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Anyone here worked out how to drive it? Likewise a PCMCIA USB card... Of course, in the old dfays we used to network them up over an RS232 link... I say "we", I can't recall if I ever actually got it working. :? Quote:
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VGA adapters will only work with a few monitors that understands the 16kHz signal coming from the Amiga. Since it is outside VGA signal spec, it is basically trial and error to find one that works, however there are some models that are known to work. I have a Dell 2001FP which works with such a VGA adapter. |
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Yes, there are USB controllers such as Subway and RapidRoad which are connected to the clock port. I have the latter and it works quite nice with lots of stuff like USB storage, keyboards, mice, serial ports etc. Notice though that it can only be used with stuff that uses the OS libraries, so a USB mouse or joystick cannot be used in most games. There are adapters out there which will allow you to connect a USB mouse/joystick/joypad to a joystick port. |
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Slight change of subject: what are good fonts to use on a TV?
Before I mothballed the machine I had it on a monitor, and now I can barely read anything on it. I've had a scan through the fonts, but none of them seem particularly legible in the preview and there is too many to try them all out. BTW, one of the cards has just turned up: it's a 3Com OfficeConnect 3CCSH572BT... Must go do some work now: I'll mess with it later. Last edited by Hairyloon; 16 June 2015 at 15:13. |
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How do I view jpg/png images on OS3?
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Multiview with proper datatypes or any picture viewer like Visage, VT, V, ...
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What's the connector on the Blizzard 1230's SCSI kit for? (in attached image, blue connector)
It's the one that usually goes into the gap on the back of the 1200. If that's not used, do I really need the SCSI kit actually attached to my 1200 besides for the additional RAM slot? |
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You can also use the SCSI kit to connect an internal SCSI drive, or even an IDE HDD through an Acard SCSI-IDE converter like many people use. It is a lot faster than the A1200 IDE interface. |
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So this is vaguely Amiga .... A few questions
Morph OS vs. IcAROS? MorphOS is the more regularly developed of the two obviously but what does Icaros offer that MorphOS doesn't? Obviously it works with x86 hardware but why use it? MorphOS has Trident which can run many 68k programs natively, Icaros seems to use EUAE. Will they ever get a wrapper like Trident? MorphOS is expensive for licenses and seems to run on limited hardware. Is Icaros being x86 based any better for hardware compatability? Wireless seems very intermittent on MorphOS is it any better on Icaros? |
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Why was it never fixed so that one can change screen mode without having to close all windows etc?
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05 August 2015, 00:44 | #612 |
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It's not amiga but commodore why the gfx on c64 always seems 2 be 2 pixels on 1 or 1 pixel on 2 ??? I hope you see what i mean ?
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It is a compromise between resolution and number of colors. If you are using sprites for example, you can have a 16x16 pixel sprite in two colors, or 8x16 pixel sprite in 4 colors. So to get 4 color sprites, you get pixels that are double as wide as they are high. This is quite simplified as you can also stretch sprites in either direction or put multiple on top of each other to effectively produce a high res sprite in many colors (but then you'll run out of sprites much sooner).
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1. It happens on low-end models like the Amiga 500, but on high-ends like the Amiga 3000, does its internal drive click on the Kickstart/Workbench screen even if no disk is inserted?
2. On machines with Kickstart 3+, you get the black screen/red border crash similar to other KS models. Why does KS3+ errors automatically reset the machine after 20 or so seconds, even though it says "Press left mouse button to continue."? |
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MorphOS itself is API compatible with Amiga, so 68k programs do run natively on the other parts except the lowest level CPU emulation. That's why 68k programs run much faster under MorphOS, pretty close to native speed. MorphOS doesn't need to emulate any other parts of the original Amiga hardware like UAE does, and that makes UAE much slower. Icaros (AROS x86) has an endian issue to get anything similar, that's why you need to run all 68k software totally under UAE, or have totally new native ports of the old software (which of course is an issue, because you can't access most of the source codes of the legacy software). This is why MorphOS run on PowerPC architecture and why many people prefer it, PPC uses the same endianness with 68k. If MorphOS will be ported to for example x86 on some day, it'll lose its compatibility with the old Amiga binaries too. Quote:
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I don't know if the speed issue is mainly because of the hardware or software, but I recently found that it seems to be common that Mac hardware doesn't like certain frequencies, especially the higher ones. I also noticed that when I had automatic channel setting with my home router, it sometimes was unusable while sometimes it worked like charm. I started to experiment and found out that at least with channel 1 it's works at full speed all the time, and I left my router configuration at that and been happy since. |
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The reason for this is, that the WB screen has to be closed and reopened for the screen mode to be changed. If you just swipe it from under the apps, your machine will become very unstable, as the apps will have orphaned windows on a non-existing screen. Unfortunately there is no system friendly way around this. :-) Quote:
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The clicking is the drive mechanism searching for a disk in the drive, as soon as you put one in it knows it and it stops doing it.
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The numbers given by the Software Failure message of a crash gave clues to the programmer to prevent it - what the program was doing and in which memory address IIRC - so these were still needed.
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If a 68000, 68020, 68040 and 68060 were all set to tge same clock frequency, would there be any speed / performance difference or do they just differ by instruction set?
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Later on someone noticed, that you can keep on stepping it outwards and eventually the clicking will stop, as the drive's track 0 detector circuit forbids it from performing the actual step once track 0 has been reached. It was not made default, as some of the oldest Amiga drives did not do the track 0 check and would become damaged or unaligned after stepping against the edge of the drive chassis long enough. |
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