New A-EON Music Card for Classic Amigas

[amigakit]

A-EON Technology delivers

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@novacoder

Awesome news: cant wait to view your video and try your port  Thanks for integrating Prisma with your port.

@spirantho
Thank you for your hard work on the prisma.library - much appreciated

[amigakit]

OK, another update.

All the Prisma cards arrived from Michael and they look great.



Michael is also manufacturing an audio back plate PCB for towered A1200's and big box Amigas which will an optional extra for the card.

I have been really busy with AMIStore development so decided last weekend to devote to Prisma instead

In the meantime, Spirantho very kindly sacrificied one of his weekends to add an AREXX port to the Prisma.library which is indeed very handy.

So I changed my PrismaControl programme to take advantage of Spirantho's efforts.  Now PrismaControl uses Arexx messaging and it works well for all of my tests so far on my A1200T.



It also means all you programmers out there can make your programs control the Prisma card with a few simple Arexx messages, for example:

rx "ADDRESS PRISMA_MSG_PORT 'PLAY'"

rx "ADDRESS PRISMA_MSG_PORT 'STOP'"

rx "ADDRESS PRISMA_MSG_PORT 'VOLUME 10'"

I haven't yet tried it, but I also believe that I could modify my IBrowse MIME settings to play OGG, MP3, WAV files from webpage links.  Any suggestions on this would be good.

[amigakit]

@HammerD

It has a MHI driver already.  AmigaAmp and others use MHI.

[amigakit]

Not sure if TuneNet supports MHI.  Will have to do some research into it.

[amigakit]

Ian provided me with the new Prisma.library this week which enables Zorro mode. So Chris and I tested Prisma in two A4000s, one with a Buster 9 and one with a Buster 11. All tests passed

Yesterday evening I implemented the extended m3u support in PrismaControl and my work today is to implement reading and displaying the ID3 data.

I am waiting for Ian to add a few extra features to the Prisma.library such as a message to my program that the song has ended and also a progress indicator.

The Prisma.library for 68k is currently high optimised in assembler for maximum performance so it needs to be converted back to c code in order to port to OS4 for the future AmigaOS 4.1 Classic version of the library.

Just enabled M4A filetype in the add song.. ASL requester to add the the FLAC, MP2, MP3, OGG, WAV supported file types.

Testing some M4A songs on my A1200 - they play well
 

[amigakit]

MHI Driver Working!

A driver was developed to let programs which are MHI compatible use the Prisma.library and playback through the Prisma Megamix music card.  I am pleased to confirm that it is now working with AmigaAmp on the Classic Amiga.

Here is a screenshot of Prisma in my A1200 running AmigaAmp, using the new MHI driver:



Thanks to Spirantho for his hard work on this driver.

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@A2666

Welcome to Amiga.org, your first post here is most unconventional, most folks use it to introduce themselves.   Amiga.org is a friendly place and I would encourage you to open a new thread and tell us about yourself, for example, what brought you to Amiga.org, what Amiga systems do you own, and what your interests are in the Amiga world.

I will correct one of your points: the X5000 is not available to "pre-order" and the hardware is already finished, manufactured and ready to go.  Just awaiting Hyperion to finish the OS.  If you want to discuss this point, I, once again, suggest opening a new thread would be better than derailing this thread.

[amigakit]

Hi

We have switched a few months ago to two new developers. Hopefully we will have some updates from their hard work.  

The hardware has been complete and is manufactured for some time.

[amigakit]

isn't it time to push software development a little harder?

Did you read our AmigaDeveloper.com Team announcement?  We have been heavily investing in software development with a team of 17 software developers working earnestly.

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@eliyahu

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