Feature Requests

[F0LLETT]

That's not the Amiga philosophy; it is more like Windows or Android where they deliberately make it difficult to uninstall all the crapware.

Huh???
You can't unsintall anything on A500 mini. Most of the games are rubbish. I can't remove the ones I dont want.
So what is your point, apart from what I can clearly see as trolling.

[Minuous]

What does the A500 Mini have to do with anything? I was talking about the Amiga. Why does it matter what the A500 Mini does, unless you are just attempting to copy that?

[F0LLETT]

What does the A500 Mini have to do with anything? I was talking about the Amiga. Why does it matter what the A500 Mini does, unless you are just attempting to copy that?

You opened the door, as thats the only other thing like it. Yet theres no issue with that having crapware (as you put it) on it.
You contacted them to complain that they have unremovable crapware on it.

Not copying, project started before Mini, so nice try.
Stop trolling.

[Minuous]

Again, I was not talking about the A500 Mini, and never said anything remotely like "there's no issue with that having crapware". If it has nothing to do with the A600GS then why do you keep mentioning it?

I really don't see any cause for these personal attacks, it is very unprofessional.

[F0LLETT]

Again, I was not talking about the A500 Mini, and never said anything remotely like "there's no issue with that having crapware". If it has nothing to do with the A600GS then why do you keep mentioning it?

I really don't see any cause for these personal attacks, it is very unprofessional.

Was trying to use an example, which was Amiga related. I mean its 3 games.
Besides, it could be changed at any time, if people really wanted to remove them. Just really do not see point in your original comment.
You say I keep mentioning mini. As stated, its the only on the market comparison at the moment. Not Android or Windows as you mentioned, which cant be compared as they pump crap on to your device after every update. You missunderstood, you took whole sentence (I ment one word, crapware), "there's no issue with that having crapware".

Sorry if you see it as a person attack not my intention, as I have no issue with you what so ever.
Spoken to you loads of times over the years.

[THX-1138]

Back to feature requests...

I'm sure I read somewhere that some programming languages might be added?  Is that still a plan?

[BozzerBigD]

Huh???
You can't unsintall anything on A500 mini. Most of the games are rubbish. I can't remove the ones I dont want.
So what is your point, apart from what I can clearly see as trolling.

Most of the games are rubbish?! Most of the games I play are side loaded off a memory stick! If I'm completely honest I spend 90% of my time on the mini console using Pandory500, 9% on AMiNIMiga and only 1% on the RGL Carousel included with the console itself. Memory sticks can be swapped out fairly fluidly to be honest! Media management takes place with the memory stick plugged into a PC. It works fine! No need to fling mud!

[F0LLETT]

Most of the games are rubbish?! Most of the games I play are side loaded off a memory stick! If I'm completely honest I spend 90% of my time on the mini console using Pandory500, 9% on AMiNIMiga and only 1% on the RGL Carousel included with the console itself. Memory sticks can be swapped out fairly fluidly to be honest! Media management takes place with the memory stick plugged into a PC. It works fine! No need to fling mud!

Not going down this route again.
Back on topic please.

[BozzerBigD]

OK, back on topic:
1) A serial port which allows 2 x A600GSs to be connected for 8-player Super Skidmarks.
2) How about having the Virtual GP game automatically configured for A600GS gamepad controls?
3) Thee option to buy an additional gamepad would be nice.
4) Maybe more Arm accelerated software like Aladdin 4D?

[F0LLETT]

1. Who knows, not planned at present. Please stop going on about skidmarks and 8 players.
2. It already is. As mentioned numerous times.
3. Thats the plan, Just getting GS orders out of the way first.
4. Who knows, nothing has been mentioned as yet.
5. You do not even own an A600GS.

[BozzerBigD]

5. You do not even own an A600GS.

Last time I checked you have two types of people reading this thread; either customers or potential customers. None of us are your automatic signed up betatesters. I don't think you should have any expectation of people buying it and then telling you what features they want! More likely we'll check to see what it can do and only buy it if it definitely does what we expect! That's why I'm here.

[Rusty Breadbin]

Had my A600GS for a few days now, after I got some initial issues out of the way I'm having a great time with it.
This and "TheC64" (my other great purchase a few years ago) sure beat emulation on a boring old PC.

    - Ability to choose smaller icons or perhaps a list view in the games selector.
    - Ability to map keyboard keys to joystick (as per UAE, cursor keys + ctrl)
    - Ability to map a joystick button to Up (and disable Up on the joypad)
    - Disk drive noise 

These.

Re disk drive noise: some people may not like it, but it would be nice to have it as a selectable option for those that do/those that want it there as a reassurance their A600GS has not crashed on long load times that some games have.

Joystick mapping needs to be done, particularly for racing games where you have to push up all the time to accelerate, that's murder on my thumb when I do it using the d-pad. So an option to map joystick movements and also keyboard keys to buttons on the gamepad.

Option for smaller icons/list view (list preffered) for the launcher to minimise amount of scrolling when I ultimately get a ton of games installed, and AmigaBill's suggestion of folders in the launcher would be great too!

Also a web browser to run inside AmiBench as some others have suggested.

(edit: fixed typos)

[amyren]

For the AmiBench prefs, would it be possible to either adjust the screen titlebar popup under mouse so the mouse needs to be closer to the top before the popup happens, or be able to set a delay for it to pop up?

Reason for asking is that for some floppy disk icons they will apear very close to the top left part of the workbench, and then when moving the mouse over the disk icon title will popup and hide the icon, making it impossible to select or double click the icon. Off course there are workarounds, like turn off backdrop or make the title always visible or always hidden, but I like the behaviour of the titlebar hiding.

[Stilvoid]

Would love to be able to contribute some of these small "quality of life" features if you folks have a way to take contributions? I know you're busy with the big features but as I use the A600GS most days, it's the papercuts that I feel the most and I'm always happy to get stuck in 

[amigakit]

@Stilvoid

It is great that you are using your A600GS daily.

Please let us know the small features that you would like

Thanks

[Stilvoid]

Everything I listed in my first post in this topic 

- Missing quality of life features:
    - Ability to invert mouse scroll direction ("natural" scroll).
    - Progress bar when adding HDFs. Anything over a few MB takes a while and there's no indication that anything is happening.
    - Timer or something when opening a large folder from USB stick. Bonus points if you swap the mouse pointer for a "thinking" cloud
    - Ability to choose smaller icons or perhaps a list view in the games selector.
    - Access to amiberry interface for additional tweaking when games need it.
    - Ability to map keyboard keys to joystick (as per UAE, cursor keys + ctrl)
    - Ability to filter/start typing when selecting an adf to import. Long lists are painful to scroll through.
    - Ability to map a joystick button to Up (and disable Up on the joypad)
    - Disk drive noise 
- Issues:
    - Audio pops on jack output when no sounds have played for a while (a few seconds) and then you click on a disc or something. Not good for my speakers!
    - File selector is case-sensitive so upper-case appears before lower-case.
    - Sounds sometimes repeat, e.g. select a game, sometimes the disk sound happens twice.