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`19.Jun.2021` Aminet	Icon-Library 46.4.545 Recently we introduced Peter Keunecke's icon.library which provides all functions for processing pictograms. Due to the release of AmigaOS 3.2, but obviously also inspired by our contribution and especially the numerous comments, he has now released version 46.4.545. For the first time he has not only added a documentation in the form of an 'IconLib.guide' as requested by many, but has also made it available in English as well as in German. Furthermore, the TrueColor (TC) version now displays OS4 and PNG icons 30-70% faster in conjunction with workbench.library v44+ or Wanderer on native screens, but not with WB 3.1 and DOpus5. As Peter Keunecke writes further, AmigaOS 3.2 now requires at least an icon.library v47. In order to be able to use his icon.library under this OS anyway, he has apparently upgraded the 'icon.library_TC020' to version 51.4.545. The other two standard versions 'icon.library_68000' and 'icon.library_68020' do not work under AmigaOS 3.2 anymore. According to him, the new icon.library provided by AmigaOS 3.2 should be "more efficient and faster, avoiding many useless refreshes". But since he does not own the new OS, he cannot test this. At least 'FastWB' seems to have no advantage anymore. And further he writes: "The new OS 3.2 file type detection of DefIcons is only supported by my v51 libraries like TC020. I have no intention to set the 680x0 versions higher." (dr) (Translation: bb) [News message: 19. Jun. 2021, 06:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jun.2021` Artur Gadawski per Mail	7-bit: Software update for Wicher cards A software update for the cards developed by 7-bit has been released. Changes: added support for AmigaOS3.2 WicherCfg - added support for Wicher1220EC WicherCfgGui - added support for Wicher1220EC spi.librarby - added support for Wicher1220EC enc28j60_w32.device - added support for Wicher1220EC Tools_Menu - added support for Wicher1220EC (dr) [News message: 17. Jun. 2021, 22:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jun.2021` Alfred Faust (ANF)	Multimedia MIDI sequencer: BarsnPipes 1.0 for Amiga OS4.1 FE At the end of October in 2009, Alfred Faust decided to stop developing his multimedia MIDI sequencer BarsnPipes due to increasing health problems (we reported). In July 2013 he released the source code of his programm. Mainly due to Corona, Alfred Faust has a lot of spare time which among others he invested in updating his AmigaOS 4 computer and its operating system to OS 4.1 FE and eventually reworking and compiling BarsnPipes for Amiga OS 4.1 FE. The first official full version 1.0 now is available in the download section of his website also including all previous updates. He also has updated all development documents: New Rules for Tools OS 4.1 FE Michael Rees SDK OS4.1 FE New Rules for Skins tools for creating catalogs By releasing this full version, Alfred Faust wants to consciously distinguish from other development lines "whose programmers", as he wrote, "use my source code, but don't mention me as the main developer of BarsnPipes (not Bars&Pipes Professional 2.5). This is not a good style and also violates the copyrights." (dr) [News message: 17. Jun. 2021, 06:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jun.2021` AmigaLove (ANF)	Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.46beta After 21 years today Kari-Pekka Koljonen has released an update of his MOD player HippoPlayer on Github. He wrote: "There was an actual user request (by daxb) in the English Amiga Board a few years back to remove the module list size restriction. This turned out to be a fun challenge. The code assumed the module list index to be a positive 16-bit number, and also used the same index with some magic values to mean a few things. There were a lot of places to change to make this work. The restriction is now at 0x1ffff (131071), which is a crazy amount. Such a large list eats a lot of memory and is quite slow to process, as it is a doubly linked list. List iteration operations needed some optimization to be usable on an A500. (Next challenge: get rid of the linked list approach.) Random play bookkeeping previously worked only for lists of up to 8192 (0x1fff) modules, this limit is now removed as well. I decided to challenge myself with some UI changes. The main window buttons are quite cryptic with both left and right mouse button actions, which I have conveniently forgot about. I implemented a modern feeling tooltip which will pop up a helpful text for each button. Maybe this is a first tooltip on kick1.3? Right clicks on the buttons don't really work like left clicks. I don't know why the past-me left them like that, they're ugly and non-user friendly that way. I changed the buttons to have a proper visualization for right clicks as well. I also added a few wait pointers to places with long running operations. Another thing that motivated me to do some hippo coding was the realization that the multitasking approaches used in HiP are bad. At the time I had no idea about thread safe programming. This could lead to some random crashes at times due to bad luck with timing. Exec provides semaphores to protect shared data, so these were added to a lot of places. Some safety regarging interrupts relying on some data was also added. External applications using the HippoPort still use all data freely. Fixes: Extraneous requester pop up removed when loading TFMX modules. Fixed a case where unpacked modules were not identified as modules, or a non-module file was identified as a valid module (due to badly initialized memory). A memory leak removed from the file requester. Memory usage is lowered in several situations: Random play bookkeeping now uses a dynamically allocated table. Each modulelist entry is now about 30 bytes smaller, for 1000 modules that means memory savings of about 30 kB! :-) Unnecessary library loading removed from startup. This also speeds up starting on slow machines. Improved stability Starting and stopping playback and loading modules like a crazy person is now not so prone to crashing. This is achieved by adding exclusive access checks to module data and module list in several places (see above). Other general bad behaviour removed from many places, not directly visible to user. May survive low memory situations better when loading module programs or adding files. A bunch of smaller fixes, such as enforcer hit removals at a few places. Code refactoring! It's still quite a mess in many places." The latest beta version can be downloaded from releases. After unpacking the archive, in the folder "dist" the new version is available and can be copied over the existing installation. 'HippoPlayer.group' has to be copied to 'S'. (dr) [News message: 16. Jun. 2021, 07:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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