It was an absolute pleasure meeting you! Since I restarted my Amiga journey last November, your videos have been incredibly helpful-truly beyond words. You're just as amazing in person as you are online, always sharing the truth. You're a true blessing to our community!
My Indivision MK3 (for PAL A1200) died, or at least seemed to die, a short while after installation. Although Jens Schönfeld claimed my PSU was killing it, he still agreed to take it back on warranty. He then claimed it worked fine, which it might well have done, and returned it. Didn't work, so I sent it back again and he sent a new one. It worked for a few hours, then appeared to die. Sent it back and he swapped it out again. This time I did not take it out of the package, but sold it off to someone else. Got a used MK2, which has worked perfectly for years at this point.
Retina Z3 is quick as is the PicassoIV and Cybervision64. The regular Retina is the slowest PoS ever placed on Earth. I find the PicassoII fairly decent. Just giving my thoughts! :) Glad you got this sorted!!
The Picasso II is about as fast as the awful VGA video cards of the early to mid 90's. I used to sell some Citrus Logic and Trident cards in low end 486 machines that were just pathetically slow. My Cybergraphix feels about 10x faster.
Absolutely fantastic video! You have a really nice Classic Amiga setup! Great to know that you can write documents on Amiga in RTF format and print them on PC. Even saving as PDF. On my X5000, I can run AbiWord through AmiCygnix. I would like to see the use of those HAM modes, if you can. Love your videos. Really great one 🥰❤️🙏
Hey Doug. Nice video! Indeed I would like to see an episode about printing. My dream is, that one day one develops a network printing driver for a current printer modell. So printing is, what I miss in my current system. For example I have smb3 access to a shared folder on my synology NAS. Or I use that nice winamp clone for listening mp3 streams from internet radios. Of course IBrowse is a must. Then a special thing in my config: As my baby is a towered A1200 with Mediator board and pci tv capture card, I hooked a FireTV stick via HDMI>RGB adapter to the tv capture card. So I can see everything on Workbench the FireTV stick provides(PrimeTV, Netflix, TH-cam, etc). But I am interested seeing your printer solution and also pdf/desktop publishing. Thanks for your nice videos and keep on. Best wishes from Germany, Björn
Nice to see how you use your Amiga! I like the Fire stick idea. Kinda neat! Yes, Network printing is limited to printers that support PCL printing language. Even Postscript just does not seem to work right. All the printers I use are probably 10+ years old
phew! thankfully everything you got your MK3 woes sorted. I'm looking really forward to watching this series Doug, and I can't wait for the next episode 👍
I think it would actually be really cool to see a bit more TurboCalc. I was always a Final Calc guy. Wasn't familiar with TurboCalc, so I'd love to see it in action.
I may load both and see which one handles my spreadsheets the best. I like both of them just fine. There is nothing more exciting than a 30 minute video on spreadsheets! Maybe even 45 minutes!
I've never owned anything by Village Tronic, but whenever I came across their name in the magazines, I would always say VILLAGE TRONIC in this really purposeful robot voice. And even though I haven't done it in years, as soon as you said Village Tronic in this episode, that robot voice got stuck in my head again.
I used to have a similar combination. In my case it was the Indy MK2 and a Cybervision64. But there were always contact problems with the Indy, so I've swapped it for a ZZ9000. It's super fast and everything comes directly over the HDMI output. It couldn't be better, because you don't have to plug anything on Lisa. The ZZ9000 uses the video slot in the A4000 and takes the AGA signal from there to output it via HDMI
Excellent, interesting video. I have an A4000 with Cybervision, and you were stating that it is ok, but you prefer Picasso. Is there a problem with Cybervision 64? Could I use the mk3 screen doubler, you were referring to, with the Cybervision?
Cybervision 643D is by far the superior card. Beats the heck out of the Picasso 2 performance. The only reason I was using the Picasso is for the integrated VGA pass thru. That's a separate option on the Cybervision that I do not own. The MK3 absolutely works with it, though
@@10MARC Thanks for the reply, Mark. I have a pass through on the Cybervision card, and I also have a GVP EGS card with a pass through. I don't know much about either card, other than they seem to work. My machine is in pieces, so I can do the caps. I picked the wrong time to start the refurbishing (beginning of summer), but the days are getting shorter again. I have another 040 powered 4000, with a Warp engine board installed. It is not working at present, but one thing at a time.
