A600GS Updates

[F0LLETT]

Just got round to digging out my Greaseweazle to try on the A600GS. I have a PC floppy drive but only flat cables (no twist) from the Amiga but it works fine from my PC if I tell the software to use drive 1. Is there a way to specify this for the A600GS? I just tried, hoping it would detect or try different drive numbers but nothing happens

Just selecting DF1 in menu, will not work. You need to set it on GW level. Its currently being worked on / added.

[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:


46.1.1049  (04/04/2025):

A600GS:

A600GS / A1200NG
Include Italian translation and updates to German and Spanish

Internal refactor of settings loading, to prevent subclasses overiding user settings with their defaults. Specifically this fixes the floppy setup being partially overwritten in custom fullsystems.

Fix side menus closing when mouse hits left edge of screen. Some lower level code to track the mouse position was needed as the high level GUI event did not provide enough info.

Fix a crash when a RDB Harddisk was editing and the disabled bootpri field was parsed.

The Fullsystem class Limit Z3 memory gadget was not always in sync with the true setting, fixed.

Greaseweazle and Samisara keyboard firmware update support added. (A1200NG only)

Machine type detection added. Frontend menu now knows if it runing on A600GS or A1200NG

Unload the suspend on idle pulse module, to prevent the nasty click on the rear socket / RCA Audio outputs when sound had been ilde for a short while.

Improve serial port setup, scans for available ports and adds options to EDIT section. Filtering out greaseweazle and unconnected ttyS0.

Add options to setup Greasewaezle drive cable type, when greazeweazle is slected for real floppies.

Add CF Card support for A1200NG

AmiBerry:
Merge with 5.8.7 srcs

SystemV46:

* CLI Commands:
Add C:GetMachineName
Add C:SystemReboot to reboot SystemV46, Exit to Frontend GUI, Reboot machine or power down machine.

* Generalise the default background images

* Add machine dependent logo to AB-Dock.

[THX-1138]

Just wanted to say thanks, my little 600GS has come so far since I first got it - these updates are fantastic and the support has been great too.  Will we be getting any programming languages available for download or preinstalled?

[amigakit]

Happy Easter

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:


46.1.1069  (17/04/2025):

A600GS:

* Toggling auto login now works without having to login on that session!

* Bug fix for testing products for registered status.

* Check for Greasweazle before adding options to prevent open ended delays
whilst scanning for hardware, this only affects the greaseweazle itself,
currently no test for no floppy drive being attached, which can cause similar delays. Similar support for Drawbridge under investigation.

* Add SCDard capacity info to System general tab. If more than 10% of card is unused enable button allowing resize of partition on next restart. This allows backups of the sdcard to automagically scale to a new larger sdcard.

* When booting on an A1200NG enable F10 as well as F12 to start AmiBench directly.


Amiberry:

* Due to merges with upstream refactoring the virtual keyboard code relied on a variable that was not set till after keyboard was initialised in the local patches, fixed.


SystemV46:

* Update to AmiSSL 5.20


AmiBench:

* Control of machine's power off/full reboot/restart AmiBench can be now controlled from the AmiBench menu through a requester offering the 4 options.
Reduces risk of accidentally shutting down etc due to accidental choice of wrong menu item.


Programs:

* Update HippoPlayer to latest update.

[FlynnTA]

@amigakit

Thank you for the update.

Playing around with the new update, I found the following issues. Maybe they are also in the older firmware updates:

• The default tool icon (sys:prefs/env-archive/sys/def_tool.info) is set to Project, not Tool
• The RX command does not seem to work. At least rx "say 'hello'" does not do anything.
• Closing EaglePlayer crashes the system / shows a "Memory freed twice" window.
• After updating a profile with a full RDB hard disk, the system no longer boots from the hard disk.

Thanks,
Flynn

[Manta]

Hi guys,
After the latest update, my USB key no longer appears in the volumes list when trying to upload ADF files.
Has anyone else experienced this issue?

[amigakit]

Review of the A600GS (Deutsche)- videos for our German friends:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUq7rV83Wog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHupBkWn4kg

[broadblues]

@amigakit

Thank you for the update.

Playing around with the new update, I found the following issues. Maybe they are also in the older firmware updates:

• The default tool icon (sys:prefs/env-archive/sys/def_tool.info) is set to Project, not Tool
• The RX command does not seem to work. At least rx "say 'hello'" does not do anything.
• Closing EaglePlayer crashes the system / shows a "Memory freed twice" window.
• After updating a profile with a full RDB hard disk, the system no longer boots from the hard disk.

Thanks,
Flynn

Just fixed the the type of the def_tool icon, I had previous fixed up all (most of) the default disk types but missed that one.

RX does work, but SAY doesn't ...

try starting YAM and then doing

RX "ADDRESS YAM QUIT"

to verify.

• After updating a profile with a full RDB hard disk, the system no longer boots from the hard disk.

Need a little more explanation here. What exactly did you do?

If you had a system booting from a non RDB harddisk file and you set it to RDB, it will no longer be seen as a valid diskfile and so not boot.

If you added a RDB harddiskfile it *should* be auto detected but could be edge cases I've missed. 

