Well I've made the leap to an AROS-only setup!

I bought a computer from my sister, it's an e-Machines that's about 2 years old. It's a 2.2 GHZ AMD Semperon with 512 MB RAM and a 80 GB HDD. It had Winblowz XP on it, which I couldent stand... I decided to see if AROS would run on it, and not only does it run... but it runs WELL! - The graphics card, NIC, USB keyboard and USB mouse all work fine. The only thing that does not work is the built-in AC'97 sound card. Though I don't need it anyway.

This is awesome!

"1"

4th & Inches

"A"
Aaargh!
Airball
Ancient Glory
Ancient Land of Ys
Arkanoid
Akranoid 2 - Revenge of Doh

"B"

Balance of Power
Bard's Tale
Bard's Tale 2 - The Destiny Knight
Battle Chess
Beyond Zork
Black Cauldron
Block Out
Bouncin' Ferro
Bubble Ghost

"C"

California Games
Cosmocade - The Arcade of Tomorrow

"D"

Deja Vu
Deja Vu 2
Downhill Challenge
Dragon Wars
Dream Zone
Dueltris

"F"

Final Assault
FirePower
Future Shock 3D

"G"

Gate
Gnarly Golf
Gold of the Americas
Gold Rush
Grand Prix Circuit

"H"

Hacker 2
Halls of Montezuma
Hardball
Hunt for Red October

"I"

Impossible Mission 2

"J"

John Elway's Quaterback

"K"

Kid's Time 2
King's Quest 1
King's Quest 2 - Romancing Throne
King's Quest 3

"L"

Last Ninja
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of Lounge Lizards
Life & Death

"M"

Manhunter: New York
Manoir de Mortville
Marble Madness
Mean 18
Mighty Marvel vs the Forces of Evil

"N"

Neuromancer

"O"

Orbizone
Out of this World

"P"

Paperboy
Passengers on the Wind
Pick'n'Pile
Pinball Wizard
Pipe Dream
Police Quest

"Q"

Questron 2

"R"

Rastan
Roadwar 2000
Rocket Ranger
Runaway Robots

"S"

Sea Strike
Sensei
Shanghai
Silent Service
Silphead
Sinbad and the Throne of Falcon
Solitaire Royale
Space Ace
Space Duster
Space Quest 2: Vohaul's Revenge
Space Shark
Street Sports Soccer
Strip Poker 2 (VM 18)
Sword of Sodan

"T"

Task Force
Tass Town in ToneTown
Tennage Queen (VM 18)
Test Drive 2: The Duel
Thexder
Third Courier
Three Stooges
Tower of Myraglen
Tunnels of Armageddon

"V"

Vegas Gambler

"W"

War in Middle Earth
Windwalker
Winter Games
World Games

"X"

Xenocide

"Z"

Zany Golf

Apple 2:

"1"

221B Baker Street
2400 AD

"A"

Agent USA
Airheart
Alcazar - The Forgotten Fortress
Alf: First Adventure
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Alice in Wonderland
Alien Rain
Aliens
Alter Ego
American Challenge - A Sailing simulation
Ancient Art of War
Ancient Art of War at Sea
Archon - The Light and the Dark
Archon 2: Adept
Arctif Fox
Ardy (or Ardvark)
Arkanoid
Asteroids
Autuoduel

"B"

Bad Dudes
Balance of Power
Ball Blaster
Ballblazer
Bard's Tale 1
Bard's Tale 2: The Destiny Knight
Bard's Tale 3: the Thief of Fate
Batman - The Caped Crusader
Battle Chess
Battletech - The Crescent Hawk's Inception
Black Cauldron
Bop'n Wrestle
Bruce Lee
Bubble Bobble
Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom
Bulder Dash

"C"

California Games
Champions of Krynn
Championship Wrestling
Choplifter
Chuck Yager's Advanced Flight Trainer
Commando
Countdown to Shutdown
Cross city
Curse of the Azure Bonds

"D"

Death Sword
Defender
Dig Dug
Donkey Kong

"E"

Echelon
Eidolon
Elite

"F"

F15 Strike Eagle
Fight Night
Flight Simulator 1
Flight Simulator 2
Frogger

"G"

Galaxian
Games - Summer Edition
Games - Winter Edition
Ghostbusters
Gremlins

"H"

Hacker
Hacker 2
Halley Project
Hardball
Hunt for Red October

"I"

Impossible Mission
Impossible Mission 2
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Infiltrator
Infiltrator 2

"J"

