AmigaOS 3.9 BoingBag #4

[Gulliver]

Just to let the interested ones know that icon.library has been updated to 46.4.175, and of course, it fixes between other things that infamous iconification bug.

It is available on Aminet, and it is of course part of the updated BoingBag 4 version 0.7e, which is available at the usual places.

[Gulliver]

BoingBag 4 version 0.8m
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Icon library updated to 46.4.195 Which now features better support for PNG icons.


New components:

-XAD client for 7-Zip archives that enables UnArc to extract 7-Zip archives.

-XAD client for compressed executables like powerpacker, imploder, etc., and enables Unarc to decrunch them.

-Xfdmaster library and decrunchers that support the xad_xfd client.

-LZMA xfdmaster slave/pluggin for better xad_xfd client support.



You can download it from:

http://lilliput.amiga-projects.net/bbag4.htm


and very soon also on:

http://amigan.emu.net/releases/

[Gulliver]

Nice, does the new icon.library properly display OS 4.x icons? I say this because of dual boot users on classic amigas that have OS 4.0 (and soon 4.1) and OS 3.9 on the same machine.

Yes, OS4 icons look great. Of course, dont pretend them to be gorgeous with just 16 colors!

[Gulliver]

Hmmm....well since I'm using a graphics card with 16-bit or 24-bit depth cannot the OS4 icons be displayed with more colours?  Or would this require more than just an icon.library update?

Yes, of course, you will have more colours. It requires icon.library 46.4.204 and two other libraries (zlib.library and pngalpha.library), all present in the new BB4 0.8n.

[Gulliver]

The lines of contention are (currently I have them commented out):

SYS:C/ FailAt 21
SYS:C/LoadResident >NIL DEVS:card.resource
SYS:C/LoadResident >NIL DEVS:misc.resource
SYS:C/LoadResident >NIL DEVS:trackdisk.device
SYS:C/LoadResident >NIL L:ramlib
SYS:C/FailAt 20

If I boot with these uncommented the error reads "FailAt: unknown command"
If I comment that line out it says "LoadResident: unknown command"

Have you check that you actually have LoadResident in C: ?

Most of the time these kind of issues come up, it is always related to some human error while adding those text lines, and omitting a space, or wrongly spelling something.

Please check your BBag installation again, I am not home right now, but will try to help you when I get there (I have my Amiga setups at home).

[Gulliver]

I found a copy of LoadResident in RemAPollo on aminet.  Yanked just it out and will put it in C and see where I am from there.

EDIT:  Seemed to work a treat!  I guess I am good to go.

no SYS:C/FailAt X, just FailAt x

I am glad it is working.

Now enjoy it

[Gulliver]

Thanks, I installed BB4 from your website and the icons are displaying properly, however there is still a large amount of banding - indicating they are not using alot of colours.  I'm using a mediator 4000di and Radeon 9250 at 16-bit, 1024x768 resolution.

Any prefs or setting I have to adjust?

BTW, thanks for BB3/4 and all your work :-)

Too bad we couldn't have a full new ISO made for OS 3.9.

At this point, icon.library is still being finetuned by Peter Kneucke, so if you see too much banding, you should post a screengrab  and post it over here (http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=57885&page=3) so that PeterK solves any issues.

I am glad you are happy with BB3 and 4

I also wish we could build an updated ISO, but then the copyright status of AmigaOS 3.9 is really complicated (Amiga Inc (?) + Haage&Partner + AmiTCP/Genesis piracy claims).  

[Gulliver]

I'm not too sure what the banding means or is, but I do notice some corruption occasionally when moving Icons around or upon closing programs.  There will be a rainbow colored blotch or a line across the screen.  Cleaning up resolves it.

For what its worth, I only experience that same gfx corruption under WinUAE, not on my real A1200.

[Gulliver]

Thanks I posted with a screenshot to the thread on the English Amiga Board.

Darren

You forgot to mention on your post over EAB that you are running workbench in 16bits
Otherwise on low colour workbenches that banding would probably seem normal.

[Gulliver]

BoingBag #4 v0.9m - Minor update

Changes between V0.9k and V0.9m:
    * Adjusted startup-sequence modification instructions.
    * Upgraded icon.library from 46.4.228 to 46.4.251.
    * Upgraded dos.library to latest version.
    * Fixed Genesis icons.

Available at:

http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/
http://lilliput.amiga-projects.net/bbag4.htm