Excellent review. Thank you for a honest thorough review - for the mouse button thing, delete all the stickyrmb files from sys:c and you will be pleased.
I just deleted all of the C directory Stickyrmb settings. I then rebooted and What a difference!!! Clicks work! the MagicMenu ? sticky thing is still in wbstartup. However this fixes so much! thank you!!! I understand how many hours this takes. I blow my Amiga 500 with GVP hard drive up all the time when software does not get along. So I can understand how hard this must have been. Thank you Mr Doug for this nice review. A compliment to the main setup video audio fixes and the timing.
Nice review and video Doug, now moving from 1.5 to 2.0 on my Pi400, yes I bought the ROM's through the excellent Amiga Forever, I use the same HD video converter as you do to extract audio to my sound system. As as Englishman your comments made me chuckle, happy holidays!
@19:35 firstly, how do you install software on this prepackaged pimiga? Secondly, thank you so much for reviewing pimiga with non-gaming applications. Personal Paint is hitting a creative button here. That's the Amiga I remember.
The easy way for me is to use the install FTP software like AmiFTP from Aminet, and then FTP into my personal PC that is running Filezilla FTP server. Then I can easily transfer what I want back and forth. PiMiga also supports SMBMounter to mount shared network drives, but it is getting more difficult as modern OS's are dumping the protocols used for security reasons. You can open them again, but it's an extra security risk
@@AndyDavis007 Once you unzip it it will execute right from the directory - but you can run traditional installs on PiMiga with no issues. It acts just like a regular Amiga as long as you get the files over to it.
Great video Doug, The sound tip for games very handy, change settings to Pull Audio around 34:40, awesome. Going to install ImageFX now and play around :)
@12:35 did pimiga automatically map your buttons or did you have to F12 into setup configuration and do so manually? By the way I have the f310 which is wired. It's detected but buttons are not assigned
Really excellent, thorough and detailed review "for the rest of us". I'm not ready to take the plunge yet, but this is definitely intriguing as hell. Your focus on the aesthetics really hit home with me - that stuff actually matters. I don't get why you think that garish UI is closer to some theoretical Mac than Windows, but to each their own. I really dig the pi 400 all-in-one you show off there. If I were to ever do the Pi stuff, rather than push it into real Amiga hardware I think I'd go this route. Quite affordable, too. Great review, Doug - and great work, Chris Edwards!
Apple had there time with the early versions of Mac OS X where everything looked like an oversaturated cartoon. It has gotten a bit better, but it has always been too much fluff and not enough substance for my tastes.
Thanks for this! I was going to spend some more time with PiMiga 1.x before upgrading -- now that I know a little more about the advantages 2 brings to the table I think I'll be pulling the trigger shortly. Chris does some great work -- I've got some Amithlon candidate computers in the cellar, too. I'd have given up on them if it wasn't for Chris' occasional install videos :)
Chris did a very nice job with PiMiga I am still playing with it and I will send a setup to my Grandkids for them to enjoy. I would rather send them something inexpensive at this time then Classic Amiga Hardware. Amiga Emulation is not perfect, but it provides a very affordable Amiga Experience for those who either can't afford or justify the cost of Classic Amiga Hardware. Having said that Amiga Emulation is the gateway to people developing the desire to purchase Classic Amiga Hardware. What destroys this and ruins this experience is when people openly poo poo Amiga Emulation because they miss the point and end up discouraging people in the community. Those who do this really make me sad. I am thankful that there are people like Chris who contribute to the Amiga Community to promote it and help keep it alive. Even Chris will admit it's not perfect but if Classic Amiga Hardware is not within your reach its the next best thing.
For a long time Amiga emulation was pretty miserable. Lately it has gotten much better. I'm to the point where I'm going to move my Amiga stuff from my Amiga 3000 to a Rpi4 now.
