes...probably because it is only an 030 accelerator in it?<br />
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No doubt I will revisit this later though!<br />
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Next up I installed the Concierto sound card addon drivers for PicassoIV from floppy disk:<br />
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Concierto needs AHI installed, which I installed as part of AmigaOS 3.9 so I didn't need to install it before proceeding.<br />
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After installation I got this very cool Commodity Mixer program for Concierto, which is available on boot. It allows me to output Amiga native audio and Concierto audio via the PicassoIV audio ports, and choose the sound levels, etc.<br />
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I will never understand why we never had this kind of built in mixer included in AmigaOS back in the day...I am glad to have it now though.<br />
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I ran the AHI prefs to select the Concierto instead of built-in Paula Amiga output for audio output for AHI aware programs:<br />
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I also maxed out the channels and frequency. Who wants 7000Hz as a default output?<br />
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The Concierto is a 16bit sound card, but it doesn't do anything for MP3 playback in hardware on the A3000. I need another solution for that, which I will add later...<br />
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I then installed the Paloma TV driver disk on the A3000.<br />
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The Paloma TV installer detected the PicassoIV needed a firmware upgrade. Interesting, I guess the previous owner of this card didn't use it?<br />
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You can see from the warning why I wrote out the floppy disks to real floppies rather than just using GoADF to mount them virtually. You need to boot from the install floppy to fix the PicassoIV if the firmware update fails.<br />
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With the firmware successfully upgraded, I rebooted and held down the left shift key to access the PicassoIV startup menu.<br />
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I learnt about this feature after reading the manual while waiting for the installer to finish. I never read the manual before now (in my defence I never had one) and I really should have! I downloaded it from amiga.resource.cx. Anyway, the early startup menu lets you modify a number of PicassoIV parameters, and options for the addon Concierto and Paloma TV card:<br />
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With the Picasso IV options you can change the interlace flicker fixer configuration:<br />
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The Concierto options lets you adjust the Amiga audio signal volume and whether to play a small Beep on startup or not:<br />
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The Pablo IV configuration let's you choose the TV standard, signal type, flicker filter and screen offset settings:<br />
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It was important to check this since I need it to be PAL for use in Australia.<br />
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I should mention that even though the Paloma TV card support tv tuner functions, it is only for analog TV tuning. Given Australia switched over to digital tuning only a number of years ago, this makes it effectively useless except for tuning old systems using RF output...On the other hand, the S-Video input can also be used, and this is my plan here for the A3000.<br />
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Next I went on a trip to Jaycar electronics again to get some s-video cables and other goodies. I was sent a $25 gift card from Jaycar which was very timely :-)<br />
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I want to hook up my Panasonic DVD/HD TV recorder to the A3000 using the Paloma TV card I just setup!<br />
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I picked a AV switcher that has s-video ports on it as well, as I wanted to be able to input more than one source to the A3000.<br />
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As you can see, the Panasonic has S-Video out on it, which is exactly what I need. I have never used S-video before!<br />
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Initially I hooked up the Panasonic to a HDMI display so I could change the settings, as the output is HDMI at present.<br />
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Also, because HDMi output is 720p/1080p and the Paloma TV is expecting a 4:3 aspect screen, I also need to change the TV aspect to match:<br />
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Last, but not least I need to adjust the AV output settings to use the S-Video rather than the standard AV output ports:<br />
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All done, and ready to try out:<br />
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I then wired the Panasonic S-Video output to the A3000 Paloma TV S-Video input port, and the audio output from the Panasonic av output to the microphone input. I then ran the Paloma TV program installed earlier from the Paloma TV disk:<br />
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Successful, but it is in black and white! I found it was an easy fix, the cable was not quite secured correctly:<br />
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The audio was too loud, so I reduced the input volume using the Concierto mixer program shown earlier and it worked perfectly:<br />
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The Paloma TV program let's you run in a small window or full screen window as below:<br />
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The video is smooth and works well - not as crisp as a HDMI display but that is to be expected:<br />
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You can also run it in full screen, which is terrific:<br />
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Being letterbox and 4:3 aspect, programs recorded in 720p or DVD's will naturally not fill out the screen. I could opt to change the output from the Panasonic to output Pan and scan to fill out the display and cut off the left and right to fit, but I am happy enough with this:<br />
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I played some DVD's through it as well, which worked great - who would have though we could watch DVD's on our Classic Amigas :-)<br />
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Love this show, has me in stitches every time.<br />
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I next hooked up the Amiga CD32 to the switchbox I setup to connect to the Amiga 3000.<br />
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Now I can output the CD32 to the Amiga 3000 via the Paloma TV and play on it! :-)<br />
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Very very cool. Loving this Amiga 3000:<br />
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Next I wanted to use my roland SC-88 MIDI device with the A3000. This something Amigas are very good at, and I already have a MIDI expansion module from the A2000 which I decided to use on the A3000D. Here it is connected up:</div>
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In case you are wondering, one of my friends made the Amiga floppy disk in a sea of random electronics as a birthday card for me back in 1996 with a message to me on the back. I have cherished it and kept it on display around my Amigas ever since!<br />
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I picked out some MIDI songs online to play using the Horny software (available on Aminet) to playback using the Roland SC-88 via the MIDI port expansion module. It is possible to use MIDI through the Concierto too with the CAMD Driver, but it uses mini MIDI converter cables which I don't have.<br />
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The output of the MIDI songs is fantastic from the A3000 with the SC-88 Pro. I put up some pictures and videos of the MIDI output and video output from the A3000 on my Instagram feed, but I can't embed them here. I include <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B1yYn8bBvXY/" target="_blank">my instagram link if you want to check it out.</a><br />
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I used the same setup on my AmigaOne X5000 too before this, except using an Edirol USB MIDI device instead of a Classic Amiga MIDI expansion that uses the serial port.<br />
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Let's move on from MIDI now.<br />
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It is great to have all these cool features on the Amiga 3000, all the more impressive considering it is using a 030 accelerator to do all this:<br />
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Given my issues with the X-Surf 100 are still present, I decided to get internet working temporarily on the Amiga 3000 by using a Plipbox Ethernet device connected to the Parallel port. <a href="https://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2018/11/classic-amiga-upgrades.html" target="_blank">I have looked at the Plipbox previously on this blog</a> so I won't spend too much time on it again here.<br />
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Here is a look at this particular Plipbox I got a while back, which is encased in a nice A500 expansion style casing - looks very nice:<br />
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The device needs power from a power supply or USB power. The options are shown on the bottom of the plipbox casing - very handy:<br />
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I installed the plipbox device downloaded from the <a href="http://lallafa.de/blog/category/amiga/plipbox/" target="_blank">lallafa website</a> into Devs:Networks and then setup Genesis under AmigaOS 3.9 on the Amiga 3000 to use it:<br />
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It initialised fine. I needed a web browser, and just this week the latest version of iBrowse 2.5 was <a href="https://www.ibrowse-dev.net/" target="_blank">finally released for purchase</a>. It is available as a AmigaOS 4 native PowerPC version and Classic Amiga version.<br />
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I decided to buy it to support ongoing development, and installed the software in demo mode on my A3000 while waiting for my registration key:<br />
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Because I have AmigaOS 3.9 with the internet software option installed, an older 2.4 version of iBrowse is already installed, so the 2.5 installer detected it and offered to upgrade it:<br />
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The iBrowse installer asks which CPU I have:<br />
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I chose the 020 with FPU option, as 030 is not listed for some reason! Since I have the PicassoIV card I can use the truecolour images with iBrowse, so I selected that option:<br />
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Note that this option needs the PNG datatype installed, which I did earlier by installing the WarpPNG datatype, available from Aminet. It also installs a bunch of MUI classes:<br />
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I then connected to the internet using the plipbox on the A3000:<br />
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First launch of iBrowse 2.5 on my A3000.<br />
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Successfully connected to the internet now on the A3000 using iBrowse 2.5, I can finally download software directly to the A3000 instead of USB transfers.<br />
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Download speed is ok, not fast of course using a parallel port, but bearable, especially since it is only temporary:<br />
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I downloaded sgrab so I can start screenshotting the A3000 workbench rather than having to use the iPhone for everything.<br />
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I plan to replace the Buddha flash ide card in the hope that it fixes the issue with the X-Surf 100 - I have a new Elbox FastATA card on order which should hopefully address it!<br />
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It is total luck whether it works when I put the case back on since it moves it, but for a brief moment it worked! If I push up on the front underside of the bottom the A3000 sometimes it flickers to life!</div>
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I just wanted to show some proof that it does actually work!<br />
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In the next part of the Amiga 3000 build I plan to install the Fast-ATA IDE card, add a new external housed SCSI2HD that is on order, and also try to get AmigaOS 3.1.4 working on it, once I receive the new physical roms so I can register them and get the softkick roms to add the bonus code to. This means building up a new HD as I want to keep this current setup intact before attempting AmigaOS 3.1.4 on it just in case it doesn't work. I don't want to lose all the work done so far.<br />
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Still lots to do and can't wait to get into it soon!<br />
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<br />Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-29909426211910661912019-08-23T20:32:00.002+09:302019-08-23T20:32:47.536+09:30My Amiga 3000 build Part 1Recently I finally managed to secure my own Amiga 3000! I really wanted to get one of these for a long time now.<br />
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It has been a very interesting build with a dead hard disk in it, as it meant learning all about Super-kickstarts, bonus code, Beta 1.4 kickstarts and more! I also did a lot of upgrades to this machine, with many more to come!<br />
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I have recorded a lot of information here that I learnt from scouring many forums, posts and disconnected information all over the web to get this Amiga 3000 desktop machine up and running. I hope it is useful to others trying to get one of these Amiga 3000 computers with the rare Beta Kickstart 1.4 roms working.<br />
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I have to say I loved every minute of learning a whole new side to the Classic Amiga I have never experienced, which was very satisfying - especially when I finally got it all working!<br />
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The seller I bought it from packed it very well, and so it arrived in good condition after it's journey to Adelaide.<br />
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Here is a closer look at it.<br />
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The Amiga 3000 has a VGA port with a built in scan doubler, which is great as it can be directly connected to modern TFT screens without an Indivision scandoubler or similar card :-)<br />
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Close up of my West Germany built Amiga 3000!<br />
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I connected it up briefly just to make sure it worked, which it did until the hard disk (which I knew didn't work when I bought it) gave multiple errors on trying to boot and failed.<br />
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I then opened it up to check it out.<br />