Jet
John Madden Football
Jungle Hunt

"K"

Karate Champ
Karateka
King's Quest 1
King's Quest 2 - Romancing the Throne
King's Quest 3 - To Heir is Human
Kung Fu Master

"L"

Labyrinth
Last Ninja
Little Computer People
Lode Runner
Lurking Horror

"M"

Maniac Mansion
Marble Madness
Mario Bros
Micro Leage Baseball
Moebius
Montezuma's Revenge
Moon Patrol
Mr. Do!
Ms. Pacman
Murder on Mississipi

"N"

Neuromancer

"O"



"P"

Pac-Man
Paperboy
Phantasie 2
Pick 'n' Pile
Pirates
Platoon
Popeye
Prohibition

"Q"

Qix

"R"

Rad Warrior
Raid Over Moscow
Rampage
Rescue on Fractalus
Robocop
Robotron 2084
Rocky Horror Show

"S"

Short Circuit
Silente Service
Skyfox
Snoopy to the Rescue
Solo Flight
Space Rogue
Space Shuttle - A Journey into Space
Spindizzy
Spy vs Spy
Spy vs Spy 2
Spy vs Spy 3 - Arctic Antics
Star Wars
Starglider
Steve Keene - Private Spy
Street Sports Basketball
Street Sports Football
Strip Blackjack
Summer Games
Summer Games 2

"T"

Taipan
Tass Town in Tonetown
Techno Cop
Tennis Championship
Test Drive
Thexder
Times of Lore
Track & Field

"U"

Ultima 2: Revenge of the Enchantress
Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar
Ultima 5: Warriors of Destiny

"V"


"W"

War of the Lance
Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego?
Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego?
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Windwalker
Wings of Fury
Winter Games
World Class Leaderboard
World Karate Championship

Amstrad CPC:

AcroJet
Lancelot

Atari ST:

Lancelot

Commodore 64:

221B Baker Street
AcroJet
Jet v1.00
Jet v2.00
Keys to Maramon
Labyrinth
Lancelot

PC:

7th Guest
Daggerfall
Harrier Jump Jet
Jet
Orbiter
Space Shuttle Misson 2007

Spectrum:

AcroJet
Lancelot

OnEscapee

This is my Retro Trailer Blog where i post any update or news

hi I have installed Aladdin 4d version3.0 to my hard drive, after installation i get a black screen with the a message saying "Aladdin 4d cannot locate hardware site license" I am using win uae. Can anybody help?

Happy Christmas to all our customers

Well.

I have been playing with my amiga 1200.
First I moodet the leds from H.DISK o.s.v
I placed them under the nummeric keys. So I can see them when I have everything open up.

Then I resolderd my broken clock-port splitter. I broke it when I put the mp3@64 the wrong way.
I have orderd new from DJBase. And payed. But no respond since sommer. If sombody no whats happend to him please tell.

Well the clock-port splitter works:) And I have connected Subway USB, silversurf and mp3@64 on it. All works, but mp3 is not very good. :(

I have setup on of my linux computers with serial console.
Serial console Arch

And tested terminal programs.

The best program so far is NComm 3.06
I can send files from the linux computer with sz filname.lha and NComm autostarts Zmodem recive:)
But I have cant get all the lines when I use CGXPAL: super high res laced.
Everything works, but when I start VI or mc it only uses the top half of the screen. And I have not found a way to set the numbers of lines in NComm.

To telenet I have found DCtelnet to be the best. I like to have a full black screen with wite text.

2012 is going to be a very strange year. Many things will be set in motion in world, it's going to be one of the most unusual years of our entire lives. Many things that will be happening will be by men who have long planned these world changes. I can't call them good, can't really call them evil, just self centered power mongers who don't care how much the world has to suffer, they just want power over the entire world. Be prepared to live without money as it will be worthless beginning by this time next year unless you are buying the elites' money, gold and silver. The three things to look out for is oil hitting $150-$200USD @ barrel as the middle east oil dries up from social unrest, the EURO collapse followed in two weeks time the USD's collapse followed by massive inflation rates making the USD worthless as the Weimar Replubic's Mark was in 1919. The misery of this shift will be felt until 2015 or 2016 as the new world economy is formed out the ashes of once was America's economic superpower status with China taking the new role. There is no doubt now why the Global Elites have been shifting manufacturing jobs out of the US and financially supporting the Progressives to saddle the US budget with more entitlements, it is to snuff out the last of America's spirit to succeed under a mountain of debt that can never be paid back.

