AmigaOS 3.9 BoingBag #4

[HammerD]

BoingBag 4 has been updated to 0.7d

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

Very nice! thank you very much! What is new specifically? I looked at the list of updated components for BB4, but didn't see a changelog.

[HammerD]

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/

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.

[HammerD]

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

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?

[HammerD]

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.

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.

[HammerD]

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).  

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

Darren

[HammerD]

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.

Oops, right.  I updated the post Thnx.