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Re: Looks like they are making big progress on IB3.0
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Posted on: 2007/3/2 17:10
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@LiveForIt Sorry to disappoint, but 24 December 2006, the counter read: Quote: 561 issues open (24 assigned) and 942 blown away so progress is not that large. IIRC, the IBrowse devs have been taking a well earned break, and will get back to development soon. Also, the open issues number on the website is for all IBrowse related projects, including IBrowse 2.4 bugs. Hans
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Re: Postcript printing font size.
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Posted on: 2007/2/28 16:37
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@Swoop Did you just add another issue to the open issues list over on ibrowse-dev.net?  Hans
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Re: Fastest 3D card on Amiga
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Posted on: 2007/2/27 20:16
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Does anyone know if work has started on 3D support for better cards, e.g. the 9800 or Radeon X800+? Or will this be done after the graphics subsystem has had its overhaul? To be honest, I don't see much point in developing drivers for the newer cards before the graphics system has been replaced. The down side to that is that we won't see support for newer cards for a while.  Hans
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Re: Dream Deal - preview
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Posted on: 2007/2/27 0:49
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@mailman
They look the same. I've suggested to the author that he switch to 24-bit graphics because he's using 256 colour bitmaps at the moment. He'll be working on gameplay first though.
Hans
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Re: Fastest 3D card on Amiga
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Posted on: 2007/2/26 17:10
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Does ATI have any good reason for their confusing product numbering system? Usually a higher number means a more advanced product.
Hans
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Re: Dream Deal - preview
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Posted on: 2007/2/26 16:43
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@mailman
It's a very early preview so the interface is still a bit rough round the edges. Over all, I like the idea behind the game. It's not a sim-city clone. You are a real estate developer so you buy properties within a city and build stuff.
It took me a long time to figure out how to play it and most of the time I was told that I didn't have enough money to build/buy anything. Like I said, it's a very early preview. I wouldn't dismiss it yet.
Hans
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Re: HP LaserJet
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Posted on: 2007/2/24 17:14
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@tonyw You might have trouble with this printer. It's similar to the laserjet 1020 which someone else already tested with no luck. The firmware has to be uploaded to the printer on power up and it uses some ZjStream protocol for communications. See Linux's foo2zjs driver for details. We really need people with these printers writing AmigaOS drivers for them. In this case you could probably find an existing PCL5e driver and tack ZjStream onto it (and add the firmware upload). Hans
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Re: Turboprint and saved preferences
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Posted on: 2007/2/17 19:03
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@TetiSoft Quote:
TetiSoft wrote:
@Raziel
I've ported all OS4 printer drivers to PPC except PRINTERS:File
where I dont have the sourcecode. In the past creating printer
drivers for AmigaOS was a third-party-job, I dont think that it
makes sense that the OS4 developers waste their time with writing
printer drivers (AFAIK there exist lots of printers...) when
neither the printer manufacturers nor third-party commercial
developers do that.
You should ask for an update of TurboPrint or Studio IMHO,
or use PostScript or PCL printers. When your PCL printer
has features which are not supported by an OS4 printer driver
yet, feel free to modify the public PCL printer driver source
code (NDK 3.9, will be updated in the next OS4 SDK) or to
search a developer which does it for you.
Going for PCL or PostScript printers is ok for now, but ultimately the current drivers are going to get old and someone's going to have to write new ones. I'm not expecting TurboPrint to be updated. I wish that printer manufacturers would just all use PostScript. Unfortunately PostScript is only available in expensive printers. Once the new SDK is published I'll probably have a go at writing a driver for the Epson Stylus C8x series because that's what my printer is (well it's a CX6400 multifunction, but the printer mechanism is the same as the C8x series). Hans
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Re: USB Printer on OS4?
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Posted on: 2007/2/15 23:11
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@Snuffy
No printer manufacturer is going to say that Amiga is supported because none of them can be bothered writing drivers for it. Likewise, most of them won't put Linux on the supported list either because most of those drivers are made by third parties (sometimes by reverse-engineering the windows ones).
The little program listing I gave is an interim solution until we have an updated driver. It's a hack for people that already have one of these printers and want to use it with their Amiga, albeit at a reduced capacity. In fact, it's such a hack that I only released it because others showed an interest. It's a piece of test code that has been sitting on my hard-drive for about a year, unused.
You want support for modern printers right now, buy Turboprint. I haven't bought it because I can't justify paying over $100 for a piece of software to let a $100 printer work. Right now it looks like turboprint won't be updated so there's no guarantee that newer printers will be supported.
If you're looking for a printer that existing AmigaOS drivers will support, try an HP printer that supports PCL, or any printer that understands Postscript. Unfortunately, Postscript is only available on expensive printers.
Hans
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Re: Where is the SDK?
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Posted on: 2007/2/15 17:44
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@TetiSoft Quote:
TetiSoft wrote:
@Hans
The SDK:Documentation/Developer Info/General/os4_migration_guide.pdf
file explains that the varargs handling of the PPC SysV ABI
is incompatible to the varargs handling of the 68k.
