A600GS Updates

[Rusty Breadbin]

I found trying to download a file to RAM: does not work, it just shows "progress 0" and goes no further.
Files download to hard drives okay.

EDIT sorry did not see that it stated this in the release post.

[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:

46.2.1289:

SystemV46: Update AmiSSL

* Add FetchURL command which allows fast downloading of URLs via the DBUS interface of the A600GS/A1200NG main menu with progress requester.

Updates to AmiBrowser:
 o Add support for the Autentication requester requird fior HTTP_AUTH et al.
 o Add suport for openling local HTML files. Using both file:///VOLUME:path/to/file and file:///volume/path/to/file forms
 o Add handler to allow reading of files from amiga filesystems file:///RAM Disk/test.html will work!
 o Add support for special file URL eg file:///AmiBrowser/about.html
 o Improve file upload support, now supports multifile uploads in dropbox / google cloud etc
 o Ensure initial graphics buffer is initialised to white to avoid apparent gfx corruption for download URls etc that require no rendering
 o Add splash window on startup
 o Fixes to shutdown and restart of the ArmCEF library during reboot, you can now safely CTRL RAmiga LAmiga reset after running AmiBrowser again.

* Introduce ArmScummVMFile library to enable ARM powered ScummVM games intergrated into AmiBench.

* Add ScummVM GUI to download and launch selected freeware ScummVM games.  Thanks to Guillaume Boesel.

A600GS/A1200NG:

* Add support for creating HardDisk files in the Custom Fullsystem edit menu.
* Created Hardisk files are blank but can be formatted using system software.
* Add Export Harddisk menu option to allow backup of individual harddisk files.
* Extension to private DBUS interface to support many of the above features.

[iDLe]

Great to see the ongoing work on this.
Can't wait for 600GS to arrive (currently order is pending being built).

[broadblues]

Anyone having issues with crashing when downloading ScummVM games please try the 46.2.1291 update just pushed. This fixes something that needed fixing but may or may not be the crash as it never crashed for me and the testers....

[DavidF215]

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

Glad to have a usable web browser on AmigaOS 3 now. Posting this from AmiBrowser on my A600GS. Nice work!

Now, anyone know which GCC version is needed for compiling my code that uses SDL2 on an A600GS?

[broadblues]

Now, anyone know which GCC version is needed for compiling my code that uses SDL2 on an A600GS?

The 68k components I've built for the project have used mostly used VBCC but also SASC and GCC 2.93 (ixemul based but with clib2 ) all cross compiling on AmigaOS (under 68k emulation) 68k code which is targeted to AmigaOS or AROS 68k should run, so it really the compiler of your choice.

[mike-taws]

What's new with 46.2.1303?

[broadblues]

46.2.1303 PUBLIC:
Speed up startup times by fetching amisphere server data asynchronously.
Set shorter timeout in case of server error when logging in.

[my_pc_is_amiga]

I'm using 46.2.1312 and hit a few issues (though also saw this on 1303 version).  I'm not sure what to call the A600GS GUI that is available before emulation begins and so will refer that as the "frontend".

1) Frontend pointer pops up when using F12 menu. However, when I leave that menu. There is a single pixel pointer that is left behind and follows the emulated pointer.   

2) I'm using a HDF file and boots okay initially.  I can do multiple reboots and still is okay but at some point the emulation no longer sees the partitions in the HDF as bootable anymore and so I just get to the kickstart insert disk.   Yesterday, I booted from an ADF and used HDToolbox to look at the RDB of the partitions on the HDF and saw that all that I have specified as bootable was still shown as bootable.   But for some reason the emulation still does not see it as bootable.  I have to recopy over the entire HDF again.  This HDF is a 20GB one.   I'm not sure if it is messing with the Frontend  settings changes anything but this time I noticed that after I disabled RTG and disabled network, save and then started it became non-bootable.

3) Frontend Wifi SSID list.  There are multiple entries of same SSIDs in the list that shows up.

4) I was trying to get P96 to work for A600GS.card by using BOARDTYPE=A600GS.  When I enable this, I get a strange error saying that ModeID is same for "A600GS and A600GS"  A600GS text is shown twice in the requester.

5) Only files with extensions *.hdf are recognized.  Would be good to also recognize *.img and *.hda as well as these were how the ones I have were named.   My hard drive file was basically created on exFAT SD card on Windows 11 using this example from the ZuluSCSI site https://github.com/ZuluSCSI/ZuluSCSI-firmware

Windows: fsutil file createnew HD1.img 1073741824 (1 GB) --> I changed this to 20GB

I then used a ZuluSCSI on a real A4000T to do the partitioning and formatting.  I copied everything over on my A4000T to that hard drive file and then copied it over to A600GS.

[F0LLETT]

3) I get this, as it see's all access points on network. In my case, I have a alot of mesh's. About 6, I just pick top one, which is normally the closest.

5) Just rename the file to .hdf. I created a few hdf's for use with Zulu, just renamed the to either .img or .hda to work with Zulu. So it will be the visever for .img/.hda.