It was quite an oversite to have it released with those settings. They honestly barely work with games with buffer set to 8. Maybe MOD files would play OK. I am glad that it helped!
as joystick to usb converters i prefer these which don't have a cable in between usb and joystick ports. i had one of these years ago (this was the first converter i owned). but i didn't have it for a long time (it worked only a few weeks) due to cable breaking.
I do have a general audio lag/choppy audio on all games with WHDload 18.6 with Pimiga 2.0 via HDMI running on Pi400. I have changed the sound options (sound buffer to 4 or min, Set Frequency to 22050, Filter to off) but non of the changed settings could solve the audio issues. Any idea?
@@10MARC Thanks. PiMiga ships with 2.1Ghz overclock by default (its also in the mentioned in the readme.txt of the image. I tried changing all sound settings but the sound is still bad via HDMI for all WHDload games and demos. It is nearly perfect for the exe games (Doom, Quake etc)....so it has something todo with WHDload - maybe because JIT is disabled in the whdload prefs?
Hello, nice video. One question. You say, hit the F12 key to access the Amiberry menu e.g. for joystick configuration. I am using the PI400 and there is no F12 key. Is there a way to change the key? Thanks
Doug, did ever try the external USB sound thing to try and get a better Amiga audio experience? I have been looking at this "DACBerry 400S Audio Card for Raspberry Pi 400" from the Pi Hut". It fits on the GPIO port on the rear of the Pi400. I would just like to know if this would give a more faithful representation of the actual Amiga/demo/game audio? I mean, is this a more capable sound device? I don't fully understand. Thanks for this video...
Yes. I have the SCART to HDMI box that many of us use on our real Amigas, and it has a built in HDMI port too which strips the audio out. There is definitely an improvement with external USB audio like this. Not perfect, but much better
Do I need an 8GB Pi4 or is the 4GB OK. The best price I saw was around $75-150 for just the Pi IF you can find one, is that reasonable or have the prices been inflated because they seem to be hard to find?
found 2 issues so far in the controllers i have an hori mini 4 and it doesnt work and in the sound i got issues on the oled lg its scratching sounds but when i tried on a monitor works fine
If I set up network printing using NetPar or something similar it would probably work. I did not try it, though. I print to Network printers from my real Amigas, though.
This is my official "Dad" shirt. One is entitled to wear them after turning 50. At 55 one is allowed to wear this with Bermuda shorts and sandles with black socks.
dunno. I have a raspberry pi 400 I set the audio as you say buffer 1, pull audio, Emulated (A1200), 22050. but with all the games I've tried: (beach volley - saint dragon - super cars) the audio is very slow abd so is the game. my pi400 is connected to a 4k pc monitor with the pimiga 1.5 lite l audio is ok. How strange
Hi Doug, Thanks and congrats for your very comprehensive review of Chris’s latest PiMiga release. I really love your videos. Keep up the good work! By the way: when was the last time you saw a Mac and its OS & desktop run? Must’ve been 25 years ago ;-) Cheers from France :-) Thierry
Good video, thanks! I'd like to make two suggestions. If you don't have a way to extract HDMI audio - don't, and just use any class-compliant USB sound card you already have. I have tried three different ones, and they all worked out of the box. If you want to use original DB9 joysticks - and this I haven't tried myself yet, but will sometime in the next few weeks - an adapter from DB9 to the GPIO port seems easy to build and not too hard to get to work. But again, I haven't tried this myself yet, so take this with a grain of salt and google a bit for info on this.
So you have tried this with an external USB Sound Card! And it works OK? Does it work better than the onboard Raspberry Pi audio, or do we have the same lag issues?
@@10MARC Yes, USB soundcards work fine, at least the ones I've tried. It still has the lag problem, but ir's not worse than it is with HDMI audio as far as I can tell, and with the buffer set to MIN, I think it's fine. To me it seems like it is more an Amiberry thing than a Pimiga specific problem. Most of the time I run Amiberry on a clean Raspberry Pi OS install, and sound-wise it doesn't seem to run any better or worse. It's not perfect, but I'm quite happy with it overall.
