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Re: Peoples opinions on Emulation verse the real deal???

Posted on: 2007/9/7 0:51 #141

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@IOWASURFER

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IOWASURFER wrote:
Does a game like Wings or Zack McCracken run smoother or look better under emulation or is it just a cheap knock off of Amiga hardware?

Recently I gave one of my A1200/'030 config to my daughter with some whdload games.
That was a long time when I last touched it, but since the config is assembled again I found that it is catching me more and more frequently. Playing Wings, Cannon Fodder and Shufflepack Cafe makes the feeling that no emulation can reach the real thing.

Do you thought that how the world could look like today if whdload present in 1990? I think it would be a bit different. :)

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lazi

VICE with 2 joyticks

Posted on: 2007/8/19 21:12 #142

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Hi!

I have failed to use VICE with two emulated joysticks.
Because my joypads do not work together with AI I tried one AI config and the default "numpad+ctrl".
Both control works without the other, but not together.

Have anybody got to use 2 joysticks with the current VICE on the OS4 july update?

I would like to "multiplay" with my doughters. :)

Bye!

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lazi

Re: Minor cosmetic issue

Posted on: 2007/8/7 13:57 #143

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@Mikey_C

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I personally don't touch U-Boot if I can help it, but I am sure someone else will give it a go.

There is no need to bother U-Boot. Just plain "boot without startup-sequnce."

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lazi

Re: Minor cosmetic issue

Posted on: 2007/8/7 12:01 #144

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@lazi

Anybody to test it?

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lazi

Pointer hot-spot displace by screen drag (was:Minor cosmetic issue)

Posted on: 2007/8/5 10:02 #145

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Try the following:

- boot/reboot without startup-sequence
- start Media Toolbox from the cli

A new wide screen is opening.

- Leave on expert mode and select the ide device.

The "Welcome to the expert mode" requester pops up.

- Drag the screen with SHIFT+LAmiga+MouseDrag left to the position that the OK button is just visible.
- Try to click on the right (3-4 pixel) part of the OK button.

It seems like the mouse hot-spot is moved to the right by the screen movement.
When you scroll the screen back to the center position the effect is vanish.

I tried it a lot and hope you can follow my description.

Bye!

Edit: topic name

Edited by lazi on 2007/8/7 14:04:03

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lazi

Re: Diropus Magellan OS4

Posted on: 2007/8/3 7:10 #146

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@AmiKit

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AmiKit wrote:
Bad news...

The following text is displayed when entering www.gurumeditation.se

Quote:
If you'd still like to proceed to browse the shop, please go ahead but note that no orders can be processed. We're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

The Guru Meditation team

Veeery bad news! I have a pending order and no answare from two weeks ago...

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lazi

Re: Final Writer EPSF files on AmigaOS

Posted on: 2007/8/2 16:14 #147

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@Swoop

PageStream can import all of the FW cliparts correctly.
Here is the proof:
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There is a vector converter/viewer on Aminet called Metaview which should open such files.

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lazi

Re: Asl file requester date values

Posted on: 2007/7/5 21:32 #148

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@Chip

Thanks Chip!
Somehow I thought that it was a feature on pre OS4. Anyway it would be cool to spot new files at a glance on asl file requesters as it works on the wb windows.

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lazi

Asl file requester date values

Posted on: 2007/7/2 10:56 #149

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Is there a way to set an ASL file requester to show current dates as Today (and Yesterday for the date before one day) by a user setting?

Lazi

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lazi

KeyShow

Posted on: 2007/7/2 10:51 #150

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I have just found that KeyShow is not just makes visible the keyboard layout, but can generate keyboard input for other windows.

It worked eg. for the requester of the "workbench/execute command" or a shell window.
Not worked on NotePad or in any asl file requesters.

What is the difference of the mentioned gadgets to let or do not let KeyShow to send characters?

Lazi

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lazi

Re: Hollywood examples please

Posted on: 2007/7/1 16:09 #151

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@Elwood

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Elwood wrote:
@lazi
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If you would be able to directly use API calls and OS structures

I understand that. Hollywood could provide a way to do stuff in an independant manner.
As an example you could use a function called Getprogramdir and Hollywood would use DOS/GetProgramDir() on AmigaOS and something else on other platforms.

Noboby said it is technically impossible.
The problem is that old scheme: new hardware-new users-more support...

Hollywood is a great software even in the current form. I hope that the author will be inspired enough by users (buyers) to continue development.

Maybe I do not reveal secrets when paste here some lines from the "To Do" section of the Hollywood documentation just to arouse your interest:

"Here are some ideas that are on my to do list:
- support for new platforms like Windows, Linux and MacOS
- automated scaling engine which allows you to scale the display of any application; when layers are enabled this scaling engine should use lossless scaling for vector and text forms
- multiple displays
- a library which allows you to implement GUI elements in your scripts (i.e. an interface to gadtools.library)
- support for rotating text objects
- support for miter and bevel line join types (currently only rounded join type supported)
- support for AROS PPC
- support for video streaming; a suitable API would be required here
- asynchronous anim playback through layers
- support for palette images: a blast from the past!; dithering would be necessary when rendering RGB data to palette brushes
- speed of all the transition fx functions should be passed in milliseconds instead of a custom type; would help to time scripts correctly
- text transition effects
- new tag for preprocessor commands so that the data specified in them is not linked but loaded dynamically when required
- a version for PowerUP?
- a version which can render to palette screens? was possible in 1.x and removed in 2.0 but could be reimplemented quite easily though it would be totally slow
- more features"

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lazi

Re: Hollywood examples please

Posted on: 2007/7/1 10:21 #152

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@Elwood

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Elwood wrote:
Hi all,

I am interested in seeing how the AmigaOS API is usable from Holywood.

