I created a virtual machine with my compiled Lazarus source and cross compilers for Amiga, AROS and MorphOS. The virtual machine is for VMWare Player. Lazarus and a short description is placed on the Desktop. Should be really easy to use. I used the shared folder feature of VMWare to place the data where the other OS can reach them.
At the start I wanted to use DSL (Damn Small Linux) but sadly I didn’t get it to run (mouse does not move), so I changed to an other one. But the DSL stayed as name. Therefore the package is rather big (1.6 GB packed, 9 GB unpacked).
I hope someone is brave enough to try it and give some feedback.
Virtual machine with Lazarus Amiga, AROS, MorphOS:
VM Lazarus (1544 MB)
MD5: cf3e14797f9ba9882ee66247ee1fbc9f
Check also the FAQ.
I also create a little Introduction Video for this virtual machine use to show how easy it is.
Compiled the Games and Tools I compiled for MorphOS and AROS already. so now the set is complete 😉
BinShifter, ColorIt, FPCMines and PasteQuick for Amiga
Download on the FPC Amiga Page
I just waited for this fix to make a Release of Freepascal 3.1.1 for m68k-amiga with the new Lazarus component Library. Of course its still early alpha state but it is somewhat usable.
Check FPC Amiga Page for the download.
Of course this archive does work on m68k AROS also. (It does not include FPGui for now)
Be warned: LCL is still is very early alpha stage, so expect crashes. It aims on fast RTG Amigas or even better RTG-UAE, but some simple programs also work on AGA/ECS Screens.
Notice: you need at least 180 MB of free RAM to compile a LCL program
hmm I did so many changes to m68k amiga but I didn’t try m68k aros again. When I tried it last time it behaved rather strange (see LCL on AROS). But now it seems to work. Maybe its because of my changes with layout or charlies m68k compiler changes. who cares, it work. Even EdiSyn looks ok to me.
EdiSyn and FPCMines on m68k AROS
Additional try on my real Amiga1200 which does not have a gfx-card. So only AGA with 64 colors on the workbench. Also the calls to set a color on a rastport using 24bit values is not available so one have to use pens. I did already some changes in the code to use Pens on a real Amiga, and disabled the cybergraphics calls if no cybergraphics.library is available. EdiSyn sadly crash, maybe I missed one cgfx call, but the FPCMines seems to work, ok needs longt time to start and slow drawing but it works. It’s even playable in a reasonable Speed.
FPC Mines on a real Amiga with 64 color screen
Charlie repaired the m68k fpc compiler, my hope was that also the drawing problems at 68k will disappear, and I was right, seems it was the same problem, now the drawing works much better on a classic Amiga. Even EdiSyn work now somehow.
EdiSyn on a m68k Amiga with MUI 3.8
When starting EdiSyn on MorphOS many debug outputs appear in the LogTool which tell something about an odd BltTemplate call. Luckily Jaca from IRC and ond morph.Zone was able to help me and identify this problem as a text output to a bitmap over the edges without a clipping layer. And thats right, I use a buffer bitmap and rastport which does not have a layer. He kindly explained me how to install a trivial layer to it and it work. Much faster now (4 messages per second or so, on every redraw). So I made a little Video about the basic EdiSyn function.
It looks very slow, and sometimes the mouse seems not to react properly but this is only because its recorded via VNC, I didn’t find a screen recording tool for MorphOS.
Besides this I solved the sizing problem for MorphOS. The Window object in MUI returns the outersize of the window, Zune the inner size. The ClientRectangle is taken from this Value in LCL, the problem is that when the ClientRectangle is requested the Window is not open and later it’s cached somewhere so never asked again.
So on GetClientRectangle I check if the window is open and reduce the MUI returned size by the Border of the Window structure. Additionally when the window is open (set visible to True) I invalidate the client rectangle cache, there is a special call for it.
This results in a reasonable size calculation, at least the result looks comparable to AROS/Zune:
I tried EdiSyn on MorphOS before looked kind of ok but the text was not visible. Today I got an idea for the reason, the minimum/maximum size constraints hit me again :-O. My Drawing areas are Groups and as long there is nothing inside the maximum size is rather small. So the solution is rather easy connect to all my own Classes a Layout Hook. EdiSyn works now better, still looks a little bit strange, and also does not really work, still needs some work, but hey I’m happy already.
EdiSyn on MorphOS
This weekend I changed a lot in the Freepascal packages for MorphOS and Amiga. For both moved the OpenLibrary and CloseLibrary to Initialization Section and Finalization Section. This bug was the reason LCL programs always crashed on Exit on both platforms. Because this bug is now removed it worth to setup a nightly compilation of the LCL for both MorphOS and Amiga and include it into the nightly experimental Releases. At First I cared about MorphOS sadly I had to deactivate the „vlink“ as linker it seems to have problems with resources. But besides this its working fine.
So from now on Freepascal 3.1 including the latest LCL compilation can be always found at:
FPC – experimental Releases Packages
Freepascal MorphOS with LCL
Unarchive the file, there is a folder pp with icon inside, place it where ever our want, make an assign Freepascal: to this pp folder. Add the binary folder to path: „path add Freepascal:bin/powerpc-morphos“.
Navigate to your sources and compile your program with „fpc sourcename.pas“ or if it is a Lazarus (LCL) source with „fpc projectname.lpr“. Examples for Lazarus sources usable with this LCL implementation you can find in fpc-tests/lcl.
With this new fixed LCL for MorphOS I recompiled some of my AROS LCL Programs for MorphOS. THis time I striped them and packed the program with lzmaloader to make the executable smaller. So here they are:
- ColorIt – Game – Flood the field with the same Color
- FPCMines – Game – Minesweeper clone
- BinShifter – Game – 2048 clone
- PasteQuick – Application – Copy Clipboard contents to Pastebin.com and receive the link in Clipboard
