Monthly Archives: January 2014

GCC Compiler for AmigaOS/m68k

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Krystian Bacławski has created a very nice build system and patch set to allow GCC 2.95 (cross-compiler for AmigaOS/m68k plus related tools) to be installed on recent operating systems. GCC 4.x does no longer support compilation for AmigaOS/m68k, so being able to easily install GCC 2.95 again is very nice. Compiling the old GNU tools on modern systems is not easy, so I’m sure Krystian has put a lot of effort into this -so thanks 🙂 The cross-compiler environment contains all required Amiga headers and libraries, and vbcc too!

To make it even easier to use, I have published pre-compiled Linux binaries. I plan to follow up with OS X binaries later.

FS-UAE 2.4 Beta 2

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A new beta version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.3.99beta2 (“FS-UAE 2.4 Beta 2”):

  • Inhibit screen saver / power saving when running FS-UAE on OS X.
  • (Launcher) Adult filter for game database, enabled by default.
  • (Launcher) Use search term tag:adult to show adult games.
  • (Launcher) New option database_show_adult to show adult games by default.
  • (Launcher) Can search for quoted words to require exact word match.
  • (Launcher) Fixed some translated strings used incorrectly.
  • (Launcher) Updated translations: pl [grimi], fi [Goingdown], it [Speedvicio].
  • (Arcade) On Linux, only set FS-UAE fullscreen mode to window if is not specifically set to anything (allows fullscreen_mode = fullscreen).

Please see the preliminary release notes for FS-UAE 2.4 for information about what’s new if you are upgrading from FS-UAE 2.2.x.

Tutorials for Installing ClassicWB and AmiKit

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I’ve written a couple of tutorials for FS-UAE. The two first tutorials on-line are:

The tutorials contain step-by-step instructions with illustrations. I would appreciate some feedback on whether such tutorials are useful to FS-UAE users (and of good enough quality). If so, I can create more tutorials and how-tos 🙂 – If not, I would just be wasting my time!

FS-UAE 2.3.17dev Released

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A new development version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.3.17dev:

  • Remove old log file paths so they’ll not be mistaken for current logs.
  • Fix initial mute when option volume is set to 0.
  • Updated translations: fi [Goingdown], pl [grimi], fr [Foul].
  • (Launcher) Option download_file from DB does not have to be an archive.
  • (Launcher) Fixed bug when doubleclicking on an URI in the floppy list.
  • (Launcher) Fixed bug with selecting multiple files [2.3.16].
  • (Launcher) Fixed trailing colon in translatiion of option description.
  • (Launcher) Updated translations: fi [Goingdown], pl [grimi], fr [Foul].

Changes in FS-UAE 2.3.16dev:

  • (Launcher) Always include Configurations directory in file scan regardless of scan dirs.
  • (Launcher) Make file picker code compatible with both PySide and PyQT4.
  • (Launcher) Added support for WHDLoad 17.2, set as default WHDLoad version.
  • (Arcade) Fixed bug preventing games from launching.