AROS Status Update

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Sweet!

But has anyone got it to work on their classic Amiga? I tried it briefly but when I try and start the AFA Prefs I get an error message saying "No AFA OS running", and when I SnoopDOS it fails to open LIBS:afa_system.library

If anyone has had any similiar problems and solved it, I would be happy to hear how

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If I can get this to work I will try and write an installer, I have some experience with Installer but have never tried to add anything to the Startup-Sequence yet, so we'll see how that turns out :-)

Anyways I made a screenshot of what is happening on my Amiga, I tried to show all files that are needed for AfA_OS but I might have forgot someone since I did it quite in a hurry. Am I missing something obvious?

Screenshot

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Yay! It worked when I started everything manually!

New screenshot [ ~330kB ]

But the loader fails :-(
I am using the loader from the Nov 20 update, and I don't get any request for AFA_OS: - so everything should be fine I guess.

I'm gonna start working on an installer script now anyway, for starters perhaps I should only make it start everything manually, in exactly the way it worked for me. Then I can change it to use the loader later when it is sorted out what makes it not work.

One more thing, all executables looses the executable flag when you zip the files, so the distribution should probably be in lha format.

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Wow, after I put the executable flags on all the files in Sys:AFA_OS_LIBS/ - the loader started working! Yay! So now everything is working great!

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@bernd
I have finished a early beta of the installer, it's very basic and has a few bugs that needs ironing out but it's semi-working for now

I took the liberty to make a lha archive when I archived it, all the files that are in the nov 20 release are there, only difference is I added my installer and has set the executable flag on all (hopefully) needed files.

The bugs:
The installer thinks a directory exists and asks if it should be removed even if it doesn't exist, this can be ignored.

The C:AfA_OS_Loader command is added to S:User-Startup instead of the Startup-Sequence. This works in most cases, but it seems if you save your workbench with an anti-aliased font, it doesn't show up after a reboot.

Anyway if someone tries it please let me know how it worked.

Oh, and about speed on classic Amigas. It was pretty slow, but still faster than I had expected on my 040/40 with a Cybervision 64. On a friends machine with 060/50 and a Cybervision PPC, he said it was very usable! He could hardly notice any difference.

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okay, I will change the text to say that right away! also if someone want to translate the current strings used in the installer to other languages that would be great, here is a textfile with the current strings.