A600GS Updates

[ernsteiswuerfel]

* Edit Game:  add Faster Chipset option that switches on some chipset optimisations at the expense of
compatibility

Thanks! Now 'Reshoot Proxima 3 runs at least with decent speed. JIT + Faster Chipset needs to be enabled. 1st Lvl runs 100 %ok, 2nd Lvl stills runs at lower framerate (probably ~20fps) than a M68K A1200/4000/CD32.

Looks like the A600GS may lack some CPU power for modern chipset demanding AGA games? Perhaps building Amiberry with more aggressive CFLAGS on the arm side could improve this a bit?

* Refactor internal floppy drive settings setup to allow configuring multiple drives.

I hoped this change would have allowed to use DF1 per default. At least the changelog reads this way. But it seems that's not the case... still only DF0 enabled.

[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:

46.1.931  (16/12/2024):

A600GS:

* Insert New Disk pause menu item now allows access to DF1 DF2 and DF3 as well as DF0 window depending on current config of running game or applications.
* The buttons to select DF0 et al will be disabled if that drive is not enabled for ADF (ie set to Drawbridge or switched off)
* AmiBench now defaults to have DF0 and DF1 enabled
* Drawbridge has DF0 as Drawbridge and DF1 as ADF other have only DF0 by default.

AmiBench

* Picture datatype updated to v46.20:  now support ArmGFX lib for display of alpha masked images. Fixes for RTG games.
* Optimisations to AmiBench Prefs to removed non relavents sections on this platform

Programs

Fix HippoPlayer, there were multiple Hippo Player group objects installed with the older version being reference in the Hippo Players prefs. The out of date files should be removed now and the new ones configured correctly.

[amyren]

Where can one enable DF1 to DF3 for other setups?
DF1 - 3 are grayed out here, only DF0 selectable.

[amigakit]

Santatron A600GS edition is a commercial game from Nivrig Games.  It has been added as a free download/install on the A600GS. 

In the main menu, click on the Downloads section under AmiSphere menu

[AmigaOldskooler]

@amigakit

Thanks for adding this game! I had not played it before, so it was fun giving it a go for the first time on the A600GS. I must say that the option on the system to easily download games and get them automatically installed is brilliant. Cheers!

[amigakit]

For everyone who found an A600GS underneath their Christmas tree, we hope you are enjoying it! We will have a special system update for all A600GS users imminently arriving in coming days.  Here is a quick preview of the new Custom Hard Drive feature.  You can soon make your own custom system image with ROM and partitions.  We have many requests for this one so it will no doubt be popular.  Happy Christmas!

[THX-1138]

For everyone who found an A600GS underneath their Christmas tree, we hope you are enjoying it! We will have a special system update for all A600GS users imminently arriving in coming days.  Here is a quick preview of the new Custom Hard Drive feature.  You can soon make your own custom system image with ROM and partitions.  We have many requests for this one so it will no doubt be popular.  Happy Christmas!

I can't wait for this.  It's been great seeing these updates come out and the A600GS get better and better.

Merry Christmas.

[proteque]

This looks great!

I still struggle to find a compatible drive for my drawbridgem so I envy you that has managed to find one. "returning" those I buy from norway usually costs more than the drives so I now have quite a lot of those usb floppy drives. hehe. I do hope you will add the greaseweazle-support as well down the line because it is a lot easier to find hardware (it use standard drives. not those hard to find drives from rack servers).

The fix for hippoplayer was one I was waiting for. playing mods is an important part of my Amiga usage. 

[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:

46.1.946  (31/12/2024):

A600GS:

Implement  the new "Add" panel. Now when the ADD button is pressed to import a game or application, a new informative panel is shown with overall explanation and step by step instructions (as needed) for importing each type of  game, system or application.

In addition to the existing ADF, WHDBoot, CD32 / ISO, and stand alone HDF types, a new Drawbridge option is added.

The "Custom Full System" this last will enable advanced users to import custom systems based on multiple hard disks and custom ROMs. Currently multiple HDFs are supported, multiple drawer based hard disk options will be added in the near future.

Add custom ROM option to edit section.

SystemV46:

* Copy v46.18 updated

[ernsteiswuerfel]

@amigakit How very nice! Eager to play around with "Add Custom System" the next few days. 

Only Feature I am missing now would be .ipf support. And multiple floppy support does not seem fully implemented yet. Since Update 46.1.931 using 2 Disks simultaneously on Amibench works, but for ADF games from the Main Menu still only 1 floppy is usable: All 4 floppys are shown but DF1-DF3 are greyed out and non-selectable. There is no configure option in ADF menu to enable more than one floppy.

[notel98]

Thanks for this update. I have now managed to create a system using 3 hdf files, System, Work and Games using OS322. The only thing that I couldn't see was the ability to use custom memory when using the Custom System options.

Thanks

[notel98]

When installing to hard disk from floppy you are normally instructed to remove the floppy disks to complete the installation. I cannot see any option to eject the floppy, only replace, can this option be added at some time ?

Is it possible to export a hdf to usb after you have made changes like installing additional software etc ?

Thanks

[SkulleateR]

When installing to hard disk from floppy you are normally instructed to remove the floppy disks to complete the installation. I cannot see any option to eject the floppy, only replace, can this option be added at some time ?

I asked about that a long time ago, until now you can still use the dumb.adf I created

https://forum.amiga.org/index.php?topic=76843.0

[amyren]

Thanks for this most wanted update.
I can now map the USB drive and Global disks, and even there are no custom memory settings I got 2 MB chip/1GB Fastram.

But how is the RTG supposed to work, what RTG card is activated by Amiberry?
uaegfx does not seem to work here.

As mentioned in another post, the A600GS version of the Amiberry executable did not work with uaegfx under Orange Pi Debian Bookworm either, while building Amiberry-Lite from source did made an executable that had uaegfx working.

[notel98]

I asked about that a long time ago, until now you can still use the dumb.adf I created

https://forum.amiga.org/index.php?topic=76843.0

Thanks SkulleateR I remember your post re dumb.adf but would still like the option to eject a floppy

[SkulleateR]

Thanks SkulleateR I remember your post re dumb.adf but would still like the option to eject a floppy

Me too