AmiBench Problems and some thoughts

[broadblues]

Only a little thing but the “Startup” menu item (under Drawers) does nothing.  The ENVARC:Sys and Prefs ones open their respective drawers.

Thanks, fixed.

[SkulleateR]

Thanks,  this is now fixed for next release.

Still not in 1.827 ...

Oh and the path to the Backdrops directory is wrong in WBPattern ...

[broadblues]

Still not in 1.827 ...

Next update.

[amigakit]

@SkulleateR

I need to add something about the time settings prefs : most of the time I´m getting weird characters in the display (see attachment)

This has been fixed over the last few days.  Our developer added fixes to the Time Gadget Class.  The new version 46.33 will be added to the next public update to SystemV46.  The problem will be resolved then. 

[SkulleateR]

@SkulleateR

This has been fixed over the last few days.  Our developer added fixes to the Time Gadget Class.  The new version 46.33 will be added to the next public update to SystemV46.  The problem will be resolved then.

Awesome, no more setting the time "by hand"

[NinjaCyborg]

what is 'AmiBench'?

[SkulleateR]

what is 'AmiBench'?

The A600GS Workbench replacemnt

[amigakit]

AmiBench is the desktop environment for SystemV46.  Refer to the Wiki link here:

https://wiki.amiga.org/amibench

[amigakit]

@SkulleateR

The new Time Gadget Class v46.33:

[SkulleateR]

Ok, here is a new list ...

- there is no way to use my normal keyboard layout, doesn´t matter what I choose in the GS menu, it will always be UK
- you got JPG/PNG Datatypes, but you cannot display those formats, you only get a black image in MultiView
- OctaMedPlayer won't load any module (wrong format) but I will say I won´t know if that one needs a special OctaMed format
- HippoPlayer crashes (" There is a Problem with the Player group" )
- Eagleplayer loads the module but plays way too fast and when it is finished I get a Recoverable Alert crashing AmiBench
- no chance of playing back mp3 with e.g. AmigaAmp ... this stutters as hell
- choosing the timezone or getting the time from the net crashes AmiBench so the time is always wrong
- no chance getting a browser to work, always moaning about MUI mcc files, I even copied them over from my A1200 and set the assigns, still nothing
- SysInfo crashes AmiBench
- how can I use DF1: ? it´s in the list but I cannot put an ADF into it ...


Seems that everything left on my list has to do with the sound ... except the Sysinfo thingie but that´s not a big deal

[SkulleateR]

Oh and the path to the Backdrops directory is wrong in WBPattern ...

Still the wrong path there

[amigakit]

Amibench text rendering should be much faster after today’s update.  68k code to generate antialiasing of fonts is now native ARM code  through the ARM Graphics Library.

[Rusty Breadbin]

Looking at Skulleater's list, he/she's crossed off "how can I use DF1:"
Does that mean we can access DF1: now? If so, how?

Also, the timezone listed in Locale Preferences for Adelaide and Darwin are wrong (I live in this area of Australia)... it's listed as "9 hours from UTC" but's it's actually 9.5 hours from UTC, so my clock in AmiBench is 30 minutes behind what our time actually is.

[SkulleateR]

Looking at Skulleater's list, he/she's crossed off "how can I use DF1:"
Does that mean we can access DF1: now? If so, how?

No, it disappeared on AmiBench list so since I guess they disabled it in Amiberry menu ...

[SkulleateR]

Just wanted to know if those annoying sound bugs get addressed somewhere in the future ?? As soon as I start using AHI for something like mp3 playback or stream a radio station it´s still stuttering like hell for example in DAPlayer or AmigaAmp 

[amigakit]

@SkulleateR

We are starting work on a MHI driver for AmigaAmp.  This will give ARM native playback of MP3s etc