AmiModRadio - All of Aminet modules at your fingertips

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Perfect ! Now if possible also a nice AROS version

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Did a little test with AmiModRadio of OS4.1 e IcarOS Desktop, AmiModRadio It has quietly started in both OS,but it failed to pick up the Mod from Aminet

[Retrofan]

For OS4 it looks like you haven't setted a mod player for it in the user-startup. Try opening one and then open AMR to see if it works.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

You know, OS4 and AROS default Mod, Med, Xm etc. They are associated with Multiview but this can not be performed because there is no datatypes that supports these formats. But I do not think there is only this problem, the archives of the modules are not taken from Aminet.

[tygre]

Hi there!

Ah, cool : I didn't know that Multiview could also play modules... I will check if I can add it to AmiModRadio (if it has an ARexx port)... Will keep you posted!

Cheers!

[AMIGASYSTEM]

But I do not understand why the forms on Multiview play perfectly on AfA also drag-and-drop, and yet they do not play on AmiKit, OS4 and AROS. Tried to copy Datatypes and Multiview AfA OS on AmiKit with negative results.

[Retrofan]

I really think tygre that if you can't get a complete window as background coding it -and I think you can't-, then the best is just to leave it up to the user to select his MUI prefs and just let him make it as he likes.

Anyhow it's great that you don't settle for what other people make and you try to search your own way, that's what great innovative people always try.

BTW I am in contact now with one of the best artist rendering things and it seems he likes to make/give a couple of new marvellous skins for your program.

[attila06]

Hi,
I would like to use this wonderful Amimodradio, but i m not strong enough with Arexx !
Could you please give some examples with Hippoplayer or others.
Thanks a lot for the newbie i am.

[tygre]

Hi attila06!

No ARexx coding required with AmiModRadio it does it for you! All you need is to have one of the supported player (like HippoPlyer) accessible in the Shell path. The simplest is to edit your S:User-Startup and add the line:

Path <Some volume and directory(ies)>/HippoPlayer

and AmiModRadio should be able to launch HippoPlayer when needed...

Cheers!

[tygre]

Hi Retrofan!

Originally Posted by Retrofan

Anyhow it's great that you don't settle for what other people make and you try to search your own way

Yes, I will try If for no better reasons, just to learn more about MUI and, also, because I don't believe that I cannot do programmatically something that the user can do manually : we are dealing with software afterall!

Originally Posted by Retrofan

BTW I am in contact now with one of the best artist rendering things and it seems he likes to make/give a couple of new marvellous skins for your program.

Great keep us posted!
Cheers!

[James]

Originally Posted by AMIGASYSTEM

But I do not understand why the forms on Multiview play perfectly on AfA also drag-and-drop, and yet they do not play on AmiKit, OS4 and AROS. Tried to copy Datatypes and Multiview AfA OS on AmiKit with negative results.

That's not just AfA, it's my AfAWB! (I should have posted an update for it by now, but I've had some stability problems. The system I use myself is almost identical and that works fine )

The datatype you want is ProtrackerDT.

http://aminet.net/package/util/dtype/ProtrackerDT

Originally Posted by Retrofan

Don't worry, James mate. There is still something that you can do: To find a better set of the small icons it uses on the right.

I tried to find them but I couldn't, they didn't look right.

At least some of those small buttons look they should use standard MUI images...??

[Retrofan]

Originally Posted by James

At least some of those small buttons look they should use standard MUI images...??

Yes, I think they should, but the ones it uses are included in the AMR program, and I couldn't change them with other images -looking right-. If you can change them that would be great.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Originally Posted by James

That's not just AfA, it's my AfAWB! (I should have posted an update for it by now, but I've had some stability problems. The system I use myself is almost identical and that works fine )

The datatype you want is ProtrackerDT.

http://aminet.net/package/util/dtype/ProtrackerDT

Thank you James for the info, i hope he continues to develop AfA OS, in my opinion the best ever seen in OS3 Amiga scene, [ Show youtube player ] is my configuration, it is not very different from the original, i just replaced the 040_060 Libs with THESE to make compatible AfA OS with 68060 and updated or added some new application.

[James]

Originally Posted by Retrofan

Yes, I think they should, but the ones it uses are included in the AMR program, and I couldn't change them with other images -looking right-. If you can change them that would be great.

I'll take a look, but not sure I can do any better...

Originally Posted by AMIGASYSTEM

Thank you James for the info, i hope he continues to develop AfA OS, in my opinion the best ever seen in OS3 Amiga scene

Yes, it runs very well on WinUAE, but it lacks support for a few things, such as datatype saving. It would be great to see these features added and any bugs fixed. Sadly it looks unlikely at the moment.

Originally Posted by AMIGASYSTEM

[ Show youtube player ] is my configuration, it is not very different from the original, i just replaced the 040_060 Libs with THESE to make compatible AfA OS with 68060 and updated or added some new application.

I also installed the 040 versions of FFplay/FFMpeg, so you might want to replace them with the 060 versions too, if you haven't already.

http://aminet.net/package/gfx/conv/f...it7df9937-m68k

There was almost certainly a few other things, but I can't remember offhand.
This is getting off topic here so I'll post in the "Workbench for WinUAE" thread if I remember anything else...

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Originally Posted by James

I'll take a look, but not sure I can do any better...

Yes, it runs very well on WinUAE, but it lacks support for a few things, such as datatype saving. It would be great to see these features added and any bugs fixed. Sadly it looks unlikely at the moment.

Important to arrive on time and that the project is not abandoned. Currently, the only annoying problem that I see on my configuration are small white dots that are created when you move the icons with the mouse, This happens less on screen but more in the icons placed in the windows (see screenshot).

I also installed the 040 versions of FFplay/FFMpeg, so you might want to replace them with the 060 versions too, if you haven't already.

Already done

.

There was almost certainly a few other things, but I can't remember offhand.
This is getting off topic here so I'll post in the "Workbench for WinUAE" thread if I remember anything else...

Ok

[James]

AISS small button replacements with white background, look best with "Retrofan Red" theme, I think. (Or the the nice MUI4 gradient backgound I had in the older version.)



AmiModRadioImagesAndIcon.lha

Also included my DualPNG version of the AmiModRadio drawer.

[Retrofan]

Thanks a lot James (you're the best) for those nice Aiss images and also for the improved drawer icon -please @tygre replace the Ken's drawer icon with his-.

It's hard to configure your best MUI configuration with the latest AMR version as it uses its own background that doesn't use all of the window.

Edit: There is a question that interests me: Will the background load faster from code or from the MUI prefs, or will it be the same?

I want AMR to start ASAP. If it takes the same time -surely- and it takes too long to start then I would prefer no predefined background at all. It isn't the same to try AMR on WinUAE with a fast PC and fast config than to run it for real in a not so fast Amiga without RTG.

Surely a "loading" bar -e.g. AmigaAMP uses it- could do the job and then you can wait a bit more for it to start -in fact we are loading some prefs and "skin" just the same way-. Yes, if you try it on WinUAE it loads instantly, but it takes some seconds to start in the real thing, so I think it should be included in any case.

Take it as a new suggestion @tygre

[tygre]

Hi James and Retrofan!

Thanks a lot for the artwork and the suggestion... I am traveling in Japan right now (anyone with an Amiga living there?) but will sure do when I come back!

Cheers!

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Thanks James, GUI AmiModRadio Images started to be more and more beautiful, yesterday I had fun creating two skins White

[TenLeftFingers]

I still can't get this working after adding HiP to the PATH. My machine just gurus. What are the system requirements?