Click Here
home features news forums classifieds faqs links search
6071 members 
Amiga Q&A /  Free for All /  Emulation /  Gaming / (Latest Posts)
Login

Nickname

Password

Lost Password?

Don't have an account yet?
Register now!

Support Amigaworld.net
Your support is needed and is appreciated as Amigaworld.net is primarily dependent upon the support of its users.
Donate

Menu
Main sections
» Home
» Features
» News
» Forums
» Classifieds
» Links
» Downloads
Extras
» OS4 Zone
» IRC Network
» AmigaWorld Radio
» Newsfeed
» Top Members
» Amiga Dealers
Information
» About Us
» FAQs
» Advertise
» Polls
» Terms of Service
» Search

IRC Channel
Server: irc.amigaworld.net
Ports: 1024,5555, 6665-6669
SSL port: 6697
Channel: #Amigaworld
Channel Policy and Guidelines

Who's Online
25 crawler(s) on-line.
 150 guest(s) on-line.
 1 member(s) on-line.


 -Sam-

You are an anonymous user.
Register Now!
 -Sam-:  4 mins ago
 RobertB:  28 mins ago
 Gunnar:  39 mins ago
 OlafS25:  47 mins ago
 pixie:  48 mins ago
 Rob:  1 hr 2 mins ago
 blmara:  1 hr 27 mins ago
 miggymac:  2 hrs 11 mins ago
 DiscreetFX:  4 hrs 39 mins ago
 DWolfman:  4 hrs 48 mins ago

/  Forum Index
   /  Amiga OS4.x \ Workbench 4.x
      /  OS4 noob - what should I install first??
Register To Post

PosterThread
Mobileconnect 
OS4 noob - what should I install first??
Posted on 15-Nov-2020 10:33:40
#1 ]
Regular Member
Joined: 13-Jun-2003
Posts: 478
From: Unknown

Recently acquired a Sam 460ex to use as my main Amiga going forwards. Wondering what I should install first to get to latest good baseline OS4.1 install? This being my first OS4 machine.

It has 4.1FE Update 1 on it. I guess I should install:

- EUAE
- RuninUAE
- AmiSSL latest version
- a web browser? which one?
- the official SDK
- a newer GCC? is there one?
- AmiCygnix

Anything else?

_________________

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
NutsAboutAmiga 
Re: OS4 noob - what should I install first??
Posted on 15-Nov-2020 12:32:15
#2 ]
Elite Member
Joined: 9-Jun-2004
Posts: 12795
From: Norway

@mobileconnect2

- EUAE

I use version 0.8.28, its solid it never crashes on me, and it’s not broken, Fullscreen, window mode works, P96 emulation etc.

Version EUAE 1.0 you find on SourceForge, its newer support JIT, and is stuck in full-screen.

- a web browser? which one?

Download NetSurf because it never crashes.
Download Odyssey because it’s the most advanced.

I never use AWEB or IBrowse, they too out of date.

- a newer GCC? is there one?

Stick to the standard SDK, if you just like to code on AmigaOS, there might be few updates here and there, you get most that from OS4Depot when you need it, just copy the files into folders, in SDK: assign.

Anything else?

QT apps some of this apps are nice.
Blender
TVPaint3.6 from aminet
PPaint
FxPaint
Photogenetics
AdPro (useful to convert images)
Eastern (useful to display images in workbench)
Filemaster
DirectoryOpus
TurboCalc
DosBox
FPSE (The Playstation emulator)
Mame
ScummVM
AmigaAMP
TuneNet
AmosKittens
Sketchblock
Mplayer
Emotion
RDesktop
FreePascal

have look at:

https://amigaos.net

Need more goto

http://os4depot.net



Last edited by NutsAboutAmiga on 15-Nov-2020 at 01:38 PM.
Last edited by NutsAboutAmiga on 15-Nov-2020 at 01:37 PM.
Last edited by NutsAboutAmiga on 15-Nov-2020 at 01:24 PM.
Last edited by NutsAboutAmiga on 15-Nov-2020 at 01:23 PM.
Last edited by NutsAboutAmiga on 15-Nov-2020 at 01:17 PM.
Last edited by NutsAboutAmiga on 15-Nov-2020 at 01:16 PM.
Last edited by NutsAboutAmiga on 15-Nov-2020 at 01:15 PM.
Last edited by NutsAboutAmiga on 15-Nov-2020 at 12:39 PM.
Last edited by NutsAboutAmiga on 15-Nov-2020 at 12:38 PM.
Last edited by NutsAboutAmiga on 15-Nov-2020 at 12:36 PM.

_________________
http://lifeofliveforit.blogspot.no/
Facebook::LiveForIt Software for AmigaOS

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
AmigaOldskooler 
Re: OS4 noob - what should I install first??
Posted on 15-Nov-2020 13:28:54
#3 ]
Regular Member
Joined: 7-Mar-2015
Posts: 282
From: Unknown

If you enjoy playing games, I'd recommend you try the following:

Giana’s Return – The Great Giana Sisters Remake (Retroguru)

Tower 57

M.A.C.E. (great shoot'em up)

1941 Extreme Deluxe (Studio-Grey/Badblocks / HunoPPC)

You'll find many free games on OS4Depot here:

http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=browse&cat=game

NutsAboutAmiga has many great suggestions, like DOSBox and ScummVM, which let's you play tons of classic games.

