Workbench February 2003 Issue 188 Pegasos Demo at this Month’s Meeting !!!
Yes folks at this month’s AUG meeting Scott Pringle of Boing International will be presenting the first public, full Australian demonstration of the PegasoOS PPC powered, Amiga OS compatable MorphOS machine.
February 2003 Workbench 1 Editorial Once again another month has passed. Still no sign of Amiga OS 4 and no word on AmigaONE deliveries to Australia.
Editor Tony Mulvihill However some good news is the demonstration of the Pegasos PPC powered 0415 161 271 machine running the Amiga OS compatable MorphOS. Be at the meeting if [email protected] you want to see the latest in Amiga compatable equipment. Contributions Contributions can be soft Now for some bad news. I’ve found myself a new job and I’m afraid it will copy (on floppy½ disk) or hard copy. It will be take up all my spare time and yes it’s the spare time I devote to producing returned if requested and Workbench. So this means this will be the last issue of Workbench from accompanied with a self- addressed envelope. myself. I hope someone will volunteer to take over the reins and I would be The editor of the Amiga Users Group Inc. newsletter contributing whenever I could. Please contact me if you can help. Workbench retains the right Tony Mulvihill to edit contributions for clarity and length. Pegasos computer running MorphOS. Send contributions to: Amiga Users Group Scott of Boing.Net has announced P.O. Box 2389 Seaford Victoria 3198 AUG’s February meeting as the first [email protected] official public Australian Advertising demonstration of Pegasos and Advertising space is free MorphOS. for members to sell private items or services. For information on Pegasos is a PPC powered commercial rates, contact: Tony Mulvihill motherboard and MorphOS is the 0415 161 2721 Amiga compatable OS that runs on [email protected] Last Months Meeting January 19th 2003 Pegasos. Deadlines Workbench is published Scott of Boing.Net brought in a each month. The deadline Pegasos motherboard. It was quite a Next Months Meeting for each issue is the 1st Tuesday of the month of small board with cpu card that can be March 16th 2003 publication. replaced to upgrade the processor. Nothing planned but I’m sure Reprints something will come up. Maybe OS 4 All articles in Workbench There was my Amithlon machine are Copyright 2002 the and Amiga One?? Amiga Users Group Inc. booting off a modified Amiga rom as unless otherwise indicated. well as various other machines being Articles may be reproduced ADUG Memberships for noncommercial worked on. purposes if accompanied by The Amiga Downunder a credit line including the Users Group offers you original authors name and David Myers brought us the latest the chance to help bring the words. news and a quick hands up showed Reprinted from Workbench Amiga back to the people. the newsletter of the Amiga around seven members have or Users Group. http://www.aug.org.au intend to order an Amiga ONE board By joining ADUG you help fund for show appearances like the upcoming Disclaimer The views expressed in the This Months Meeting Sydney CeBit show this year. It was Amiga Users Group Inc. though ADUG the 2001/2002 newsletter Workbench are February 16th 2003 those of the authors and do Latest news and info from our Comdex show appearances were not necessarily represent funded. Memberships can be paid at the views of the editor or bringer of Ami news, David Myers. the AUG committee. AUG meetings. The first Australian demo of a http://www.amigadownunder.org
February 2003 Workbench 2 In This Issue Bytes & Pieces Pegasos Demo 1 Editorial 2 again as it did (encrypt/decrypt) Club Amiga Group News 2 Magazine moving through mails updates Amiga Inc. have emailed their state again (Bernd Gollesch) Bytes & Pieces 3 out the long awaited first proper secondary sort support Amithlon ROM 4 issue of the “Club Amiga” (Bernd Gollesch) magazine. Those who joined the Can read signed S/MIME mails WB Funnies 7 club with a $50.00 US pre- properly (displaying them at Meeting Pics 8 payment on an AmigaONE and least, needs AmiSSL), importing Umilator Features 10 OS 4 combo by now have the addressbook of YAM works received the first issue. If you’re for newer versions too Boing.Net 14 a Club Amiga member make sure Anything Amiga 14 SimpleMail is a mailer for the Amiga Inc have your current Dealer Directory 15 email so you can receive the Amiga classic platform but it is issues. intended to be as portable as About The Group 16 possible.. http://www.amiga.com/ provided in the user’s FM801- http://simplemail. based sound card model. sourceforge.net/index.php New YAM2.4 Dev The update includes the new Mediator MM CD UP 1.22 versions of: sb128.audio, mixer.library, tv.library and ELBOX COMPUTER FastEthernet.device.
