Thank you for this, Kas1e!

@Maijestro

Amazing work! Thank you for this.

@jaokin

Great work getting this going on the X5000!

If your working on hardware. I'd vote for an LED light strip controller.

Thanks!
Bill

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@all

May is almost over and here is my progress:

Font_dt update: I released 54.1 and had some feedback that it was not working on everyone's machine. I'm working on 54.2 to address those issues.


fig.datatype: supporting AmiFig/Xfig 3.2 files, based on the drawing class, is working, needs more testing and a few more capabilities, but I hope to release it in a few weeks

dxf.datatype: AutoCad files, it works but struggles with larger files, this is also based on the drawing class, hope to make progress but not sure when it can be released

cameraraw.datatype: Support for Camera Raw files. This is based on Libraw, and I have a custom Amiga native shared library working and rendering. The dcraw_emu(ulator) is not 100% with Silkraw, and the datatype based on that library is not working just yet.


Does anyone else have any updates to share?

Cheers,
Bill

@kas1e

As I told you privately, the os4depot admin told me to replace the existing archive to reduce package sprawl.

I agree we should not lose any work, human or otherwise, which is why I put the original archive inside the work I uploaded:

font_dt contents

As for "not well tested", that has nothing to do with AI.

Updated font datatype posted.

Amifig datatype is almost complete

AutoCad DXF datatype is starting to produce images

Both of those use the drawing class, so thanks for that work, Chris!

Hi All,

I'd like to propose a new field in the OS4Depot software to track which software was made 'by AI'.

This would be something the submitter would select during uploading. What "by AI" actually means would be a good debate to have, but for me, I'm letting AI do 97% of the work, so those would easily qualify.

What do others think?

Bill "tekmage" Borsari

Progress!

Not sure how to post an image here, but I've been able to take the 2008 font.datatype (Michal Letowski, Fredrik Wikström (OS4 port))and update it so it works again.

I need to do some cleanup to finish, and will try to get it posted this week.

I made a list of some other data type ideas:

pdf datatype
GIMP image format datatytpe
3D printer file datatype
Camera Raw datatype
Video Toaster formats datatype
DXF datatype
ACC/FLAC/OGG datatypes

Let's see where we are at the end of May!

Cheers,
Bill "tekmage" Borsari

@all

Amazing work, everyone.

Keep it coming!

@walkero

My selfish goal is to get more folks, like me who are not developers to embrace AI coding to produce AmigaOS 4 software.

Of course no need to use AI, but not using AI to accelerate the grunt work of parsing an open source format seams like a labor of love or a waste of time :)

I checked OS4depot and I'm going to modernize and extend the font datatype. We'll see how it goes.

Cheers,
Bill

@NinjaCyborg

1) I prefer OS 4
2) Go back and read what I wrote more closely :)

Hi AmigaOS 4 community,

Let's make May a datatype month for AmigaOS 4. I'm calling on those brave members of the AmigaOS 4 to spend some time in May focused on producing, updating, or helping with data types.

The scope would be to develop a new datatype for us, find datatypes on the OS4 Depot, grab and recompile the open-source ones, and modernize the codebase. Of course, not everyone has the skill to write or read code to do these things, but AI can.

I will be using AI tools, and we'll try to create at least one new datatype in May. I would be happy to help others leverage the same tools so they, too, can create new datatypes for the Amiga computer. AI is so powerful. You can ask it to create a datatype that works across all flavors of AmigaOS. My focus is on OS 4, but I welcome anybody who wants to support all Amiga platforms.

Some ideas for new datatypes the Amiga could use include a Markdown data type, a camera RAW datatype, and a datatype supporting popular formats and applications like Microsoft Word. I realize that sounds wild, but the Word format is a published spec. AI could take that spec and create a viewer. I'm sure there are dozens of other datatypes that the Amiga platform could use that we don't currently have.

What I'm asking in this thread is for you to post a message indicating which datatype you want to work on so we don't duplicate efforts, to suggest a new data type the Amiga computer needs, or to offer support and testing for datatypes.

What's out of scope for this thread? Is complaining about datatypes, or about the datatype system not supporting streaming? The goal here is to move the boing ball forward and bring more capabilities to the AmigaOS 4 and other Amiga platforms.

Thoughts?
Bill "tekmage" Borsari

URLs:
https://os4depot.net/index.php?function=browse&cat=datatype
https://os4coding.net/blog/tekmage/will-ai-make-2026-year-amigaos-4

@derfs

Thank you for this! Your virtio disk driver is working very well. I'll give this one a try soon. Keep up the great work.

Cheers,
Bill

Love this idea and the work you are doing!

I'm planning on moving all my personal todo tracking to this app.

Few things (I've not had to chance to really use it yet so more to come)

1) do you have plans to support encrypted traffic to server?
2) can you test with ZitaFTP on OS 4? I tried it and it crashed but have not had a chance to debug.
3) any plans for an Android widget?

Thank you!!
Bill "tekmage" Borsari

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@Hans

Your 100% right, the ability for an LLM to generate Linux code is pretty solid. Creating OS 4 code is a struggle for sure. The use of an MCP helps a TON, but, as you point out, most of the examples are outdated and can confuse it.

I have provided updated examples that strongly positively influence the final output.

It's going to be an interesting area over the coming months. I hope this starts the discussion to build a repo of solid code examples so anyone can make good OS 4 code with an LLM.

Cheers,
Bill

Hi All,

I published a blog on using Google's Antigravity to produce OS 4 code:

https://os4coding.net/blog/tekmage/will-ai-make-2026-year-amigaos-4

I'm currently having it finish the ZuneFig OS 4 port. I hope to have it ready around end of March.

Cheers,
Bill

I think I agree with the majority of folks here. If we lose 68K support, we will lose part of the Magic of OS 4. For my money, I would push harder to have better integration and support for older software.