Very nice and through review. I appreciate you delved into the audio lag issue which was expected. Achilles heel of software emulation is input/audio lag. How is the lag for input ? My dream Amiga setup is something which outputs standard HDMI, with USb input for a game pad. I dont care if its software emulation, hardware emulation, something in between, a badger, or a stork. I'm done with all the drama and obsession with classic hardware. I am willing to accept anything that works.
Input lag does not seem to be too bad. But considering my brain has more lag than any emulator... I always go back to real Amigas in the end. Even with my Vampire machines I usually end up creating artwork that displays on good old HAM6 or HAM8 screens. I just love the feel of it to be honest.
I checked up and it seems THEA500 Mini is coming next year. I wonder how this would compare to it ? Probably TheA500 mini will have better latency cause they the option to streamline the OS. Having said that, due to chip shortages, there might be delays for the A500Mini. Hell maybe I'll just go for this and check A500Mini when it comes out. A Pi400 has its uses whether it runs Amiga or not.
The Mini will probably max out emulating a 68020 with maybe 20 MB of RAM I would guess. Probably along the same lines as a MISTer or something like that. It will certainly have more than enough power to run any game, but I doubt it will be a powerhouse that can run Lightwave very well. I have one on order, so we will see!
by the time of pc based games of the early to mid 90's we had gone from fpram, to EDO ram to sdram within 2-5 year period, even with access from 2-8MB video cards.. 4-64MB worth of ram if you had the cash to buy it.. at this stage even with a hdmi 1.1-1.4 tv as long as you got a stereo jack you are okay to use the vga port assuming you can output to vga.. from the amiga otherwise you will need a hdmi output source At some point amiga as an OS platform would of had to go from 8 bit to 16 bit to 32 bit OS.. if it had to been developed for use
Chris also did a video on Chicken wings and an Amiga deep fryer. he is like mcguiver or something. I use Pimiga with audio low for games and demos and higher (5-8) for mp3 and mods. seems to work great. although i left mine on 41khz, still works fine.
@@yorkshirebikerbitsnbobs I totally agree, but I'd even reduce it to 11kHz/Mono.. IF.. That was increased CPU headroom enough for noticably increased consistency. Sudden slowdowns, popping audio, input lag, and dropped frames will quickly ruin the experience.
Doug, Thanks for your video review. I like Chris and his videos and have watched his work on PiMiga. but I think it is not for me. I think there is nothing wrong with Amiga Emulation at all because it has allowed a lot of people to get an intro to the Amiga without having to mortgage the farm to try it. I have my own Amigas but have longed for greater speed. I am looking forward to the release of the Buffee. One of the biggest issues though are Printer Drivers. I hope that some day that will not be a problem but I guess I will have to wait and see. Keep up the great work and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your Family. We will be having a typical Christmas here this year with temperatures about 31 degrees Celsius. But we love it anyway. Cheers from Australia.
I consider emulation to be a supplement to my real Amigas. I have no issue with it at all. What kind of printer issues are you having? Printing to modern printers? Our choices are limited, but if you find a network printer that supports Postscript of PCL3 there certainly are some options.
@@10MARC Not any issues at the moment as I don't have an Amiga hooked up to the network but it would be nice to do it. PCL is a solution but I thought it was only for Laser printers. My main printer is a Canon TS9160 at the moment. I have gone through several over the years since my Star Micronics LC10.
in my opinion pimiga it's a nice toy but a totally no sense make up of the amiga os. First of all it's ridicolus to think about a professionall use of pimiga and sad to say the games part it's totally uncorfortable in front of more and more friendly solution like fs-uae, with serious preview, more settable options, arcade mode etc. Games in pimiga can't run in windows mode, i didn't find crt mask (a must for me). Pimiga it's just a toy for to see how worked an amiga OS, some tour in old professional software, just a nostalgic cosmetic tour
That's certainly a fine opinion. I like how Chris is pushing the limits of what can be done with Amiberry and FS-UAE. I would sooner eat a bug than use any kind of CRT Mask myself, but that's just me.
