Amiga 1200 A1200SDE+ 8MB Fastmem board and internal Gotek

[patrik]

Originally Posted by RiotRetroGaming

Update... SHE'S ALIVVEEEE! All done, converter works like a charm.
Just took the header off and wired straight to the ethernet board.
No problems, freezing or anything now. Something was defo not right.

Awesome!

What kind of download speeds do you get?

[RiotRetroGaming]

Originally Posted by patrik

Awesome!

What kind of download speeds do you get?

I haven't got that far, just wanted to confirm it was working.
I need to put a browser on now.
Tempted to try Workbench 3.1.4 - but I have the fixed 3.X roms, any idea if they work with that?

These are the ROMs I bought about a month ago:
https://amigakit.amiga.store/product...oducts_id=1273

[RiotRetroGaming]

Originally Posted by patrik

Awesome!

What kind of download speeds do you get?

Patrik... I tried downloading a 7Mb file with IBrowse and it said 38,000 cps more or less... whatever that is?

[Allen1]

Wow, that is fantastic news, I'm pleased you persevered and got this working

My 3.3v converters are not here yet and I haven't got round to installing any browser software or done any prep work for my A1200 so I am way behind you with this project but will hopefully learn what to do from your experiences

A 'how to' tutorial would be a fantastic addition to installing these, especially the browser software required and settings etc if you have the time, but I think you will want to give your head a well deserved rest after all the trials and waiting for parts before being able to get further into making this work.


Blooming heck! would you believe it, my Lan card has the 3.3v chip installed on the back of the board. I have only just opened the package and also looked at my previous link to the card and it shows the one I was sent, I'm pretty sure that this is an updated version of the one that was previously there as there was no mention of the 3.3v regulator circuit All good news, its a shame I didn't open the protective envelope earlier.

All the best,
Allen

[patrik]

Originally Posted by RiotRetroGaming

Patrik... I tried downloading a 7Mb file with IBrowse and it said 38,000 cps more or less... whatever that is?

38000Bytes/sec = 38000/1024 ~ 37.11kByte/sec.

Can you try to download a file located as nearby as possible. Nearby as in low count of network hops, ideally on your local network.

Also try with aget and download to NIL: instead of saving the file to disk with IBrowse. This will both remove the disk I/O from the test and the deficiencies of IBrowse and will show a number more in line of what your TCP/IP-stack+network-driver+network-card is capable of.

To see how much the distance can affect the download speed you get with the TCP/IP-stacks on the Amiga, see below example. The first download is from a server on my local network, the next is from a server in the same town, then one in the opposite end of my country, then Germany and finally the US (I am located in northern Sweden):

9.Ram Disk:> aget http://192.168.0.40/test10M.bin NIL:
Buffer size: 128kB
Sent HTTP GET request!
Done parsing HTTP header
Server response: 200 OK
Receiving file: 0% - [oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo] - 100% (10MB)
10MB received in 7.77s - 1.29MB/s

9.Ram Disk:> aget http://driar.se/test/test10M.bin NIL:
Buffer size: 128kB
Sent HTTP GET request!
Done parsing HTTP header
Server response: 200 OK
Receiving file: 0% - [oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo] - 100% (10MB)
10MB received in 9.16s - 1.09MB/s

9.Ram Disk:> aget http://se.aminet.net/INDEX NIL:
Buffer size: 128kB
Sent HTTP GET request!
Done parsing HTTP header
Server response: 200 OK
Receiving file: 0% - [oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo] - 100% (6.66MB)
6.66MB received in 15.20s - 448.60kB/s

9.Ram Disk:> aget http://de.aminet.net/aminet/INDEX NIL:
Buffer size: 128kB
Sent HTTP GET request!
Done parsing HTTP header
Server response: 200 OK
Receiving file: 0% - [oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo] - 100% (6.66MB)
6.66MB received in 28.58s - 238.57kB/s

9.Ram Disk:> aget http://aminet.net/INDEX NIL:
Buffer size: 128kB
Sent HTTP GET request!
Done parsing HTTP header
Server response: 200 OK
Receiving file: 0% - [oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo] - 100% (6.66MB)
6.66MB received in 91.98s - 74.14kB/s

The above tests are done on an A1200 with Blizzard1260 and a 100MBit Netgear FA411 PCMCIA network card.

