CAPS user library available for linux (ppc and i686)

[evilrich]

ah well yet another reason why i wont IPF image all my 2000+ orginals.

This seems an incredibly silly attitude to me. CAPS is giving you the technology to make back-ups of your disks - disks that are deteriorating all the time - and you refuse to use this technology because it can also be used for piracy?

Do you also refuse to use recordable CDs and the Internet (clearly not the latter), because they are both means via which pirated software can be distributed?

To anwser the original question, yes, my version of UAE will support CAPS images. I had hoped to release a new version last weekend with CAPS support, but I have had several delays. Expect a release very shortly . . .

Cheers,
Rich

[evilrich]

I am glad you had CAPS support on your uae port. Is it for all ports or only a few of them ?

Linux x86 and PPC and (m68k) AmigaOS will be supported initially. Actually, in theory it'll currently work on any Unix that supports the dlopen() call, but the CAPS plug-in isn't available for any other platforms yet. Supporting other platforms at my end is easy - I just have to work out how to dynamically load libraries on the target platform. It's up to the CAPS guys themselves to decide whether they want to support other platforms with the plug-in and, if so, which ones . . .

I am interested in the amigaos and warpos ports (and a little bit on linuxppc port). Are they working better/faster now ?

I've made no progress on the WarpOS port. My first attempt was an unmitigated failure :-( and I haven't had the time to do any work on it. It's hard work debugging when you can't test the executable yourself. I do intend to go back to this later . . .
The Linux/PPC (in fact PPC generally) versions should be a little faster with the next release.

Cheers,
Rich