Thank yo Doug for this video. I am very looking forward to the coming episodes. One thing I would like you to cover is where to get software for the Amiga, but that might be for another series 🙂 Last year I got my Amiga 1200 back and I would love to use it for things like letters to people and newsletters, but I don't really know where to get the software legally. If you could give any tips on that I would very much appreciate it.
Tbh, a lot of software is just deprecated and there is no way to get it via legal ways. Even if you tried very hard. There are simply no resellers. Then again, there are plenty of new games and utils out there that can be purchased. Like Roadshow (IPStack) for instance, which I bought. Or a game like RogueCraft (rel. date sept. 2024), skillgrid or support Dune II: The Building of A Remaster - Development of a new Amiga AGA and OCS. And of course buy a legal copy of Workbench.
I buy a fair amount of software off of eBay. I like to have the original boxes and manuals. I have picked up probably 15 or 20 productivity programs from there, and an occasional game
Individual Computers has some really nice products but I would rather have a tooth canal done then to have to deal with their support. Most of the issues I have encountered have been resolved by reading posts.
@@10MARC My Last order with him he told me I made a mistake with shipping that his site defaults to Germany. So I had to pay a little more not a big deal. Thing is his site has my address information so its clear I am not in Germany. I never had an issue with shipping in my previous orders. So in my opinion the problem was with his site but I was told I made a mistake. Now I have to double check the shipping to make sure I don't get another email telling me I made a mistake and can either cancel the order or pay a few extra pennies for shipping.
@@stephenbruce8320 I know what you mean. Mine always defaults to my home address, but in Germany instead of the USA. His site is one of the slowest I have ever used in my life.
Printing is super easy. Just use the postscript option. All modern printers work well with this and easy. I print to a commercial Xerox Altalink C8030 digital press and an HP Laser wide format printer. Send it all postscript and it auto-magically just works.
Thanks for the new content Doug 👍🏻 Something to add. For faster workbench Icons I use Peter K’s icon.library. This will help speed up your icon draw speed. Free off Aminet. Cheers 🍻
you should get a zz9000, you wont regret it! Can see how painfully slow the P2 is when you move windows in the video :) (not as bad as native but still slow)
I have thought about the ZZ9000 for years. I probably should order one. They are great products. I have a Cybergraphix 643D and a Retina Z3 that are super fast, but they don't have the pass thru, so I have to manually use a switch box to toggle between RTG and AGA. That's what I want to avoid
@@10MARC One of the best purchases I have done, thinking about getting another one (in case they stop makin them). I like the HDMI output so I dont have to dig out a VGA monitor and the autoswitcher between native/P96. You could get something like a ratte monitor switcher and switch between scandoubler GFX card with those cards btw.
@@cv643d a ratte monitor switcher? That auto switches? I will have to look into it. Some auto switches don't actually switch because the ECS/AGA video signal still exists when switching to RTG - it's a blank screen but still is being broadcast
@@10MARC I think the Ratte switcher works, you have to run an exe file in startup sequence for it to auto switch so its a HW and SW solution (I am 98% sure, never ran one myself :) )
I'm in the same quest since a while with my accelerated A1200. The only thing I haven't managed is that I do a lot of programming in Linux. Technically I only need a telnet terminal emulator (ssh would be a plus, but not mandatory) that works well with Linux. None of the ones I tested so far works well, specially when I use vim (garbled screen when paginating). Do you have any advice? Right now I use VNC to connect to a Desktop Linux VM, but that defeats my idea of the Amiga being the daily driver.
There are several Telnet clients for the Amiga that work OK, and a few that support SSH. I will have to download and test them and see which works best
After reading the Term4.8 manual and doing some configuration I managed to get it work very well as Linux terminal. I also got good results with NComm, after some configuration. For vim the best results are achieved by having a special .vimrc in the host. Didn't manage to find an SSH client that works well with Linux, so I'm telneting to a Raspberry Pi and from there doing SSH to the outside world.
Oh yes! The web is actually useful if you use the special text based services out there. Aminet from an A600 or A1200 works perfect. Accessing a network share from a PC or NAS device is the best way to transfer data!
If you just want to connect two Amigas close to each other, you can use Parnet! Costs practically nothing, just some 25 pin ribbon cable and a couple of connectors. Doug knows more modern ways, though, for Amigas without slots, but they probably require hardware.
@@dannylgriffin I'd like to get it on the web, even if I can't run a full blown browser on a 2MB machine. I've dug out a couple of PCMCIA WiFi adaptors that apparent work with the prisim2v2 driver but I'm stuck at the TCP/IP stack. The guide I was following recommends Miami but the site that generates keys for it seems to be long gone.