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This is an Amiga 3000 Revision 9 system with a 68030 25 Mhz CPU installed, 2MB of Chip memory and 8MB of fast memory onboard.<br />
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There is also a A-Max II Zorro card installed, connected to the Amiga floppy drive inside the A3000.<br />
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I assume that the original hard disk had a Macintosh partition to run MacOS 7/7.5 on the A3000. Given the hard disk is full of errors the data is probably not recoverable. I tried to use the hard disk but it is full of hard errors through the partitions. I couldn't even retrieve the all important super-kickstart files with the bonus code from the partitions....but more on this soon.<br />
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I noted in the original Ebay listing that the system had a battery in it still and I could see it in the A3000 when I opened it, but amazingly no battery leakage! I quickly removed the battery.<br />
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With that done, I then turned my attention to learn more about this Super-kickstart stuff as I have never had to deal with it on Amiga systems, and unfortunately there were no disks or manuals included with the system (or keyboard for that matter!).<br />
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I decided to use my Amiga 2000 keyboard for the time being since my Amiga 2000 has an issue with the mouse port that means I can't use it at the moment.<br />
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So, the Super-kickstart thing...<br />
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On early Amiga 3000 systems, they didn't come with the normal full kickstart rom (ie. v1.3, 2.0, 3.1) installed in the machine like the Amiga 500/600, A1200, A2000, A4000, etc.<br />
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Instead they came with Beta (!) Kickstart v1.4 roms instead.<br />
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This special kickstart rom looks for a normal 1.3 or 2.x kickstart rom on the SCSI hard disk included with the Amiga 3000. If the kickstart rom is present as Devs/Kickstart on the partitions labelled with Device Name <b>WB_1.3 or WB_2.x</b>, it then softkicks the the higher priority partition (usually <b>WB_2.x</b>) containing the relevant kickstart rom, reboots, boots from that partition and automatically disables the other drive from view.<br />
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Later Amiga 3000 systems were shipped with a normal Kickstart 2.04 rom installed.<br />
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Actually, this Super-kickstart 1.4 rom softkicking is a very cool feature. Except there is a complication.<br />
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The Amiga 3000 has special needs for the kickstart (to support SCSI onboard, 030, etc) compared to other Amiga models. A number of these features don't fit within the normal 1.3 kickstart rom size of 256k or the 2.0/3.1 kickstart rom size of 512k.<br />
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Especially important is the normal 1.3 kickstart rom doesn't support SCSI devices or 030 operation. On my A2000 the SCSI card (eg. A2091) and 030 accelerator card have this 1.3 support built into the cards to work with a normal 1.3 kickstart.<br />
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To facilitate this on the A3000, the kickstart supplied with the Amiga 3000 includes what is called "bonus code" to support these functions. It is patched onto the normal kickstart file after the normal end of the file.<br />
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This "super-kickstart" file (as it is known) is then put in the Devs drawer on the relevant WB_1.3 or WB_2.0 partition to be detected by the 1.4 kickstart at power on. If the kickstart file on the hard disk does not contain the bonus code, the 1.4 kickstart will not detect it and will not allow you to boot from it.<br />
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In addition the partition device names containing the super-kickstart files must be called <b>WB_1.3</b> and <b>WB_2.x</b> to be detected by 1.4 kickstart (instead of the usual DH0, DH1, etc). The partition volumes once formatted can be labelled however you want.<br />
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The functionality though is very clever, and it means that you can have 3.1 kickstart or even 3.1.4 kickstart roms "soft kicked" on the A3000 with this design. But the kickstart file <u>needs to have the bonus code attached to work</u>. This is not supplied with the 2.0, 3.1 and 3.1.4 kickstarts supplied with the standard Workbench floppy sets.<br />
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To deal with the obvious problem of what happens when the hard disk fails or someone deletes the important kickstart files from the hard disk, Amiga 3000 systems with the Beta kickstart 1.4 were given a special "Super-kickstart" floppy disk with them, which contains the 2.0.4 and 1.3 kickstart roms with bonus code.<br />
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The kickstarts are directly written to the disk and is not a file (similar to the Amiga 1000), and the disk is non-DOS. So you can't just copy the kickstart off the disk using the Shell, etc, either - there is a procedure to do this but more on this later.<br />
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At power on you can hold both mouse buttons down to select which kickstart you want to boot (if detected on the attached hard disk) or to boot 1.3 or 2.x kickstart from a Super-kickstart floppy.<br />
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Once booted from the Super-kickstart floppy, the kickstart is available (1.3 or 2.04) - the hard disk are disabled from booting when booting from the super-kickstart floppy disk - you need to use a bootable floppy to get going:<br />
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You can then for example insert the Workbench disk (or Install disk) for the selected Kickstart version to boot to Workbench, and then access to the hard drive to prep the partitions, apply the correct super-kickstart from the super-kickstart floppy disk to the Devs drawer on the hard disk so it can boot from the hard disk after that.<br />
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Sounds great, except the A3000 hard disk included (below) is dead and I don't have a super-kickstart disk. Great start huh? But I don't give up easily.<br />
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Inspecting the non-accessible hard disk contents was interesting. I will keep the drive in case I find a way to get at the contents:<br />
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First order of business was getting a super-kickstart floppy disk, legally of course. I found that <a href="https://www.amigaforever.com/media/" target="_blank">Cloanto sells the Workbench floppy disk sets as ADF images online</a>. Included in the set is the all important Super-kickstart 2.04/1.3 floppy disk. I purchased it and downloaded the relevant ADF file.<br />
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I copied it to my Amiga 4000T via USB stick and then wrote out the super-kickstart disk to a blank floppy using the <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/goadf-on-amigaos-3141.html" target="_blank">recently released GoADF, which I reviewed recently</a>.<br />
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I then fed the new Super-kickstart floppy to the Amiga 3000, and I could finally load Kickstart 2.04 and use the system! I celebrated by running a few demos!<br />
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Obviously I want to get the hard disk working next as I don't want to boot a super-kickstart disk every time I turn on the machine before I can use it. Of course, if you have an Amiga 1000 this is required! Fortunately the A3000 has a more flexible implementation.<br />
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That said, the normal Amiga-isms apply. Because this is a 1.4 beta kickstart, with 2.04 kickstart roms soft kicked, and an old SCSI implementation, the drive sizes supported are very limited.<br />
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I am used to the usual 4GB limit, with 2GB partition sizes. But older SCSI controllers often can't see drives beyond 1GB, and some worse than that!<br />
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Complicating this is that neither my SCSI2SD v6 or Aztecmonster CF SCSI devices are detected correctly by the 2.04 HD toolbox.<br />
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Booted up on the Install Workbench 2.04 disk and Super-kickstart 2.04 floppy disk with the SCSI2SD attached:<br />
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But no dice - nothing detected - and yes I checked the tooltypes for HDToolbox to make sure scsi.device was listed:<br />
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Even though the setup for both is under 2GB. Indeed the SCSI2SD is 512MB, split into two 100MB partitions WB_1.3, WB_2.x and a shared 300MB HD0 partition - as shown on my A4000D!<br />
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Both sd and cf cards are fully readable on my A4000T and A4000D using USB converters, and the file system version is a little new for the A3000, so I did change it to an earlier fastfilesystem on the A4000D using HDToolbox. I also formatted the partitions while there to make sure they were ready.<br />
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That is another point about the v1.4 kickstart - the hard disk needs to use a 1.3 or 2.04 era fastfilesystem without caching or international support. It needs to be the non-international FFS version which uses the identifier 0x44F5301. I used the v1.3 version and then put it back in the SCSI2SD to try again.<br />
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Actually the SCSI2SD is picked up by the kickstart early boot menu and Workbench 2.04 once this is done:<br />
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For some reason it is unable read the partitions (which are visible) even though they are formatted with standard FFS. I can't even format the partitions on the A3000 - it fails every time.<br />
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It is visible in HDToolbox under Workbench 2.04:<br />
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Everything is setup correctly but the system refuses to read the already formatted partitions or format them. Tearing my hair out!<br />
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For now I decided to use a 52MB SCSI hard disk from my original Amiga 2000, which I prepped on the Amiga 3000 using the Workbench 2.04 install disk set. I have some ideas how to get around this issue later on by using an IDE Zorro card and CF adapter but I really wanted to make some progress.<br />
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With the 52MB SCSI hard disk attached and SCSI2SD removed, I used the super-kickstart 2.04 and Workbench 2.04 install disk to boot to Workbench.<br />
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Interesting here is that the PrepHD, FormatHD programs preform important functions on an Amiga 3000. Normally I just create and format the partitions using HDToolbox and then install.<br />
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PrepHD prepared the WB_1.3 (2MB), WB_2.x (6MB) and Work (rest of HD) partitions, installed the right 2.04 fastfilesystem to the RDB and prompted to reboot:<br />
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On reboot I booted from the Install floppy disk and ran the FormatHD utility.<br />
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Once formatted it then prompted me to start the installation of Workbench 2.04 onto the WB_2.x partition, which I proceeded with.<br />
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It then prompts if this is a A3000 Super-kickstart machine. This is why I am using this installation process. It then uploads the kickstart file with bonus code from the Superkickstart 2.0.4 disk to the correct location (Devs) on the WB_2.x partition.<br />
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It then prompted me to insert the Super-kickstart disk:<br />
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Unfortunately it doesn't do the 1.3 super-kickstart automatically for some reason, but I worked out how to do this later on. (I'll show this later in the blog post)<br />
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I then stepped through the rest of the Workbench 2.0.4 installation:<br />
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The installation completed successfully:<br />
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Once done, I could reboot and the system booted up into Workbench 2.04 from the hard disk for the first time on the Amiga 3000!<br />
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As mentioned the WB_1.3 is hidden from view. Finally I understand why Commodore insisted on the Work partition in Amiga hard disks. The Work partition is the only partition visible to both WB_1.3 and WB_2.x partitions when they boot up using their respective super-kickstarts!<br />
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First order of business was taking a copy of the superkickstart 2.04 kickstart file from the Devs drawer on the system to a floppy disk for safe keeping.<br />
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Second order of business was running a recent Abyss 2019 demo music disk on the system from the new hard disk - priorities you know:<br />
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I later plan to purchase AmigaOS 3.1.4 for the Amiga 3000 so I can use it on this system. Not sure if I will retain the super-kickstart roms and softkick 3.1.4 with bonus code or just drop in the 3.1.4 roms to get the higher capacity hard disk support and support for 040 and 060 processor upgrades.<br />
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Yes, that is the other gotcha with the 1.4 beta kickstart - no 040 or 060 support. You are limited to the 68030 onboard as it needs the MMU on the 030 to function.<br />
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Do I want an 060 accelerator on the A3000? Yes, I think I do - I have one available. But not just yet.<br />
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I want to get Kickstart 3.1 and 3.1.4 roms working on this system, so to do this I need to create a superkickstart 3.1 rom to start with.<br />
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I need to get a Kickstart 3.1 rom converted to a superkickstart. How do I do that?<br />
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Well, to do that I need to do two steps, firstly I need to separate the bonus code section of the Superkickstart 2.04 file I backed up earlier and graft it on the end of the Kickstart 3.1 kickstart file for the Amiga 3000. The bonus code needed for the 2.04, 3.1 and 3.1.4 is the same (important note: it is NOT the same bonus code used for the 1.3 superkickstart!).<br />
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I used my Mac for this step, and kudos for some valuable information I found online on how to do this bit.<br />
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I needed to separate the bonus code from the kickstart 2.04 super-kickstart I backed up earlier. I copied the file via USB from my A4000D and put onto my MacOS X machine.<br />
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I then ran the dd command from MacOS X terminal:<br />
