AmigaOS 3.9 Boing Bag #3

[matthey]

@Matthey
I have seen your workbench.guide, which is certainly very good. In fact it has a lot of information on how to handle workbench using Arexx. But i must say that i disagree that it suits better for BB3, as it lacks all the general help information regarding for example: Workbench drawers, a general help FAQ with usual problems and their solutions, a brief description of what each command and tool does, etc. Anyway, i invite you to rip the information fom both, and attempt to merge them. That could be really usefull!

My workbench.guide has very specific info on the operation of Workbench, is formatted better with more buttons/links, and supports requester specific and menu help. Your workbench.guide has a lot of additional info, much of it useful but some not so much related to Workbench. I think it would be best to make separate guides for BB3, Workbench, Arexx and AmigaDOS and link between them. Ernest Unrau has an excellent ARexx guide already that could probably be used (update recently added to Aminet). My Workbench guide could be used with your additional Workbench related info added. I couldn't find an AmigaDOS guide as good as Ernest's Arexx guide but parts could be borrowed from other places including the work you have done already. English isn't my strong point and I am currently developing a better disassembler to modify programs so my time is limited. It would be better if someone else made the simple tedious modifications if possible. Otherwise, I may eventually get to it .

The Picasso96 stuff, in my humble point of view, should be added to a BoingBag3 Contribution software list, as such was the way Picasso96 was intended to be on AmigaOS3.9. As soon as i have a little more time i will attempt to generate that list and put it online including your Picasso96 findings.

That's fine with me. I'm happy that someone is taking the time to finally put this all together. Thanks.

[Gulliver]

@Matthey
I cant agree more!

I wish i had the time to edit them myself, but i am too busy at the moment to make that happen. So if someone wants to help on this, it could be nice!

[Gulliver]

AmigaOs BoingBag 3 website updated again:

-Due to popular demand, files are no longer on sharebee, they are hosted at the website
-Updated narrator.device (it is inside the Say archive)
-Added reqtools.library 39.3 (updates the one present in MooVid)
-Added two 3.9 bug entries
-Updated the credits section a bit

Of course you are encouraged to visit the AmigaOS BoingBag 3 website at http://lilliput.host-cafe.com

[utri007]

Many people has said that DON'T use latest AHI with real 68k amigas, it has made for morph os/amiga os4 and requires more cpu power than 4.7 wich is last only 68k AHI

[Gulliver]

@utri007
Well those claims are not based on facts. AHI 6 has been made for various different platforms, including 68k and it works as intended. The only fact is that if you got a 68000 cpu you should use AHI 4.x because since AHI 5 onwards, you are required to have at least a 68020 cpu or better.

[Minuous]

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.

[Gulliver]

Excellent!

Will get back at you with some comments after i play with it a bit.

[Gulliver]

@Minuous

You are missing:

DEVS: scsi.deviceA4000T v43.45 (there is no 44.2 for this model)
DEVS: scsi.deviceA3000   v43.45 (same here)

They are both generated with the following patch http://aminet.net/driver/media/SCSI4345p.lha (you should use the IDE patch version for the A4000T)


There is an update to icon.library 46.4alpha11 -> 46.4.128 released today:

http://eab.abime.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=23628&d=1260984338

My 2 cents

[Minuous]

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

[Minuous]

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

[Gulliver]

@Minuous

Excellent work! We are so near...

Details left:

Ratte allowed us to include Highgfx and HD270 drivers which should be located at /sotrage/monitors/. They are both excellent monitor drivers for workbench. Download them at http://aminet.net/driver/moni/HighGFX40_6.lha

The installer should check wich mpega.library to install, so that it installs the one that suits better the cpu. Get mpega.library at http://aminet.net/util/libs/mpega_library.lha

That should be enough!

[Minuous]

OK, 1.0 beta is released.

[TheMagicM]

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

[wawrzon]

pirated? you mean boingbag3? as far as i know it is a set of patches that a user has to apply to the original files via spatch. so it is completely legal.

[dannyp1]

Why would you want to delete things if you don't know if they are pirated or not?  Here we go with the old "Guilty until proven innocent" crap.  As far as I can see all of the updates in the BB3 are public domain, freeware, etc.  If you go do a search in aminet you will find just about everything.  Where did the complaint come from that would inspire you to leave that post?

[SilvrDrgn]

Amiga OS files cannot be freely redistributed without permission (not even in patched form because the new files still contain copyrighted data).  That's why various unofficial patch archives (eg. see Aminet) contain only patch data (.pch files) and not the full patched files.  If there is any other non-AmigaOS copyrighted files in the "BB3" archive being redistributed without permission, then that's not right either.