Please don't spend money on a ROM that you paid for 30 years ago. It's great to support retrocomputer projects but there's no need to throw money at license trolls.
@@10MARC Amiga Forever is a real product that someone has put work into. But this is not true for the old ROMs and the Workbench. The company that developed and sold it doesn't exist anymore.
I've extracted my roms back in the day, and I think I can find them somewhere in my NAS, but I'm inclined to pay for the Amiga Forever. (Maybe I already did need to check) I just wonder, what good or bad it would do for the community if Amiga Forever went bankrupt ? or got sold to more troublesome company (ie something like nintendo, which sues you if you spell nin and ten together.)
@@ArdaKaraduman Cloanto, the company that produces Amiga Forever, and owned by the same people who own most of the rights to the Amiga is actually run by a very nice person. I do not wish ill of him even for a second. What I do wish is that he would hire someone who could read the Tea Leaves of the Amiga Community and actually leverage what he owns.
Excellent review. Thank you for a honest thorough review - for the mouse button thing, delete all the stickyrmb files from sys:c and you will be pleased.
Awesome! I will change that setting right away. I just find myself clicking two or three times before I see what I want. Thanks!
I just deleted all of the C directory Stickyrmb settings. I then rebooted and What a difference!!! Clicks work! the MagicMenu ? sticky thing is still in wbstartup. However this fixes so much! thank you!!! I understand how many hours this takes. I blow my Amiga 500 with GVP hard drive up all the time when software does not get along. So I can understand how hard this must have been. Thank you Mr Doug for this nice review. A compliment to the main setup video audio fixes and the timing.
Excellent Job Chris. I Love it. Dieter from Germany and Fort Myers Fl.
Great work Doug. Chris has done an amazing job here and frankly we should be very grateful that the dude does so much for us.
Thanks! And yes he does a great job with PiMiga. It is a huge undertaking.
Nice review and video Doug, now moving from 1.5 to 2.0 on my Pi400, yes I bought the ROM's through the excellent Amiga Forever, I use the same HD video converter as you do to extract audio to my sound system. As as Englishman your comments made me chuckle, happy holidays!
I just have to tease you guys about not knowing how to speak "American"! ;)
@@10MARC
“Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy”
I bet that confused quite a few people!
Thanks, for another good video.
Excellent review/ guide. Thank you so much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@19:35 firstly, how do you install software on this prepackaged pimiga? Secondly, thank you so much for reviewing pimiga with non-gaming applications. Personal Paint is hitting a creative button here. That's the Amiga I remember.
The easy way for me is to use the install FTP software like AmiFTP from Aminet, and then FTP into my personal PC that is running Filezilla FTP server. Then I can easily transfer what I want back and forth. PiMiga also supports SMBMounter to mount shared network drives, but it is getting more difficult as modern OS's are dumping the protocols used for security reasons. You can open them again, but it's an extra security risk
@@10MARC so I'm assuming Personal Paint is an executable and no further installation required, right?
@@AndyDavis007 Once you unzip it it will execute right from the directory - but you can run traditional installs on PiMiga with no issues. It acts just like a regular Amiga as long as you get the files over to it.
Great video Doug, The sound tip for games very handy, change settings to Pull Audio around 34:40, awesome. Going to install ImageFX now and play around :)
It helps a ton! I wish we did not have to fuss with it, but at least it is easy to do
Just bought a Pi 400, will be trying this. Thankyou.
Fantastic! It is a nice product to run Amiga OS on. I am happy that they keep adding features, too.
@12:35 did pimiga automatically map your buttons or did you have to F12 into setup configuration and do so manually? By the way I have the f310 which is wired. It's detected but buttons are not assigned
It was automatically mapped.
Been looking forward to you reviewing this! :)
I do hope you enjoy it! PiMiga is a great project.
