... Thanks for the advice and support, Larry . . . Funnily enough, I am usually patient with my A1XE, I guess I was just looking forward to using as my main PC...
Hello Rick, ... If the chip is supported by AmigaOS 4 drivers, the card should work. Of course, that statement sure doesn't help the situation as you knew ...
... Have you tried Olaf? Post a message at aw.net if you don't want to contact him directly - most probably he'll see it and reply. Chris -- "Heh! You should...
Hello Rick, ... He is usually very responsive. You didn't mess up the source code for RoadShow, did you?:) ... Talk to you later. -- Dr. Larry Keller Levin...
I have a VidiAmigaRT that I used on my A4000D. Not surprising, the SW does not run under OS4.0. Does anyone know what happened to Rombo or where some of the...
Dennis Langenfeld
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Sep 2, 2005 4:44 am
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Hello Rick ... Possibly, I have emailed him before and he has been very willing and helpful, so to mention the stories he can tell about computers. -- My...
Hello Dennis ... But does the hardware plugin? Now I want to try this with my Vidi 12/AGA.. Be good to see if OS4 can outperform the 15fps B&W my A1200 maxed...
Hello Jean-Francois ... I thought with that kind of setup I could plug it straight into my A1's parallel port. -- My regards, Damien Stewart Courtesy of the...
... Well, the port resides at a different addresses from the classic, and unless the software is doing propper device I/O to the "parallel.device" and you have...
... Makes me wonder how impossible it would be to make an adaptor. Regards, Ben...
Benedict Stephenson
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Sep 4, 2005 1:48 am
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... Seems like OS4 is taking away all the fun stuff ;) But I'm sure that new fun stuff will be discovered. Undocumented features are at the heart of 'real'...
Benedict Stephenson
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Sep 4, 2005 1:58 am
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G'day Colin Wenzel, On 4/09/2005, on the subject of "[amigaone] Re: Rombo VidiAmigaRT", you ... Isn't parallel.device 0 mapped to a1parallel.device 0 in...
... Don't know, havn't looked to see if it is in there. That should also work. However, either way, the software needs to do device i/o on the A1 machine...
Hello Colin ... Good point. It does use the OS mostly but you never know what tricks it is up to. With regard to a1parallel.device I thought that SetPatch...
Here's the story...a couple of nights ago I couldn't boot into Linux; turns out for some reason UBoot lost my settings and I had to reconfigure the Linux boot...
... How about just reading bytes from it and writing bytes to it, instead of "banging" it? It is very useful in a computer to be able to work directly with a ...
Hello Don, ... Utilizing the underlying hardware rather than the software api's is not the way to go for the long term. Not sure I see going to the hardware a...
... Linux; turns ... the ... it goes ... have to ... With the latest UG3 and Uboot released by Hyperion, I have the following, bootcmd=menu: run menuboot_cmd I...
... "banging" ... sound ... Obviously, it is useful for an application to send verbatim data to a port, but the OS has to be involved to ensure that device...
Hello Don, ... It is a programming sin when you're talking about OS4. Are the parallel ports on an A1 and µA1 mapped to the same address space and using the...
Hello Don ... It's all a means to an end. And description. But mostly because direct access usually infers "banging" it, instead of using an OS conduit ...
Hello Dr. ... Nicely put, Dr. Also, I forgot to mention, that banging hardware these days is really only suitable for something like a mobile (cell) phone....
Hi Dr., ... You should tell Microsoft that. Unless you use the fairly basic built in parallel port access mechanism, you have to write a driver that allocates...
Hello Paul, ... I always thought Microsoft made it difficult to access hardware. Interesting that the parallel port may need more direct access. ... I would...