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February 2003 Workbench 3 Amithlon Rom Mods How to Modify the lack of a CPU card in Amithlon? We grab a copy of The Amiga ROM the ROM from Amithlon while Amithlon is up and in Amithlon running. Then we apply the required patches to the ROM By Tony Mulvihill and save the ROM with the name “shape.rom” to a floppy This article is fairly technical disk. The ROM in Amithlon is and assumes you know your named shape.rom because it’s way around an Amiga, can un- had modifications applied so lha files and use a shell. More the Macintosh emulation Ram: is the working directory so, since Linux must also be Shapeshifter will run. I’ll be using for the purpose of used, you’ll either need access this article. to a Linux machine or install a The patches we will be version of linux yourself. You applying are the From a shell, type can typically buy a copy of exec44.1beta4 update, various Linux at computer swap modules from the Blizkick cd Ram: meets, your local newsagency, archive and PowerWindows saverom ram:ks or visit the local library. The Next Generation. (see the end library usually have books on of the article for the names The above lines set the current Linux with Linux on CD’s and and locations of the archives) directory to ram: and saves the there are Amiga versions of Amithlon kickstart ROM as a Linux. Install PowerWindowsNG file named “ks”. first. There’s not really much First, “why would you want to do apart from unarchiving Unarchive the exec44.1beta4 to modify the Amiga ROM and copying the update and copy these files to used by Amithlon?” My PowerWindows directory to ram: answer to that question is, your Work: directory. I “Because the code used in the recommend reading and exec.bin.a2000 ROM isn’t perfect and many following the zapexec developers have written PowerWindowsNG guide for improvements that can be further instructions on From the shell again execute inserted into the ROM to add installation of the following lines new functions and fix bugs.” PowerwindowsNG. cd ram: Unfortunately the tools to Step One. “zapexec FROM ram:ks insert the ROM improvements WITH exec.bin.a2000 TO are based around using a CPU In the PowerWindows ram:shape.rom1” card with “shadowing ability”, directory, locate the tools/shell which is the ability to copy the directory and copy the files, The above lines set the current ROM into RAM memory. “SaveROM” and directory to ram:, patch the “PatchROMforPW” to Ram: Amithlon ROM with the exec So what do we do to overcome update for the A2000 and save
February 2003 Workbench 4 Amithlon Rom Mods the patched file to ram: with These are the modules that can the name of “shape.rom1". We be applied to our ROM to use the A2000 update because enhance and fix bugs. the ROM used in Amithlon is a ks3.1 68000 version. Type the following lines in a shell, We’ve performed the first patch :-) cd ram:
Step Two. “applypatch ram:shape.rom1_pw to So now we have a floppy disk Next we patch the ROM for ram:shape.rom1_pw_bliz with 2 files on it. One is the PowerWindows. Execute the fixmath404 remcards modified Amiga ROM we following line, note it’s a patchmath020 romfixes want Amithlon to use (called single line. force” Note this is a single line. shape.rom) and the other is the Amithlon boot file we want to “PatchROMForPW insert the ROM into ram:shape.rom1 We now have a ROM for (Smallird.gz). The next step ram:shape.rom1_pw” Amithlon that’s had the exec core updated, has the requires a linux install so we can decompress “Smallird.gz” This line patches our PowerWindowsNG patch and mount it as a file system. shape.rom1 with the patch needed to enable Once Smallird is