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Re: Amiga OS 4.1 Future Development
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@Daniel

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Daniel wrote:
@billt

Stuff that seems a bit redudant (to me anyway):
MEmacs


What do you think goes in the place of MEmacs?

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Re: Mock up of A-Eon website
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@djrikki

I like that it is a simple clean design and not gimmicky the way that the actual A-Eon site is (though I do understand their decision to make it the way that it is).

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Re: Amiga OS 4.1 Future Development
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@kas1e

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Porting of apps already not so hard. In general all problems with porting usually come to bad source code initially. All programms which done in good way, need only few changes (like add stack cookie, change linking libs and add PROGDIR: except all that linux stuff like /usr/bin and alt).


Anything which relies on fork() is very difficult (admittedly there is unlikely to be anything done which solves thios particular problem) and porting things which rely on a particular GUI are a bear as you basically have to rewrite the GUI from the ground up. Of course that is from the perspective of a programmer who hates to deal with GUI code in any way shape or form.

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Re: Amiga OS 4.1 Future Development
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The simple fact is that the lifeblood of any operating system is applications. As a result, the focus for development on AmigaOS 4.x should be on those things that make creating and porting applications simpler.

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Re: special CreateDeleteString function
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@freddix

Ignoring matters of style and possible arguments about good an bad programing practices, you need to keep in mind that C uses pass by value (is you want to modify a pointer, you need to pass it as a pointer to a pointer) and that * is contents of while & is address of, and you shoul dmanage in this case.

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Re: special CreateDeleteString function
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@freddix

I agree with tonyw about the dual purpose function being a bad idea, but the code that he provides commits a greater sin, it converts a potentially platform independent function into a platform specific one (and an ugly one at that). If you insist on using the dual purpose function, then your code can simply be changed to:

void CreateDeleteString( char **ZePointer, int NewSize ){
if ( NewSize > 0 ){
*ZePointer = malloc( NewSize );
}else{
free( *ZePointer );
}
}

or

void CreateDeleteString( char **ZePointer, int NewSize ){
/* if *ZePointer is non-NULL and was not created with malloc it will crash, if allocation failed *ZePointer will be set to NULL */
if (*ZePointer) free(*ZePointer);
if ( NewSize > 0 )
*ZePointer = malloc( NewSize );
else {
free( *ZePointer );
*ZePointer = NULL;
}
}

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Re: Amiga OS 4.1 comes to new SAM460ex Board from ACube :-)
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@fastbit66

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fastbit66 wrote:
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Well yes you're right!
When I first read the specs I thought there's one SATA2 Connector in addition to the the Sata(1) ports - but now i took a closer look to the diagrams in the user manual of the SAM460ex board.
I can't see any other SATA ports - there's only that one SATA2 connector !!

Really strange - hmmmm....... So i guess you must use an SATA port expander in the PCI-e slot to connect more devices. There are also multipliers that allow multiple storage devices to be connected to a single SATA controller port.


It is not mentioned in the specs (aCube's or AMCC's), but the board does appear to have an IDE/PATA header on it. If that is the case, the obvious solution is to connect the optical drive there.

Following up: I had a good look at the user manual for the sam460ex which seems to describe every connector on the board and none of them are IDE headers. Therefore all you are left with is:
1) USB optical drive
2) SATA multiplier (if supported)
3) SATA card in one of the expansion slots.


Edited by varmfskii on 2010/5/17 15:27:16
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Re: Supporting the Amiga platform
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@djrikki

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Amigans and the wider community should get involved in the following 'competitions' in co-operation with Hyperion/A-Eon:

* Design a skin/layout for the A-Eon site
* Design a corporate video or animation (possibly 3D) of the A-Eon logo
* Design a video/presentation that shows the best strengths of the Amiga
* Design a standard Icon Set / workbench theme for a future OS Release
* Design a screen saver
* Design a workbench background image


Most of this seems like a complete waste of time. Exceptions being:

The site is good for advertising and might be worthwhile, though the current version of the site is probably reasonably appealing to the real target audience of the device.

The video presentation is probably something worthwhile for both the corporate site and to attempt to distribute of channels that the general public might encounter it in (i.e. YouTube etc.)

Everybody has their own talents, and unless there are people contributing this that only have talents in these areas, their time could be better spent elsewhere. What we need is for people to be spending their time writing and porting useful applications (preferably in a manner that has an eye on being able to port them to all Amiga related OSes).

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Re: Font questions
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@kilaueabart

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kilaueabart wrote:
It has thousands of Chinese characters (how does one find the one he wants, I wonder) and both Japanese kanas. But there's no Korean.


If you look around enough it should have the Korean. As for entering Chinese you need some sort for IME (Input Method Editor) for any computer system. Every one I have ever dealt with is to some extent menu driven.

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Re: Micro A1 graphics question
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@graffias79

Just a guess, but the monitor is probably determining the resolution by looking at the hsync and vsync frequencies retlative to standard VESA hsync and vsync frequencies. Have you compared your freqs to the standard VESA ones?

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