A600GS Updates

[amigakit]

The following software updates for the A600GS have been uploaded today through the in-built live update system.  They are available to download for all registered AmiSphere users:


46.1.1009  (20/02/2025):

A600GS:

* Update Spanish translation

SystemV46:

* Add ARM based AK-JFIF datatype for 400% speed up on 1080p JPEG image.

OctaMED SoundStudio:

* Add "Projects->Open Recent ..." menu and supporting "Open Recent Projects" window. Save a list of opened and saved projects, limited to 10 and avoiding duplicates.

* Add new ED_NOTEOFF AREXX command and map this to "Left Shift F1" This allows easy editing of midi note off commands (inserts 00FFF in command section of a track line)

[amigakit]

The following software updates for the A600GS have been uploaded today through the in-built live update system.  They are available to download for all registered AmiSphere users:


46.1.1015  (28/02/2025):

A600GS:

* Add Italian language translation thanks to Samir Hawamdeh

* Add test for RDB based HDFs, when RDB found omit altered options to allow correct handling by AmiBerry

* Suppress editing of DEVICE VOLUME and BOOTPRI for RDB based HDFs as these are all in the control of the RDB

* Add option to limit Z3 memory space used to 1Gb, this should allow RTG and Z3 memory to be used on OS variants that inadvertently impose this limit.

YAM:

YAM v2.10 has been rebuilt with important bug fixes implemented.  A new YAM support page has been added to the Wiki for A600GS / A1200NG users: https://wiki.amiga.org/yam

* Regenerate the flex generated C files from HTML2Mail.l and ParseMail.l with flex version 4.6 (run on the A600gs itself 🙂 ) as the OS4 version used for cross compiling was just slightly too old and caused occasional crashes.

* Fix bug in RecipientString GoActive method, custom MUI class that could set the same input handler on the window more than once and cause lock-ups due to queueing a node twice.

* Fix equivalent issue in GoInactive method

The last two fix an issue with the Forward window locking up and also the Edit draft window in some circumstances

AmiBerry:

Minor refactor of Z3mem options parsing to allow setting up of multiple Z3 memory "cards" , the previous parser would overwrite the same memory bank with the subsequant options causing some quirky side effects!  The end result of this is to allow combinations of memory like 512 + 256 (for 768 total)

[amigakit]

@nbache

As official YAM Development stopped a few years ago , we are willing to progress the project so it does not die off.  It is important to keep the applications on the A600GS and A1200NG up to date.  We have already added up to date AmiSSL 5 support and fixed some important issues.   An OS4 port would be perfectly feasible too.

[amigakit]

The following software updates for the A600GS have been uploaded today through the in-built live update system.  They are available to download for all registered AmiSphere users:


46.1.1049  (04/04/2025):

A600GS:

A600GS / A1200NG
Include Italian translation and updates to German and Spanish

Internal refactor of settings loading, to prevent subclasses overiding user settings with their defaults. Specifically this fixes the floppy setup being partially overwritten in custom fullsystems.

Fix side menus closing when mouse hits left edge of screen. Some lower level code to track the mouse position was needed as the high level GUI event did not provide enough info.

Fix a crash when a RDB Harddisk was editing and the disabled bootpri field was parsed.

The Fullsystem class Limit Z3 memory gadget was not always in sync with the true setting, fixed.

Greaseweazle and Samisara keyboard firmware update support added. (A1200NG only)

Machine type detection added. Frontend menu now knows if it runing on A600GS or A1200NG

Unload the suspend on idle pulse module, to prevent the nasty click on the rear socket / RCA Audio outputs when sound had been ilde for a short while.

Improve serial port setup, scans for available ports and adds options to EDIT section. Filtering out greaseweazle and unconnected ttyS0.

Add options to setup Greasewaezle drive cable type, when greazeweazle is slected for real floppies.

Add CF Card support for A1200NG

AmiBerry:
Merge with 5.8.7 srcs

SystemV46:

* CLI Commands:
Add C:GetMachineName
Add C:SystemReboot to reboot SystemV46, Exit to Frontend GUI, Reboot machine or power down machine.

* Generalise the default background images

* Add machine dependent logo to AB-Dock.

[amigakit]

Happy Easter

The following software updates for the A600GS have been uploaded today through the in-built live update system.  They are available to download for all registered AmiSphere users:


46.1.1069  (17/04/2025):

A600GS:

* Toggling auto login now works without having to login on that session!

* Bug fix for testing products for registered status.

* Check for Greasweazle before adding options to prevent open ended delays
whilst scanning for hardware, this only affects the greaseweazle itself,
currently no test for no floppy drive being attached, which can cause similar delays. Similar support for Drawbridge under investigation.