Really excellent, thorough and detailed review "for the rest of us". I'm not ready to take the plunge yet, but this is definitely intriguing as hell. Your focus on the aesthetics really hit home with me - that stuff actually matters. I don't get why you think that garish UI is closer to some theoretical Mac than Windows, but to each their own. I really dig the pi 400 all-in-one you show off there. If I were to ever do the Pi stuff, rather than push it into real Amiga hardware I think I'd go this route. Quite affordable, too. Great review, Doug - and great work, Chris Edwards!
Apple had there time with the early versions of Mac OS X where everything looked like an oversaturated cartoon. It has gotten a bit better, but it has always been too much fluff and not enough substance for my tastes.
Thanks for this! I was going to spend some more time with PiMiga 1.x before upgrading -- now that I know a little more about the advantages 2 brings to the table I think I'll be pulling the trigger shortly. Chris does some great work -- I've got some Amithlon candidate computers in the cellar, too. I'd have given up on them if it wasn't for Chris' occasional install videos :)
It is worth it to get PiMiga 2.x - It is faster, and it totally eliminated the RTG graphics glitching I always got on 1.5
Chris did a very nice job with PiMiga I am still playing with it and I will send a setup to my Grandkids for them to enjoy. I would rather send them something inexpensive at this time then Classic Amiga Hardware. Amiga Emulation is not perfect, but it provides a very affordable Amiga Experience for those who either can't afford or justify the cost of Classic Amiga Hardware. Having said that Amiga Emulation is the gateway to people developing the desire to purchase Classic Amiga Hardware. What destroys this and ruins this experience is when people openly poo poo Amiga Emulation because they miss the point and end up discouraging people in the community. Those who do this really make me sad. I am thankful that there are people like Chris who contribute to the Amiga Community to promote it and help keep it alive. Even Chris will admit it's not perfect but if Classic Amiga Hardware is not within your reach its the next best thing.
For a long time Amiga emulation was pretty miserable. Lately it has gotten much better. I'm to the point where I'm going to move my Amiga stuff from my Amiga 3000 to a Rpi4 now.
Thanks for the sound settings guide I've been looking how to do it :)
It was quite an oversite to have it released with those settings. They honestly barely work with games with buffer set to 8. Maybe MOD files would play OK. I am glad that it helped!
solved the problem of the audio necessarily need an audio extractor from HDMI.
thanks for suggesting it to me
Oh wonderful! The extractor actually totally fixed the audio! This is great!
as joystick to usb converters i prefer these which don't have a cable in between usb and joystick ports. i had one of these years ago (this was the first converter i owned). but i didn't have it for a long time (it worked only a few weeks) due to cable breaking.
Oh, I had never used one without a cable, but I suppose they work just dandy too!
I do have a general audio lag/choppy audio on all games with WHDload 18.6 with Pimiga 2.0 via HDMI running on Pi400. I have changed the sound options (sound buffer to 4 or min, Set Frequency to 22050, Filter to off) but non of the changed settings could solve the audio issues. Any idea?
Yikes. Usually setting the buffer to min or 1 solves it. Maybe try overclocking the Pi a little bit?
@@10MARC Thanks. PiMiga ships with 2.1Ghz overclock by default (its also in the mentioned in the readme.txt of the image. I tried changing all sound settings but the sound is still bad via HDMI for all WHDload games and demos. It is nearly perfect for the exe games (Doom, Quake etc)....so it has something todo with WHDload - maybe because JIT is disabled in the whdload prefs?
Hello, nice video. One question. You say, hit the F12 key to access the Amiberry menu e.g. for joystick configuration. I am using the PI400 and there is no F12 key. Is there a way to change the key? Thanks
FN in the lower left corner and then F2. f12 should be printed on the key in red.
