FreePascal for m68k-Amiga with LCL

[Gulliver]

@ALB42

Regarding MCAmiga:

Played with it a bit. Looks great.
Thanks!

Are you interested in bug reports? I have a couple of them.
And probably a couple feature requests too, if you would like to hear them.

[Gulliver]

Hi,

Test system:

A1200 + 4 MB fast
kickstart 3.1.4 + AmigaOS 3.1.4.1
kickstart 3.2 beta + AmigaOS 3.2 beta

Issues:

1. After enlarging the MCAmiga's window, if you reduce it you get
graphic corruption at the bottom section of the window.

2. Element count is taking into consideration the parent directory
link. On AmigaOS this is not counted.

3. The version that appears in the titlebar contains between other
things the string "$VER:" which should be omitted.

4. The MCAmiga window does not fit on a default High-Res screen mode.
Not everyone has a scan doubler or RTG.

5. The program requires more than 2 MB of ram. Is it possible to lower
this requirement? Speaking about requirements: can it run on a 68000?

6. To use MultiView you need to press SHIFT + F3 according to the
video. This is not documented using the F1 key. Anyway, can that
shortcut be configurable?

7. There is no CLI dialog at the lower portion of the window.

8. You cannot drag and drop between panels.

9. It would be nice that it could also display protection bits, not
only file/dir names and sizes.

10. How do you run a file that is currently selected?


Thank you again for MCAmiga.

[Gulliver]

@ALB42

Thank you for your answers.

I still have a few things I would like to follow up considering the
point number and the answers you provided.

4. Despite using echo vga8 >env:FPC_VIDEO_BUILTINFONT, the right
window border is not drawn because the window still does not properly
fit.

5. I see your points regarding the hardware requirements. It would be
good that they are noted in the manual/readme. BTW, providing a 68000
version, then could be an interesting posibility for those that have
one of those abundant brand new 68000 accelerators.

7. What I meant as a CLI at the lower portion of the window, is the
same thing that both Norton Commander and ntp_commander_2.2 have. They
simply hold a command prompt on the same window, at the bottom.

Thank you again for the time and effort spent on this great program.

[Gulliver]

This feature now sets MCAmiga apart from the file manager lot.

Well done!

[Gulliver]

Hi, I gave it a quick test. 

Machine:

A1200 + 4 MB RAM kickstart & AmigaOS 3.1.4.1
A1200 + 4 MB RAM kickstart & AmigaOS 3.2 beta

Tested the 68020+ version

Mouse selection on the "Parameter" dialog box does not allow you to
select the "Yes" or "No" buttons. But the tab and return key work for
this purpose.

Command output execution on the new cli has the "FPC Console Output"
as a name for it. Shouldn't it be better to modify it to
"MyCommander Console Output" or something along those lines?

The Help screen (F1) gets corrupted in the first two lines of text.
The corruption involves some transparent/non-drawn characters which
let you see through, to the actual file manager panels.

If you press either the left or right cursor keys, you get an
"FPC Console Output" with a printed "Key:$FF23" and "Key:$FF25"
strings respectively.

I also gave a quick test of the 68000 on an A500Plus + 4 MB (AmigaOS
3.1). It did work but had the same cursor keys and help screen bugs as
the 020+ version.

I really enjoyed all the fixes and features you implemented since last
version. Thank you for your continued work!