Not all that will be happening in 2012 will be bad. In our little community, the changes that began this year will go into overdrive. Our dying little tidal pool that was shrinking by the day under the unforgiving Sun, will have had full repatriotation with the mighty ocean. What things people had thought was unattainable or out right fraud will have the crushing realization of a reality check forced on them. The big fish that ruled our tiny little tidal pool will be forced to live life in the shadows of the large ocean creatures. With this relentless paradigm change, the environment will offer new fertile areas for new and returning developers to make their mark and profit from it as the months roll by the sediment settles to the bottom or swept out to the sea.

Inventing the AmigaHASP
During 1989, while developing Rashumon, I found myself looking for a copy protection solution for Amiga software but there wasn’t any. The Amiga had a very non standard Parallel port, which made it impossible to just adopt a copy protection dongle from other platforms, and there was a need to develop a completely new system.

Hardware based copy protection systems are based on a hardware device which interact with the computer using the port assigned to it. Back then (1989), the USB wasn’t invented yet, and the Parallel port was used. The Parallel port was the port used for printers for many years, and therefore any dongle would need to have “pass through” connector allowing the printer to be connected to it, instead to the port directly.

Hardware based copy protection requires interaction with the device through most of the connector pins, being able to read each pin’s value, and to change each pin’s value from 0 to 1 and vice versa. The Amiga didn’t provide any API to do so, which made me look for undocumented features, and code directly to the hardware instead of using any existing SDK.

With the help of Shimon Groper, the founder of Eliashim, I have made many attempts to create a dongle compatible with the unique and undocumented hardware. I used to go from Tel-Aviv to Haifa, and after several hours, leave with a box, covered with many wires in all colors, which was supposed to be the prototype… Eventually I found the way to implement the first Amiga based copy protection dongle and instead of buying bulk dongles from Aladdin Knowledge Systems, I have accepted the kind offer of Yankee Margalit, their founder and CEO, to by the Amiga product from my small software house (HarmonySoft), and after a short period of negotiation, Aladdin paid me $12,000 and my product became the AmigaHASP.

An Italian magazine published an article about the AmigaHASP:









As part of the deal, I have trained the technical people from Aladdin about programming the Amiga, and even gave them Amiga books and magazines. We have announced the new product, and if Commodore wouldn’t have gone out of business, short after, the AmigaHASP would have probably been useful for many Amiga based software houses. I can tell from my own experience, that it was used for Rashumon, the multi lingual graphic word processor I have developed.

..... BOOBIES!!!! :)

Of course, Linux advocates will say that I'm giving up too early, that there are probably solutions out there that I didn't find. It might be true. Certainly, I could tweak the GIMP's keyboard shortcuts to be more to my liking - but without that precious context-sensitivity, I'd still have to have a separate key to delete a path than I would to delete image data, and other similar-but-separate tasks would quickly exhaust my options.

I could look harder for alternatives - GIMP 2.7.2 is supposed to have a "single-window" mode that's apparently sort of like an MDI, and maybe there's a tracker out there that's more like Modplug and less like an ancient DOS app. Maybe there's a music player that can grok the idea of handling multiple files as command-line arguments.

But you know what? That's too much God-damned work. I tried downloading the source for the new GIMP. It needs a newer version of a library that's not in the repository. (It might need others, but config won't tell me about any other problems than the most immediate one.) I could install that library from source - but it might need others (or it might break something.)

Photoshop, on the other hand, is a good program, that's complete, doesn't need to be compiled, and just works. It doesn't get in the way of me doing drawing or touch-up. And it's designed for users, not designed with users as a begrudging afterthought.

They say that "Linux is free, as long as your time has no value." I wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt. I wanted that not to be true. But I have to say, I don't think I can disagree. The Linux community is so wrapped up in technical wankery (GIMP's backend functionality is excellent) that there's no time, effort, or motivation left for designing the un-technical parts, the parts that actually enable a person to use the program. Linux software isn't designed for people, it's designed for other software - and as long as that remains true, it's never, ever going to win the desktop market.

(What makes me uncomfortable about that paragraph is that it sounds like I want things dumbed down. I don't. I don't want any of this GNOME 3/Windows 8/OSX Lion crap about unifying desktop and tablet interfaces. I believe the "post-PC era" is a marketing myth perpetuated by Wired retards. But there's a big, big difference between simple and overly-simplistic, and anyway, Linux software isn't even in the modern PC era; it's stuck in the mainframe era and merely dressed in the trappings of the PC.)

