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Offline StilvoidTopic starter

Feature Requests
« on: August 22, 2024, 02:57:09 PM »
Is there a central point for gathering feature requests or bugs, e.g. a GitHub issues page or something?

I've been taking some notes on papercuts while building up my game library on my A600GS (and getting in some serious time with Settlers  ;D)

I hope these are helpful and please point me at an issue tracker if there is one :)

- Missing quality of life features:
    - Ability to invert mouse scroll direction ("natural" scroll).
    - Progress bar when adding HDFs. Anything over a few MB takes a while and there's no indication that anything is happening.
    - Timer or something when opening a large folder from USB stick. Bonus points if you swap the mouse pointer for a "thinking" cloud ;)
    - Ability to choose smaller icons or perhaps a list view in the games selector.
    - Access to amiberry interface for additional tweaking when games need it.
    - Ability to map keyboard keys to joystick (as per UAE, cursor keys + ctrl)
    - Ability to filter/start typing when selecting an adf to import. Long lists are painful to scroll through.
    - Ability to map a joystick button to Up (and disable Up on the joypad)
    - Disk drive noise  8)
- Issues:
    - Audio pops on jack output when no sounds have played for a while (a few seconds) and then you click on a disc or something. Not good for my speakers!
    - File selector is case-sensitive so upper-case appears before lower-case.
    - Sounds sometimes repeat, e.g. select a game, sometimes the disk sound happens twice.
 
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Offline StilvoidTopic starter

Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2024, 12:21:22 PM »
Never had audio pop, only when you switch from HD to Jack. So would need to be able to do it hear, so it can be looked into.
I'll see if I can get a recording! About to head out for the weekend so will be next week :)

File selector, not sure what you mean, do you mean they way it orders things?
Yes that's right. For example, you would see

Code: [Select]
HARLEQUIN.adf
HeroQuest.adf
hammerfist.adf

instead of:

Code: [Select]
hammerfist.adf
HARLEQUIN.adf
HeroQuest.adf

Doesn't make much difference in this short list of course but in a list of 200 ADFs, hammerfist.adf would be all the way at the bottom past everything starting with 'H'

Floppy sounds, god no, :). Yeh its fun for about 20 secs, then it gets annoying, as its nothing like a real floppy, ;).
True. More as something to indicate loading without needing to have all the LEDs turned on the whole time (which is just annoying). There have been a few times where I'm not sure if the emulator/Amiga has crashed or if it's loading. On a real Amiga, of course you'd hear if it was loading :D
« Last Edit: August 23, 2024, 12:23:17 PM by Stilvoid »
 

Offline StilvoidTopic starter

Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2024, 04:39:32 PM »
I was thinking about this feature request topic the other day and it occurred to me that we have a lot of knowledgeable people here who are very passionate about the Amiga. How do you folks feel about opening things up a bit, perhaps a bit further down the line? There's no better follow-up to a feature request than "...and here's my branch in GitHub where I've proposed a solution". Obviously there's some overhead to managing community contributions but you'd have an overall increase in feature development. I can't speak for others but the potential for A600GS is why I bought one and I'm so impatient for it to be the under-the-TV everyday Amiga experience I'm looking for that I'd happily give some of my spare time to helping out :)
 

Offline StilvoidTopic starter

Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2025, 02:56:42 PM »
Would love to be able to contribute some of these small "quality of life" features if you folks have a way to take contributions? I know you're busy with the big features but as I use the A600GS most days, it's the papercuts that I feel the most and I'm always happy to get stuck in  ;D
 

Offline StilvoidTopic starter

Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2025, 04:23:45 PM »
Everything I listed in my first post in this topic  ;D

- Missing quality of life features:
    - Ability to invert mouse scroll direction ("natural" scroll).
    - Progress bar when adding HDFs. Anything over a few MB takes a while and there's no indication that anything is happening.
    - Timer or something when opening a large folder from USB stick. Bonus points if you swap the mouse pointer for a "thinking" cloud ;)
    - Ability to choose smaller icons or perhaps a list view in the games selector.
    - Access to amiberry interface for additional tweaking when games need it.
    - Ability to map keyboard keys to joystick (as per UAE, cursor keys + ctrl)
    - Ability to filter/start typing when selecting an adf to import. Long lists are painful to scroll through.
    - Ability to map a joystick button to Up (and disable Up on the joypad)
    - Disk drive noise  8)
- Issues:
    - Audio pops on jack output when no sounds have played for a while (a few seconds) and then you click on a disc or something. Not good for my speakers!
    - File selector is case-sensitive so upper-case appears before lower-case.
    - Sounds sometimes repeat, e.g. select a game, sometimes the disk sound happens twice.
 

Offline StilvoidTopic starter

Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2025, 10:53:17 AM »
And here's another tiny feature request: file selectors should remember your last position and start from there next time.

For example, say I have ADFs in a folder like Downloads/ADFs/Games/S/. First I insert Settlers disk 1, I have to navigate through those folders, scroll through a hundred ADFs to find it. For disk 2 I have to do all of that again. If the dialog remembered my folder and position in the scroll list, disk 2 would be right there already.

Doing this once isn't a problem. When you're playing Amiga games every day and you do this a lot, it's very annoying ;)
 

Offline StilvoidTopic starter

Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2025, 12:12:31 PM »
Yeah, not too bad if I'm just setting up a new game in the list as I just have to do it once. This is more of a pain for "messing about with Amigas" uses. For example, the other day I set up an A500 system and was browsing through some old magazine coverdisks for nostalgia.