Problems with Emumiga on Icaros

July 13th, 2010 by Moggen

Yup, It seems to crash and reboot when run on the Icaros Desktop Light 1.2 CD in VirtualBox. There is something bugging it out when the requester for setting the alarm timer is opened. I can see the window but no gadgets just before it reboots, so I guess the problem lies somewhere in the gadget handling. Strange enough I have no problems at all with my Linux hosted AROS. I will try to fix this, but it might take a while.

I should have audio working as I’ve come as far as sending the audio IO request with BeginIO. Too bad that a Linux hosted AROS does not support audio. That’s why I want to run it in Icaros to test.
Edit: Sound does work with a Linux hosted AROS, see next post

I’ve also investigated if I can use C++ for some parts of Emumiga. There is already lots of code duplicated all over and that is not a good thing. The mappings of system structures is an ideal candidate for using OOP. It is possible to use and build C++ stuff with metamake according to the gurus on aros-exec, and I will try it out.

Working on audio.device

July 5th, 2010 by Moggen

The code release was a success! Lots of people have downloaded the snapshot.
Thanks for all comments around the communities. Most positive, but a few negative as well. The so far very limited support for applications seems to be the biggest problem people comment on.

Almost no coding made since the release. I’ve worked a little bit on documentation and a little on audio.device. No new snapshot available yet.

Thanks to Emanuele Cesaroni for releasing your implementation of audio.device as open source! Get the sources here.
And thanks to Krzysztof “Deadwood” Smiechowicz for porting it to AROS. It is included in recent source bundles.

I will continue work on Clock from WB2.1 until it is complete. There is some work left on the audio beep, and I have started working on Wanderer support, starting it up via the icon.

Next application after Clock will be IconEdit.

I am also considering moving the source tree to Sourceforge.