How about an X server on OS4, so that we can run Linux without resetting??

I remember that there are (68k) X servers on Aminet; has anyone tried to use them on OS4?

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@mwoof

Yup, xami works fine:

http://polarboing.com/div/os4/os4_xserver.png

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@nicomen

Hows the performance? This is something I would use all the time. It would be great to have a native OS4 version.

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@nicomen

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http://polarboing.com/div/os4/index.php?num=51

VisualBoyAdvance 1.7.2 great !!

When will be available ?
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Well it's basically finished, just haven't bothered releasing it, there's even a GUI made for it by Ferran Garcia. Anyway maybe I'll release it at AmiTron ? ;D I need to look at it again, I remember games running ok, but heavy scene demos runinng not at 100% speed.

@BobW

it works at least, it's about the speed I expect from an X Server. No you can't play Halflife 2 with it. ;)

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@nicomen

hmm.. Another candidate for a Big Bash 3 release ?

With Smithies Pai Hai demo, Big Bash 3 is starting to look interesting.

Just need the Freidens to pop over !!

Heck, If they are coming lets get Garry Hary, Alan Redhouse too !!

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@nicomen

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xami

Brilliant!! I wonder if it can find my Linux partitions though; they are defined on a disk where I can't get rid of the MBR safely unless I make a full backup and wipe the disk.... (long story, I have described it in another thread). But it's worth a try; failing that, I'll just do the backup some day and try it then.

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I searched and found versions for 68020, 68030 and 68040; which one did you use?

Last edited by mwoof on 22-Feb-2005 at 05:18 PM.

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@nicomen

Gimme gimme

Cool

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@mwoof

Er, the x server doesn't run Linux or allow it to access Linux partitions. All it does is allow you to connect to a machine running X (be that the local host or a remote machine) and show the display on your Amiga. For those with more knowledge of these things, I realise that's a gross simplification so no comments please! If you had another linux box, you could connect and run a session on that machine, but with the GUI showing on the Amiga.

xami, and other X servers, are not equivalent to a "LinuxOnAmiga".

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@mwoof

Metal joe beat me to it. Sounds like you are trying to run linux inside OS4. Thats not what X does.

I'm using X to connect to a seperate linux box and some Unix servers at work.

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@nicomen

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nicomen wrote: ...there's even a GUI made for it by Ferran Garcia.

It's a shame for me (I´m not a programmer... :¬/ ), I would like to be able to, but no, I haven't made that GUI. Vicente Gimeno, perhaps?

Saluditos,

Ferrán.

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@nicomen

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Yup, xami works fine:

In some circumstances it crashes (can't figure the specific reason, mostly when aweb is used simultaniousely).

Amiwin is more stable, but limited --- demo version (BTW: I would like to register but seems like it's impossible now )

Did you by a chance got it working in windowed mode? Or with acceleration?

I can't launch it in window, acceleration causes refresh problems.

Tia,
Jack

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@MetalJoe & BobW

So the X Server does not do what I had thought. Shame...

Is there actually any such program on any platform? Maybe it was my deception, but I think I did see this on Pea Seas.

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