[RiotRetroGaming]

I made a video guide on my channel...
I'll add Allen1 & Patrik to the credits on the video description.
Indigolemon got hammered a lot, so massive respect haha.
Note 3.1.4 is running and the use of offscreen dragging makes things sooooo much better.

For the n00bs like me here goes:
[ Show youtube player ]

[RiotRetroGaming]

@Allen1 lol that's a stroke of luck! Someone is reading our posts I'm sure! haha

@Patrik
I'll try tomorrow bud, that's in Shell I gather?

[patrik]

Originally Posted by RiotRetroGaming

@Patrik
I'll try tomorrow bud, that's in Shell I gather?

That is correct.

[RiotRetroGaming]

Originally Posted by patrik

That is correct.

Right.
That's a bit stupid. Who wrote AGet?
It's a http checker... so why is it erroring on run 'cannot open cybergraphics.library' pffff haha what the hell??

It's for internet in a shell?????

[patrik]

Sorry, use the link to aget in my previous post.

I wrote aget more than ten years ago. Its name was actually AsyncHTTPGet from the beginning, but felt a shorter one simplified usage -> aget. I never uploaded it to aminet unfortunately. The reason why I wrote aget was because I was curious why most download clients were so slow when using ethernet.

The AGet which appeared a few years ago on aminet is something completely different as you noticed.

[duga]

Originally Posted by RiotRetroGaming

So happy, about to go on the IRC site.
I was wondering why the usernames are so small on the right?

Check your AmIRC or MUI font settings.

[RiotRetroGaming]

@patrik I can't run it sorry

@duga Indigolemon said I was using v5.... I'm now on v3.8

[patrik]

Originally Posted by RiotRetroGaming

@patrik I can't run it sorry

http://uhc.driar.se/aget should work as long as the Amiga has at least kick 2.04, a TCP/IP-stack and some free memory. What happens when you run it?

[RiotRetroGaming]

Thanks Patrik. I'll try that

[RiotRetroGaming]

@patrick

Ram Disk:> aget http://driar.se/test/test10M.bin NIL:
140.39s - 72.94kB/s

Ram Disk:> aget http://se.aminet.net/INDEX NIL:
102.83s - 65.67kB/s

Ram Disk:> aget http://de.aminet.net/aminet/INDEX NIL:
75.59s - 90.21kB/s

Ram Disk:> aget http://aminet.net/INDEX NIL:
167.23s - 40.78kB/s

Stock 020, no mmu, fpu or anything flash... just A1208

[patrik]

Thanks for testing, very interesting. Had no idea what to expect from the SPI ethernet solution.

de.aminet.net with the best score is quite a bit from the UK, so I bet it would manage quite a bit more if for example fetching files from another computer on your local network - my speed got cut down to a third just by going through Sweden.

[RiotRetroGaming]

How do I setup a Samba server? That would test the theory.
I am thinking about sharing a dvd drive on my laptop to put the CUCD and Amiga Format discs in and access them.
I have not used them for years.

[indigolemon]

On the Amiga, I'd use SMBFS ( grab the 68k version of 2.1 from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ami...s/smbfs%202.1/ ) - and then use SMBMounter to mount shares - it's a nice front end: http://aminet.net/package/comm/net/SMBMounter

[RiotRetroGaming]

Originally Posted by indigolemon

On the Amiga, I'd use SMBFS ( grab the 68k version of 2.1 from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ami...s/smbfs%202.1/ ) - and then use SMBMounter to mount shares - it's a nice front end: http://aminet.net/package/comm/net/SMBMounter

It's INDIGO LEMON! hahah
Cheers buddy. That was funny.

[RiotRetroGaming]

Originally Posted by indigolemon

On the Amiga, I'd use SMBFS ( grab the 68k version of 2.1 from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ami...s/smbfs%202.1/ ) - and then use SMBMounter to mount shares - it's a nice front end: http://aminet.net/package/comm/net/SMBMounter

I have no idea what I am doing?
I have to be honest, I'm only a double click and install guy on the Amiga.

I got as far as typing in a shell:
smbfs user=Amiga device=//WORKGROUP/LAPTOP

But it timesout after 60 secs with no reasons why, you cannot find any options with smbfs/?
The documentation isn't user friendly either.
I installed SMB Mouter too and it just comes up with 'insert SAMBA:'