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<b>dd if=A3K_Kickstart2_Bonuscode of=bonuscode bs=524288 skip=1</b><br />
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This then extracts the bonus code for the A3000 from the normal kickstart rom and saves it to a file called bonuscode.<br />
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With that done I then ran this command from the MacOS X terminal:<br />
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<b>cat kickstart_3.1_A3000 bonuscode > Superkick-3.1</b><br />
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This gives me a file called Superkick-3.1 which contains the A3000 bonus code added to the normal Amiga 3000 kickstart 3.1 rom!<br />
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I then copied it via usb to my Amiga 4000D for the next step.<br />
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Step 2 - I then use a piece of software on <a href="http://aminet.net/package/util/misc/MakeSuperDisk" target="_blank">Aminet called MakeSuperdisk</a> to write the resultant kickstart file with bonus code to a blank floppy disk as a super-kickstart disk that can be used on the Amiga 3000 using the 1.4 Super-kickstart roms.<br />
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Command is:<br />
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<b>makesuperdisk 2.x=Superkick-3.1 1.3=Superkick-1.3</b><br />
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Note that at this time the Kickstart 1.3 file I used was just a normal kickstart 1.3 and didn't work...the 3.1 file was fine though.<br />
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With that done I can then boot the newly created super-kickstart 3.1 disk on the Amiga 3000 and get AmigaOS 3.1 kickstart screen!<br />
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I can then go about installing the Workbench 3.1 from my original floppy disk set I dusted off to the WB_2.x partition on the A3000 (as an upgrade to Workbench 2.04 already installed).<br />
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On the c drawer of the AmigaOS 3.1 Install floppy disk is a program called extractkickstart, run as part of HDSetup on the Workbench 3.1 Install floppy disk. You get the option to update the A3000 Superkickstart as part of the setup, which uses this program in the background:<br />
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This then extracts the 3.1 kickstart with bonus code from the Superkickstart 3.1 disk I created earlier to the WB_2.x partition to the Devs folder.<br />
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With that done, I can now boot Kickstart 3.1 from power on using the 1.4 super-kickstart rom!<br />
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After the reboot and booting from the Workbench 3.1 install floppy disk again, I then started the installation of Workbench 3.1 proper:<br />
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After the usual disk swaps and copying, the install completed successfully:<br />
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After the reboot I now have AmigaOS 3.1 installed on my A3000, still using the Superkickstart 1.4 rom setup! I renamed the partition from System2.0 to System3.1.<br />
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Whew, lots of work to get to this point but very interesting isn't it? Well, it was for me anyway! We are not done yet though...far from it.<br />
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We still need to get Workbench 1.3 superkickstart file onto the WB_1.3 partition as I really want to get a working Workbench 1.3 setup on the A3000 as well, taking advantage of the super-kickstart setup to dual boot 1.3 or 3.1 kickstarts!<br />
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As mentioned earlier, Workbench 3.1 install floppy disk has a extractkickstart tool in the C drawer. I copied it to C: on my A3000 WB_2.x partition to free up the floppy drive.<br />
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I then powered off and booted the floppy v3.1 superkickstart disk and booted from the Workbench 3.1 install disk. I needed to do this so I could see the WB_1.3 partition which is automatically hidden if I booted v3.1 from hard disk.<br />
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That done, ran the extractkickstart command from the shell and specified the WB_1.3: partition and Devs drawer as the destination (I deleted an older non-working kickstart first in case you are wondering):<br />
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I then copied the contents of a Workbench 1.3.2 floppy disk to the WB_1.3 partition. I then powered off and held down both mouse buttons to choose the WB_1.3 partition. It then successfully used the super-kickstart 1.3 file on the WB_1.3 partition to boot into Workbench 1.3! Success!<br />
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Again I quickly backed up the Kickstart 1.3 superkickstart file on the WB_1.3 partition to floppy disk for safe keeping.<br />
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I then went back to the A4000D to write out a new Super-kickstart 3.1/1.3 floppy disk to make sure I can use that moving forward, instead of the older Kickstart 2.04/1.3 Super-kickstart disk I created in the beginning.<br />
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So, now the next part is to install some upgrades on the A3000.<br />
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Going back a few years I scored a free non-functional Amiga 4000 with a lot of expansions included in it - status unknown. I didn't look into the expansions included as I didn't need them at the time. Now I do, so I stripped the non-functional A4000 (towerised) and went treasure hunting to see what expansions I might be able to use in the A3000.<br />
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First off the rank is this DKB 3128 Zorro memory card, with 64MB populated - this should help boost the A3000's memory, as long as it works of course - I have never used it before today:<br />
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Here it is installed in the A3000:<br />
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On first power up I feared the worst when I got this red screen with the card listed as defective:<br />
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But a power off, card reseat later and it works!<br />
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Now I have 72MB fast memory (64MB on the DKB card + 8 MB onboard)<br />
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Next up is a unknown USB Zorro card - no marking to make it obvious what model it is:<br />
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I had a spare Individual Computers IDE Zorro card I was planning to use in the Amiga 2000, but decided to use it here to supplement the very small SCSI hard disk I am currently using to deal with the kickstart 1.4 disk detection issue.<br />
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My plan is to change the startup-sequence on the WB_2.x partition to change boot control to a new partition on a CF card connected to this IDE card to allow me to run a normal hard disk partition size to install other applications, games, modules, etc...<br />
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Below is the USB card and then the IDE card installed in the A3000 - it is done like this because I need the expansion slot the IDE zorro sits in for a daughter card for the top card to come:<br />
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I started off using a TrueIDE CF Adapter I bought previously on the IDE card, but that stupid thing never works on any machine I try it on, and it didn't work on the A3000 either....I bought a CF reader for a future Vampire project that I decided to use on the A3000 for now - called a Panther Mini from <a href="https://www.arananet.net/pedidos/product-category/amiga/" target="_blank">Arananet</a>:<br />
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Now here was a real score in the expansion bays of that non-working A4000, a Picasso IV with addon Paloma, Sound/MIDI modules:<br />
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Really happy to have this for the A3000, assuming it works (fingers crossed!). Here it is, installed in the top slot using the inline video slot in the A3000:<br />
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Closer look - Amiga 3000 expansion slots now all full up:<br />
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I have the CyberSCSI addon module for this accelerator too, but unfortunately it won't physically fit in the A3000 with this attached - it is not designed for the A3000 but it is meant for the A4000.<br />
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Anyway, that is in the future. For now, let's fire up the Amiga 3000 with it's new expansions installed. I am pleased to say it booted first time with no issues, so good start.<br />
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I put an older CF card I used to use on my Amiga 1200 before I built a new AmiKit Real 9 setup for it recently. It has no AGA specific stuff on it, just a simple AmigaOS 3.9 installation.<br />
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As mentioned the A3000 doesn't boot from it - we are still using the 52MB SCSI hard disk to boot up AmigaOS 3.1 because of the Super-kickstart requirements.<br />
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You can see the CF card partitions and the AmigaOS 3.1 system failing to read the partition sizes right for the larger drives over 2GB:<br />
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We need to move this setup to the bootable CF card and AmigaOS 3.9, but as I said, it can't see it from the super-kickstart. The solution is simple though - transfer control from the WB_2.x partition to the AmigaOS 3.9 partition on the CF card and continue to boot using that!<br />
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So I backup the existing WB_2.x:s/startup-sequence and then create a new empty startup-sequence:<br />
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The important things are to change the default assigns for SYS, C, L, Libs, Prefs, Devs, Fonts to the other CF card GDH1 partition first, then execute the startup-sequence on the GDH1 partition:<br />
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I forgot the Fonts assign in the script above, but I added it later on...I also fixed up the OCD gdh1 to GDH1 - yep, it bothered me too.. :-)<br />
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With that done I rebooted and it works! AmigaOS 3.9 boots from the CF Card, using the WB_2.x partition initially. Fantastic!<br />
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Next I installed Picasso96 on my AmigaOS 3.9 CF card partition so I can use the Picasso IV card I installed:<br />
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With that done, I rebooted, and then selected the 640x480x24bit colour screen mode. The Picasso IV card works!<br />
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I still need to setup all the related stuff for Picasso IV for the add-on module cards, but that can come later.<br />
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With the CF card now working on the A3000, I then transferred my old Amiga 2000 v1.3 setup from 1991 onto the CF card, and then transferred it to the WB_1.3 partition on the A3000. As covered before, the WB_1.3 partition is hidden automatically when booting from hard disk using the WB_2.x partition, so I booted using the super-kickstart 3.1 floppy disk and Workbench 3.1 floppy disk tto copy the files across.<br />
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After that was done I powered off the A3000. I then held both mouse buttons down on power on, selected WB_1.3 boot from hard disk and I now have my Amiga 2000 setup from 1991 working as a dual boot on my Amiga 3000! Awesome!<br />
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Booting back into AmigaOS 3.9 again on the Amiga 3000, I enjoyed some ECS/OCS WHDLoad demos to finish this part of the build!<br />
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I now have AmigaOS 3.9 and Workbench 1.3 dual booting using the Super-kickstart setup on the Amiga 3000! Some of the upgrades are also working, but more to come.<br />
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I have learnt a lot of new stuff about Classic Amiga systems doing this!<br />
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I will of course continue this build in another blog post soon - It has been a great build so far and I am really enjoying this Amiga 3000!<br />
<br />Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-63622311783707559642019-08-22T11:38:00.001+09:302019-08-22T11:38:27.765+09:30Memory Expansions on Amiga 500 and 600This weekend I took a look at the Amiga 500 and Amiga 600 memory expansion cards and A1200 real time clock port expansion module, all kindly supplied to me for review by AmigaKit.<br />
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Starting with the Amiga 500 memory expansion first, it is an auto-configured 512k memory expansion, which is much smaller than old Commodore A501 expansion cards from back in the day! It costs GBP17.80 and <a href="https://amigakit.amiga.store/product_info.php?cPath=182_25_87&products_id=767" target="_blank">is available from here.</a><br />
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If you have an Amiga 500+ model, you can use this card to give you the full 1MB chip memory (rather than fast memory in the A500). There is a jumper on the card you can open to enable this functionality. If you have an Agnus 8372 chip installed on your older A500 this should also work but I have not tested this.<br />
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Here is the expansion port side view:<br />
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AmigaKit also sell a A<a href="https://amigakit.amiga.store/product_info.php?products_id=1101" target="_blank">miga 1200 Real Time Clock (RTC) port expansion for GBP 14.77 as below.</a><br />
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It is designed to fit on the clock port expansion port on the Amiga 1200, but also can be used on the Amiga 500 and Amiga 600 memory expansion featured here, to enable saving date/time on your Amiga.<br />
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According to AmigaKit the clock port expansion is usable for a number of accelerators, not just their own - it works on:<br />
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<li>Amiga 1200 Clock Port</li>
<li>AmigaKit A500 Memory Expansion</li>
<li>AmigaKit A600 Memory Expansion</li>
<li>Individual Computers A604n Memory Expansion</li>
<li>Individual Computers ACA 1220 128MB Accelerator</li>
<li>Individual Computers ACA 1232 128MB Accelerator</li>
<li>Individual Computers ACA 1233/40n 128MB Accelerator</li>
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Below is another view showing the CR1220 battery slot and battery on the RTC card:<br />
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Here it is installed on the Amiga 500 memory expansion:<br />
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The ability to switch the RTC between your systems is quite handy, especially if you don't need it on all your Amigas. Install time on the Amiga 500:<br />
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Seriously, this expansion card is very small once installed in the Amiga 500 - it slides in smoothly, using the plastic edges of the expansion bay to ensure it connects exactly:<br />
