Roadshow for 68K -Needs your support!

[Gulliver]

@darkage

It is another commercial Amiga tcp-ip stack, still unpublished, that has no gui, and claims to have a lower memory footprint for 68k Amigas, between other things.

[darkage]

@darkage

It is another commercial Amiga tcp-ip stack, still unpublished, that has no gui, and claims to have a lower memory footprint for 68k Amigas, between other things.

Whao! Okay..  I saw some references to TCP/IP stack just didnt find a rock solid explanation of it.  Cooool!

[Lizard]

Could you pay some attention to WHDload compaptibility?

Last time I checked, there was no sound approach to getting this worked out: you have to turn off the interrupt processing triggered by incoming packets, and the proper way to do that is to shut down the TCP/IP stack.

WHDload has support for a startup and exit script.
So you can disable the tcp stack before startup and enable when whdload exits.

See http://www.whdload.de/docs/en/opt.html#ExecuteStartup

A similar problem occurs with the Poseidon USB stack, see

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=544518&postcount=5

[Lizard]

Could you pay some attention to WHDload compaptibility?

Last time I checked, there was no sound approach to getting this worked out: you have to turn off the interrupt processing triggered by incoming packets, and the proper way to do that is to shut down the TCP/IP stack.

WHDload has support for a startup and exit script.
So you can disable the tcp stack before startup and enable when whdload exits.

See http://www.whdload.de/docs/en/opt.html#ExecuteStartup

A similar problem occurs with the Poseidon USB stack, see

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=544518&postcount=5

[olsen]

hah! get the lead out olaf! I want to get my hands on this before i'm too old and broken down to use a computer!..

All joking aside, i hope you find a way to release it soon.

mech

Newsflash: right this very minute I'm working on getting the publishing deal off the ground, to be concluded soonish, with hopefully the final product to become available within February.

[utri007]

Would be nice if roadshow could automatically shutdown itself when WHDLoad is running. I like to have TCP/IP allways running and I allways forget to shutdown it before I start WHDLoad.

[Golem!dk]

Would be nice if roadshow could automatically shutdown itself when WHDLoad is running. I like to have TCP/IP allways running and I allways forget to shutdown it before I start WHDLoad.

Now go reread the WHDLoad documentation and change your global settings to handle this. I don't think that this is something Roadshow needs to handle by itself.

[Lizard]

Would be nice if roadshow could automatically shutdown itself when WHDLoad is running. I like to have TCP/IP allways running and I allways forget to shutdown it before I start WHDLoad.

You just have to enter it once in the whdload prefs, then for every whdload game, it will stop/start the tcp stack. See my previous post for the details.

[Christian Johansson]

Bump

[olsen]

Bump

I hear you... This is taking longer than I had expected. The release software and the demo version were delivered to the publisher more than two weeks ago. I thought we'd have a web site by now, and the product would be available for order. But stuff happens, and the whole thing has been delayed again

[nicholas]

I hear you... This is taking longer than I had expected. The release software and the demo version were delivered to the publisher more than two weeks ago. I thought we'd have a web site by now, and the product would be available for order. But stuff happens, and the whole thing has been delayed again

Why don't you just sell it yourself by paypal and email licence keys to people that buy it?

[olsen]

Why don't you just sell it yourself by paypal and email licence keys to people that buy it?

Two reasons. First, the product needs a web site and a public support forum. These things are not a luxury. For the kind of product Roadshow is, it's inevitable that questions will come up which need to be answered, and the answers ought to be available for everyone in one single place. I don't have a web site or a public support forum, and setting them up means paying for them. I'm not sure if selling Roadshow would even manage to pay for the cost of setting up a web server. Second, I signed a contract with a publisher who already has the infrastructure in place. I can't just walk away from that.

Yes, it has been a long journey since the Christmas holidays in the year 2000 when I started working on what became Roadshow. But will a few days more hurt? I hope not...

[nicholas]

Two reasons. First, the product needs a web site and a public support forum. These things are not a luxury. For the kind of product Roadshow is, it's inevitable that questions will come up which need to be answered, and the answers ought to be available for everyone in one single place. I don't have a web site or a public support forum, and setting them up means paying for them. I'm not sure if selling Roadshow would even manage to pay for the cost of setting up a web server. Second, I signed a contract with a publisher who already has the infrastructure in place. I can't just walk away from that.

Yes, it has been a long journey since the Christmas holidays in the year 2000 when I started working on what became Roadshow. But will a few days more hurt? I hope not...

I see. Oh well, put me down for two copies once it's available.

[Christian Johansson]

I hear you... This is taking longer than I had expected. The release software and the demo version were delivered to the publisher more than two weeks ago. I thought we'd have a web site by now, and the product would be available for order. But stuff happens, and the whole thing has been delayed again

No stress, i can wait a while (i don't have enough cash to buy it right now anyway)

[magnetic]

olsen

This was discussed months ago and it was ready months ago. What in the world could take so long? You are losing a lot of momentum.

[mechy]

EDIT: oops! didnt notice olaf had replied above..



When i set out to get Olaf to try and release this, i could not of imagined it would take this long.Most of the time was from him wanting to optomise and do some bug fixing ,as well as making the docs a bit better. sadly the last bit has been distribution. i talked to him about a week ago and he has someone that is going to distribute it. I dont know why this is so hard or time consuming,but he has not told me why.he says its in the works tho. This is all the info have.

Mech