If you are into development, Hollywood and Hollywood Designer are great tools.

Hope this helps.

_________________
Old School Game Blog
Gaming on AmigaOS 4
Void - Amiga Demo Group

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
NutsAboutAmiga 
Re: OS4 noob - what should I install first??
Posted on 15-Nov-2020 13:48:38
#4 ]
Elite Member
Joined: 9-Jun-2004
Posts: 12795
From: Norway

@mobileconnect2

For 68K development on AmigaOS4, things are bit limited.

* VBCC

VBCC is good choice, its coms with VASMM68k & VLINK that works fine on AmigaOS4, AsmONE/AsmTwo and AsmPro all crash so just forget about this tool. Phxass does work, its older than VASMM68K, but might have some advantages regarding error output. disadvantage it does not handle a lot of the pre calculation and special stuff vasmm68k does.

BlitzBasic2 is buggy, don't waste your time with it, AmiBlitz3 might work, I have not tested it.

Get NDK31 from some where on the interweb, and NDK39.

Just because got a compiler up and running don’t expect anything you find on internet to compile and run, you need to modify the code a lot to make stuff work on AmigaOS4.1.

Last edited by NutsAboutAmiga on 15-Nov-2020 at 01:51 PM.

_________________
http://lifeofliveforit.blogspot.no/
Facebook::LiveForIt Software for AmigaOS

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
Trixie 
Re: OS4 noob - what should I install first??
Posted on 15-Nov-2020 14:34:45
#5 ]
Amiga Developer Team
Joined: 1-Sep-2003
Posts: 2089
From: Czech Republic

@mobileconnect2

Quote:
- a web browser? which one?

I used NetSurf for years because it's fast and stable, but it has been throwing a lot of web errors of late, so I switched to Odyssey, which has better support for web standards.

Quote:
- the official SDK

The SDK is a bit long in the tooth but it will give you a decent environment for development. You'll also want to install CodeBench as your IDE. Do this after you install the SDK; CodeBench will automatically pick up your GCC compiler from the SDK. The GCC is an old version but it's OK for most projects, unless you want to port modern stuff that requires a newer version. And of course you can upgrade to a newer GCC at a later point (I use version 8.2.0).

I also recommend you ask your questions at Amigans.net, which is OS4-centric and has very helpful people.

_________________
The Rear Window blog

AmigaOne X5000/020 @ 2GHz / 4GB RAM / Radeon RX 560 / ESI Juli@ / AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition
SAM440ep-flex @ 667MHz / 1GB RAM / Radeon 9250 / AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
MEGA_RJ_MICAL 
Re: OS4 noob - what should I install first??
Posted on 15-Nov-2020 14:49:59
#6 ]
Super Member
Joined: 13-Dec-2019
Posts: 1200
From: AMIGAWORLD.NET WAS ORIGINALLY FOUNDED BY DAVID DOYLE

@mobileconnect2

Quote:
OS4 noob - what should I install first??


OS 3.1

_________________
I HAVE ABS OF STEEL
--
CAN YOU SEE ME? CAN YOU HEAR ME? OK FOR WORK

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
redfox 
Re: OS4 noob - what should I install first??
Posted on 15-Nov-2020 23:44:11
#7 ]
Elite Member
Joined: 7-Mar-2003
Posts: 2064
From: Canada

@mobileconnect2

I hope you have fun with your new OS4 machine. There are lots of software choices available.

Web browser ... Odyssey

---

Reminds me of when I purchased my OS4 system in 2004 ...
I installed AWeb, Final Writer 97, Amiga Vision, AmigaAMP, PPaint, TVPaint and EUAE.

AWeb is very old now. Odyssey is a good replacement.

Amiga Vision works best on EUAE. The others work fine directly on OS4.

---
redfox

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
smf 
Re: OS4 noob - what should I install first??
Posted on 16-Nov-2020 7:42:53
#8 ]
Regular Member
Joined: 15-Mar-2003
Posts: 333
From: Växjö, Sweden

@mobileconnect2

After installing the odyssey web browser i would start with installing a proper file browser.
My first hand choice is dopus magellan.
You can get it from https://sourceforge.net/projects/dopus5allamigas

After that it's all about what you enjoy doing with computers?

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
smf 
Re: OS4 noob - what should I install first??
Posted on 16-Nov-2020 7:48:41
#9 ]
Regular Member
Joined: 15-Mar-2003
Posts: 333
From: Växjö, Sweden

@NutsAboutAmiga

Quote:
I use version 0.8.28, its solid it never crashes on me, and it’s not broken, Fullscreen, window mode works, P96 emulation etc.

Version EUAE 1.0 you find on SourceForge, its newer support JIT, and is stuck in full-screen.


I use euae 1.0 and can switch between fullscreen and window mode with Ctrl-Option "S" .
P96 emulation also works with the sdlgfx build :)

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  
Mobileconnect 
Re: OS4 noob - what should I install first??
Posted on 16-Nov-2020 8:25:47
#10 ]
Regular Member
Joined: 13-Jun-2003
Posts: 478
From: Unknown



Wow thanks for all the tips everybody.

_________________

 Status: Offline
Profile     Report this post  

[ home ][ about us ][ privacy ] [ forums ][ classifieds ] [ links ][ news archive ] [ link to us ][ user account ]
Copyright (C) 2000 - 2019 Amigaworld.net.
Amigaworld.net was originally founded by David Doyle