I don't have time for this shít. I've got other interests and other hobbies that I could be spending my time on. I could work on one of my game projects, or get prepped for the webcomic I intend to start in the upcoming year. I could finish my next album. I could catch up on Sinfest. There are a semi-infinite number of things I could be doing with my time that would be a better use of it than futilely attempting to finagle badly-designed software into some semblance of usability.

I'm not quite 26, but when I think about the sheer waste of my time that this has been, I feel gøddamn middle-aged. Life is passing me by, and I've got a million better things to do with it than screw around with a culture whose only hope of improvement is to throw out all its designers and bring in new ones who actually give a damn about the user.

I'm done. I don't need this. I wanted it to work, because the idea of a free operating system, unencumbered by licensing restrictions and open to the masses, excites the hell out of me. But if it can't do the simplest things to be usable, it's not worth the trouble. I'm done with this, I don't think I'm coming back to Linux unless the community gets its shít together and completely overhauls its flagship applications. (And don't tell me that, well, the GIMP is a separate project. Bull. It's one of the flagship applications and one of the chief arguments for Linux as a multimedia platform - apparently its advocates have just never used it.) But I'm not looking for that to happen any time soon.

So I guess I don't know what's going to happen to me, then. I'm going back to XP, and I'm going to pick up a new laptop that I can run it on for the next few years. Unfortunately, it's already looking like newer machines aren't capable of running it; I don't know where I'll go from there. I don't think I want Windows 7, and I know I don't want Windows 8. Maybe ReactOS will be in a usable state by that time. Maybe I'll just invent my own gøddamn operating system.

Don't know what I'll do with the PowerBook, either. Maybe I'll try MorphOS. I don't know if I'll be anywhere near as comfortable with it as I am with XP, but it sure as hell isn't likely to be worse than my experience with Linux.

Why do I keep doing this to myself? Why!?

I have been trying, for some seven years now, to get into this technically advanced and totally impressive and Free new operating system, without success. I made my first real attempt in 2004, when I installed Fedora Core 4 on my then-laptop, a cheapo Presario that stole 1/8th of my RAM and God knows how much of my memory bandwidth for the video.

I fiddled around with it for a while but never accomplished much and didn't enjoy it. But I won't blame it too much for that, because I didn't try all that hard, and I really shouldn't have expected a good experience running on 448MB of RAM and 64MB integrated video. I wound up just sticking with Windows XP, because that's what I was comfortable with.

I used that laptop until early 2009, when I purchased an Asus Eee. This, I thought, was a machine designed with Linux in mind, so I'd obviously run Linux on it. I installed Fedora 11, but I hedged my bet and made it dual-boot XP - just in case.

Turns out that the included version of Firefox ran like ass, I had trouble figuring out how to get things working in WINE, and I couldn't find native alternatives I liked. I wound up just sticking with Windows XP, because that's what I was comfortable with.

Now, all of this had to do with me being unwilling to move out of my comfort zone, and so when I obtained a Power Mac G5, I figured I could install Linux on that and acclimate myself over time. It wasn't a bad plan; I installed Debian 6, and I found that, as compared to Fedora, Synaptic and its comprehensive repositories were a delight and the whole thing was just generally lighter-weight, and much preferable to OSX.

I put that machine to use occasionally for months on end, doing text-editing, raytracing, and assorted other simple tasks - but I still mostly wound up sticking with Windows XP...because that's what I was comfortable with.

So recently, my Eee was beginning to show signs of reaching the end of its lifespan. The fan turned first into a rattly annoyance, and then into a grinding agony, and it began to run problematically hot as a result. I put in a replacement, but I figured that as long as this computer was reaching its inevitable planned obsolescence, I should get another. This time, I was determined. I purchased a PowerBook G4, so that I could not install Windows XP on it, no matter what. I would make myself switch over, no excuses.

I installed MintPPC 9 on it (would've done Debian, but it appeared to be having some disagreement with the hardware.) I transferred most of my files over. I've been using it regularily for over a week now, my longest sojourn into Linux yet. Things seemed pretty okay at first, and it was convenient that Bash's full-featured scripting language allowed me to set up a script to file my daily comics away easier than cmd.exe's pumped-up Batch does.

