Can and will Amiga OS 4.xx become more stable?

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Re: Can and will Amiga OS 4.xx become more stable?

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I notice in your signature that you have a SAM. Is your X1000 less stable than the SAM? If so, I would guess that the hardware drivers for the X1000 are not quite mature and may still require some updates. That's just a quess since I don't have an X1000 yet.
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Re: Can and will Amiga OS 4.xx become more stable?

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This is interesting, I have never had an X1000 crash at all.
I would go with what tony said, some dodgy app causing it.

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I normally leave Timberwolf running and Tunenet (playing 80's) for atleast 6 hours without issue.
The system, turns monitor off after certain amount of time, move mouse it comes back on.
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Re: Can and will Amiga OS 4.xx become more stable?

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Are you seeing a lot of Grim Reapers? Or is your system just randomly locking up without warning?
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Re: Can and will Amiga OS 4.xx become more stable?

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otakui wrote:@amigasociety

Are you seeing a lot of Grim Reapers? Or is your system just randomly locking up without warning?
Some grim reapers along with a random crash here and there. Normally when running Timberwolf and TuneNet I can almost guarantee a crash and great reapers with WookieChat.

One day maybe I can video the crash.

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In my experience TuneNet is fairly unstable especially when other stuff is running at the same time. Sometimes crashes on exit too.
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In my case it are the browsers that lock up the machine. muiOWB, OWB, Timberwolf, IBrowse: they all lock up. Sometimes in the first minute, sometimes after many many minutes.
YAM never locks, though.


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djrikki wrote:In my experience TuneNet is fairly unstable especially when other stuff is running at the same time. Sometimes crashes on exit too.
I have never trouble with Tunenet .Very strange
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Maybe having over 16,000 tracks has something to do with it. :lol:
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Re: Can and will Amiga OS 4.xx become more stable?

Post by tonyw »

IBrowse is the prime example of a crashable program. It crashes for me every second time I run it. The crash is always the same, a buffer overflow by one byte. I always close everything else before I try to run IBrowse, because the system has to be rebooted if it crashes.

Unfortunately I still have to use IBrowse for one job.

Timberwolf crashes occasionally (well, locks up hard with no crash log and the system has to be rebooted). I rather suspect it is in a loop rather than a crash, but it never recovers.

OWB is fine. I use only the RA version.
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