@@fsphil I bought TCP/IP software from Dale Luck back in the early 90's! I spoke to him on the phone, MI to CA, to get it working because I was confused. He drank wine and paid for the call. The Amiga development crew were amazing! We were so lucky to have them.
@@fsphil I used my A2000/2630 to log into Sun SPARCs (Solaris UNIX) and run engineering simulation software on X-Windows over 30 years ago. Over dial-up! God that was painful. LOL. But by God it worked! I also have X-Windows on my Amiga. And yes, it was worth it to save me trips and time at the university. Then we finally got cable internet, but by then I had graduated. Those were the days! How many here even know you can run X-Windows on the Amiga? (Technically called the X Windowing System, but no one does).
There was a client that could connect to XP and Windows 7 Remote Desktop sessions, but I cannot guarantee it works with Windows 10 or 11. I will test it out and see. Great idea.
@@666Astrosmurf I just ordered the software (the developer just asks for a donation). The new version works with Windows 10, but I am going to try and use it with Windows 11. It may end up being a full show.
It was an absolute pleasure meeting you! Since I restarted my Amiga journey last November, your videos have been incredibly helpful-truly beyond words. You're just as amazing in person as you are online, always sharing the truth. You're a true blessing to our community!
My Indivision MK3 (for PAL A1200) died, or at least seemed to die, a short while after installation. Although Jens Schönfeld claimed my PSU was killing it, he still agreed to take it back on warranty. He then claimed it worked fine, which it might well have done, and returned it. Didn't work, so I sent it back again and he sent a new one. It worked for a few hours, then appeared to die. Sent it back and he swapped it out again. This time I did not take it out of the package, but sold it off to someone else. Got a used MK2, which has worked perfectly for years at this point.
Superb job Doug. As always, your absolute thoroughness really helps those of us who would have to struggle with the details.
Retina Z3 is quick as is the PicassoIV and Cybervision64. The regular Retina is the slowest PoS ever placed on Earth. I find the PicassoII fairly decent.
Just giving my thoughts! :)
Glad you got this sorted!!
The Picasso II is about as fast as the awful VGA video cards of the early to mid 90's. I used to sell some Citrus Logic and Trident cards in low end 486 machines that were just pathetically slow. My Cybergraphix feels about 10x faster.
Great video as always Doug. I see your art is inspired by the surrealists and is really probably priceless.
Absolutely fantastic video! You have a really nice Classic Amiga setup! Great to know that you can write documents on Amiga in RTF format and print them on PC. Even saving as PDF. On my X5000, I can run AbiWord through AmiCygnix. I would like to see the use of those HAM modes, if you can. Love your videos. Really great one 🥰❤️🙏
Thanks so much!
@@10MARC You're welcome Douglas. No problem 🥰❤️🙏
Thanks for another great video! Glad you got your Indivision sorted. Looking forward to seeing how the A4000 will perform as your main computer! 🙂
Glad to see you're overcoming your Summer blehs... Wish I had a 4000, but the 500 and 2000 will do just fine for what we're doing. :)
More like summer craziness. It's usually fairly slow for me in July... Not this year!
Hey Doug. Nice video! Indeed I would like to see an episode about printing. My dream is, that one day one develops a network printing driver for a current printer modell. So printing is, what I miss in my current system. For example I have smb3 access to a shared folder on my synology NAS. Or I use that nice winamp clone for listening mp3 streams from internet radios. Of course IBrowse is a must. Then a special thing in my config: As my baby is a towered A1200 with Mediator board and pci tv capture card, I hooked a FireTV stick via HDMI>RGB adapter to the tv capture card. So I can see everything on Workbench the FireTV stick provides(PrimeTV, Netflix, TH-cam, etc). But I am interested seeing your printer solution and also pdf/desktop publishing. Thanks for your nice videos and keep on. Best wishes from Germany, Björn
Nice to see how you use your Amiga! I like the Fire stick idea. Kinda neat! Yes, Network printing is limited to printers that support PCL printing language. Even Postscript just does not seem to work right. All the printers I use are probably 10+ years old
phew! thankfully everything you got your MK3 woes sorted. I'm looking really forward to watching this series Doug, and I can't wait for the next episode 👍
Yep I thought my MK3 was toast there for a while!
I think it would actually be really cool to see a bit more TurboCalc. I was always a Final Calc guy. Wasn't familiar with TurboCalc, so I'd love to see it in action.
I may load both and see which one handles my spreadsheets the best. I like both of them just fine. There is nothing more exciting than a 30 minute video on spreadsheets! Maybe even 45 minutes!
