Amiga questions you've always been too embarrassed to ask

[emufan]

oh, old version you are using - just download latest Winuae beta 17

#1) link changed, was beta 16, now latest beta 17

#2) if you get a blue background screen, when playing a video in genlock mode,
this indicates something is wrong with the video or missing windows video codec.
K-Lite Codec pack is a good choice to solve the codec problem.

[TroyWilkins]

Originally Posted by emufan

oh, old version you are using - just download latest Winuae beta 17

Yeah, I don't keep up with the betas, I usually just go with the latest non-beta version, so I'm still using 3.3.0

But that sounds like a fun reason to try out the latest beta, thanks, I'm getting it now!

[TroyWilkins]

Hmm, looks like I should stick to not using the beta versions, lol

[emufan]

hmm, uncool
windows will notify you .... big brother everywhere :/
if you get some debug / error messages, i think Toni will be interested.

#1) beta 16 or my re-newed link to beta 17?

#2) just in case someone still reading this:
to get rid of microsoft telemetry spying stuff: Spybot Anti-Beacon

[TroyWilkins]

Originally Posted by emufan

hmm, uncool
windows will notify you .... big brother everywhere :/
if you get some debug / error messages, i think Toni will be interested.

#1) beta 16 or my re-newed link to beta 17?

If I got any debug or error message, I'd be happy to share them with him, but alas, it simply crashed while I was selecting a video file, in both b16 and b17, I tried them both. Oh well.

[Toni Wilen]

Most likely it is due to buggy codec. (some codec pack etc..). It is quite common.

[emufan]

so just install the K-Lite codec pack Mega - it's an all-in-one solution, and never gave me any trouble. if it does not work, simply uninstall.

[TroyWilkins]

Will do tomorrow and see if that helps, as far as I'm aware I have not installed any 3rd party codecs - as I usually use VLC for local video playback on this machine.

[Toni Wilen]

If it happens immediately after clicking "..."-button and 64-bit Windows: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=80216 (workaround is to paste the file path and not use "..." if you don't want to hunt for the buggy extension..)

[s2325]

How many frames have Lotus 3 intro? 3-4?

[TroyWilkins]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

If it happens immediately after clicking "..."-button and 64-bit Windows: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=80216 (workaround is to paste the file path and not use "..." if you don't want to hunt for the buggy extension..)

Ahh, thank you. I hadn't considered trying the 32-bit version, I was perhaps stupidly using the 64-bit version. 32-bit version works just fine, thank you for the great work Toni!

[emufan]

thats more like it.
additionally you can now map some keys to the following values:
VIDEOGRAB_RESTART
VIDEOGRAB_PAUSE
VIDEOGRAB_PREV
VIDEOGRAB_NEXT
this will control the virtual vcr - whether this will work, depends on the windows codec for the video file.

[emufan]

Originally Posted by AlgoRythmic

Just to be sure, is the Vampire 500 v2 board compatible with a A500+(Plus) model?
Sorry if this has been asked before. Ive searched but couldn't find a definitive answer to this.

kipper2k gave the answer to this in another thread.

Originally Posted by kipper2k

Works in all versions of A500s,

[emufan]

is there a tool for workbench 3.x to move the screen position like
it was possible in Preferences tool on workbench 1.3?

#1) when using Preferences 1.3 on my Workbench 3.1, i can re-position the screen.
after a reboot, i can see, the position snaps back, from what i setup with preferences tool.
this really annoys me. any help here?

Many times advertising agencies and stuff depict a product in the best aesthetic sense. Oftentimes in a fake scene. Not necessarily how it actually works in the real world.

Originally Posted by Akira

A question from me now: So you know how the A500 was always advertised the Amiga 500 with a monitor laying on top of it? Like here in this official Commodore ad:



Or here (computer store ad):


Doesn't this potentially damage the A500 case? Was the case actually meant to hold an Amiga monitor on top, at least partially?

[idrougge]

Originally Posted by emufan

is there a tool for workbench 3.x to move the screen position like
it was possible in Preferences tool on workbench 1.3?

SYS:Prefs/Overscan

[emufan]

Originally Posted by idrougge

SYS:Prefs/Overscan

oh, gosh. must be decades now, i saw this config last time - i could not remember. thanks

[Jope]

Originally Posted by emufan

oh, gosh. must be decades now, i saw this config last time - i could not remember. thanks

Yeah, Overscan prefs for WB use. If you want to create a custom system-configuration in 2.x or newer for a CLI only disk, you'll have to use a copy of the 1.3 preferences.

#1) when using Preferences 1.3 on my Workbench 3.1, i can re-position the screen.
after a reboot, i can see, the position snaps back, from what i setup with preferences tool.
this really annoys me. any help here?

This is due to iprefs loading the settings that were adjusted with the modern preferences editors. They save the settings in separate files in env:sys

[emufan]

ok, thanks for that

[-Acid-]

what's the difference between Shell and Cli?