AmigaOS4.1 Update 6 Install for X1000
Overnight (30/11/2012) saw the release of AmigaOS4.1 Update 6 for the AmigaOne X1000 and other AmigaOS4.1 based hardware. Today I wanted to cover the installation process and changes in Update 6 focussing on AmiUpdate!
AmigaOS 4.1 Update 6 Released
AmigaOS 4.1 Update 6 has now been released.
More details and a place for registered users to download the update can be found at Hyperion’s main web site.
Multi treading in Excalibur
So what was done, the old event loop looked like this, the problem whit this code was that, the program did not wait for signals, it was busy looping due the clock that needed to be redrawn every 1secund, but I was not able to slow it down because that, will cause the events to be not read at correct time, there was a small delay of 0.1 sec in the loop.
7Boings - Amiga Game Concept
Amiga Platform Game - WIP
This is a concept for an Amiga Platform Game.
Mini-Game Review - GEMZ on X1000
Today I am looking at a new game called GEMZ for the X1000 under AmigaOS4. The game is written by Fabio Falcucci and Pascal Papara. It is also available on other platforms like AROS, MorphOS, Windows and Mac. It was written using the Hollywood development package.
Dividing the code.
As it is written in the readme Excalibur was a a BlitzBasic program, typically for basic programs is that every thing is written in as one large source file, (not true for all modern basic programs).
One thing I have done for every version of Excalibur is to split the code up, I will explain it.
AmiCygnix 1.2 Upgrade and Audacious on X1000
This week there was the new release of AmiCygnix 1.2 Base and Tools packages on os4depot.net. In addition there was also the release of the Audacious Music player for the new version of AmiCygnix 1.2!
Ancient Browser Experience
While trying to match 68k bsdsocket calls to x86 bsdsocket calls, I realized, how "old" our bsdsocket.library seems to be. Nearly every bsdsocket.library function is marked with texts like "THIS IS A DEPRECATED METHOD OF GETTING HOST NAMES" in modern man pages..
Nevertheless, there is progress :).
Registry fix for “stuck” windows keys while using RDesktop
- Tweak!
Registry fix for “stuck” windows keys while using RDesktop
- Tweak!
Coffee and bounty
Coffee and a bounty. What could be better?
Milestone 1 possible applications
I thought I'd collect a small collection of tools that will run on Jamiga2 when milestone 1 is done (more info on what milestone 1 is will follow). These will consist of either currently available console applications, or existing Java open-source frameworks packaged by me (or someone else) using minimal coding.
Maybe Santa prepares a gift for you
I can't promise, if this feature will make it into v1.3, as it won't be stable so soon (and I won't release anything known to be broken), but have a look yourself: