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Special Hints to some Programs (in alphabetical order)
AC97Mixer 1.8 - 2.1
- Observation: The developer of AC97Mixer recommends to put the program
into the WBStartup drawer to execute it automatically with every bootup of Workbench.
However, this causes several problems:
- With AmigaXL two annoying requesters pop up with every bootup.
The first notes that Amithlon is not running and the second, that a Software-Failure
has occurred. Which means that AC97Mixer can not be put into the WBStartup drawer of a
partition which is also used to boot with AmigaXL.
- With Amithlon starting AC97Mixer from the WBStartup drawer does not
lead to the expected result either, because the soundboard will be initialized with the
first call of AHI (i.e. from Amplifier or PuhDerBaer), which means that all settings of
AC97Mixer will be overwritten.
- Solution: I have written a little script, which avoids all described
problems. It can be put into the WBStartup drawer, no matter if the partition is used to boot
with Amithlon only or also with AmigaXL or even a real Amiga. Of cause, advanced users can
integrate the script into the S:Startup-Sequence. The script can be found in the
GoodyBox.
AQuix 1.04
- Observation: AQuix has major problems with both emulators.
The default configuration causes immediate program crashes.
- Solution Path:
- AQuix crashes, when the sound is turned on.
Since the sound is turned on in the default settings, one has to start AQuix on a real
Amiga first, remove the checkmark in front of "Sound" in the "Einstellungen" (settings)
menu, and quit the program. With the configuration file ENVARC:AQuix.prefs,
that has been created this way, one can start the program with AmigaOSXL, too.
A funny thing is, that with AmigaXL, one can now activate the sound, which again leads to
a program crash, and then start AQuix a second time. The second program recognizes the
"occupied" sound channels, locks the sound setting and so prevents one from crashing
the second program as well. Amithlon on the other hand, gets totally frozen by the program
crash and can only be re-started with a hardware reset. The freezing of the emulator can
be prevented through PuhDerBaer, but not the program crash.
- MUI has to be set to "Refresh: smart".
I use "Refresh: simple" as standard, since this setting very much speeds up the graphics
functions. So the setting has to be changed to "Refresh: smart" in the "Window" section
of the MUI preferences.
- The screenmode must not have more than 8 bit (256 colors).
If a colordepth greater than 8 bit is used, there are graphics errors. This is a problem
of AQuix and also emerges on the A4000. Users that use higher color depths, like myself,
have to select a screenmode with at most 8 bit in the "ScreenMode" preferences.
- Result: With both Emulators, AQuix runs more fluently than on the A4000.
The only limitation is the renunciation of the generation of sound. The required configuration
file and a GlowIcon can be found in the GoodyBox.
Color-Riddle 1.3
- Observation: If one clicks on the "Save" button in the Mode Settings of
Color-Riddle, the program crashes with the next program start or cannot be started at all.
As long as one does not use this function, the program seems to run bug-free. This problem
is rather a bug in the program itself than an emulation problem.
GoldED 3.1.4
- Observation: GoldED occasionally crashes Amithlon. The reason is the
generation of warning "beeps", that obviously cannot be trapped.
- Solution: In the menu, open the "Config/GUI..." prefs
and click on the radio button "beep off". Caution! Clicking on "beep low" or "beep
normal" is sufficient to freeze Amithlon! Then close the prefs window using "ok".
Finally the configuration has to be saved permanently using "Config/save...".
- Remark: This solution is also valid for version 4. With AmigaXL there
are no crashes, but one can keep the settings from Amithlon as well.
MicroDot-II 1.4.4
- Observation: In the main window "Account overview" the number
of messages is not displayed. Instead, it reads "0 messages (0 new, 0 unread)".
On my A4000 these numbers are not updated regularly, but at least they get
initialized when the program starts.
- Workaround: If one sets up several accounts, one can use the
fact, that the numbers are updated each time the account is switched.
MMKeyboard 2.21
- Observation: MMKeyboard is actually a hardware hack that serves to connect
modern "Multimedia Keyboards" to Amiga computers. Therefore, the respective software is also
meant for Amiga computers. But the author, Guido Mersmann, has developed a somewhat smaller
version for Amithlon on request by Harald Frank. In this version, all parts that have to do
with the hardware hack, are omitted. Instead, the Amithlon version directly accesses the Amithlon
kernel, to "smuggle" the additional multimedia keys into the AmigaOS. And this is also the reason
why there will never be a version for emulators, that are based upon UAE - and therefore, on a host
OS - like AmigaXL, MacUAE and WinUAE. Some settings from the hardware part have also been
integrated into the keyboard prefs editor.
- Download: Since Aminet is currently somewhat slow, Guido allowed me to offer
the latest version 2.21 of MMKeyboard here for download - which, by the way, is the version
that was demonstrated on the O.A.S.E. 2002 together with AmithlonXL. This is the full archive with
all versions from AmigaOS2.0 to Amithlon. Archive [456kB]
MUI 3.8
- Observation: MUI directly supports the middle mouse button.
With pressed middle mouse button, one can, for example, move the text in the
"Message reader" window of MicroDot-II by moving the mouse. The same works
with the display window of Voyager, but not with frames, because frames are
not controlled by MUI, but by Voyager itself!
- Observation: When using a RGB color wheel in a color requester
of Voyager or MicroDot-II, the point, that is set when the requester is opened,
does not move and the mouse pointer only moves a second point.
- Solution: Install the colorwheel.gadget from BoingBag2 for
AmigaOS3.9 (see at System Partition).
PPaint 7.1
- Observation: There are problems at startup, if a picture width >800
has been saved.
- Solution: Set a screenmode of 800x600x8 for both screens, then save
both settings.
- Tips: On Aminet, there are further archives for PPaint:
- docs/hyper/PPaintHTML.lha - german HTML version of the AmigaGuide manual
- pix/gicon/PPaintMI.lha - GlowIcons by Mason
Voyager 3.2
- Observation: Voyager can be used offline without problems, but when
using it online with the TCP/IP stack of QNX, the data transfer is so slow, that the
program seems like crashed. Therefore, it is practically unusable for online usage
with AmigaXL.
- Stability: Stability of Voyager increases with the option
"Enable font face" in the "Font" settings disabled.
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2001-03-21, latest change: 2004-12-01
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