mounted as a required for PowerWindowsNG to move file system we will have PowerWindowsNG to do it’s windows out of the screen and access to the directories inside magic stuff and saves it as has 4 other enhancements and it and will be able to copy “shape.rom1_pw”. bug fix patches applied from the Blizkick archive. over the original shape.rom with our own modified The second patch is done ! The best thing to do now is to shape.rom. Step Three. copy all the patched roms to a storage directory and our final Boot up Linux and log on as root. Next, the Blizkick modules. ROM, the shape.rom1_pw_bliz ROM, we rename to shape.rom and mount your floppy and copy Unarchive the Blizkick the smallird.gz file to “/” package and copy copy it to a PC 1.44 format floppy disk. “applypatch” and the From your Linux shell use the following modules to ram: We then copy the Amithlon following command sequence. fixmath404 boot file “Smallird.gz” to the same floppy. gunzip smallird.gz remcards cd / patchmath020 The Linux Part. mkdir /aim romfixes losetup dev loop0 /smallird mount dev loop0 /aim
February 2003 Workbench 5 Amithlon Rom Mods gunzip smallird.gz, unzips losetup -d dev loop0, Boot Amithlon and enjoy the the smallird.gz file. detaches the smallird file from use of a more stable system the loop device. and the new functionality of The cd /, command takes you “Power Windows”. to the system root. gzip –best smallird, rezips the smallird file using the best Archives Required mkdir /aim, creates a compression. Note that there directory in the system root are two “-“ in front of “best”. PowerWindowsNG.lha called “aim” (for Amithlon). Georg Steger losetup dev loop0 /smallird, A new smallird.gz file appears BlizKick-1.24rc5.lha sets up the file “smallird” as a in the system root / directory Harry Sintonen loop device. that should be slightly smaller then the original. exec44beta4.lha mount dev loop0 /aim, Harry Sintonen mounts the loop0 device to the Transfer the new smallird.gz /aim directory. file to a floppy and place it in Both the Blizkick and your Amithlon dos boot exec44.1b4 files can be found Next we locate the Amiga partition, being sure to rename at ROM by looking in the /aim your original smallird.gz file http://80.197.46.38/~p/sw/ directories for “shape.rom” first so it isn’t accidentally and copy our modified overwritten. PowerWindowsNG can be shape.rom overtop of the found in Aminet/util/misc original. Once the ROM has been replaced execute the following commands. cd / umount dev loop0 losetup -d dev loop0 gzip –best smallird
cd /, this again moves us to the system root directory. umount dev loop0, unmounts the loop0 device from the /aim directory.
February 2003 Workbench 6 Workbench Funnies
From the Amiga OS4 Yahoo maillist we really wanna have a selection of ideas for new error format that Laughter messages for Amiga OS4. drive? Pilgrim?”
From: Bob Compono
Here are a selection of “Engrish” requesters from various computer programs. Engrish is that curious blend of English that often arrives from our Asian neighbours. For more Engrish collections take a look at the Engrish web site http://www.engrish.com/
February 2003 Workbench 7 Meeting Pictures
February 2003 Workbench 8 Meeting Pictures
Opposite Page: Top: Closeup showing the very thin PPC processor compared to a five cent piece. Bottom: Another close up of the Pegasos accelerator card. A duel PPC powered accelerator card is in development. January Meeting Pictures
Pictures clockwise from top left: Scott and his baby :-) Scott’s table of info and networking gear. What the actual Pegasos board looks like without the processor board. The size of the board compared to a coke can.