@@10MARC Look, man, I'm all about it! The longer, the better. In fact, THIS may be my favorite video on YT: th-cam.com/video/Jk71bPz5VLo/w-d-xo.html
@@10MARC the spreadsheet might be the single greatest piece of software invented by man. I began using them on my C64 and now use Excel (sad face).
I've never owned anything by Village Tronic, but whenever I came across their name in the magazines, I would always say VILLAGE TRONIC in this really purposeful robot voice. And even though I haven't done it in years, as soon as you said Village Tronic in this episode, that robot voice got stuck in my head again.
I have always suspected you are actually a robot. Now I have the proof.
I used to have a similar combination. In my case it was the Indy MK2 and a Cybervision64.
But there were always contact problems with the Indy, so I've swapped it for a ZZ9000. It's super fast and everything comes directly over the HDMI output. It couldn't be better, because you don't have to plug anything on Lisa. The ZZ9000 uses the video slot in the A4000 and takes the AGA signal from there to output it via HDMI
Excellent, interesting video. I have an A4000 with Cybervision, and you were stating that it is ok, but you prefer Picasso. Is there a problem with Cybervision 64? Could I use the mk3 screen doubler, you were referring to, with the Cybervision?
Cybervision 643D is by far the superior card. Beats the heck out of the Picasso 2 performance. The only reason I was using the Picasso is for the integrated VGA pass thru. That's a separate option on the Cybervision that I do not own.
The MK3 absolutely works with it, though
@@10MARC Thanks for the reply, Mark. I have a pass through on the Cybervision card, and I also have a GVP EGS card with a pass through. I don't know much about either card, other than they seem to work. My machine is in pieces, so I can do the caps. I picked the wrong time to start the refurbishing (beginning of summer), but the days are getting shorter again.
I have another 040 powered 4000, with a Warp engine board installed. It is not working at present, but one thing at a time.
Thank yo Doug for this video. I am very looking forward to the coming episodes. One thing I would like you to cover is where to get software for the Amiga, but that might be for another series 🙂 Last year I got my Amiga 1200 back and I would love to use it for things like letters to people and newsletters, but I don't really know where to get the software legally. If you could give any tips on that I would very much appreciate it.
Tbh, a lot of software is just deprecated and there is no way to get it via legal ways. Even if you tried very hard. There are simply no resellers. Then again, there are plenty of new games and utils out there that can be purchased. Like Roadshow (IPStack) for instance, which I bought. Or a game like RogueCraft (rel. date sept. 2024), skillgrid or support Dune II: The Building of A Remaster - Development of a new Amiga AGA and OCS. And of course buy a legal copy of Workbench.
I buy a fair amount of software off of eBay. I like to have the original boxes and manuals. I have picked up probably 15 or 20 productivity programs from there, and an occasional game
@@10MARC Oh, that's a good one.
Individual Computers has some really nice products but I would rather have a tooth canal done then to have to deal with their support. Most of the issues I have encountered have been resolved by reading posts.
Very true. He has a somewhat bad attitude about people reviewing his products, too. Even though they are generally positive.
@@10MARC My Last order with him he told me I made a mistake with shipping that his site defaults to Germany. So I had to pay a little more not a big deal. Thing is his site has my address information so its clear I am not in Germany. I never had an issue with shipping in my previous orders. So in my opinion the problem was with his site but I was told I made a mistake. Now I have to double check the shipping to make sure I don't get another email telling me I made a mistake and can either cancel the order or pay a few extra pennies for shipping.
@@stephenbruce8320 I know what you mean. Mine always defaults to my home address, but in Germany instead of the USA. His site is one of the slowest I have ever used in my life.
Printing is super easy. Just use the postscript option. All modern printers work well with this and easy. I print to a commercial Xerox Altalink C8030 digital press and an HP Laser wide format printer. Send it all postscript and it auto-magically just works.
There is an Amiga client for Mastodon if I remember correctly.
I think the guy that does AmiBerry was working on it, but not sure if it was ever completed. I need to see if it was.