If you added a RDB disk to a system already booting from another partition / harddisk file, then you may need to check no partitions on the RDB have a greater or equal bootpri to the disk you were booting from.

[broadblues]

Hi guys,
After the latest update, my USB key no longer appears in the volumes list when trying to upload ADF files.
Has anyone else experienced this issue?

Are you still having this issue? No changes to the mechanism that drives this have been made, so I'm not sure what might be wrong.

[FlynnTA]

Just fixed the the type of the def_tool icon, I had previous fixed up all (most of) the default disk types but missed that one.

RX does work, but SAY doesn't ...

try starting YAM and then doing

RX "ADDRESS YAM QUIT"

to verify.
Need a little more explanation here. What exactly did you do?

If you had a system booting from a non RDB harddisk file and you set it to RDB, it will no longer be seen as a valid diskfile and so not boot.

If you added a RDB harddiskfile it *should* be auto detected but could be edge cases I've missed. 

If you added a RDB disk to a system already booting from another partition / harddisk file, then you may need to check no partitions on the RDB have a greater or equal bootpri to the disk you were booting from.

Thanks for fixing the default icon.

Regarding RX: there are serveral REXX scripts for sending various information (uptime, weather, system infos) to IMP3. They are not doing anything or are crashing.

And about the RDB issue: it seems that the last update broke RDB support. I had a working 3.2.3 installation created with the previous (not current) patch. It worked fine until I edited the profile with the current firmware. I did not change anything regarding the harddrives, just selected a new ROM. And the RDB harddisk was no longer booting.
I deleted the profile and re-imported a working full RDB harddisk again. And guess what... the RDB hard disk is not booting.
And just to be clear: There is only one harddisk, the RDB one.

[amigakit]

The following software updates for the A600GS and  A1200NG have been uploaded today through the in-built live update system.  They are available to download for all registered AmiSphere users:


46.1.1086  (16/05/2025):


SystemV46:

* XADMaster.library Version 13.0 added

* UnArchiver V46.1 added for decompressing any archives supported by XAD, such as LHA, Zip etc

* Modify default icons for archives to open UnArchiver as default.

* Add UnArchiver to AB-Dock





A1200NG and A600GS:

*  Update German translations

*  Add the new amiberry.map_cd_drives=true option when enabling CD Image insertion. Fixes ISO not mounting.

*  Add option for disabling the boot jingle

* When the insert disk window was closed by pressing the start button on the joypad rather than a select or cancel gadget, the filechooser object was not deleted. Resulting in a bad reference when it was deleted later in the insert disk windows destructor, Fixed by reorder destructor sequence.

* Improve positioning of insert disk window when openeing.

* Add work around for memory leak that occured deep in the system when an window without borders / decoration had a blank / fully transparent mouse pointer set., and all other windows open were also borderless. This is effectively what SDL does when putting the window in SDL_RelativeMouseMode() and hiding the mouse pointer. AmiBerry uses this mode, so every time the currently running title was resumed a large chunk of CMA memory was leaked.  This was the underlying cause of the issue people have had with inserting a large number of disks whilst installing 3rd party OSes. The work around involved replacing the blank mouse pointer with an almost invisible single pixel pointer and recreating the RelativeMouseMode at a higher level.

[Twiggy]

Nice update, some nice features! and it seems to work with a monitor that it didn't work with before.

I've noticed a mouse issue since the update though, nothing major. There appears to be a single white pixel that stays roughly in the centre of image that gets pulled in the direction of the mouse cursor then pings back to the centre.

I can get a video or something if need be.

[AmigaOldskooler]

Nice update, some nice features! and it seems to work with a monitor that it didn't work with before.

I've noticed a mouse issue since the update though, nothing major. There appears to be a single white pixel that stays roughly in the centre of image that gets pulled in the direction of the mouse cursor then pings back to the centre.

I can get a video or something if need be.

Hi Twiggy,

Can confirm that bug. I have the same issue with the white pixel in the center of the screen on the A1200NG. Discovered it yesterday.

[slemmo]

Same here

[F0LLETT]

Its a workaround, for a memory leak bug.
I'm sure it is going to be looked into further.

[amigakit]

The following software updates for the A600GS and  A1200NG have been uploaded today through the in-built live update system.  They are available to download for all registered AmiSphere users:


46.1.1098  (23/05/2025):


SystemV46:

Introduce ArmMP3File library: The arm backend provides accelerated playback of MPG 1 2 and 2.5 Layer i ii and iii  encoded audio files.

Add PlayMP3 command line player controlled from the console.

Plays a list of files on the command line.

LOOP/S,QUIET/S,PLAYLIST/M/A

LOOP continuously loop through playlist.
QUIET suppress all console output
PLAYLIST list of mp3 files to play, non mp3 files will be quietly ignored.

CTRL C: End program
CTRL D: Pause / Resume playback
CTRL E: Next file in playlist
CTRL F: Previous file in playlist

S:PlayMP3Request  thin wrapper  to select files via RequestFile

S:PlayMP3Playlist  ARexx script to map a list of .m3u playlists onto the PlayMP3 command, QUIET and LOOP options are passed through.