AmigaOS 3.9 Boing Bag #3

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OK, preliminary installer for OS3.9 Boing Bag #3 is ready.

http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/BoingBag3.lha
http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/BoingBag3.readme

Enjoy...

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Would it be possibel though to provide an option to install CPU specific versions? For eample I have 060 board and the XAD version intalled by BB3 is for a 020. So I reinstalled the 060 version after I had run the BB3 update.

Actually it is supposed to automatically check the CPU you have and copy the correct version, must be a bug in the script.

Thanks all for the feedback, I will make a V0.2 within the next few days.

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OK all, V0.2 has been uploaded, URL is still http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/BoingBag3.lha.
  It incorporates the upgrades that have been mentioned, some fixes to the script, etc.

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I don't suppose a GlowIcon for the Translator prefs has ever been done? The current icon is really ugly

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OK, 0.4 is done, it is the release candidate. Enjoy.

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OK, 1.0 beta is released.

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Quick question....is anything in that archive pirated? I will wait (for a short while) for a reply before I delete stuff.

No, I have just asked for and received confirmation that the MooVid version in question has been released to the community by the developer Lazlo Torok.

Re. patches: The other four Boing Bags are not distributed as patches. If someone wants to waste their time turning hundreds of useful files back into patch files and then rewriting the installer script and retesting everything, to produce a less useful archive, they can do so. I certainly have no intention of wasting my time doing such a thing.

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If BoingBag3 had a simple check that required the OS3.9 CD to be in an attached CDROM drive, it would prove that the installer of BoingBag3 has a license to use the files being patched, that are from the OS3.9 CD anyway.

That would be redundant since BB2 already does such a check before installing itself, and BB3 checks that BB2 is already installed before installing itself.

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>Now I get an error message during the boot process which tell me that RAM-Handler version 40 (I think this is the version it is reporting) is already resident and LoadModule reports a failure to load object, or something like that.

Odd...I'm not having much luck reproducing this one...

>There is no mention of what to do with the existing SetPatch line in your original Startup-Sequence file in the BoingBag3 install instructions, or the install script, so you might want to add something about that.

OK, done.

>After it gave me the error message and would not complete booting again, I then booted from my other original boot partition and also commented out the IDE-Fix IF-THEN statement lines as I do not have IDE-Fix, but that should not make any difference, should it? Do I need the IDE-Fix IF-THEN lines for the A1200's internal IDE controller? If I do I will remove the semi-colons from those lines to activate them again. Commenting out the IDE-Fix lines had no effect on the problem, but I saw no reason to have those lines working if I don't have IDE-Fix installed on my A1200 (unless it is going to get installed in the process of BoingBag3).

It doesn't do anything to IDE-Fix.

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I got this error message after a reboot too. The solution is to turn the Amiga off. The problem is gone after turning the Amiga back on.

Will change the instructions accordingly. Thanks.

Other installation problems...

Libs:xadmaster.library is improperly named Libs:xadmaster.device for the 68020 version at least.

Oops, will fix.

pretend it's official one.

No one is pretending it's official, what are you going on about?

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OK, I have released a 2nd beta, which fixes some bugs that have been reported here and at EAB. Now in expert mode it also gives you more control over which keymaps, etc. to update.

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>This way the Unofficial Boing Bag can be promoted everywhere, on OSNews and other servers

There is nothing stopping it being promoted as is.

>distributed on Amiga Future CD, etc.

This would not meet condition #2 of the licence. Maybe we should have an exemption for magazine coverdisks.

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Wrong. See SilvrDrgn's post #75

That doesn't stop them from mentioning it. No one is proposing that OSNews should be distributing the package, they are a news site not a download site.

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We're talking about OSNews not amigaworld. I don't see how amigaworld moderators can call the shots about what is covered at an unaffiliated site. If amigaworld - or amiga-news.com for that matter - want their users to be left in the dark about new Amiga releases, and using obsolete software with known bugs in it for which fixes are available, that's up to them I guess.

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Good job :-)

Thanks :-)

I've done SIMILAR package+installer for AmiKit.

BB3 is a superset of this, ie. it contains all those upgraded components plus many more.