Thanks for the new content Doug 👍🏻 Something to add. For faster workbench Icons I use Peter K’s icon.library. This will help speed up your icon draw speed. Free off Aminet. Cheers 🍻
Huh. Works OK with Amiga OS 3.2.1? I should try that out!
for me a daily driver would need a ssh client 😊
There are a few for the Amiga. I will have to test them out and see what is easy to use
you should get a zz9000, you wont regret it! Can see how painfully slow the P2 is when you move windows in the video :) (not as bad as native but still slow)
I have thought about the ZZ9000 for years. I probably should order one. They are great products. I have a Cybergraphix 643D and a Retina Z3 that are super fast, but they don't have the pass thru, so I have to manually use a switch box to toggle between RTG and AGA. That's what I want to avoid
@@10MARC One of the best purchases I have done, thinking about getting another one (in case they stop makin them). I like the HDMI output so I dont have to dig out a VGA monitor and the autoswitcher between native/P96. You could get something like a ratte monitor switcher and switch between scandoubler GFX card with those cards btw.
My thoughts exactly. I'm an owner of one of the first batches. Best card I bought for my Amiga. Next to my Warp1260.
@@cv643d a ratte monitor switcher? That auto switches? I will have to look into it. Some auto switches don't actually switch because the ECS/AGA video signal still exists when switching to RTG - it's a blank screen but still is being broadcast
@@10MARC I think the Ratte switcher works, you have to run an exe file in startup sequence for it to auto switch so its a HW and SW solution (I am 98% sure, never ran one myself :) )
I'm in the same quest since a while with my accelerated A1200. The only thing I haven't managed is that I do a lot of programming in Linux. Technically I only need a telnet terminal emulator (ssh would be a plus, but not mandatory) that works well with Linux. None of the ones I tested so far works well, specially when I use vim (garbled screen when paginating). Do you have any advice? Right now I use VNC to connect to a Desktop Linux VM, but that defeats my idea of the Amiga being the daily driver.
There are several Telnet clients for the Amiga that work OK, and a few that support SSH. I will have to download and test them and see which works best
After reading the Term4.8 manual and doing some configuration I managed to get it work very well as Linux terminal. I also got good results with NComm, after some configuration. For vim the best results are achieved by having a special .vimrc in the host. Didn't manage to find an SSH client that works well with Linux, so I'm telneting to a Raspberry Pi and from there doing SSH to the outside world.
Something I've never done is network my Amigas. Is there much you can do with an unexpanded A600 or A1200 on a LAN or the web?
Oh yes! The web is actually useful if you use the special text based services out there. Aminet from an A600 or A1200 works perfect. Accessing a network share from a PC or NAS device is the best way to transfer data!
If you just want to connect two Amigas close to each other, you can use Parnet! Costs practically nothing, just some 25 pin ribbon cable and a couple of connectors. Doug knows more modern ways, though, for Amigas without slots, but they probably require hardware.
@@dannylgriffin I'd like to get it on the web, even if I can't run a full blown browser on a 2MB machine. I've dug out a couple of PCMCIA WiFi adaptors that apparent work with the prisim2v2 driver but I'm stuck at the TCP/IP stack. The guide I was following recommends Miami but the site that generates keys for it seems to be long gone.
@@fsphil I bought TCP/IP software from Dale Luck back in the early 90's! I spoke to him on the phone, MI to CA, to get it working because I was confused. He drank wine and paid for the call. The Amiga development crew were amazing! We were so lucky to have them.
@@fsphil I used my A2000/2630 to log into Sun SPARCs (Solaris UNIX) and run engineering simulation software on X-Windows over 30 years ago. Over dial-up! God that was painful. LOL. But by God it worked! I also have X-Windows on my Amiga. And yes, it was worth it to save me trips and time at the university. Then we finally got cable internet, but by then I had graduated. Those were the days! How many here even know you can run X-Windows on the Amiga? (Technically called the X Windowing System, but no one does).
Booom 1st Amiga 4 Life
Are people still doing the "1st post" thing? I thought that was done in like 2010 or so... But yep! Amiga Forever!
@@10MARC All I got was translate to English under it
Can you do a remote desktop connections to a windows or linux server?
There was a client that could connect to XP and Windows 7 Remote Desktop sessions, but I cannot guarantee it works with Windows 10 or 11. I will test it out and see. Great idea.
@@666Astrosmurf I just ordered the software (the developer just asks for a donation). The new version works with Windows 10, but I am going to try and use it with Windows 11. It may end up being a full show.
*Can you run Diablo 4 on that??*
Should be fast enough, especially with RTG graphic.
@@HKvalhe LETS DO IT!!!!
@@johnsmith1953x Would be nice to see that 😁
No, but the original Diablo runs fantastic on an Amiga with a 68060 and RTG Graphics. I really need to do a video on that one day
@@10MARC Really? I would LOVE to see that!
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Was going to submit a starting bid for your ‘work of art’, but you didn’t save it :-(
I like your videos