A600GS Updates

[amigakit]

The legendary Competition Pro Joystick is now available as a product option for the A600GS. 



This legendary digital joystick features four firing buttons and the turbo function permit enough control to defeat every opponent. Made of robust material the joystick is perfectly suitable for playing a wide range of game genres:  racing, platform, shoot em-ups and beat em-ups.

[amigakit]

I am currently writing my presentation on the A600GS for the Amiwest show next week.  I thought it would be much better to display the presentation slides on the A600GS itself rather than a laptop.   Our developer has created a small CLI command called ShowSlide.  This small program displays the presentation slides as full screen taken as a list from the command line.  For example:

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c:ShowSlide SLIDES slide1.png slide2.png slide3.png slide4.png

Left mouse button advances to the next slide.  The slides are accelerated by the Shared Image Class and ARM Graphics Library

We will include this in the next public release.   Some A600GS users may find it useful if they want to use their A600GS as a portable presentation tool.  It will certainly be a talking point in meetings

[Crom00]

Hi,
Does the CD32 Emulation support CD Audio track playback for games that use CD audio in game?. I have some Amiga CD32 CD-ROMs I have used with Audio playback on my Vampire based systems using the IDE bus and audio out from the CD-ROM headphone jack. I was wondering if the A600GS plays back the CD-AUDIO as that feature was really nice.

Thanks!
M

[F0LLETT]

Hi,
Does the CD32 Emulation support CD Audio track playback for games that use CD audio in game?. I have some Amiga CD32 CD-ROMs I have used with Audio playback on my Vampire based systems using the IDE bus and audio out from the CD-ROM headphone jack. I was wondering if the A600GS plays back the CD-AUDIO as that feature was really nice.

Thanks!
M

It does, however functionality for that has not been added yet.

[amigakit]

The following software updates for the A600GS have been uploaded today through the in-built live update system.  They are available to download for all registered AmiSphere users:


46.1.864  (25/10/2024):


SystemV46:

* ARM Graphics Library:      Add Text backend function to support generate to the antialiased text alpha template. Give 10% additional speedup on text rendering.   BugFix: RGB src image with no mask was not handled correctly, resulting in no rendering at all in some cases or incorrect alpha in others.
* ShowSlide v46.1 added to C directory. 
* AmiBench:  Migrate to using an intermediate AmiBench-Startup script before the traditional User-Startup and filter the latter from update archives. Now the user can edit and customise this without having customistions overwritten
* AmiSSL v5.18 updated
* Icon Library v51.4.589 updated
* Version command v46.21 updated
* CLI v46.10 updated
* Add def_DF0.info et al and snapshot the lower half of screen under current disks.
* AB-Dock: Use custom rendering to draw IntuiText based lables, cacheing the font etc to try and reduce text flicker.
* SetGadgetAttrs( node, GA_Selected,....) caused  TWO refreshes under AROS (and none under OS3.x)  Replace with SetAttrs() followed by RefreshGList()

A600GS:

* Add support for Floppy disk drives through Drawbridge.
* Add note about pressing fire button to enable DB9 joysticks

[SkulleateR]

A600GS:

* Add support for Floppy disk drives through Drawbridge.

Should this work with a Greaseweazle v4.1 ? Cause it doesn't with mine 

Also : is this only available as separate A500 Config ? No AmiBench integration ?

[SkulleateR]

Oh, and the A1200 Config seems to be broken now, every Game and/or HDF I try to start is using Kick 1.3 instead of Kick 3.1 now  :'(

[F0LLETT]

Should this work with a Greaseweazle v4.1 ? Cause it doesn't with mine 

Also : is this only available as separate A500 Config ? No AmiBench integration ?

Greaseweasle not at moment. I personally see it as an internal solution.
Drawbridge works fine in Amibench,

[SkulleateR]

Greaseweasle not at moment. I personally see it as an internal solution.
Drawbridge works fine in Amibench,

But WHY ? Greaseweazle is accessible the same way, it works fine on my MacM1, my Windows Box, my Linux Laptop and my Pi400 ...  I don´t see why it can't be activated in the same way as Drawbridge 

I´m surely not afraid of spending money for my hobby but I will for sure not pay for a Drawbridge, while already owning a Greaseweazle !

[broadblues]

Should this work with a Greaseweazle v4.1 ? Cause it doesn't with mine

Initially only drawbridge support was added as it simplifies setup ( a number of options need to be tweaked in  parallel internally) and I wanted to get the options out for "testing" in the wild. If there is demand for greaseweazle I can add it.

The standalone config it not fixed to A500 you can choose which model you want from the edit panel.

Initial support is disabled in AmiBench as there were issues there when testing in the team, but these may now be resolved, so hopefully it can be enabled soon.

Oh, and the A1200 Config seems to be broken now, every Game and/or HDF I try to start is using Kick 1.3 instead of Kick 3.1 now  :'(

That's odd as AmiBerry wasn't udated fpr a few updates and this is controlled internally by AmiBerry.

[Stilvoid]

If there is demand for greaseweazle I can add it.

In that case, +1 for Greaseweazle support here This would be great functionality to have but, as above, I don't want to buy another device when I already have a Greaseweazle.

[F0LLETT]

In that case, +1 for Greaseweazle support here This would be great functionality to have but, as above, I don't want to buy another device when I already have a Greaseweazle.

It works well. I just have to run some more tests with using Greaseweazle. Then I'm sure it can be added.

[amigakit]

Connect a real Amiga 1200 or Amiga 600 keyboard to your A600GS with the new AmiKey keyboard interface:

[beller]

I updated the  A600GS a few days ago and added several ADFs. 

This evening I tried looking at the software that came with the machine, DOpus and AmiBench.  Neither are booting. 

t appears there is a flash of text as it boots but I'm left with a Workbench blank screen. 

[amyren]

Try to select AmiBench and press the Edit button and check if the setup looks ok.
I had a nearly similar experience today with AmiBench after adding/editing a Workbench 3.9 setup.
Suddenly Amibench did not boot up, and a requestor telling it failed to find the system 46 partition.
Turned out all selections in the Amibench setup was unticked for some reason. The harddrive settings was still there, so I just reselected everything and saved it. Then it booted normally again.

[amigakit]

The following software updates for the A600GS have been uploaded today through the in-built live update system.  They are available to download for all registered AmiSphere users:

46.1.878  (11/11/2024):

AmiBerry: Extend uaelib to provide info about available midi devices and allow setting currently active midi input and output devices.

Merge with latest amiberry-lite github 5.7.5

A600GS:
BrlTTY was installed by default on earlier image versions, this caused a conflict with Drawbridge USB as it "stole" the USB serial device from the DrawBridge drivers! This update will do a one time purge of brltty where installed. This had the strange effect of the first floppy drawbridge connected not working but the next one attached would work as if it were the only one attached.
 Later images are not affected.

Add support in the GUI for Competition Pro joysticks. Also add support for 8BitDo Zero 2 Bluetooth controllers. Widen the pattern used for testing input devices for joystickness so that more (hopefully all) gamepads should now be recognised as such.

If the bluetooth system was disabled then dbus messages sent to it to scan for attached or paired devices etc would trigger an Abort() in the libdus library rather than return the usual error message, unfortunately then causing the main GUI to Abort() to black screen. Add additional tests at all levels to prevent DBUS message being sent to BlueZ when not extant. This solves the main and up till now mysterious causes of the black screen after boot issue!

OctaMED:
Add a menu item to allow selecting the desired input and output A600GS MIDI devices