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Flipping back the A500 to it's rightful position, it boots and shows the extra 512k memory:<br />
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Next I moved onto the Amiga 600 1MB auto-configure memory expansion, which costs GBP19.99 and is <a href="https://amigakit.amiga.store/product_info.php?cPath=182_25_87&products_id=95" target="_blank">available from here</a>:<br />
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This card is a little more interesting - it has 1MB memory expansion for the Amiga 600, bringing it's total Chip memory to 2MB. It also has the RTC port for the Real time clock expansion card. In addition it includes a clock port for A1200 clock port expansions like subway USB, rapid road, etc.<br />
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I installed the RTC card on the A600 expansion:<br />
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Next I opened up my A600 to install the expansion card. I realise that technically you can just open the expansion port to do this, but I wanted to photograph the expansion inside the system:<br />
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Installed in the A600 and ready to close up:<br />
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There is some useful instructions included with the expansion cards which you should check over prior to installation since they explain about the clock port usage among other things - there is an online <a href="http://wiki.amiga.org/index.php?title=A600_1MB_RAM_Expansion" target="_blank">Wiki for these boards too</a>:<br />
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With the A600 powered on, I can now see the extra 1MB chip memory is working, giving me the 2MB chip memory on my A600.<br />
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The memory expansion gives the A600 enough memory now to <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/amigaos-3141-on-amiga-600-and-500.html" target="_blank">run the newest AmigaOS 3.1.4</a>:<br />
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Last, but not least, I decided not to run the A1200 RTC card in either expansion card. I decided to put it in my Amiga 1200, which I really do want to have a battery backed up clock for, given it is <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/amikit-real-9-on-a4000t-and-a1200.html" target="_blank">using my AmiKitReal 9 build now. </a><br />
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I opened up the A1200 to install the RTC card in the clock port:<br />
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Here it is, installed, fits very nicely around the Kickstart roms:<br />
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Close up view of the RTC card installed:<br />
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I suppose thinking about it I could have installed it on my Individual computers A1233 accelerator too, but I elected to do it this way. I guess I just like any excuse to open the case!<br />
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It is great to have these new cards in 2019 to use on my Classic Amigas. They appear to be well made and are available from <a href="https://amigakit.amiga.store/index.php" target="_blank">AmigaKit for purchase</a>.<br />
<br />Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-3238929090475676472019-08-19T11:06:00.004+09:302019-08-19T11:07:18.572+09:30GoADF on AmigaOS 3.1.4 and AmiKitReal 9Today I am taking a look at the recently released ADF handling software for Classic Amiga called GoADF from <a href="http://www.bitplan.pl/goadf/" target="_blank">BitPlan</a>, on my <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/amigaos-3141-on-amiga-600-and-500.html" target="_blank">Amiga 500 running AmigaOS 3.1.4.1</a> and also on my <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/08/amikit-real-9-on-a4000t-and-a1200.html" target="_blank">Amiga 4000T running AmiKit Real 9 (OS3.9 base).</a><br />
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This software is shareware, but can be fully used in unregistered mode with nag screens on launch and closure, and can be registered for ~EUR7 from their website <a href="http://www.bitplan.pl/goadf/registration.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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On registration (which I did after this review) you will receive a file and instructions on how to unlock the registered version.<br />
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Upon downloading the unregistered version from their website, I read through the instructions.<br />
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Basically the attraction to this software for me is a all-in-one ADF management solution. I copied the extracted drawer to my hard disk on my Amiga 500 initially, ready to try out.<br />
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There are some requirements for the software to work, as below:<br />
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My Amiga 500 has an 030, runs AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 and has plenty of memory. I did need to download the reqtools library from aminet though.<br />
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With that done I launched GoADF. You get the option to launch it in it's own screen (default) or choose to run it on the workbench screen. Initially I went with the default separate screen:<br />
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The initial view in goADF shows the ADF files available in the current directory, and shows the four virtual drives for mounting ADF files on the Workbench:<br />
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I changed the directory from SYS to a drawer that had some ADF's in it - you can double click or select the Read ADF info button to view the details of the ADF, which is needed before you can mount the disk as a virtual disk or carry out other operations on the ADF file in GoADF:<br />
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I chose to mount the disk, which I could then switch back to the Workbench screen and see is now mounted on the Workbench screen:<br />
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When mounting ADF disks in GoADF you get a confirmation once completed:<br />
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I then used the virtual mounted ADF disk images in GoADF to install from software on those ADF files to my hard disk:<br />
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There are other ways to set up virtual drives for ADF, which I have used previously many times, like <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2014/06/amiga-600-cf-amigaos-setup-part-3.html" target="_blank">DiskImageGUI on my A600</a>, but it is nice to have a new solution that puts everything in one place, is easy to install and use.<br />
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As above, you can change the preferences for the default directories GoADF uses.</div>
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I hate Topaz as a font. Really hate it. Fortunately you can change it in the GoADF prefs, which I set to work doing:<br />
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On closing and relaunch with the Xen font it looks a million times better:<br />
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I set to work installing a number of applications on my Amiga 500 uses GoADF to mount/unmount ADF images - very convenient:<br />
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GoADF can do more than just mount images though, it can also view contents of an ADF, write ADF files to a real floppy disk, and read real floppy disks to an ADF file.<br />
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I moved to my Amiga 4000T, and setup GoADF on launch. As mentioned before you have the option to select running as a separate screen or on the Workbench screen:<br />
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After playing with it on a separate screen, I decided to use it on the Workbench screen on the A4000T - you can set the window height and width so it will fit your Workbench screen comfortably:<br />
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Here is GoADF now running on my Amiga 4000T workbench:<br />
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If I read the ADF info on an ADF file, I can then click on the Files button in GoADF to view the files on the ADF disk:<br />
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It is handy when trying to work out which disk is the install disk for a multi disk application, or just trying to find a module file that is on one of many floppy disks!<br />
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You can also view the blocks on the ADF disk, including the bootblock or specific block numbers - more useful for non dos ADF disks:<br />
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I then tested writing an ADF file to a real floppy disk on my Amiga4000T using GoADF.<br />
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I selected DF0 (the default) and inserted my disk prior to starting - so it shows the previous contents (because it was an Amiga formatted disk) prior to writing over it with the new ADF.<br />
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The writing of the selected ADF file to disk is now in process - had to be a demo disk of course!<br />
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All done!<br />
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I then tested the resulting floppy disk on my Amiga 500 and confirmed it worked perfectly.<br />
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GoADF is a nice software solution for Classic Amiga systems in 2019. It is worth registering too, which I did shortly after doing this!<br />
<br />Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-34107150358737861462019-08-05T11:24:00.001+09:302019-08-05T11:42:16.347+09:30AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 on Amiga 600 and 500Today I wanted to take a look at the new <a href="http://hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/where-to-buy/direct-downloads/188-amigaos-314" target="_blank">AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 from Hyperion Entertainment</a>, covering the build from scratch on my replacement Amiga 600 and Amiga 500.<br />
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I previously took a quick look at <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2018/12/amigaos-314-on-a500.html" target="_blank">AmigaOS 3.1.4 on my Amiga 500 in December 2018</a>, but this is a more indepth look and new build on my "new" Amiga 600, and later copy to my Amiga 500.<br />
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I needed a new Amiga 600 as my last one (<a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2018/08/vampire-600-v2-accelerator-on-amiga-600.html" target="_blank">which was running the Vampire 600 v2</a>) had the sound fail. Every time the system tried to output any sound the machine would completely lock up. I set the AHI to output to null to avoid the issue in part, but not having any sound was a non-starter for me.<br />
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It seems somewhat coincidental that every time I put a vampire in a Classic Amiga something on it then stops working...<br />
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I bought a second hand Amiga 600 off ebay, and after clearing out a lot of cat hairs inside and a thorough cleaning inside and outside, I could use it.<br />
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I need to transfer my many upgrades from the old Amiga 600 to the new one, but decided early on that Vampire 600 would not be moving to the new Amiga 600 at this stage. Also because I learned that Vampire 600/500 does not support AmigaOS 3.1.4 without a further software patched rom....not willing to tackle that yet.<br />
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As an aside I had to have a chuckle at the internet branding of this release as the Pi version release. Nice pick up - I should've seen it earlier :-)<br />
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The "new" Amiga 600 had a Workbench 2.0 kickstart rom in it. First task was to replace it with a Amiga 500/600 Kickstart 3.1.4 rom, supplied with my purchase of the AmigaOS 3.1.4 package from <a href="https://www.amiga-shop.net/Amiga-Software/AmigaOS-Amiga-operation-systems/AmigaOS-3-1-4::859.html" target="_blank">Alinea Computer</a> - you can also buy the downloadable versions direct from Hyperion Entertainment with a softkick ROM. But I wanted to have the new features from power on without the need for the usual multiple resets to apply softkick roms every time.<br />
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Here is the 3.1.4 kickstart rom now installed:<br />
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Next I took my old ACA630 accelerator out of mothballs and connected it over the 68000 CPU, to provide an 68030 25Mhz CPU with 32MB memory. I added my Individual Computer A604N with 1MB Chip memory expansion, clock port for connecting the Subway USB / Rapid Road USB, and the Indivision ECS:<br />
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I was tossing up whether to use a micro-sd with SD to IDE converter or a standard CF to IDE adaptor with a new CF card.<br />
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Ultimately I decided to use a new 32GB CF card, but more on that soon.<br />
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I then powered on the Amiga 600 and confirmed that the updated Insert disk screen works, showing the new AmigaOS 3.1.4 version information, copyright 2018!<br />
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Next up I connected my Subway USB and hooked up two USB ports through the PCMCIA port hole on the left hand side. This renders the PCMCIA port useless for now, but I need the USB functionality over the PCMCIA functionality!<br />
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I put the AmigaOS 3.1.4 floppy disk in the internal drive and booted up to the Workbench, ready to start the installation of AmigaOS 3.1.4:<br />
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<li>Over 20 Kickstart ROM modules and many more disk-based core OS components were fixed, updated, or added.</li>
<li>Native support for all Motorola 68000-68060 CPUs, and a more robust Auto-Configuration process.</li>
<li>Support for large hard disks, including boot, for any OS 2.x/3.x-compliant controller driver supporting HD_SCSI_CMD, TD_64 and/or NSD. Dedicated boot partitions are a thing of the past, even on legacy devices. You can also use variably-sized "super floppies".</li>
<li>A modernized Workbench as powerful as the OS 3.9 version, including new or refreshed Preference editors in the legacy OS 3.1-"GadTools" style. Its tools such as DiskCopy and Format fully support large media. Printer, hard disk and many other support tools have been fixed and upgraded.</li>
<li>Diskdoctor is updated and can reliably rescue data from your floppies or hard disks.</li>
<li>The CLI/Shell and many of its commands have been reworked and modernized, now sporting native support for pipes, softlinks, hardlinks and long filenames. New commands support running Workbench programs from the Shell or upgrading ROM modules.</li>
<li>CrossDOS and the CD-ROM filesystem are now smarter, faster, and multi-threaded, adding Rockridge and Joliet extensions as well as UDF.</li>
<li>Fully reworked, modernized and bug-fixed printer drivers include support for PCL and PostScript, along with legacy NEC and Epson printers.</li>
<li>An optional upgradeable intuition.library provides off-screen dragging of windows for native and P96 RTG screens.</li>
