Congrats on the release! I made a small donation as promised, looking forward to playing it on the weekend.

@salass00
I don't think any of the std::thread functions take ids as an argument, so getpid should be OK for getting a unique id for the current thread.

@terminills
Are you sure? AFAIR IBM's work was for PPC LE, not BE.

@kas1e
There isn't much benefit to using the register keyword nowadays. The optimizers in modern compilers are smart enough to put variables into registers whenever it's possible.

@kas1e
I've been thinking about stopgap solutions, like dedicated programs to use popular internet services. Unfortunately the big companies (Facebook, Google, etc.) are moving the internet towards a more closed direction.
For example Facebook Messenger used to use the XMPP protocol, you could use Jabber clients with it, but now they switched to a proprietary MQTT protocol. There are open source clients (e.g. Pidgin, Adium, bitlbee have facebook plugins), but these are based on reverse engineering, so who knows how long are they going to work.

@kas1e
I wouldn't bet on Netsurf either. It's a nice lightweight browser, but I can't see it being able to catch up with the modern JavaScript-heavy web. Even mainstream browsers started dropping their own engines in favor of Google's Blink (Opera, Edge). The last major one holding out is Firefox, and even they broke alternative platforms by introducing Rust.

@kas1e
On MorphOS they backported some new features (e.g. flexbox support) to the old WebKit engine.

@walkero
This could be some network issue, although I can browse the web, ftp, etc. just fine. I'll test the other scripts later, and try to narrow down the problem.

@white
I'm using it on a Ryzen 1600X. It runs alright, I'm getting close to 50 FPS in EasyRPG, but the disk and network I/O speed is pretty slow. That's probably not something that could be mitigated with a faster computer though.

I don't get any other message other than what I quoted. I'll try the script on Linux to see if it makes any difference.

edit: I just tried it in a VM, and the script works fine in Linux.

I finally figured out what broke the networking in WinUAE (and every other VM I have for that matter), so I was able to try out the dlive script. Unfortunately it doesn't work for me, for every channel and video link I get:
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I have AmiSSL 4 and PythonSSL installed, and they appear to be working otherwise.

What happens if you do a rewind(fp) (or fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_SET) if that's not available) before calling ftell? I know this defeats the purpose, but I wonder how many DOS calls you get at the beginning of the file.

@saimo
Is there a way to make a one time donation without Patreon?

Probably not, unless the actual sources for the firmware were released as well.

This is neat! Any chance of DLive support? Right now it's not the most popular streaming site, but Pewdiepie uses it, so I expect it to grow eventually.

From what I understand you need to map extended memory into the lower 2GB address space, and then unmap it after you've done using it. If you have it mapped all the time, then there's no benefit to using it versus the normal memory allocation functions.

@kas1e
I don't think there's any wide string support, at least in newlib. Speaking of to_string, some time ago I found a cleaner workaround. It's actually in the headers, but you have to define _GLIBCXX_USE_C99_STDIO (or _GLIBCXX_USE_C99 on MorphOS).

EasyRPG 0.6.1 is out:
https://blog.easyrpg.org/2019/07/easyr ... yer-0-6-1-surprise-attack
Download:
http://bszili.morphos.me/ports/easyrpg-os4.lha

@Raziel

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@kas1e
It's disappointing that they chose the shovelware release model. I understand the rationale behind it, but this way both users and developers will become jaded, because it takes forever until updated components are released to the public.