@@10MARC Thanks a lot
Doug, did ever try the external USB sound thing to try and get a better Amiga audio experience? I have been looking at this "DACBerry 400S Audio Card for Raspberry Pi 400" from the Pi Hut". It fits on the GPIO port on the rear of the Pi400. I would just like to know if this would give a more faithful representation of the actual Amiga/demo/game audio? I mean, is this a more capable sound device? I don't fully understand. Thanks for this video...
Yes. I have the SCART to HDMI box that many of us use on our real Amigas, and it has a built in HDMI port too which strips the audio out. There is definitely an improvement with external USB audio like this. Not perfect, but much better
Really helpful for a newb....thanks!
Glad it was helpful! Enjoy using PiMiga!
Do I need an 8GB Pi4 or is the 4GB OK. The best price I saw was around $75-150 for just the Pi IF you can find one, is that reasonable or have the prices been inflated because they seem to be hard to find?
The 4 Gig is plenty. And $75 is a great deal for a Pi400!
found 2 issues so far in the controllers i have an hori mini 4 and it doesnt work and in the sound i got issues on the oled lg its scratching sounds but when i tried on a monitor works fine
How strange that hooking it to different monitors gives different results. Mine seems OK using my HDMI Audio Splitter to separate speakers.
@@10MARC tried in all port hdmi on the oled its the same scratching sound tried the amibian version and works fine too
Did you try printing from the Word Processor or Spreadsheet programs?
If I set up network printing using NetPar or something similar it would probably work. I did not try it, though. I print to Network printers from my real Amigas, though.
@@10MARC I didn’t try to hard but I couldn’t get a printer set up directly to the pi400 (well WiFI) to work with PiMiga ….was hoping you had tried 😀
Nice shirt, Elvis would be proud
This is my official "Dad" shirt. One is entitled to wear them after turning 50. At 55 one is allowed to wear this with Bermuda shorts and sandles with black socks.
Oh we rockin the "Dad" shirts too ha ha
Good job.
Your canal so very good.
Thanks! I appreciate that!
best pimiga image ever seen :)
It is a nice version. Much more stable for me than 1.5 was.
dunno. I have a raspberry pi 400
I set the audio as you say
buffer 1, pull audio, Emulated (A1200), 22050.
but with all the games I've tried: (beach volley - saint dragon - super cars) the audio is very slow abd so is the game.
my pi400 is connected to a 4k pc monitor
with the pimiga 1.5 lite l audio is ok. How strange
You can also follow the Chris Edwards howto to edit files tio enable the audio on the pi 4 but not the pi400
For sure! His readme file is quite helpful!
Hi Doug,
Thanks and congrats for your very comprehensive review of Chris’s latest PiMiga release.
I really love your videos. Keep up the good work!
By the way: when was the last time you saw a Mac and its OS & desktop run? Must’ve been 25 years ago ;-)
Cheers from France :-)
Thierry
My family owns multiple Macs, and they make up about 10% of my consulting business. They are 80% pretty fluff.
Good video, thanks! I'd like to make two suggestions. If you don't have a way to extract HDMI audio - don't, and just use any class-compliant USB sound card you already have. I have tried three different ones, and they all worked out of the box. If you want to use original DB9 joysticks - and this I haven't tried myself yet, but will sometime in the next few weeks - an adapter from DB9 to the GPIO port seems easy to build and not too hard to get to work. But again, I haven't tried this myself yet, so take this with a grain of salt and google a bit for info on this.
So you have tried this with an external USB Sound Card! And it works OK? Does it work better than the onboard Raspberry Pi audio, or do we have the same lag issues?
@@10MARC Yes, USB soundcards work fine, at least the ones I've tried. It still has the lag problem, but ir's not worse than it is with HDMI audio as far as I can tell, and with the buffer set to MIN, I think it's fine. To me it seems like it is more an Amiberry thing than a Pimiga specific problem. Most of the time I run Amiberry on a clean Raspberry Pi OS install, and sound-wise it doesn't seem to run any better or worse. It's not perfect, but I'm quite happy with it overall.