<li>A colorful, professionally designed icon set is included, along with the traditional four-color icons.</li>
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When I choose to install the drive, I checked the details and it picked up my 32GB CF card straight away:<br />
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Making sure the Install floppy disk is write enabled, I clicked on OK so it saved the drive definition. It then returned to the main HD Toolbox screen and I can see the new CF Card, ready to partition:<br />
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You can choose to let HDSetup do this work for you as I show below, but you end up with a tiny 15MB Workbench partition, and the rest partitioned as the Work partition:<br />
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Ignoring the HDSetup option after trying it once, I blow away everything and return to HDToolbox to complete the partitioning manually. I decided to setup two partitions, both 15GB in size.<br />
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A VERY important part here (which really should be mentioned) is the need to change the bytes/block size on ALL the partitions.<br />
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I found out the hard way that if you accept the default 512 bytes when partitioning in HD Toolbox, the machine will take<b> over 10 minutes</b> to validate the 15GB partitions prior to booting!<br />
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If you are using 1GB/2GB partitions the 512 bytes/block default is fine, but becomes a serious issue for larger partition sizes...<br />
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You need to set at least 4096 bytes/block size in the <b>Change</b> button for each partition in HDToolbox - you can use multiples of 4096 bytes as well.<br />
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It is covered in a <a href="http://aminet.net/package/docs/help/AmigaOS_3.1.4-FAQ" target="_blank">FAQ I found on Aminet</a> below along with some other very useful information I needed later on - to be honest it should be included in the installation instructions in the shipped box!<br />
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Initially I selected 512 bytes/block (the default setting) for each partition and had to restart/reformat the whole thing again when I discovered it takes 10 minutes to boot every time!</div>
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So make sure you change the File system block size to 4096 bytes/block or a multiple of 4096 for larger CF or SD Card partition sizes.<br />
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You can also choose to select the <b>Long Names, </b>another new feature in AmigaOS 3.1.4. This allows 106 character filenames. But since they are not compatible with any other earlier AmigaOS version, I decided not to do this. I might try it later for testing out though!<br />
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On completing the partitioning, I save the changes and reboot, booting again from the Install floppy disk. I can now see the unformatted Workbench and Work partitions:<br />
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Both partitions can be formatted from the titlebar menu, where there is an option to Format disk. I quick formatted them, and labelled them <b>Workbench</b> and <b>Work</b>, both using international FastFileSystem. Don't do a full format on CF or SD cards.<br />
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I now have two available partitions, and I can get to work with the initial AmigaOS 3.1.4 installation work.<br />
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I then started with the AmigaOS 3.1.4 installation:<br />
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You have the new option to Update languages if you decided to run the installer later to include languages not selected as part of the original installation. In our case we need to do the initial installation, so I get on with that:<br />
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The installation program detects the 68030 is present in my system and says I need to fix a bug present in it by installing a third party program, without telling me what it is. Thanks for that, most helpful.<br />
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I learnt after some research that if you have a 68030 installed, you need to install mu680x0libs for this support - it should work for 68040 and 68060 systems too, although you may need the 68060.library from the vendor (eg. Phase 5, etc) in the libs drawer to boot correctly:<br />
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You can get it on Aminet <a href="http://aminet.net/package/util/sys/Mu680x0Libs" target="_blank">here</a>, and after installation you still need to manually copy the 68030.library from the source archive libs drawer to the libs drawer on your hard disk as it doesn't do it automatically for some reason.<br />
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That will then fix the warning message you get booting AmigaOS 3.1.4 every time on an 030 system without Mu680x0libs installed.<br />
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Installation is completed, and ready for reboot:<br />
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Here is the booted AmigaOS 3.1.4 system - looks very 3.1 doesn't it?<br />
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I was curious why there was no option to install the new AmigaOS 3.1.4 glow icons I heard about. I worked this out later thanks to the FAQ I referred to on Aminet above.<br />
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For now though I installed Poseidon to get my Subway USB support working:<br />
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Next I turned my attention to the AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 update, recently released in 2019 to update the standard AmigaOS 3.1.4 installation to AmigaOS 3.1.4.1, with some important bug fixes.<br />
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Hyperion supply this update via an Amiga ADF file, accessed for download via your registered login on the Hyperion website. Having downloaded it, I copied it to my Amiga 4000D, and installed TransADF from Aminet, so I can write the Amiga ADF file to a real floppy disk:<br />
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With the ADF written to a real floppy, I could then load it on the Amiga 600, to update my AmigaOS 3.1.4 installation:<br />
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I read the Readme included on the AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 floppy disk which covers the system requirements for the update - which are all fine:<br />
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Also mentioned is the new updated Intuition library to enable a new feature to drag Amiga windows off the Workbench screen - normally windows can't be dragged outside the screen at all:<br />
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Note that intuition library is not set up at all by AmigaOS 3.1.4 installer (or the update), and you need to do some changes to the startup-sequence yourself. The FAQ I mentioned earlier covers what you need to do there and what changes are needed to the startup-sequence:<br />
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For now though, I proceed with the AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 installation:<br />
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It asks to confirm the location of the update:<br />
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The files are then copied and update completed quickly. A reboot is needed after the update is done.<br />
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After the reboot the Workbench screen appears, and the titlebar now says Copyright 2019 rather than 2018!<br />
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I checked the Workbench version about from the titlebar to confirm the updated version is now installed - the 2019 year is the easy way to confirm this:<br />
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That done, I played a newish Bomb e255 demo on the Amiga 600 while deciding my next step! After all, we all need a break right?</div>
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Next I installed Magic Workbench 2. I did this to get the correct MagicWB colours and icons, as I hate the original icons with OS3.1 and indeed AmigaOS 3.1.4:<br />
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It already looks much better:<br />
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However I hate having to use a 16:9 display for the Amiga 600. A trip to Cash Converters again and $5 later I have a solution - a nice white Diamond view TFT:<br />
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I mentioned earlier about the new Glow icons for AmigaOS 3.1.4 and their apparent absence after the OS installation work I have done.<br />
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It turns out you have to do another manual process to copy them across using the shell. Seriously?<br />
Why isn't the option to install them included in the installer?<br />
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The FAQ I referenced earlier also explains what is needed to be done here - you have to insert the Storage disk to copy the required files over the top of the Workbench partition:<br />
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FYI I switched back to the other screen at this point as I needed the 16:9 screen for the A1000, which is sharing the screen with the A600 at the moment. (in case you are wondering why it is in the pictures again)<br />
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So, next I put in the Storage disk:<br />
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Easy enough to do this, but really, guys, installer please?<br />
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With that done, and adjusting the screenmode to use 16 colours (maximum for ECS Amiga 600), I can now see the new Glow icons in AmigaOS 3.1.4 for the first time - they look good, but no perfect on 16 colours workbench. They look much better on a RTG screen naturally.<br />
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I might try it on my Amiga 2000 later (which has a RTG graphics card) to see this - assuming I ever sort out the mouse port problem with it..anyway, a bit off topic.<br />
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Below is the Glow icons on my Amiga 600 AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 installation:<br />
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Closer view:<br />
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Hyperion Entertainment also supply an extra Icon Pack for registered AmigaOS 3.1.4 owners, for free download on their website (with a registered id). I did this so I could use some more options for icons across my Work partition:<br />
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After cleaning up and with new Glow icons from the Icon Pack, I have a much nicer looking Work partition now:<br />
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As you can see above I just copy the new glow icons .info file over the top of the old crusty drawer icons:<br />
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The next step is installing WHDLoad, ready for my many games and demos!<br />
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Time for some WHDLoad Arkanoid 2 methinks:<br />
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I also squeezed in a WHDload version of a famous demo Rink a Dink:<br />
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Ok, back on track now!<br />
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In the Workbench prefs you can set MagicWB icons so you don't need to have MagicWB installed to use the colour palette for MagicWB icons.<br />
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This makes me feel a bit dumb for installing it - have to admit it is such a automatic step for my builds I didn't think that AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 included that option. Nice to see it is there now and Magic WB no longer needs to be installed to make the icon colour palette available:<br />
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You can also modify the ASL requester properties (for when workbench prompts for a drawer/file location) - it allows you to change the default sort order, whether drawers are shown first/later - great!<br />
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Next, I made a copy of the CF card I built on the Amiga 600 to run on my Amiga 500, which I <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2018/12/amigaos-314-on-a500.html" target="_blank">previously installed AmigaOS 3.1.4 on</a>, but haven't built significantly further at all.<br />
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I wanted to use the base build so far and keep working on it. The A500 is a bit faster due to the A1200 030 accelerator installed in the ACA500, but otherwise they are quite similar in specifications.<br />
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The system has ACA 500, A1200 A1233n 030 accelerator, Subway USB, Gotek drive internal, DF0 floppy drive switcher, ACE2 2MB chip mem upgrade, and more. Many of these are from <a href="https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/news.html" target="_blank">Individual Computers</a>. I covered these upgrades <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2018/11/classic-amiga-upgrades.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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The A500 has a <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2018/11/classic-amiga-upgrades.html" target="_blank">GuruNet Parallel port network plipbox adapter I installed previously</a> attached to the A500 for internet access. I worked through the installation of the EasyNet software (which I bought <a href="http://amigakit.amiga.store/product_info.php?products_id=586" target="_blank">from AmigaKit</a>) and also the Plipbox driver support from the GuruNet's included floppy disk:<br />
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I have covered the installation in some detail in my previous blog post here so I won't go into the details too much here:<br />
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I mention you do need the latest update of EasyNet to get the plipbox device support available. I copied the source files to my CF Card, and I forgot to create an EasyNet: assign to the drawer so that the installation works - fortunately I could fix it on the fly by opening a shell and typing the assign in and hit Retry below to continue:<br />
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With the installation finished, I could then select Plipbox.device as the target device for EasyNet, and enter the required IP address, default gateway and DNS information:<br />
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One of my pet annoyances with Classic AmigaOS is the lack of included datatype support for modern graphics formats. Despite a number of solutions being available on Aminet for years to provide this essential functionality, it is still missing in AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 too.<br />
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Fortunately I previous purchased the very awesome <a href="https://www.warpdt.co.uk/" target="_blank">Warp Datatypes from Oliver Roberts</a>, and I can install the datatypes and apply my registration key to use PNG, GIF, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PSD, PCX under AmigaOS 3.1.4.1. This is very useful for backdrops since you then have more options to display modern photos, etc. As an aside you can install this on AmigaOS4 and MorphOS too.<br />