Thanks.

Currently there is no way to directly use the AmigaOS API.
There is a plugin system in Hollywood that could be able to extend the capabilities in some ways.
However the functions that you can use in your scripts are heavily rely on the underlying AmigaOS API.

If you would be able to directly use API calls and OS structures then it should ruin the platform independency which is against the concept.

There is standard file/font/etc. requesters and arexx interface.

You should keep in mind the main goal of Hollywood which is described in the manual as follows:

"Hollywood is the Multimedia Application Layer for Amiga(tm) and compatible operating systems. That means that it offers a powerful 64-bit script language together with advanced functions that allow you to create your own multimedia applications, ranging from a simple slideshow to a complex game.
Hollywood is distributed on a CD-ROM that contains an AmigaOS 3 (68k) version, a WarpOS (PowerPC), MorphOS (PowerPC) and AmigaOS 4 (PowerPC) versions, and also an AROS (i386) version.

The big advantage of Hollywood is that it does all the framework for you. You do not have to care, for example, whether your application is going to run on 68k, PowerPC or i386. With Hollywood it runs on all of them. Even for the most complex operations, Hollywood has simple functions that do them, so you can concentrate yourself on the important thing - your application. The powerful Hollywood scheduler allows you to create presentations that are perfectly synchronized to the music - no matter if your presentation runs on a 50 Mhz or 1 Ghz CPU."

p.s.: I am days from the release of a project made by Hollywood. I will attach the sources too. So if you are curious about it then look after that on OS4Depot "when it's done"!

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lazi

Re: Barcode Generator Written in Postscript Level 2

Posted on: 2007/6/9 11:32 #153

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@GregS

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GregS wrote:
@lazi

what was the cost?

Approx.: 75 USD

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lazi

Re: Barcode Generator Written in Postscript Level 2

Posted on: 2007/6/9 8:38 #154

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@GregS

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GregS wrote:
@Billsey

Too right!

The bar code readers are the problem. If we could find a good one that was cheap and robust and supported that with drivers. Amiga would be putting in some of the infrastructure for the future.

I have one and that is not a problem. It has a simple ps/2 keyboard output that generates keyboard sequences. So it is working on anything with a PS/2 port.

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lazi

Re: Guru vs. Grim Reaper

Posted on: 2007/6/7 17:07 #155

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@joerg

Thanks a lot, it helps!

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lazi

Re: Guru vs. Grim Reaper

Posted on: 2007/6/7 15:21 #156

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I know that I should not do that...

Try to start GrimReaper with any argument. It crashes badly.

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Lazi

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lazi

Re: Guru vs. Grim Reaper

Posted on: 2007/6/7 15:12 #157

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@Rogue

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Rogue wrote:

It's not quite that easy. The initial requester is done by the kernel reaper...

There are actually two parts of this, Reaper and Grim Reaper. Reaper is part of the kernel, while Grim Reaper is loaded from disk. Reaper is started within the kernel, and brings up the initial requester, and only if you press "More..." the Grim Reaper is started...

I found that if I rename/remove/replace the GrimReaper file then even the initial requester does not come up.
However if I copy c:reboot to utilities/grimreaper it does not started by a crash.

Is there a proper way to capture the crash by changing the GrimReaper file and after handled it somehow (eg.: play a sound) then call the original GrimReaper?

Thanks for your exceptional support!

Lazi

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lazi

Re: Guru vs. Grim Reaper

Posted on: 2007/6/6 14:23 #158

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@saimo

Quote:

saimo wrote:
@tonyw

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Now that I think more about it, you could copy the Reboot command from C: into System/ and call it GrimReaper, then the reboot would happen automatically.

This solution is somewhat dirty. Something more elegant would be having an environment variable (say, CRASHHANDLER)
saimo

Dirty, but simple. :)
We really should not bother GR only in very special circumstances.

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lazi

Re: Fkey cannot save prefs

Posted on: 2007/6/6 11:15 #159

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@lazi

Finally I was able to understand my original problem!

When you start fkey from shell then it cannot reach the icon to store/load settings.

When started from wb then everything is working correctly.

As it is a commodity which should started by wbstartup normally there is not any problem with fkey.

It was a side effect of starting a commodity incorrectly.

So If you want to start a commodity by shell or by execute command then you should use wbrun to work correctly.

This is the OS that I can understand! :)

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lazi

Re: Fkey cannot save prefs

Posted on: 2007/6/5 22:39 #160

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@nbache

Thanks for clarify those things!

I do not know why I jumbled up with the prefs.
"Rest I need. Rest..."

Bye!

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