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wawa 21 April 2010 15:24

gulliver, what is this version of moovid again? the author has confirmed on the a1k forum that it isnt free and the development will be continuued as soon he has his 4000er up and running again.

Bloodwych 21 April 2010 15:24

This will be great for the ClassicWB packs. :)

killergorilla 21 April 2010 15:48

It certainly will be :)

Zetr0 21 April 2010 16:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bloodwych (Post 663097)
This will be great for the ClassicWB packs. :)

could this be installed by default ?

i.e. the HDF itself ?

prowler 24 April 2010 01:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by alexh (Post 661445)
Can I recommend that he send floppy disks to someone in his own country for recovery? I thought that international Parcels are routinely x-ray'd these days. Dunno but I heard stories this can wipe disks?

bLAZER sent me a disk from Sweden to the UK for imaging and there were no problems with it when it arrived here! :)

whiteb 27 April 2010 14:47

How are we doing on this front ?

gulliver 27 April 2010 19:14

No news from the author. I will email him today, to see where he is at.

whiteb 28 April 2010 00:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by gulliver (Post 664521)
No news from the author. I will email him today, to see where he is at.

Cool, thanks for that, I was more aiming at what do we do with PFS in the time being ?

The non registered version nags at you, is there a version we can use or is that why we are waiting on the source ?

Just wondering which version I can use right now on my CF card.

cosmicfrog 04 May 2010 00:45

still twiddling my er twiddley bits here

any news

gulliver 04 May 2010 01:25

No replies from the author yet :sad

rare_j 04 May 2010 01:51

We've been after this for years
Couple more week wont hurt...

gulliver 04 May 2010 10:41

Got a reply!!!
 
I got a progress report. Email follows. But before posting it, he mentions that he needs a working 100MB zip drive to recover some files. Does anybody have one to send him for free (he lives in Holland)?
_______________________________________________________________

From:
"Michiel Pelt" <xxx@gmail.com>
Add sender to Contacts
To:
"Ignacio" <xxx@yahoo.com>
Hi Ignacio,

First thing is the binary release on aminet. You can expect that soon
enough. Source code release just needs some time. I do have the
sources. But you should realize PFS3 is a complex piece of software
and this includes the build. I cannot throw it in the public domain
just as it is, it has to be bundled in a nice package with clear
instructions.

To do that I first have to create a working build environment myself,
and I am not quite there yet. I have the sources. I have a licensed
copy of WinUAE. The compiler, SAS C, I had on original floppy disk,
but I downloaded it already (I do have a license).

I appreciate the help offered and I might need some. I am not sure
about the license to use. All I really want is credit whenever someone
uses any of it - that is I have to be mentioned and I want to be
informed about it.

Also, do you know someone in the possession of a working 100MB zip
drive? I have some pfs-formatted zip disks that may have some useful
stuff on it.

Best regards,

Michiel Pelt
_______________________________________________________________

So anyone has a zip drive to give away for free To Michiel?

mihcael 04 May 2010 10:54

I have zip drive i dont use, but im in Australia! I'll be a last resort for providing drive?

ma693541 04 May 2010 11:28

I have a SCSI 250 MB Zip drive if that would help. I live in Norway.

gulliver 04 May 2010 11:38

Thank you guys!
There is already a user at amiga.org that lives in the Netherlands, he is already contacting Michiel to send him a zip drive.

cosmicfrog 04 May 2010 15:57

Great News

Now where do I get a licensed copy of WinUAE

hehehehhehehe

gulliver 04 May 2010 18:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by cosmicfrog (Post 666269)
Great News

Now where do I get a licensed copy of WinUAE

hehehehhehehe

:laughing:laughing:laughing

He probably meant he got Amiga Forever.

Shadowfire 09 May 2010 03:24

Excellent. I think I'll do a few tests once we have confirmation and it gets posted to FTP. I've been able to boot into a single 55GB partition on my hard disk controller on the 68030, but have had to skip 68000 testing since SFS didn't handle that too well.

HenryCase 09 May 2010 15:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by gulliver (Post 666189)
I appreciate the help offered and I might need some. I am not sure
about the license to use. All I really want is credit whenever someone
uses any of it - that is I have to be mentioned and I want to be
informed about it.

A BSD license is the closest I can think of to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses

I think many people would be interested in seeing the plans for PFS4, even just from a historical perspective. If these plans were released too, where would be a good place to host them?

gulliver 09 May 2010 16:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by HenryCase (Post 667562)
A BSD license is the closest I can think of to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses

I think many people would be interested in seeing the plans for PFS4, even just from a historical perspective. If these plans were released too, where would be a good place to host them?

Thank you, I will send Michiel that license suggestion. I will also ask him about PFS4 (I have no problems to host files and information on my website).


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