But there were some warning signs:

• Firefox Iceweasel's shortcuts were all wrong. They either required more keypresses to achieve the same thing (Ctrl+Shift+Y for download manager? Okay, Ctrl+J isn't exactly intuitive either, but it doesn't require two modifier keys,) or they were inconviently placed (Ctrl+W for close-tab, next to Ctrl+Q, to quit the program - and it doesn't ask whether I mean it. Yes, I've lost multiple sessions to that.)
• GTK theming affects only GTK programs, of course, and every program decides randomly whether it's going to indicate highlighted controls or just let you guess where you are in a form.
• QMMP only registers one window in the taskbar, but you have to Alt+Tab through three of them.
• Every program with menus requires you to hold Alt while you press the accelerator, you can't just hit Alt to toggle yourself into menu context as you do in Windows.
• For that matter, nothing has any idea of contextual controls; every keyboard shortcut has one and exactly one function, whether or not it's even usable in the current context.
• Sort order is arbitrary and random, and never tailored to the application. ls does a simple ASCII-value sort, case-sensitive. PCManFM does a human-readable sort, case-insensitive, which means that your directory view doesn't look like your ls view. Comix uses ASCII-sort like ls, even though that makes absolutely no sense for the application - so I can browse through a comic, and find that the pages are all out of order, because the program doesn't understand page numbering if all the leading zeroes aren't in place.
• There doesn't seem to be any concept of operations on groups of files. I can't select an arbitrary set of MP3 and open them in QMMP as I can in Winamp, nor a similarly arbitrary set of images for Comix.

I was also missing some of the programs I use on Windows, but admittedly, that was my fault for choosing to use a PPC system, I couldn't hope to use WINE to fill in the gaps. So I decided to look into the alternatives - only to find that the only MOD trackers in the repository are Impulse Tracker and Scream Tracker 3 clones, with nothing like the simple, plain usability of Modplug Tracker, and I can't believe that nobody's implemented a simple tracker/VST host like Jeskola Buzz. As for replacing Photoshop...


It was when I opened up the GIMP that it all crystalized for me. Oh my God, the Linux community has no sheep-sodomizing CLUE about usability! The GIMP plainly wants to be a Photoshop workalike, but they couldn't bring themselves to copy its interface? Why the hell not? They've reimplemented every other damn thing about it satisfactorily, why not the part that makes it talk to the user?

It's just awful. Photoshop has keyboard shortcuts for damn near everything, most of them pretty easy to remember, once you learn. GIMP has almost none by default, and while you can at least configure them (more than I can say for some other programs,) would it be so much trouble to just ship with a Photoshop-like set?

Accelerator keys are spread willy-nilly to make up for the piss-poor tab-stop ordering and default control focus, and often the same letter has multiple controls using it, which means you get to cycle through them, at which point you might as well just use the tab key.

The lack of any understanding of contextual controls means you can't use the Delete key to erase a path when you're done with it, because the Delete key is reserved for erasing the current selection area, even when what's "selected" in any user's mind is the path.

And oh holy Jesus H. Christ, WHY COULD THEY NOT HAVE USED A MULTIPLE-DOCUMENT INTERFACE!? Like with QMMP, there's no concept of Alt+Tab being used to switch between applications, only windows - which means that if you want to mass-open a couple dozen images for touch-up and compression before filing them away, as I do, you are going to have to deal with twenty-plus extra windows.

And I could almost live with that, using another workspace in place of a parent window, except that I can't set images opening and then switch to another workspace, because the GIMP will happily deposit opened documents in whatever workspace I happen to be in.

It's completely unusable, and I cannot even begin to fathom how anybody could ever have thought otherwise. I'm not even a professional interface designer, and I can see how broken this thing is. There is no excuse for it.

I had a chance to use it. I like it. I had to adjust WinUAE 2320 to get it to speed up.
I did not know if it is m68k or uae that made it slow.
I did check the 32 bit memory check box.
After I down loaded the Boot and ISO, I made a CD of the ISO and got the files to wherer UAE could find them.

Has anyone used Cybergrafix with it?
I have screen grab but do not have it on my flash drive yet to upload.

During 1987 I have developed a script language to code music for the Amiga.

The project was called Musicode. My idea was to create something similar to a “Basic” like programming language, which will focus in music. The Amiga was known by it’s ability to play polyphonic sound, based on 4 seperate tracks (which was a lot these days…). At that time I was involved in computers and music projects, such as music based on random numbers or representing digital artwork as music.

The demo disk contained the application itself, and a sample script with some music I have composed, as a demo for Yaacov Agam who was always (and still is) open minded to such ideas and ventures.



This screenshot was created by running Musicode on WinUAE (Windows Amiga Emulator) along with AROS alternative Amiga OS.