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Offline TribbleSmasherTopic starter

Re: Amiga OS 3.2 released
« Reply #14 on: May 25, 2021, 04:48:00 PM »
The source code example on how to write a code highlighting plugin for the new texteditor class has been uploaded:
https://gitlab.com/boemann/texteditfiletypeplugins
 

Offline TribbleSmasherTopic starter

Re: Amiga OS 3.2 released
« Reply #15 on: May 29, 2021, 06:41:09 PM »
Better get your CD now than never...
Amiga Corporation: Statement regarding commercial distribution of AmigaOS 3.2
http://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2021-05-00076-EN.html
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Offline TribbleSmasherTopic starter

Re: Amiga OS 3.2 released
« Reply #16 on: May 30, 2021, 12:28:42 PM »
And here I could start a long rant, but I will save that for later - one thing I will mention though - they have killed the Amiga tick - one can no longer tick off items in menus, as ticks are now replaced with dots (or boingballs?)
Not sure, what you are talking about. If you're refering to the 'checkmarks' in menus they are still there, maybe you have seen some theme-tweaking gone wrong or another distribution like AmiKit?
 

Offline TribbleSmasherTopic starter

Re: Amiga OS 3.2 released
« Reply #17 on: May 31, 2021, 05:23:14 PM »
Quick note:
it seems that the serial-number is on the plastic wrap, so better keep the packaging or write it down somewhere. ;)
 

Offline TribbleSmasherTopic starter

Re: Amiga OS 3.2 released
« Reply #18 on: May 31, 2021, 06:18:27 PM »
yet. ;)
 

Offline TribbleSmasherTopic starter

Re: Amiga OS 3.2 released
« Reply #19 on: June 01, 2021, 06:53:53 PM »
It is possible now to register OS3.2 at hyperion-entertainment.com.
It still says 'disk version' for the moment.
The download versions are coming later:
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Alternatively, you can wait until machine type specific versions of AmigaOS 3.2 will be offered as digital download once all orders for the AmigaOS 3.2 CD-ROM edition have been processed.

Quick note:
it seems that the serial-number is on the plastic wrap, so better keep the packaging or write it down somewhere. ;)

Not a problem atm, since:
apparently you can't register it

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Offline TribbleSmasherTopic starter

Re: Amiga OS 3.2 released
« Reply #20 on: June 02, 2021, 04:27:22 PM »
Shouldn't be too hard to patch Intuition menus from #mximage back to #menucheck, and call this the
Kolla-patch. :P

Maybe MagicMenu is doin it already, who knows.
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Offline TribbleSmasherTopic starter

Re: Amiga OS 3.2 released
« Reply #21 on: June 04, 2021, 11:46:15 PM »
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AmigaOS 3.2 Updated FAQ for all Classic Amigas available for download

CUSTOMERS ARE URGED TO RETRIEVE AMIGAOS 3.2 SERIAL NUMBER FROM SHRINK WRAP (PLASTIC FOIL) PRESENT AROUND THE AMIGAOS 3.2 CD-ROM.

As a service to our registered customers, the updated AmigaOS 3.2 FAQ covering all Classic Amigas (including Amiga CD 32 and Amiga CDTV) is available for registered customers in the download section of our website.

Please visit our website regularly to stay up to date about the release of future bonus content for AmigaOS 3.2 available to registered users of AmigaOS 3.2.

If you do not own a copy yet of the AmigaOS 3.2 CD-ROM, please contact your local dealer to order your copy!

...
The Hyperion Management Team
https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/news
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Native Developer Kit for AmigaOS 3.2 (NDK 3.2 Release 2) available for immediate download
Brussels, June 4, 2021

Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to present a new updated Native Developer Kit for AmigaOS 3.2.

This NDK contains everything developers need to take advantage of all the new AmigaOS 3.2 features.

AmigaOS NDK 3.2 R2 is available for free from our download area for any interested party.

We thank all of you who have rushed Amiga dealers worldwide to get their hands on a copy of AmigaOS 3.2.

 

https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/downloads?view=download&layout=form&file=122
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Offline TribbleSmasherTopic starter

Re: Amiga OS 3.2 released
« Reply #22 on: June 05, 2021, 02:06:00 PM »
 

Offline TribbleSmasherTopic starter

Re: Amiga OS 3.2 released
« Reply #23 on: June 05, 2021, 07:20:02 PM »
I made an AmigaGuide from the developers' releasenotes which were updated with the 3.2NDK, attached below, the file uncompressed at about 1MB in size.
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Offline TribbleSmasherTopic starter

Re: Amiga OS 3.2 released
« Reply #24 on: June 06, 2021, 05:32:48 PM »
So make the screen wider with Autoscroll enabled?