* Add SCDard capacity info to System general tab. If more than 10% of card is unused enable button allowing resize of partition on next restart. This allows backups of the sdcard to automagically scale to a new larger sdcard.

* When booting on an A1200NG enable F10 as well as F12 to start AmiBench directly.


Amiberry:

* Due to merges with upstream refactoring the virtual keyboard code relied on a variable that was not set till after keyboard was initialised in the local patches, fixed.


SystemV46:

* Update to AmiSSL 5.20


AmiBench:

* Control of machine's power off/full reboot/restart AmiBench can be now controlled from the AmiBench menu through a requester offering the 4 options.
Reduces risk of accidentally shutting down etc due to accidental choice of wrong menu item.


Programs:

* Update HippoPlayer to latest update.

[amigakit]

Review of the A600GS (Deutsche)- videos for our German friends:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUq7rV83Wog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHupBkWn4kg

[amigakit]

The following software updates for the A600GS and  A1200NG have been uploaded today through the in-built live update system.  They are available to download for all registered AmiSphere users:


46.1.1086  (16/05/2025):


SystemV46:

* XADMaster.library Version 13.0 added

* UnArchiver V46.1 added for decompressing any archives supported by XAD, such as LHA, Zip etc

* Modify default icons for archives to open UnArchiver as default.

* Add UnArchiver to AB-Dock





A1200NG and A600GS:

*  Update German translations

*  Add the new amiberry.map_cd_drives=true option when enabling CD Image insertion. Fixes ISO not mounting.

*  Add option for disabling the boot jingle

* When the insert disk window was closed by pressing the start button on the joypad rather than a select or cancel gadget, the filechooser object was not deleted. Resulting in a bad reference when it was deleted later in the insert disk windows destructor, Fixed by reorder destructor sequence.

* Improve positioning of insert disk window when openeing.

* Add work around for memory leak that occured deep in the system when an window without borders / decoration had a blank / fully transparent mouse pointer set., and all other windows open were also borderless. This is effectively what SDL does when putting the window in SDL_RelativeMouseMode() and hiding the mouse pointer. AmiBerry uses this mode, so every time the currently running title was resumed a large chunk of CMA memory was leaked.  This was the underlying cause of the issue people have had with inserting a large number of disks whilst installing 3rd party OSes. The work around involved replacing the blank mouse pointer with an almost invisible single pixel pointer and recreating the RelativeMouseMode at a higher level.

[amigakit]

The following software updates for the A600GS and  A1200NG have been uploaded today through the in-built live update system.  They are available to download for all registered AmiSphere users:


46.1.1098  (23/05/2025):


SystemV46:

Introduce ArmMP3File library: The arm backend provides accelerated playback of MPG 1 2 and 2.5 Layer i ii and iii  encoded audio files.

Add PlayMP3 command line player controlled from the console.

Plays a list of files on the command line.

LOOP/S,QUIET/S,PLAYLIST/M/A

LOOP continuously loop through playlist.
QUIET suppress all console output
PLAYLIST list of mp3 files to play, non mp3 files will be quietly ignored.

CTRL C: End program
CTRL D: Pause / Resume playback
CTRL E: Next file in playlist
CTRL F: Previous file in playlist

S:PlayMP3Request  thin wrapper  to select files via RequestFile

S:PlayMP3Playlist  ARexx script to map a list of .m3u playlists onto the PlayMP3 command, QUIET and LOOP options are passed through.

[amigakit]

The following software updates for the A600GS and  A1200NG have been uploaded today through the in-built live update system.  They are available to download for all registered AmiSphere users:


46.1.1110  (06/06/2025):


SystemV46:

* Move PlayMP3 to Utilities drawer
* Add new AmigaKit version of More V46 to SYS:Utilities
* Update filesysbox.library

PlayMP3:

* Add AmiBench support. Dropping icons on PlayMP3 icon now starts MP3 playback. Add to AB-Dock Add UNIQUE switch, only one instance of PlayMP3 can run with the UNIQUE switch, other started that way will send commands to the extant player and then exit. Current command support is limited to ACTION_QUIT. Initially this allows clicking on AB-Dock icon to start playing files and then clicking a second time to stop playback.

ArmMP3File backend: 

* Add opencount variable, to monitor opening depth and avoid the one 68k client killing anothers threads

* Add ASL requester when no files are parsed via command line or amibench startup message, add BASEDIR option to set the initial directory of the requester. Add directory scanning if an added path is a directory. With combinations of IGNOREM3U IGNOREMP3 and RECURSE options you can add all playlists or all mp3 files from a direcory heirarchy.
Add SHUFFLE option. Simple pseudo random shuffle, don't use for cryptology 🙂

Work:

* Add Work:Sound/Music/MP3 folder and three sample MP3s