Amiga changing disks from Workbench proof of concept
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Amiga changing disks from Workbench proof of concept
Hi,
First of all, thank you for this amazing device. Thanks to the fact the floppy selector sources are on SVN, I was able to put together this quick proof of concept of selecting files while in workbench without rebooting. Proof of concept video is : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IWl3mThzkU
Apologies for the shaky nature of things, I had the phone in one hand and too much coffee Also the intuition window is a bit of a hack (hence the artifacts). It needs cleaning up and support for paging the screen adding (at present it only lists the first 17 files in a directory) ..
Lee
First of all, thank you for this amazing device. Thanks to the fact the floppy selector sources are on SVN, I was able to put together this quick proof of concept of selecting files while in workbench without rebooting. Proof of concept video is : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IWl3mThzkU
Apologies for the shaky nature of things, I had the phone in one hand and too much coffee Also the intuition window is a bit of a hack (hence the artifacts). It needs cleaning up and support for paging the screen adding (at present it only lists the first 17 files in a directory) ..
Lee
Re: Amiga changing disks from Workbench proof of concept
Very nice !
Do you have a sourcforge account ?
By curiosity which development environnement are you using ?
Do you have a sourcforge account ?
By curiosity which development environnement are you using ?
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Re: Amiga changing disks from Workbench proof of concept
Thanks.
I don't have a sourceforge account - but I can create one, be sometime next week I suspect.
I need to at least clean up the places where i hacked things out (I had to remove the original gui - something about it was causing GURUs on exit - so i chopped it all out and substituted the one in the video). Mostly its just adding some code to lock the device and adding some code to free things on exit.
I`m using AmiDevCpp (http://amidevcpp.amiga-world.de/) and a CF card to copy the resultant bin to my amiga.. (this is a painful way to do things frankly, but saved me farting around getting gcc up and running on the amiga).
Anyway, I`ll let you know when i've created an account in case you want to take the modifications.
Lee
I don't have a sourceforge account - but I can create one, be sometime next week I suspect.
I need to at least clean up the places where i hacked things out (I had to remove the original gui - something about it was causing GURUs on exit - so i chopped it all out and substituted the one in the video). Mostly its just adding some code to lock the device and adding some code to free things on exit.
I`m using AmiDevCpp (http://amidevcpp.amiga-world.de/) and a CF card to copy the resultant bin to my amiga.. (this is a painful way to do things frankly, but saved me farting around getting gcc up and running on the amiga).
Anyway, I`ll let you know when i've created an account in case you want to take the modifications.
Lee
Re: Amiga changing disks from Workbench proof of concept
Interesting, i will try AmiDevCpp next time.SavourySnaX wrote:
I`m using AmiDevCpp (http://amidevcpp.amiga-world.de/) and a CF card to copy the resultant bin to my amiga.. (this is a painful way to do things frankly, but saved me farting around getting gcc up and running on the amiga).
I fully understand about gcc on the amiga: i am also working with crosstools on pc to develop on ST & Amiga & CPC too
I don't use CF but an USB HxC Floppy Emulator : The PC makefile automatically mount the image to the Amiga/ST.
Very convenient .
Re: Amiga changing disks from Workbench proof of concept
This looks very promising. If it works then the slim will be much improved.
Keep up the great work Jeff and SavourySnaX
Keep up the great work Jeff and SavourySnaX
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Re: Amiga changing disks from Workbench proof of concept
Quick update,
What I plan to do this weekend is put together a basic command line version of the application (so you can list directories, list slots, and select images into slots etc). With the command line version done, I can then investigate putting together a gui - the primary motivation behind this method is keeps the amount of modifications to the floppy selector at a minimum and would potentially allow a dopus plugin or similar to be knocked up quickly.
It may be possible to get the fullscreen floppy selector gui stable enough to have that available - it depends on if I can motivate myself to find the problem with the shutdown when under workbench.
Lee
What I plan to do this weekend is put together a basic command line version of the application (so you can list directories, list slots, and select images into slots etc). With the command line version done, I can then investigate putting together a gui - the primary motivation behind this method is keeps the amount of modifications to the floppy selector at a minimum and would potentially allow a dopus plugin or similar to be knocked up quickly.
It may be possible to get the fullscreen floppy selector gui stable enough to have that available - it depends on if I can motivate myself to find the problem with the shutdown when under workbench.
Lee
Re: Amiga changing disks from Workbench proof of concept
Let me know if you need a tester for the slim, I have a Amiga 500, 600 & 1200 to test it on.
Re: Amiga changing disks from Workbench proof of concept
Hi SavourySnaX,
Great work! Amy chance of getting a copy of the source as is?
Great work! Amy chance of getting a copy of the source as is?
Re: Amiga changing disks from Workbench proof of concept
Bump! There is a chance to get copy of this software?
Re: Amiga changing disks from Workbench proof of concept
Hi SavourySnaX!SavourySnaX wrote:Quick update,
What I plan to do this weekend is put together a basic command line version of the application (so you can list directories, list slots, and select images into slots etc). With the command line version done, I can then investigate putting together a gui - the primary motivation behind this method is keeps the amount of modifications to the floppy selector at a minimum and would potentially allow a dopus plugin or similar to be knocked up quickly.
It may be possible to get the fullscreen floppy selector gui stable enough to have that available - it depends on if I can motivate myself to find the problem with the shutdown when under workbench.
Lee
Is this application released already? I can say lot of people would find it very handy! Please give us some response! Thanks.
K
Re: Amiga changing disks from Workbench proof of concept
Have you gotten anywhere with this? Would be super useful!
Graham
Graham