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I've made a test on a Mac Mini G4 (with abysmal 32 MB of VRAM that I've decided to cut to mere 8 MB with MEM_LIMIT=8)
It worked, as I got only 8 MB after restart (and half of it was already eaten by Ambient).

As for MEM_SPARE2SYS - it seems it worked too!
Avail command fresh after restart and with the same screen depth (16 bit) gives me 979380040 total bytes without MEM_SPARE2SYS and 1004475016 bytes with MEM_SPARE2SYS enabled. So all the "spare" VMEM 24 MB went straight into main RAM pool!

Impressiv - works on EFIKA too!!
Reduced VMEM from 128MB to 32MB - gives that ~143MB free RAM (after booting complete)!.
If this workes with a 256MB-Radion as well, I've to look for some...

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First time I brought up OWB on EFIKA - very slow (400MHz!!) but works!

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256MB cards seen as 128MB are still seen as 128MB card (just tested on Peg2).


Oh, and don't try this on a G5 as it will(might) lead to a non booting system.

My guess is that it fails to add the RAM to system already maxed out on memory (got 2.5GB installed).
Might also be an issue on 2GB G4 PowerBooks and PMac.

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That are great news! ( old news, of course, but for me are new! )
So now with my 466 MHz Efika will be nearly super-computer.

> old news, of course, but for me are new!

As for anyone except MorphOS Team members and maybe beta testers ;-)

My wishes would be:

- updated Sdk
- ipv6 support
- updated gfx drivers
- opengles support

and at any time: move to Raspberry

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How about using AddMemList()? There's physical memory nevertheless.

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Nope, if the Radeon has two seperate physical ram banks (128MB each), chances are that it will work. Mine it's this way and is seen as 256MB on a Sawtooth G4 AGP (9800 XT or Pro can't remember - flashed). I bought it from US especially for this reason about a decade or so ago.

>> 256MB cards seen as 128MB are still seen as 128MB card
>> (just tested on Peg2).

> Nope

Well, Kronos wrote that he actually tested it on his setup.

> if the Radeon has two seperate physical ram banks (128MB each),
> chances are that it will work. Mine it's this way and is seen as 256MB

Then yours is obviously one of those 256 MiB cards that are fully recognized by MorphOS (linear 256 MiB aperture despite two banks), and not one of those 256 MiB cards that are seen as 128 MiB card (two 128 MiB apertures), which is what Kronos referred to.

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And are there any R200 card, with memory 256 MB visible on MorphOS? Like 9250, 9200 ( Pro ) ...
Please, if anybody has it and tested, share it here exact type.

If we want to use it with Efika, is better that cards has power less than 25 W ( Efika has PCI under AGP ). 9800 XT is too powerful for Efika and need powered PCI-AGP adapter.

1. Recurring meetings in Iris.
2. Good native spreadsheet be released.
3. Some MODs added to Q2.
4. Update for PageStream to fix small issues.

> are there any R200 card, with memory 256 MB visible on MorphOS?

Existence of R200 cards with linear 256 MiB aperture was confirmed no later than 2010 (#3, 2nd link therein (#65)).

MorphOS 3.0 release notes from 2012 read:
"Enabled full 256MB on cards offering a 256MB aperture."

As this note mentions no restriction to any Radeon GPU generation, there's no reason to assume it not being valid for R200 as well. So in conclusion, since MorphOS 3.0 there're R200 cards with 256 MiB VRAM usable on MorphOS.

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That will be MorphOS 4.0 with one zero, not two. Revisions also start from one character and then go to two when one character is not enough anymore (3.9 -> 3.10). Hopefully finally this year MorphOS 4.0 will come out.

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Welcome new MorphOS user! I hope you are enjoying our platform. I have some ideas for you: What would be very good is a macro recorder like MachV on Aminet (https://aminet.net/package/util/mouse/MachV_37.9) but with MUI and much better/comfortable to handle.

Or a graphics program like Candy Factory Pro (https://aminet.net/package/gfx/edit/CandyProDemo).

A music program like Symphonie Pro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tNizdyx-DE , https://aminet.net/package/mus/edit/symEDIT, https://aminet.net/package/mus/edit/SymphDEMO, https://aminet.net/package/mus/edit/Symphonie.

There was a media center announced many years ago but it was never published. Maybe you are are interested to make one. Like OSMC or Kodi.

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I want to use it for as many things that I can. RISC-V is to oexotic, I think. ARM is too various. PowerPC is expensive but how often do I buy a new computer? I would buy a new one for 3000 EUR or so if it is much faster than X5000 and can use the many cores and RAM.
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Please not, the X1000 is not sold anymore and the A1222 is so expensive. Then better save money for a X5000.

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Does Iris have a calender? At least it shows me the calender icon when a mail has a .ics attached.
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Yes please. Fixed bugs with the fonts not loading from the defined paths would be nice because it is quite annoying to replace every font by hand with the requester. Easier toolbars to replace or add image in PNG format like in regular MorphOS programs they are simply images with clear names (the PageStream toolbar format is very weird, I wanted to replace the images but gave up). SVG support would be nice (export/import). And a bit speedier UI if possible. Even on PowerBook 1.67GHz it is sluggy when I scroll around the display area or edit pages. Even if the document has very few design elements.

>> support for CD/DVD connected via USB
>> ( CDDA, ATAPI, boot*.img support for CD filesystem )

> I used that many years ago. It was working. I can read
> and write CD/DVD on it. Is it not working for you?

The reported issue is mainly about reading CDDA tracks and ejecting the disc. It was confirmed by others some years ago. If you don't encounter this problem, then some investigation as to what's different with your setup could be insightful.

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Not yet, at least. It can display invites, create them and reply to those, though.

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It read more like a general issue for him to use USB DVD, so I gave my statement that I can use it. But for audio tracks, yes, I get read write errors all the time. Not useable to play any song from CD or DVD.

Some expections:

1. To have directly in VPDF printerrequester (and hopefully in other progs too) the posibility to choice between long and short edge mirroring when printing doubleside (for printers which support doubleside). Thats really annoying at moment.

2. An explanation what the page-order requester (VPDF and others) really does! Very helpfull if this could be done like Windows-Requester with symbol-pages.

3. Final Writer 7 and a usable Spreadsheet (I know: 3rd party!)

4. More speed for the really great Wayfarer- however that can be done.....(Wayfarer, IRIS, a.s.o. are core-applications for MOS).

5. Don't know what Leif Salomonsson is doing now (did he leave MOS?), but ICEFS really needs a major update......

> RISC-V is to oexotic, I think.

...and hardware situation is apparently not developing at the hoped-for pace:

https://chimera-linux.org/news/2025/03/dropping-riscv.html

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I think only thing can speedup Wayfarer and Iris (mail display) is JIT. But we have only once core and JIT benefits more from multiple cores. I think even it we get JIT it will not be super much more faster but just a bit.

IceFS was really a hopeful project but it never became stable, has heavy bugs. It was only fast when the disk was almost empty. After filling it it started to become unstable and many erorr requesters pop up. Yes, if Leif could repair it so that it gets stable that would really be good. But is he still doing something with MorphOS?