Nice job Doug: Not too shabby ;-) Completely agree about 'the fluff' and - Scalos is amazing, but I don't like the glitz and fonts. IMHO.
Thanks! Chris did a great job for sure and it just keeps growing.
Could you please try breathless on highest settings? Or alien breed 3d 2? Thank you
Breathless, eh? I will see if that is on WHDLOAD. I think it is.
Very nice and through review. I appreciate you delved into the audio lag issue which was expected. Achilles heel of software emulation is input/audio lag. How is the lag for input ?
My dream Amiga setup is something which outputs standard HDMI, with USb input for a game pad. I dont care if its software emulation, hardware emulation, something in between, a badger, or a stork. I'm done with all the drama and obsession with classic hardware. I am willing to accept anything that works.
Input lag does not seem to be too bad. But considering my brain has more lag than any emulator...
I always go back to real Amigas in the end. Even with my Vampire machines I usually end up creating artwork that displays on good old HAM6 or HAM8 screens. I just love the feel of it to be honest.
I checked up and it seems THEA500 Mini is coming next year. I wonder how this would compare to it ? Probably TheA500 mini will have better latency cause they the option to streamline the OS. Having said that, due to chip shortages, there might be delays for the A500Mini.
Hell maybe I'll just go for this and check A500Mini when it comes out. A Pi400 has its uses whether it runs Amiga or not.
The Mini will probably max out emulating a 68020 with maybe 20 MB of RAM I would guess. Probably along the same lines as a MISTer or something like that. It will certainly have more than enough power to run any game, but I doubt it will be a powerhouse that can run Lightwave very well.
I have one on order, so we will see!
by the time of pc based games of the early to mid 90's we had gone from fpram, to EDO ram to sdram within 2-5 year period, even with access from 2-8MB video cards.. 4-64MB worth of ram if you had the cash to buy it..
at this stage even with a hdmi 1.1-1.4 tv as long as you got a stereo jack you are okay to use the vga port assuming you can output to vga.. from the amiga otherwise you will need a hdmi output source
At some point amiga as an OS platform would of had to go from 8 bit to 16 bit to 32 bit OS..
if it had to been developed for use
Here is a secret - Amiga OS is pretty much a 32 bit OS and has been since the 80's... the 68000 was 32 bits internally, so the code was 32 bit.
Hey! That Logitech thingy isnt a Joystick! Its gamepad alias Asian thumb device! Try play KickOff with it :)
Well that's true I suppose. Some games are better with a real Joystick.
Chris also did a video on Chicken wings and an Amiga deep fryer. he is like mcguiver or something. I use Pimiga with audio low for games and demos and higher (5-8) for mp3 and mods. seems to work great. although i left mine on 41khz, still works fine.
He is nothing if not varied. I understand some of his washing machine and car videos are some of his most viewed!
😳 The English language comes from England but i agree with colour being a crazy spelling , Great vid as always 😊
Oh I know English comes from England... But we 'Muricans have to pretend we invented it. 🤣😉
@@10MARC I know you know 😊but solder definitely has an L 😉😂
I don't call them "pajamas", I call them "lounge pants". #ComfortOverAll
I don't begrudge him for being comfy.
You could increase the sampling rate from 22050 to 44100 but it may impact performance
Yes, that does impact the performance a bit. I found there was a bit less lag at 22050
@@10MARC I set it to 22050 mono instead. that sounds as good as 44100 but you get no stereo separation.
@@svenkarlsen2702 Amiga audio is all about that stereo separation... Well not "all about", but it's crucial for the Amiga experience.
@@yorkshirebikerbitsnbobs I totally agree, but I'd even reduce it to 11kHz/Mono.. IF.. That was increased CPU headroom enough for noticably increased consistency.
Sudden slowdowns, popping audio, input lag, and dropped frames will quickly ruin the experience.
Love your videos mate, especially with added international hilarity of thinking you lot know how to spell :D
Hey! We Americans invented English! ;)
LOL Chris needs PJ's
He has to pay for all those cool Amigas somehow! Moonlighting as a Pajama Model helps keep his family fed, too.