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Note that the WarpDTPrefs needs AmigaOS 3.9 to work and won't install on AmigaOS 3.1.4.1. You can install Picasso96 to get around this since it installs the required libraries, but I don't need the prefs program so I won't do that this time.<br />
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I then installed MUI classes needed for some internet applications I want to install - many MUI applications require these classes and they are not included with MUI 3.8:<br />
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Next I installed the <a href="http://muidev.de/" target="_blank">latest version of MUI v5.0 released in 2019</a>. This removes a lot of unnecessary files and brings MUI right up to date.<br />
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Note that for some reason AmigaOS 3.1.4 does not copy the installer program from the Install disk to the c: during the installation! Couldn't believe it! I had to put the Install floppy disk back in to copy the file to c: so I could run the MUI v5 installer:<br />
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After this MUI v5 installation, it is necessary to apply a minimum stack of 30000 to MUI reliant software that runs. If you don't you will get a warning message every time you launch an application that doesn't. You can ignore the prompt, but having to click it every time gets annoying real quick...<br />
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Usually you can just go into the Information properties for the program icon and adjust the amount of stack - in this case the Poseidon ROM tag which uses a stack of 8000:<br />
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Here is the MUI 5 all installed. I previously purchase MUI so I could apply the registration key file to unlock all the functionality.<br />
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With the new Cf card running AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 installed in the ACA500, and internet access now installed, I could get the sgrab software on the Amiga 500 to start taking screenshots from the system directly:<br />
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The lack of colours (16 maximum) is unfortunate given the lack of a graphics card on the A500, but the system is reliable and stable in my usage so far on Amiga OS 3.1.4.1, which is great.<br />
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I have to admit I found the process of updating the glow icons over old icons on the system quite fun, and I am grateful for the inclusion of these icons to beautify the system. I do wish they were installed during the initial installation though, along with a nicer font than that horrible horrible topaz 8...MagicWB includes the nicer Xen fonts, which I am using on this Workbench:<br />
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Web browsing using iBrowse 2.4 (020 version) on the Amiga 500 under AmigaOS 3.1.4.1, with the GuruNet plipbox and EasyNet providing internet access:<br />
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In case you are wondering, the DF1 kickstart icon is there because I have a Gotek installed in the A500. I also have a physical switch to switch between the real Floppy drive (external) to be DF0, or the Gotek to be DF0.<br />
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At the moment the Real external floppy drive is DF0, with the Gotek set as DF1. When the Gotek is set to boot as DF0, it is set as the non-bootable (in an A500) Kickstart 1.3 ADF so that when it is actually DF0, it doesn't boot automatically.<br />
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I left out a few icons rather than installing a dock at this stage. I may change this later but for now it is fine.<br />
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The build work took place over the past week and a half or so, after work and the weekends!<br />
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I covered my Amiga 4000T in some detail in this blog previously <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2015/08/inside-my-a4000t.html" target="_blank">here</a> so you can get up to speed with the specs of it - there is a lot of upgrades installed for this machine, including 68060 accelerator, Mediator PCI board, Voodoo3 RTG graphics card, Deneb USB and plenty more!<br />
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I decided to replace the hard disk in the Amiga 4000T with a new 64GB SD Card, used in conjunction with a SD to IDE converter I purchased off Ebay for this purpose.<br />
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For the Amiga 1200, I purchased a new 32GB CF card as I have a IDE to CF converter already installed in the A1200.<br />
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The Amiga 1200 also has a Indivision AGA MK2 for DVI output and an Individual Computers 54Mhz 68030 accelerator with 128MB memory.<br />
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I decided to tackle the Amiga 1200 build first, because I can then use it as the base build for the more difficult Amiga 4000T build. The A4000T build will be a customisation of that base build to support Mediator, Picasso96 RTG, audio, Deneb USB, CD and other goodies too.<br />
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Enough chat, let's get into the build itself. I pulled apart the Amiga 1200 to remove the old CF Card and install the new one, which is a completely blank FAT32 formatted for PC stock CF Card.<br />
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Regrettably the RapidRoad USB I had installed in the A1200 has a fault with it, and the system will no longer boot with it attached. It used to work, but for some reason decided it won't anymore! I tried it in my Amiga 600 using the A604N expansion but it also didn't work. I guess I need a new one...<br />
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Anyway, for now I will rely on my Amiga 4000D system with it's working Rapid Road USB support for data transfers, etc as we move forward with this installation.<br />
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Because I am using Workbench 3.1, I am limited to configuring the CF card in HDToolbox to 4GB with 2x2GB partitions, one labelled <b>AmiKit</b> and one labelled <b>Backup</b>.<br />
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I cheated a little by using my Amiga 4000D with USB with AmigaOS 3.9 Boing Bag 2 to partition the drives on the CF card using a USB to CF converter. This meant I could create the other partitions for music, demos, games and photos beyond the 4GB barrier in preparation for later when AmigaOS 3.9 is installed and can "see them".<br />
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For safety though I kept all the extra partitions I created just under 4GB (3.9GB actually) until the CF card was filled up. I didn't format any of the extra partitions at this stage as there is no point.</div>
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As a safety measure I always setup the initial two CF hard disk partitions as 1.9GB in HDToolbox to make sure they are definitely under 2GB. I then formatted the partitions as <b>AmiKit</b> and <b>Backup </b>and copied the AmigaOS 3.9 source files and Boing Bags 1 and 2 to the Backup partition. </div>
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These files will be needed on the CF card to install AmigaOS 3.9 over Workbench 3.1 as there is no CD drive on my Amiga 1200 to do this. </div>
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I then downloaded the AmiKit Real 9 files from <a href="https://real.amiga.sk/" target="_blank">their website</a> and extracted the zip to a USB stick on my Mac. I then put the USB stick in my Amiga 4000D to copy the files to the A4000D hard disk, and then copy to the Backup partition on the CF Card. </div>
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With that all done I could then put the CF Card in the Amiga 1200.</div>
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Working from scratch, it is necessary to boot from Workbench 3.1 Install floppy disk. Since AmiKit Real 9 was released before Workbench 3.1.4 was released in 2018, I can't use it as a base for the installation as I don't know if it will work with it - I suspect not but I haven't researched it to be honest.<br />
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I plan to do a separate new build blog post for AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 on my Amiga 600, following on from my <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2018/12/amigaos-314-on-a500.html" target="_blank">previous quick look at AmigaOS 3.1.4 on my Amiga 500</a> back in December. I am working on the A600 build at the same time as this build actually, while waiting for steps to complete! Three Amiga builds at the same time - definitely multitasking :-)<br />
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Here is the initial booted Amiga 1200 from the Workbench 3.1 Install floppy disk.<br />
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I ran through the installation of Workbench 3.1, inserting each of the disks when prompted. With the install completed successfully, I removed the floppy disk and booted off the CF hard disk into Workbench 3.1! I made a drawer called OS31 on the Backup partition to copy the completed installation to. That way I can copy it to my A4000D via USB later to use on other CF/SD cards for Amiga to avoid this step in the future!<br />
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Next I ran the shell and ran an assign for AmigaOS3.9 to point to the drawer where I copied the AmigaOS 3.9 source files. This needs to be done for the AmigaOS 3.9 installation to work from hard disk as the source. I then stepped through the AmigaOS 3.9 installation on the Amiga 1200, upgrading the Workbench 3.1 installed on the CF card:<br />
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I selected to do full installation over OS3.0 or empty HD.<br />
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Install is completed!<br />
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With that done, I then rebooted into the AmigaOS 3.9 environment.<br />
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After the install is done, note that you need to re-run the AmigaOS3.9 CD assign and installation again to install the Internet software option and CDROM driver option, as they are not installed with the main AmigaOS 3.9 installation.<br />
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Now I am booted into AmigaOS 3.9 using the new Cf card on the Amiga 1200, I can now see the other partitions I created earlier.<br />
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I elected not to copy any of my music, demos, games, etc to the new partitions until I was sure the installation of AmigaOS 3.9 and AmiKit Real works. Otherwise it might all be a waste of time!<br />
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I formatted the extra partitions as International FastFileSystem at this point, but left them empty for now.<br />
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I then ran the CD assign in Shell again for AmigaOS3.9 to the drawer containing the OS3.9 files so I can install the Boing Bag 1 and 2 files, which require the CD to be present to install.<br />
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Boing Bag 2 done too - note that you need to ensure the ROM update with Update 2 is <b>not installed</b> as part of the update, as the system will not boot afterwards if you do!<br />
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With the Amiga 1200 now setup with AmigaOS 3.9 Boing Bag 2, I backed up the whole lot to a <b>OS39BB2</b> drawer on the Backup partition.<br />
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This will provide a backup in case the AmiKit Real install goes wrong - I don't want to do all these steps again. Also, I will copy the drawer to my Amiga 4000D to make the installation of AmigaOS 3.9 BB2 onto any future SD/CF card easy as I can just copy it across rather than having to sit through the installation as I did here.<br />
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I am trying to make my life easier for rebuilds in future!<br />
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Next I read the instructions for AmiKit Real 9, which is included in the archive I extracted to the CF Backup partition back on the Amiga 4000D earlier.<br />
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As it says, you must have an AGA Amiga with 16MB memory, and 030 accelerator and a clean installation of AmigaOS 3.9 (which requires Workbench 3.1 installed first). These requisite steps were already completed as covered earlier in this blog entry.<br />
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The destination bootable drive needs to be called AmiKit, which I did when I originally formatted it.<br />
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With that done, and a backup of our AmigaOS3.9 install done in case it all goes belly-up, we are good to go with the AmiKit Real 9 installation.<br />
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I double click on the Install icon in the AmiKit Real 9 drawer to get things underway. It warns you need to have a backup (which we have done) before we start as there is no way to stop it once it gets underway.<br />
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I click Continue and a very large number of file are then copied to the Amikit partition - definitely time for a coffee and dinner - it takes a while:<br />
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Eventually the installation completed and we are ready for the final reboot:<br />
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The first boot of the Amiga 1200 with AmiKit Real 9 installed:<br />
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Success! It boots into AmiKit Real 9!<br />
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I hit a bit of a snag though in that the interlace modes don't display well at all on the Philips TFT screen I am using on the Amiga 1200. Even with the flicker fixer in the Indivision AGA it has a horrible artifacting flickering on the screen that is impossible to use it with.<br />
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Non interlace stuff like PAL screens works fine though, like running the PhaseOne demo included in AmiKit Real 9. I quickly ran it to make sure the mode worked ok, and yes, because I like Amiga demos :-)<br />
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Regarding the interlace screen issue, I found a very simple fix.<br />
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You see, a second hand shop called Cash converters has a pile of these "old" 4:3 TFT screens selling for $5-$15!!!<br />
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Indeed the Philips TFT cost $5 and I got it a few weeks ago for the A1200! I picked up a few more from a local Cash Converters while waiting for OS3.9 to install, and this LG 19" TFT I bought for $15 works great with the interlace modes needed by AmiKit Real 9 for the Workbench:<br />
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One mans rubbish is indeed another mans treasure. :-)<br />