February 2003 Workbench 9 Umilator Feature List
By Bernie Meyer way of wrapping that can be found in WinUAE and Although this product will AmigaXL. The Umilator almost certainly never see the driver sends and receives light of day (given the distinct ethernet frames just like any lack of miracles in the current other SANA-2 driver. Only the Amiga market), I have lowest level hardware access received numerous requests to is handled by the linux drivers, provide a list of features of for everything else, you still The Product Formerly Known run an Amiga side As Amithlon2, or “Umilator”. networking stack (e.g. Miami, serial converters (although So here is that list. Genesis, Envoy) or network utilities. Full support for that is completely untested). Support for up to 8 serial This just lists the differences multiple network cards. ports. between Umilator and the original Amithlon — features o AmigaOS AHI driver o Automatic hardware already available in Amithlon wrapping around linux sound detection system. At bootup, a are only mentioned if there drivers. Special care has been small utility is run that scans have been improvements (or taken to avoid an extra layer the system’s PCI bus and at least changes :). It should of buffering (and thus loads the appropriate linux also be noted that a number of increased sound latency) driver modules for the sound the improvements have been being introduced through this and network cards found. made available for the original wrapping. The linux driver is Hardware-to-module mapping Amithlon in the form of used only to set up the card is defined in an editable config updates and contrib packs... so and handle the low level file, and modules are loaded if you think “Hey, I already hardware interrupts; The AHI from the Amiga-side got that!”, that might be why... driver writes directly into the card’s playback buffer, just as filesystem, so they can easily be upgraded or added to. Drivers/PCI system it would on, say, a Toccata card on a “real” Amiga. Full o Hardware accesses to the One of the big problems in support for multiple sound Amiga’s parallel port are Amithlon was the scarcity of cards, as well as both playback transparently translated into drivers, especially for sound and recording. accesses to the PC’s parallel and network cards. Umilator port. No more need for custom addresses this by facilitating o AmigaOS serial device devices, the AmigaOS the drivers available for the wrapping around linux serial parallel.device works. underlying linux kernel. driver. Linux’s UART initialization code has been o IDE/SCSI hard disk driver o AmigaOS SANA-2 driver refined and debugged for now uses linux “raw disk” wrapping around linux years, and can optimally devices for increased networking drivers. Please handle a plethora of different throughput, lower CPU load, note that this is very chips and multi-port cards, and increased responsiveness. different from the bsdsocket and possibly even USB-to- Also improved support for
February 2003 Workbench 10 Umilator Feature List removable disks (ZIP, LS120). window moves and other off- screen bitmap uses. o Integrated wheel and multi- button mouse support, with o Support for Matrox overridable auto-detection for multihead cards, and for the number of mouse wheels multiple cards in the same present. computer. Support for individual configuration of all o Keyboard support more found cards/heads. robust in the presence of non- OS programs that directly read o Support for changing CIA registers (e.g. the resolution, bit depth and “Matrix” screen saver, and display timings even on cards o Graphical boot menu, possibly MCP). Also fixed only supported through VESA allowing easy setting of Caps-Lock and Right-Ctrl bios. configuration options during handling, and optional support CD boot. for keyboard LED setting. o Support for hardware big- endian display modes on o Included thorough memory o PuhDerBaer (Paula-to-AHI Matrox and Voodoo cards at tester as boot option. redirection) now provides full speed. Support for stereo sound. software-emulated big-endian o Support for overriding boot modes on other cards (at the priorities from boot menu, o Support for outputting cost of some performance). providing “rescue mode” boot sound at arbitrary pitch and (forcing boot from known- length through the PC’s o Improved calculation of good minimal OS3.9 install internal speaker, and a utility display timings, and improved included on the CD). to patch AmigaOS’s support for user-supplied “DisplayBeep” function to timings. o Default resolution when make use of it (DisplayBeep booting from CD now can only flash the display in 8 o Support for limiting amount 1024x768x16bpp. Looks bit modes, not in 16 or 24 bit of gfx memory reported, to much better than 640x480x8 modes). avoid bitmap and/or pointer :) corruption while lots of off- Graphics system screen bitmaps are in use. o New and improved early bootup screen, with all the functionality implemented o Full 2-D accellerated o More descriptive within the emulator itself. This support for additional graphics modenames, based on the type overcomes the problem where cards (e.g. GeForce3, of gfx card. the SetPatch-caused reboot GeForce4-MX, Voodoo3/4/5, ignores the boot selection Matrox G550). o Improved detection of gfx card parameters. made in the ESM. o Improved 2-D accelleration, o “mbr.device” pseudo- massively improving opaque Booting/Installation device, allowing manipulation