@@10MARC His into music reminds me of a chevy van.. I will leave this were its at for the moment May be Chris will see it lol
@@Traci_S_Aaron i make my own intro and exit music in Garageband on my (Doug hates it MAC)
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration You both are funny guys I am a A/V pre post editor and producer
Seriously dating yourself calling out Pro Audio Spectrum ! lol
I used to love that audio card! I was never a Soundblaster guy...
New AmigaOS4 64bit multicore and new drive Nova 3D for modern Radeon 3D.
AmigaOS4 on new Notebook 64bit coming soon! The best ruleeez 💪😎
64 bit Multicore Amiga OS 4.x? I have not heard anything about that...
@@10MARC There was a preview at the latest AmiWest 😉👍🏼
Doug,
Thanks for your video review. I like Chris and his videos and have watched his work on PiMiga. but I think it is not for me.
I think there is nothing wrong with Amiga Emulation at all because it has allowed a lot of people to get an intro to the Amiga without having to mortgage the farm to try it. I have my own Amigas but have longed for greater speed. I am looking forward to the release of the Buffee.
One of the biggest issues though are Printer Drivers. I hope that some day that will not be a problem but I guess I will have to wait and see.
Keep up the great work and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your Family. We will be having a typical Christmas here this year with temperatures about 31 degrees Celsius. But we love it anyway. Cheers from Australia.
I consider emulation to be a supplement to my real Amigas. I have no issue with it at all. What kind of printer issues are you having? Printing to modern printers? Our choices are limited, but if you find a network printer that supports Postscript of PCL3 there certainly are some options.
@@10MARC Not any issues at the moment as I don't have an Amiga hooked up to the network but it would be nice to do it. PCL is a solution but I thought it was only for Laser printers. My main printer is a Canon TS9160 at the moment. I have gone through several over the years since my Star Micronics LC10.
please Daddy condescend me more!
Doing ok there buddy?
in my opinion pimiga it's a nice toy but a totally no sense make up of the amiga os. First of all it's ridicolus to think about a professionall use of pimiga and sad to say the games part it's totally uncorfortable in front of more and more friendly solution like fs-uae, with serious preview, more settable options, arcade mode etc. Games in pimiga can't run in windows mode, i didn't find crt mask (a must for me). Pimiga it's just a toy for to see how worked an amiga OS, some tour in old professional software, just a nostalgic cosmetic tour
That's certainly a fine opinion. I like how Chris is pushing the limits of what can be done with Amiberry and FS-UAE.
I would sooner eat a bug than use any kind of CRT Mask myself, but that's just me.
Since then however Mike Steele a piece of slime who took the disttribution and sells it has sued Chris Edwards and has forced him to take it down.
Not sure if Mike sued Chris... There was some Drama but I don't think it went that far.
Please don't spend money on a ROM that you paid for 30 years ago. It's great to support retrocomputer projects but there's no need to throw money at license trolls.
So stealing is appropriate? Should I steal Amiga OS 3.2 also? Amiga Forever is not a legitimate product worth $10.00?
@@10MARC Amiga Forever is a real product that someone has put work into. But this is not true for the old ROMs and the Workbench. The company that developed and sold it doesn't exist anymore.
I've extracted my roms back in the day, and I think I can find them somewhere in my NAS, but I'm inclined to pay for the Amiga Forever. (Maybe I already did need to check)
I just wonder, what good or bad it would do for the community if Amiga Forever went bankrupt ? or got sold to more troublesome company (ie something like nintendo, which sues you if you spell nin and ten together.)
@@ArdaKaraduman Cloanto, the company that produces Amiga Forever, and owned by the same people who own most of the rights to the Amiga is actually run by a very nice person. I do not wish ill of him even for a second.
What I do wish is that he would hire someone who could read the Tea Leaves of the Amiga Community and actually leverage what he owns.