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The AmiKit Real 9 titlebar (which is running DOpus 5.82 in workbench replacement mode) has too much text to fit the low resolution on the Amiga 1200, so I edited the environment titlebar settings to fix it so it fits better, and changed the backdrop to one of the many others included in the AmiKit Real distribution - much better:<br />
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Currently this is using 16 colours, so it can of course look a lot nicer with 256 colours. However it would also be a lot slower. For now I'll leave it at 16 colours.<br />
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With this base installation working, I remove the no longer needed OS3.9 and Amikit Real 9 source files on the Backup partition, and copy the full working installation files of Amikit Real 9 from the AmiKit partition to the Backup partition.<br />
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Given this takes a while I get to enjoy the Matrix screensaver included with AmiKit Real 9 which activated automatically after a few minutes while I was waiting..<br />
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I next remove the CF card from the A1200 and copy the AmiKit partition to the Amiga4000D hard disk in preparation, as this represents the base build of AmiKit Real 9 to use on my Amiga 4000T.<br />
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This completes the AmiKit Real 9 build for the Amiga 1200. There is more to add - the demos, games and music for a start. I did this copy to the CF card on the Amiga 4000D later on.<br />
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I have no intention of doing those steps all again for the Amiga 4000T SD Card!<br />
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Speaking of which, I attached my 64GB SD Card (actually a MicroSD card in a SD Adapter) to my SD-USB converter on the Amiga 4000D so I can prep the card in HDToolbox.<br />
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My Amiga 4000D is getting a serious workout!<br />
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As per the A1200 CF card, I prep the new A4000T SD Card with 2x2GB partitions (bootable) called <b>AmiKit</b> and <b>Backup</b>.<br />
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I then copy the AmiKit Real 9 backup from the A1200 CF card (now on my Amiga 4000D hard disk) onto the SD Card Amikit partition - I also copied the Phase 5 68040 and 68060 libraries and the A4000T workbench.library into the LIBS drawer on the SD Card, that is needed uniquely for that machine to boot:<br />
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This took a long time.<br />
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Even longer since I also set up the other partitions beyond the 4GB barrier to copy many gigabytes of music (mainly MODS), AGA/ECS demos and AGA/ECS games from my Amiga 4000D to the SD card.<br />
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The total time to copy all the files covered several days with work in between...<br />
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With that finally done, I then opened up the A4000T to install the SD Card:<br />
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With the card installed in the IDE to SD card converter, I switched on and happily the system booted up first time into AmiKit Real 9 - success, but a lot more work to do to get the RTG and other addon's working:</div>
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I have two TFT screens on the Amiga 4000T, one connected to the Indivision AGA Mk2 output for the native Amiga output (the right side screen), and one connected to the 3dfx Voodoo3 PCI card RTG output (left screen). At the moment the output is via the native output:<br />
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First up I need to install the Mediator PCI drivers so I can use the SoundBlaster128 PCI sound card, Voodoo3 PCI graphics card and the PCI network card on my Amiga 4000T - I used the Mediator CD to install that, as I copied the CD0 definition file from my A4000T backup on the A4000D to mount the A4000T's CDROM drive:<br />
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With the drivers installed and a reboot later, I then wanted to use the RTG screen mode - I copied the Voodoo driver and Picasso96 setting file from my A4000t backup on the A4000D, but I still couldn't see the Voodoo modes on the Screenmode prefs<br />
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I worked out to fix this I needed to disable the Cybergraphics drivers that are included with AmiKit Real 9, as they don't work at the same time as the Picasso96 RTG driver support.<br />
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There is a line in the startup-sequence that runs the cybergraphics driver - I disabled it and after a reboot I could now see the Voodoo screen modes in the Screenmode prefs:<br />
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Closer look at the screen mode prefs below - I should mention that when you disable the cybergraphics support and don't have the voodoo screen mode selected yet, it defaults to PAL and uses all the chip memory booting up! I couldn't even open a window or menu to run screen mode prefs!<br />
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I worked around this by closing non-essential stuff from the wbstartup drawer temporarily, and then using the shell to run screen mode, which worked!<br />
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I could then set the Voodoo3 screen mode at 1280x1024 in 24bit colour and after a reboot I got all my chip memory back and a beautiful RTG display:<br />
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It just looks amazing!<br />
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RTG is the best way to experience AmiKit Real 9 - it looks gorgeous:<br />
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I could use the screen grabber software to grab some screenshots from the OS itself. The Amikit Real 9 transformation of AmigaOS 3.9 is stunning, really:<br />
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You can turn on the RTG icons and RTG theme support options in the included Morpheuz software, which lifts everything up to another level - I also edited the Visual themes via Morpheuz to use the AmigaOS4 style theme, which uses the AmigaOS 4 lookalike windows and titlebar:<br />
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AmiKit Real 9 includes a number of games and demos with it, and a lot of useful utilities and programs - all set up and ready for immediate use:<br />
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Plenty of included Utilities:<br />
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Riva player for playing back movies, with the Amiga 1000 launch advertisement movie included...it does work but the SGrab software doesn't capture the video itself when screen capturing for some reason!<br />
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Plenty of internet programs included too with AmiKit Real 9:<br />
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The fancy mac-like WB dock at the bottom of the Workbench screen has floating icons that move up when you mouse over them - the dock on the left is AmiDock:<br />
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Close up of WB Dock:<br />
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I quickly fired up Eagleplayer and played some of the included modules:<br />
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I transferred my photos across to the A4000T from the A4000D (as mentioned before), so I can use PicShow to display them. You can display them full screen or zoomed in the Workbench, which looks really cool:<br />
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Before I copied the photos to the Amiga systems, I went through the laborious process of converting all of them down to 1024x768 size first. I know the limitations of the processor on the Amiga systems, and the 1024x768 resolution size is realistically the largest it can display in a reasonable time on a 68060 system.<br />
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I m already loving AmiKit Real 9 and I have only just started to get familiar with it.<br />
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I positioned the SD Card and converter so it is mounted in the front bay of the A4000t in a spare 5 1/4 slot. That way I can still access it when the case is closed to transfer more data to it, or from it.<br />
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I got the USB support working by installing Poseidon 4.5 and adding the Deneb USB driver, which means I can now transfer data directly from the A4000T and no longer need to use the A4000D for that purpose.<br />
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Included with AmiKit Real 9 is iGame, which allows you to have a launcher for all those WHDLoad games you have scattered all over your hard disk.<br />
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Trying to navigate through the drawers to find the game you want to play can be annoying, and that is where iGame comes in. It indexes all the games you have installed to a simple interface to filter/search and launch from. I have not used it before so it is interesting to try it out quickly:<br />
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As this is the first time to run it being a new build, I need to specify the game repository paths on my Amiga, where the games are to be found:<br />
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I have three 4GB partitions packed to the rafters with ECS, AGA, CDTV and CD32 games all using WHDload, so I add the three partitions into iGame:<br />
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I then get iGame to scan the repositories, which takes a little while as I have a lot of games in there! When done, it shows me the list in the main iGame window:<br />
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I can filter search or just scroll down to the game I want to play - I can filter by genre, most played, and more criteria:<br />
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This also includes WHDLoad demos I have too, so I can launch demos from here as well - neat! You can even add games directly installed without WHDLoad too.<br />
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I just double click on the game I want to launch in iGame and it runs the same as if I double clicked on the icon in the drawer, wherever it actually is on my hard disks! Very convenient.<br />
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I got a little distracted playing Chuck Rock 2 for a bit after testing this in iGame...<br />
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Next up I configured Genesis (Internet connection software for AmigaOS 3.9, installed when I installed AmigaOS3.9 earlier on) to use my PCI network card on the Mediator PCI board expansion on my A4000T:<br />
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The connection works successfully first time!<br />
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I then fired up AWeb to check Aminet latest uploads:<br />
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Given I am now connected to the internet on my A4000T, I took the opportunity to also run the Amikit live update software, which confirms I am running the latest version of AmiKit Real 9, with no updates to install at this time:<br />
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If you don't like the WBDock in it's Mac-like form, you can opt for the full Windows style start menu and task bar add-on included with AmiKit Real.<br />
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The icon to change it is the last one on the AmiDock on the left hand side. When run, you get this rather cool Start menu:<br />
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I can see in the not too distant future that my A4000t will be my main Classic Amiga system again. I still have a bunch of applications to check out on AmiKit Real 9. It is a lot of work to get going, but it is so worth the effort! I love it.<br />
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If you haven't tried AmiKit Real 9 on your Classic Amiga yet and it meets the minimum requirements, why not give it a go?<br />
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<br />Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-35740240983509819472019-07-29T10:20:00.003+09:302019-07-29T10:20:38.602+09:30Skill Grid on AGA AmigaToday I wanted to take a look at the recently released game called Skill Grid by Retream, available for Classic Amiga AGA systems.<br />
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The game is available for purchase from <a href="https://rgcd.bigcartel.com/product/skillgrid-amiga" target="_blank">RGCD</a>. I have bought many games for C64 cartridge from RGCD and they focus on producing wonderful packaging for their games.<br />
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In 2019 they released Powerglove and Tigerclaw for Classic Amiga, covered briefly in my blog <a href="https://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2019/01/new-computer-rooms-in-2019.html" target="_blank">here</a>. For Skill Grid they once again did a great boxed product:<br />
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Included is a CD32 bootable CD, floppy disk, instructions, badges, stickers and more! Very nice.<br />
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I quickly fired up my Amiga 4000 to try it out. Being an AGA game, you need a Amiga 1200, 4000 or CD32 to play this game:<br />
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Instructions for the game are included with the software on the CD:<br />
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The tricky part of this game is the positive and negative bonuses which affect your game in different ways. They constantly appear during play and you have to collect as many of the "positive" ones as you can while avoiding the negative ones! The manual below outlines the various bonuses to collect and their purpose.<br />
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I found with Retream games you do need to read the manual as they implement some interesting concepts in their games that you need to understand better in order to score well in the game (not just survive!)<br />
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The CD includes a HD install version you can just copy to the hard disk and launch. Here is the Skill Grid Title screen on my Amiga 4000:<br />
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The game moves fast as it is vertical scrolling shoot em up - but the positive and negative bonuses are a key part of the game play, and separate it from the average shooter that provides occasional power upgrades for your craft. You will likely die very quickly in this game, and often, as I did!<br />
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As you start it is quiet enough...<br />
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It starts getting busier though as the positive and negative bonuses start filling the screen, along with enemies to shoot/avoid.<br />
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I am afraid I am not very good at this game so I couldn't explore it as far as I was hoping to, but I keep on trying. Yep. Died again.<br />
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I also tested Skill Grid on my repaired Amiga CD32, and it works very well on it. I think the game is better suited to the CD32 controller to be honest!<br />
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Skill Grid is an interesting concept, and surprisingly difficult game to make progress in! That said my shoot em up skills are not what they used to be in 2019! YMMV.<br />
