Announcement: Technical data of the new Catweasel MK4 controller

[Rogue]

One OpenPCI version of the driver would cover MOS, Amithlon and Amiga Classic PCI all in one go, and probably OS4 later too. I can't see why Jens doesn't go this route.

Speaking of alienating: OpenPCI was supposed to become the standard PCI solution under AmigaOS 4.0 until such time as they got G-REX support, at which time OS 4 support was suddenly no longer possible. From what I've heard (*) OpenPCI G-REX support was tied to the condition that no OS 4 version would emerge.

Go figure.

(*) Footnote: From what I heard. I am not saying it is so or the other way, to keep the blood pressure of the flame throwers low. If it is true or not I don't know, but I find it strange nonetheless.

[Rogue]

It is a bug in OS4 dos.library. One of functions gives wrong return code.

Can you tell me what function that is? We can then subsequently fix the problem, instead of having application programmers work around it.

[Rogue]

It is a bug in OS4 dos.library. One of functions gives wrong return code.

It would have been nice to actually receive a bug report. To the best of my knowledge this hasn't happened.

[Rogue]

MatchPatternNoCase(). But it probably effects all Match#? dos functions.

Ah, yes. I remember a discussion about this on the Dev list. The problem is that the autodoc never was really very specific about the error code ("Result: Success or Failure") and was supposed to return DOSTRUE in the case of success, which is -1. OS 2 and OS 3 returned 1 instead, which is, technically speaking, wrong.

That's another example for the unfortunate BCPL legacy.