If only the window of the console is wider and offscreen, you couldn't read the text anyhow. What's the point in it?
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Offline TribbleSmasherTopic starter

Re: Amiga OS 3.2 released
« Reply #25 on: June 06, 2021, 05:39:57 PM »
But now you know it and it will never occur in your daily needs. :)
 

Offline TribbleSmasherTopic starter

Re: Amiga OS 3.2 released
« Reply #26 on: June 30, 2021, 06:49:42 PM »
The NDK got updated again today.
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Native Developer Kit for AmigaOS 3.2 (NDK 3.2 Release 3) available for immediate download
Brussels, July 30, 2021

Hyperion Entertainment is proud to announce another update for the Native Developer Kit for AmigaOS 3.2.

This NDK update contains further reviewed contents to ensure developers using several different compilers will be able to harness all the new features AmigaOS 3.2 brings.

This release also paves the way for a continued flow of updates to the Native Developer Kit for AmigaOS 3.2 which will also be accessible in other venues to pursue greater adoption and wider availability.

Hyperion is committed to AmigaOS development support, so stay tuned for further NDK updates!

AmigaOS NDK 3.2 R3 is available for free from our download area for any interested party.

We thank all of you who have rushed Amiga dealers worldwide to get their hands on a copy of AmigaOS 3.2.
If you want to support our efforts further, please head over to our AmigaOS merchandise store.
https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/downloads?view=files&parent=40
 

Offline TribbleSmasherTopic starter

Re: Amiga OS 3.2 released
« Reply #27 on: June 30, 2021, 08:59:47 PM »
Now that i am testing the new OS myself, at a first glance i find it very weird that the previous 3.1.4.1 installation doesn't even fully boot with just the new ROM installed. It even complains for not finding iconlib and workbenchlib. :o
And, it keeps asking for the workbenchlib like a hundred times, i wonder how that was implemented...user clicks Cancel just ask again and again, right?
How can one put logic into this?
If there is no (good)workbenchlib, system's keep booting into a limbo state (empty screen) and a user banging his head onto the desk (remember: we hit CANCEL multiple times as we are SURE there is such a lib on the harddrive)... >:(
The OS could instead nest the calls for the lib and break the booting at the best possible time and leave the user with a CONsole and an error message and a possibility to recover from this? Like, the OS3.2 ROM doesn't like the 3.1.4 ROM or the 3.1.4.1 workbenchlib and would offer a hint (a few bytes of text)?

i never experienced this behaviour before, you could always boot with just the new ROM installed. :P

More complains:
The installation with CDROM(image) is not as smooth as possible:
-boot from Install32 disk
- Click ActivateCDRom
it should open the CD after mounting it. In my case i get an error because it is already mounted! How is this an error?
Then, from the CD, which i opened by myself, i have to open the install drawer, to find toomany icons.
I click 'Starthere', but nothing happens, instead it tells me to dblclick the install disk (again!)... so i did. guess what happens? Nothing. The installation from CD did not start, i am looking at the same screen but now the CD is mounted.
Not smooth, not at all. 8)
I'd like to see  two more icons in the root of the CD: 'Install to HD' and 'Install new system', maybe even integrated into a simple chooser app. ;)

Once the CD is mounted (and we have some RAM of course) there is no excuse for not having a bigger installer, another RequestChoice, launch RexxMast or whatever. ;D

Why isn't the Locale&Input selector the first thing i see? A pretty one, of course, not the Prefs editor as it is now. Just glue those gadgets (that your already have in source!) )together in one LangSel tool and you are done, how hard can it be?

Locale prefs is not set to the country i chose the language for, instead it is U.S. and it doesn't point me to change it. Prefered language is not set, time zone neither. nothing is localised, i choosed two languages to install and none is prefered.
If i chose more than the internal language (eng u.s.) shouldn't there be an muex choice for my prefered language/country in the next installer page?
The RAM icon is 'wrong', ugly.
'Auto-arrange icons' from the tools menu also snapshots the positions without asking me?? Maybe i want to judge the result before keeping it?
There is still an Expansion drawer, what is this for?

No help support for several tools. You hit HELP key and nothing happens.
If you hit HELP and the app uses its own screen, the help guide is not popping to the front, it stays in the back, e.g. Workbench screen.
No version/build information in GUI tools/utilities even if they already have a menu built in. Could be in the window title tho, i mean cmon.
Workbenchs stack size is still 4kB?
Workbench prefs: 'hidden devices' do not indicate if there is actually a disk in the drives.
Icontrol prefs does funny things when you open up its async windows and clicking checkboxes and then just click Use in the farthest window...
DefaultIcons prefs is ... special.

There was no "Welcome" or "ThankYou" demo after a fresh install from CD. So much wasted space.. : ;D
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Offline TribbleSmasherTopic starter

Re: Amiga OS 3.2 released
« Reply #28 from previous page: July 17, 2021, 09:08:21 PM »
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There is still an Expansion drawer, what is this for?
The same thing it has always been for?
There are still expansions initialising their drivers this way and OS3.2 is still supporting this and those expansions still work??
Really?
The only thing i've ever had in there was 'BuddhaSpeed', which is obsolete for, like, 10 years?
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Workbenchs stack size is still 4kB?
Can be changed in WB prefs.
Yeah, but as 3.2 requires more resources anyway, why not set this to e.g. 16kB default?
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