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The graphics and sound are good and music is ok too.<br />
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Definitely give it go!<br />
<br />Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-20489516457540184902019-07-26T18:43:00.005+09:302019-07-26T18:43:43.291+09:30Mucking around with Classic AmigaOf late I have been doing lots of projects on my Classic Amiga systems, with various degrees of success!<br />
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I thought I would share some of them here together, as I lack the time to separate them into multiple posts, which some may well deserve...but anyway.<br />
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I worked on fixing my Amiga CD32 issue from moving house. The lid join to the latch broke in transit:<br />
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Close up of the damage:<br />
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The screw was lost, so I have no way to connect it back to the latch mechanism. Unfortunately the latch is stuck in the open position so the lid can't close:<br />
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As a temporary (permanent?) fix I will lower the latch so the CD32 thinks the lid is always closed and will boot CD's again. I opened the case so I could reset the mechanism.<br />
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Inside my CD32 is the Indivision AGA that used to be in my Amiga 4000D before I got a graphics card for it - it is handy on the CD32 as it gives a better quality output than the AV connections do:<br />
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CD32 laid bare:<br />
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After I reset the mechanism so it is always down:<br />
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I put it back together and now my CD32 works again!<br />
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It gave me the chance to try 2019 released games like Reshoot-R, Skill Grid on the CD32:<br />
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I also played Worthy on CD32:<br />
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Isn't it great to have so many new release games for CD32 in 2019! I am so happy for that! Last but not least is the new game Heroes of Gorluth on my Amiga CD32:<br />
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Next, I finally got to catch up with the many awesome Amiga demos released at Revision 2019 over Easter (wow, that was a while ago!) following my overseas trip.<br />
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I have to say the demos are awesome, with special mention to TBL's amazing ECS winning demo, running below on my Amiga 500!<br />
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You can download the demos from Revision 2019 from <a href="http://pouet.net/" target="_blank">pouet.net</a>. Quite a number of the demos released work well on the Amiga 1000 too!<br />
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One of the really wonderful nostalgic things on Amiga still in 2019 is using X-Copy to copy and format floppy disks, as below on my Amiga 1000:</div>
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I have some new plans for the Amiga 1000, with some parts on order for hopefully being able to install the Vampire 500 V2 in it! The A1000 daughterboard (rare in a PAL A1000) has proven to be a hinderance with this machine, preventing me installing the Indivision ECS in the past, even with the relocator for the A1000. Hopefully I can make the A1000 work with the Vampire V2, as I did on the Amiga 2000 previously - <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2016/12/vampire-500-v2-part-1.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a> and <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2016/12/vampire-500-v2-part-2.html" target="_blank">Part 2</a>...watch this space.<br />
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I have been squeezing in some time to play one of my favourite Amiga games - Larn - on the Amiga 4000. I really enjoy the game, and the Amiga version was the only version with graphics in it and not just text based:<br />
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So, I decided to upgrade my Amiga 4000D system with the latest versions of software. Currently the Amiga 4000D is running AmigaSys 4, a distribution that provides a lot of software and a pre-configured Amiga environment out of the box (with OS 3.1/OS3/9 needed as a base first) - I also have a rapid road USB with X-Surf 100 Network card from Individual computers, using AmigaKit's EasyNet software for easy network configuration and connectivity:<br />
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I downloaded the latest iBrowse 2.4 from their site <a href="https://www.ibrowse-dev.net/" target="_blank">here</a> to try out:<br />
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I picked the 020+ version since the Amiga 4000 has a 68060 accelerator installed.<br />
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I ran through the installer:<br />
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I also decided now was a good time to upgrade MUI v3.8 to the latest MUI v5 released in 2019, available on Aminet.<br />
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You get a bunch of warnings during the install about all MUI classes and libraries that are no longer needed in the newest version - I chose to delete them:<br />
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It detected my existing MUI 3.8 installation and proceeded to update it:<br />
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When prompted to use the MUI ASL requester patch, I chose No. I had no end of problems on AmigaOS4 with MUI5 ASL patch causing crashes on opening dialog boxes. Took me a while to figure oout it was this patch that did it. Once I got rid of of the patch everything worked fine again. Perhaps the OS3 version doesn't have that issue but I didn't want to take the risk:<br />
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The install finished and after the reboot I ran the MUI preferences to confirm the new version is now installed:<br />
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A while back in 2019, I purchased the latest Hollywood 8.0 (Supremacy) release as an upgrade to my Hollywood 7.0 release. The <a href="https://hollywood-mal.com/index.html" target="_blank">Hollywood software</a> can be used for developing all kinds of programs on the Amiga, and cross compiled for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android (APK compiler) and even iOS now with the new <a href="https://hollywood-mal.com/mobile.html" target="_blank">RemediOS release for Hollywood 8.0</a>.<br />
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The good news is that you can install Hollywood 8.0 on Classic Amiga too, as long as you have an RTG graphics card installed (ie. a big box Amiga like 2000,3000, or 4000) - maybe a SAGA RTG Vampire would work on an A500/1000 too - but I have not tested this yet.<br />
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Hollywood apparently no longer supports the 8 bit colour modes (although I believe you can call legacy modes using a free plugin). I set to work installing it on my A4000D:<br />
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It detected my older version Hollywood installation on the Amiga 4000D and set to work upgrading it to version 8:<br />
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Of course being the Amiga 4000D and 060 accelerator (no PowerPC), I selected the OS3 version to install. I later installed this on my AmigaOne X5000 using AmigaOS 4 too.<br />
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The installer warns you about Hollywood distorted sound issues in AHI being possible and how to fix. I didn't experience this myself:<br />
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With the install completed the Hollywood intro animation ran. This doesn't run too well on the Amiga 4000, even with the 060 accelerator - it is smooth on the AmigaOne X5000 though:<br />
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There is also a Hollywood 8 plugin for Cubic IDE, which is great for syntax highlighting and command help. You can get similar plugins for Notepad++, UltraEdit and VIM if you use Hollywood on Windows, Mac or Linux. These plugins are available on the <a href="https://hollywood-mal.com/download.html" target="_blank">Hollywood website in the downloads section</a>:<br />
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I rebooted when prompted below to complete the plugin install for Cubic IDE:<br />
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I went on to install the many free plugins for Hollywood 8, which I really wish were all packaged together rather than having download and install over twenty individual plugins. Some version release dates on the website would be handy too, so I know whether I need to download it or not.<br />
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The hURL plugin needs AmiSSL4 installed, which I have also installed on my Amiga 4000D as part of this update process:<br />
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As nice as it is to have the latest version of Hollywood 8.0 on my Classic Amiga, I mainly use it on my AmigaOne X5000, so I installed it on that as well.<br />
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It detected my old version and updated it:<br />
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I selected the AmigaOS 4 version this time, being on the AmigaOne X5000:<br />
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After the install completes the intro animation plays, which is smooth on the X5000:<br />
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As I mentioned, the Hollywood plugins installation process is annoying - so many individual packages to install:<br />
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On the positive side, I could enjoy a Hollywood produced Chris Hulsbeck music program included as an example:<br />
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Here is some Hollywood code I have written, displaying in Cubic IDE on my X5000, with the latest Hollywood 8 syntax highlighting installed (as I did on the Amiga 4000 earlier):<br />
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As mentioned, you can compile for different targets: AmigaOS3/4, MorphOS, Windows, Mac, Linux, Android (paid add-on) and recently iOS (Mac only) via the RemediOS paid addon:<br />
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Hollywood really is an Amiga product worth supporting. A lot of effort has gone into this product to make Hollywood language developed programs usable across multiple platforms!<br />
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I wanted to work with my Amiga 2000, but unfortunately my Amiga 2000 has a hardware problem with the mouse port, which has steadily been getting worse and worse, and now the mouse won't move on the screen up and down...I tried multiple working mice but no change. I tried swapping the Odd and Even CIA chips with a known working A500 board chips, but no joy there either. Sigh...guess I need a replacement board...</div>
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Sadly my Amiga 4000D has developed a similar problem as I was preparing this blog post, with is incredibly frustrating. I am using the mouse keyboard workaround to use these systems while I work out how I can fix this. At the moment I am at a loss...</div>
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I have some more projects for my Amiga 4000T (broken hard disk) and Amiga 600 underway at the moment which I will cover in another blog entry soon!<br />
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Classic Amigas can be so great when you get cool new stuff working on them, and incredibly frustrating when they remind you how fragile and old they are...but I still love them anyway!</div>
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Epsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04050093693410409568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8260463056447598917.post-23062634232205599602019-07-23T20:29:00.000+09:302019-07-23T20:29:03.159+09:30Blastaway Preview on X5000Today I wanted to take a look at an upcoming AmigaOS 4 game from Retream called Blastaway.<br />
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It is a throwback to games on Classic Amiga, and is in development now. It is being developed in 2019 for Windows and also AmigaOS 4.1.<br />
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I am focused on the AmigaOS 4.1 version on my AmigaOne X5000 today. You can download the work in progress game from the Retream <a href="https://retream.itch.io/blastaway" target="_blank">itch.io website here</a> for free.<br />
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Retream have delivered a lot of great games for AmigaOS 4, Windows, Mac, C64 and more! I have reviewed <a href="http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2013/07/huenison-on-x1000.html" target="_blank">Huenison</a> in this very blog.<br />
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I have previously bought BOH (AmigaOS 4), Skillgrid (Classic Amiga) and C64 games MAH and QUOD INIT EXIT IIm on C64 cartridge from Retream as well! I enjoy their games!<br />
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Please support ongoing development of original games for AmigaOS 4.1 and buy some of the games! We need original games too and not just ports of games from other platforms!<br />
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This is not the final game and many Blastaway levels and gameplay details are to be completed before the final game is released.<br />
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It is looking promising so far, and you can follow along with the very active game development log on their <a href="https://twitter.com/R37R34M" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/saimobvq" target="_blank">Youtube</a> pages as it takes shape!<br />
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Here is the Blastaway drawer on extraction:<br />
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The game runs in full screen on my X5000:<br />
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In the options you can change the video mode to run in a window and lower resolutions, and modify the keyboard controls for the game:<br />
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I quickly get into the game:<br />
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The game kinda reminds me of Dynablaster and Chaos Engine blended together, with keys to collect to unlock doors, and needing to kill all the aliens on the level to clear.<br />
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There are transporters on the level to get into inaccessible areas too and the levels get harder quickly:<br />
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You start with three lives, and those are shown at the bottom entrance to each level. If you die you take over the next life from the start point.<br />
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I already find the game is playable and fun, and I can't wait to see the final version:<br />
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I hope to see this game completed for AmigaOS 4.1 and hope this helps Retream in their efforts to raise awareness of the development work they are doing for our favourite Amiga platforms, both classic and Next Gen!<br />
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