Power of FreePascal for Amiga Systems
Raycaster compiled for all my Amiga computers available and it compiles and works nicely… mostly (turned map off for A1200, for the other does not make much difference in speed).
Ask Your Amiga 0.3
I did a big mistake on the last AskYourAmiga release, by accident the MorphOS binary was missing and instead the OS4 binary was copied as MorphOS binary. Sorry for the confusion. Therefore I made a new release. But the MorphOS release is somehow strange (or better MorphOS is) after some picture loaded some pictures look wrong, wrong colors and seems also the size is wrong calculated. But not all pictures are affected only some but when it appears all these type pictures will become wrong. restart AskYourAmiga and try the same question try to load the picture and it works. Very strange, seems like something is crashing inside the datatypes system (but the log does not show anything related).
To be honest I did not try AskYourAmiga very much on the other Amiga Platforms, only on Amiga OS3.x m68k because on all the other you could theoretically use the browser for wolffram alpha. So I concentrate to make it run nicely on classic m68k Amiga.
Other changes with this version are pure internal, some little redrawing problems I got report from OS4 and some bugfixing I found myself (not cleared buffer, such stuff).
You can use the Update function of AskYourAmiga 0.2 (in Suggestion/History Window, it will download the archive and save it to where you want, you only have to unpack it) or you download it from this page.
Have fun!
Ask Your Amiga 0.2
You know whats most funny when browsing Wolfram Alpha or such databases, just following the links inside it, sadly the API does not give infomations for links in the text. BUT it supplies related searches, I implemented an additional page to AYA that you can find close searches, sometimes there are even some weird stuff… maybe they are searches other user used? I don’t know.
Besides that I implemented a history of your searches and also added some suggestions sorted in categories, some starting points what to search. Also if you find something funny (like the people curves e.g. „Arnold Schwarzenegger curve“ and so on) why not share them with other. In the result window is now a „Share“ button where you can add a short description and your name (if you like) and I will add them to the suggestion database. (which you can update via the suggestion window)
Also the software itself can be updated from the suggestion window.
Download as always for all Amiga Systems: AskYourAmiga 0.2
Ask Your Amiga 0.1
Finally I found some motivation to put a release together of „Ask Your Amiga“ the new tool for your beloved Amiga. It’s working nicely, now also can save the image or text, but nothing more… just very basic functionality but even so I like it working rather smooth even on my slower Amiga 68030.
As always it is available for all Amiga systems with an Internet connection and a GIF Datatype installed.
- Amiga 68020+ OS3.0+
- AROS x86 ABIv0, ARM Raspi ABIv0, x64 ABIv1 nonSMP
- MorphOS 3.x
- AmigaOS 4.x
Download: AYA 0.1
Amiga FPC SSL
Worked a little bit more on the SSL implementation for Amiga in FPC using the AmiSSL.library. First I tried to just use the OpenSSL implementation in FPC. It was much work but sadly it just crashes on SSL connect and I have no idea why, rechecked everything. But before it was working using the BIO_* functions, so I rewrote the FreePascal implementation for AmiSSL using the BIO_* functions and finally it works. That means one could now get a webpage from a HTTPS page with a single line of code (and two uses), which is really nice.
In principle this should also work on MorphOS, for AmigaOS4 it would need to rewrite the import unit for AmiSSL. Sadly AmiSSL still does not exists for AROS only a c-link lib which does not work at the moment in FreePascal-AROS.
MCAmiga improved 4 color mode
Ask Your Amiga
MCAmiga V0.8
A new MCAmiga Version is ready to use. Main changes:
- Bugfix Move from archive
- lynx type movement (left,right cursor to browse)
- Bugfix initial view as drive view („LEFT=“ shows the drive list as start)
- Bugfix overwrite requester when extracting files
- Bugfix crash on double click on file in archive
- Ask to rename the icon together with the file
- Tool entry to select all info files of selected files
- Better support for german umlauts
- automatically create dir icon on request
Download the new Version at MCAmiga Page
MCAmiga V0.7
The last long weekend is over and MCAmiga got a new milestone, the search is working for now. Time to make a release, I just tried it again on my Amiga1200/030/50/AGA and it still works nicely, redraw still slow, but it’s quite usable. I’m used to it, always used 64 colors screen with higher resolution. I guess this will be much better when there is a nice GFX card for Amiga1200, like the Warp1200. I really look forward to it, hope will be available to by soon.
Download as always on the MCAmiga page.
And don’t forget it’s CC0, I would be very happy if someone take the source and improve it, or use it for anything else or just use it to learn stuff.
MCAmiga 0.6
Got a lot of bug reports and wishes for MCAmiga, so I created a new Version 0.6. The main changes are:
- fixed word wrap and missing last char in viewer
- bottom menu line (like the original)
- Full screen (= own screen) via tooltype
- Scroll help text if needed
- catch exception when calling external programs
- unpack archive via tool menu entry
- 68000er Version included
MCAmiga 0.6Download as always on the programs page: MCAmiga 0.6