February 2003 Workbench 11 Umilator Feature List and creation of MBR (aka “PC now seems to run correctly. standard”) partition tables using AmigaOS HD-Toolbox. o JIT cache size can be specified as a percentage of o Support for a new type of available memory, and “virtual disk” that holds both defaults to 12%. Specifying an the files required to boot the absolute size in kilobyte is still PC as well as space to be used possible. as a hard drive by AmigaOS. Thus, a full Umilator install o Improved safety-net can now fit into a single fallback mechanism for JIT partition. compiler, making it more will be gradually reduced. tolerant towards software o Ability to install Umilator using the same instructions o Screen refresh limited to fully self-booting on a both to access real memory as 65Hz or less. previously empty hard drive well as custom chip registers completely from within (e.g. PGP). o Through the purchase of an AmigaOS, using only standard individualized registration AmigaOS tools. Such an o Much improved statistics key, the demo version can be install has a graphical boot are gathered and can be upgraded to full functionality. menu identical to that on the viewed regarding many CD. aspects of JIT compiler. o Registration keys can easily and transparently stored on the o Patch applicator with full hard drive, making entering checking for patches obsoleted Distribution them a one-time-only hassle. by updated main executable o Systems for both online and or later patches, allowing for o Distribution as freely dealer distribution of convenient application of in- downloadable and registration keys have been the-field fixes. redistributable ISO image. designed and implemented. CPU Emulation/JIT o By default, CD boots in o Kickstart Image has been Compiler “Demo mode”, which has the modified in various ways, following restrictions: preventing abuse of Umilator- o Pentium4 compatible (Intel included IP outside it. changed the way the BSF and o No support for writing to BSR instructions work in the hard disks, floppies or CD- o Except for P96, Kickstart Pentium4, and thus broke the R/RW. Writing to ram disks and partial OS 3.9 (which are JIT compiler on P4 equipped (and the minimal OS 3.9 required to get anything machines). installation kept inside a linux running), no force-bundled ramdisk) is not restricted. commercial software, o Many bugfixes and allowing for low retail price. improvements in the FPU o After a timeout period of emulation. Imagine version 5 20 minutes, emulation speed o Attractive default OS 3.9
February 2003 Workbench 12 Umilator Feature List install that has been enhanced that require increased stack. through numerous free add- ons, providing a modern look o GPL’ed debugger running and functionality to WB 3.9. “beside” the emulation, with support for o Various freeware and demo viewing/watching/protecting versions included on CD arbitrary areas of memory ready to run, to allow for (including segtracker support), convenient testing/demoing of disassembling as either 68k or emulated Amiga. x86 code and watching the emulation-internal log file. Miscellaneous Debugger is used through a accelleration. telnet interface from a second o Support for gathering and o Workaround for OS3.9BB2 PC — thus it can be used for retreiving emulation resident tag memory post-mortem work after an performance statistics. corruption bug. AmigaOS crash. Extremely handy for AmigaOS as well as o Kernel updated to version o Massive rework of internal x86 code development. 2.4.20pre4. ELF loader for x86, dramatically improving load Linux kernel o No more green square speed for large modules. around boing ball when o Reworked PCI remapping booting in 16 or 24 bpp VESA o Support for an additional strategy overcoming boot modes :) 68k->x86 call mechanism failures common on DELL designed by Martin Blom to machines (their BIOS © Bernd Meyer 2002-2003 allow for faster library calling initializes the PCI bus in a Logo © Lasse Bodilsen in code generated by his big- bizarre way!). endian x86 compiler. http://www.umilator.net/blog/ o Mechanism to boost features.shtml o Improved “setconfig” emulation thread’s priority mechanism, generally over other I/O related threads avoiding the need for a during times when rapid setconfig-caused reboot. emulation response is required. o Improved support for directly user-accessible high- o Support for powering off resolution timers (as opposed machine under software to only providing the same control (requires cooperation functionality through of motherboard’s APM cumbersome CIA emulation). BIOS).
o Added OS3.9BB2 stacksize o Timing and speed cookies to all included tools improvements for gfx
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