@derfs
I love Dopus5. Many many thanks for working on it.

@smarkusg
Can you on linux/macos copy amiga executable to os4 to shared dir, and then, do "protect" on this file to set executable bit ? For me it dind't and says "unknown paket type", and i had to copy it to ram: to make protect work and mark file as executable

@kas1e

Yes I have tested the new features and bug-fixes, but its now out there for anyone else to try and break it :)

@derfs
Awesome ! Did you test it all as well ? All fine ? (just wasn't able for now)

Need to not looses in the amount of fixes and features (so i can close them up after test on SF)

New beta release - https://github.com/derfsss/dopus5-os4/releases/tag/v5.93beta2

@derfs
Thanks!

Some feature requests in the list even not worth of worry, some are simple wrong, but at least those ones like:



Surely pretty worth, but hardest ones to implement. For example for 26 there imho no needs to have exactly PNG images, because we don't need there another library dep, but some raw-format , but those are details..

@kas1e

I will have a look

@derfs
Btw, now as you can made those devices/libraries/handlers now, and i see on your github you made some https://github.com/derfsss/AmigaBlockDevLibrary, is it possible (if i may ask for), to create our opensource version of the virtuo.library instead of that one from AEON, so we can then make on top of that some network driver which will works fine without needs to use those rtl ones which cause issues ?

@kas1e
It's great that you managed to get it running on Windows and shared all the information on how to do it – congratulations

Regarding Pegasos2. There is an entry in README...
"Pegasos2 (modern VirtIO) is implemented but not yet validated. Use at your own risk."
I would also like to add that Virtio9PFS-handler requires AmigaOS 4.1 FE U3.
I checked it out of curiosity to remake the AmigaOS 4.1 FE installation CD disc for AmigaOne and QEMU containing Virtio9PFS-handler. It didn't work.
I installed a clean system and updated from U1. .. It worked with U3.

EDIT:
My mistake was the Virtio SCSI driver, not the Virtio9PFS-handler.
Sorry for the mistake – I deleted the unnecessary entry.

@All
Soo, after derfs with help of modern AI magic created Virtio9PFS-handler : https://github.com/derfsss/Virtio9PFS-handler (so you have ability to use shared directories and not the sucky fat-stick-way where you need to reboot always to see changes), and after smarkusg confirmed that it works on linux and macos, i tried to make it work on windows too, with pegasos2 emulation, just to realize that it has no -virtfs (p9) used for those shares..

First idea was to use WSL2 build, which i did, just to realize that because of layers in between it's still visibly slower than native win32 build of qemu. So no go.

Then doing some research to find out that there were some unofficial patches to make virtfs working on native windows targets too, but for older versions of qemu. So i took latest 10.2.1, and started applying those patches, firstly some older ones, then newer ones, but of course conflicts and stuff, but in the end succeeded, and TADAM:

(click open in new window for full size):



And it indeed works! Everything ultra fast, everything immediately refreshes and can be seen in realtime. Speed awesome, just gigabytes per second, and i can forget now as a bad dream this fat32-ugly way.

So thanks to derfs (and of course those AIs who can help us now), to smarkusg for tests, and for somebody's patches for win32.

PS. The funny thing is, once i made it all work, i found out that on github there is one man who is doing exactly the same, and made ready to use builds with integrated virtfs-p9 patches, damn! But at least i spent a day for learning purposes about qemu :)

@derfs
You may want to change readme saying that for windows you need unofficial builds with virtfs support, which can be found on: https://github.com/arixmkii/qcw/tags , or patches from https://github.com/arixmkii/qcw/tree/main/patches/qemu can be applied manually when building qemu from sources.

Line for running same as smarkusg show:



simple didn't work.. So seems transitional, legacy didnt works , while modern VirtIO 1.0 works for pegasos2?

@AmigaOldskooler
Thank you for the news, uff, I have seen a problem with Vintage Song Player, the Box Machine doesn't transparency effect, I'll fixed this problem with Hollywood and this feature with the solid background.

@trixie

Excellent. I hope my modest requests are on your list

Can you reveal what new features are coming to Rave next?

@328gts



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Oh no! too late! You already passed the 120000 mark!

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@AmigaOldskooler

thanks

@trixie

Not so much a Rave feature request, but would love to see Rave's improved file requester rolled-out across the system and support previewing other file types.

Perhaps now you're an official OS4 dev that might happen?

@ncafferkey

Amigas and batteries...
Happy it was an easy fix!

@ncafferkey

glad you got it up & working

@jap

My own list is longer

Hello, I'm opening a feature wish list thread for trixie's Rave sound editor.

Here is my current feature request list:

* possibility of loading and saving 4-bit samples
* possibility of loading and saving below 8000 Hz samples
* waveform generator plugin that can generate sine, square, triangle, sawtooth, and noise waveforms
* ADSR envelope generator plugin
* vector synthesis plugin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_synthesis)