It also explains that VARARGS68K has to be used when
backwards compatibility is needed. All OS4 system functions
are declared with the VARARGS68K attribute in the
<include/interfaces/something.h> files so I thought it
would be common knowledge that the "normal" C varargs
handling cant be used with any existing OS4 system function.
I have done next to no programming on OS3.x, so this knowledge was not known to me until I had my code crash on me. I have read through the migration guide before, though obviously not closely enough. I assumed that the document was more for people wanting to port stuff across, than someone starting to write native OS4 software from scratch. Quote:
Suggestions how to modify the existing doc
Quote:
dataStream - a stream of data that is interpreted according to
the format string. Often this is a pointer into
the task's stack.
are welcome 
Just add a note about the VARARGS68k thing and point to the OS4 migration guide Hans
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Re: Where is the SDK?
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Posted on: 2007/2/15 17:33
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@ssolie Quote:
ssolie wrote:
@Hans
Quote:Mentioning it in the documentation somewhere would be helpful.
Perhaps you should read the migration guide again. I believe it is fully explained why varargs are handled the way they are in that document which has has been included with every SDK.
It is? I must have skipped over that. I'll read it again. A note in the FormatString() documentation could still be helpful though. Also, what about putting it in a document for people starting development on OS4, instead of those migrating from OS3.x? Hans
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Re: Where is the SDK?
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Posted on: 2007/2/15 16:54
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@ssolie
Actually, I now have one thing that could be clarified in the documentation. I had some trouble using ILocale->FormatString() because I was using varargs. It seems that the PowerPC version of AmigaOS has two versions of varargs, the standard one and va_startlinear()/va_getlinearva(). You also have to use the VARARGS68K macro.
Why this extra complication? Mentioning it in the documentation somewhere would be helpful.
Hans
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Re: displaying SVG files in Ibrowse
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Posted on: 2007/2/14 23:00
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@aldur
Have you installed the expat library? The SVG datatype requires it.
Hans
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Re: Where is the SDK?
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Posted on: 2007/2/14 17:55
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@ssolie
I have no bug reports related to the current SDK ATM. I'd be happy just to get updated header files and autodocs. Of course, any example code will also be very useful.
My main suggestion would be to release it ASAP. But you're going to do that anyway, right?
Hans
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Re: New CPU module for A1/uA1 from ACube System tested..
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Posted on: 2007/2/14 17:03
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@mr2
An announcement about SAM (or this module) would be nice. Particularly one saying that they have an OS4 license. However, they were aiming for an end of Q1 release do they've still got just over a month.
Hans
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Re: Where is the SDK?
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Posted on: 2007/2/14 17:00
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@aldur It's on Hyperion's ftp site. I thought you were asking when the new SDK is going to appear. I wonder what's got a higher priority, OS4 for classic PowerPC machines, or, releasing an updated SDK. Personally I'd prefer a new SDK first, but it might be better if more people had access to OS4 ASAP. Hans
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Re: OS4 missing parts?
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Posted on: 2007/2/14 14:47
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@afxgroup Quote:
afxgroup wrote:
@all
now pls... INSTALL A COMPILER and DEVELOP SOFTWARE!!!!!!!!!
I'd like to add my voice to that. If you don't have access to OS4 yet, you can develop on OS3.x for now. The more active developers we have the better, even if many of them are rookies still learning how it's done. Hans
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Re: Crashes with OS4 Final
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Posted on: 2007/2/13 20:03
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@Vader
How big a task is the backport from 3.0 to 2.4? I'm just curious as to how much work has already gone into 3.0 (e.g., is there some kind of CSS engine yet). I hope you guys can get version 3.0 done faster than it took to complete version 2.4.
BTW, has the plugin API been published yet?
Hans
Edited by Hans on 2007/2/13 20:33:03
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Re: USB Printer on OS4?
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Posted on: 2007/2/13 1:03
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Home away from home
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@Raziel Ok, here it is:
#include <stdio.h>
static char initString[] = "\0\0\0\033\001@EJL 1284.4\n@EJL \n\033@";
int main(){
FILE *printer = fopen("PRT:", "w+b");
if(!printer){
printf("ERROR: Could not open printer DOS device");
return 10;
}
fprintf(printer, "\e[%d\"r", sizeof(initString));
fwrite(initString, 1, sizeof(initString), printer);
fclose(printer);
return 0;
}
I've changed it to use the PRT: DOS device which should be set up as:
/* $VER: PRT 52.1 (10.12.2006)
*
* PRT: for A1 Amiga Hardware
*/
EHandler = L:Port-Handler
Priority = 5
StackSize = 2000
GlobVec = -1
Device = printer.device
Unit = 0
Flags = 0
Control = "PAR"
Just a note. Set up the EpsonColor driver to Grayscale 1 or 2. Don't use the colour setting because it will still try to print in colour, but will print in black four times over the same section. Hans
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Re: USB Printer on OS4?
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Posted on: 2007/2/12 19:31
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@Raziel
If I have time, I'll modify and test it this evening.
Hans
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