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But we're talking in the mid to late 80s, so many people would have been used to Sinclair Spectrums, Commodore 64s, BBC Micros, and other 8-bit machines, where the concept of a 'file requester' didn't really exist - at least, most of the time. However, some of the Amigas siblings had working file requesters as standard. I don't know about the Atari ST series, but I believe the Macintosh had rather nice file requesters before System 6, and I know for sure Windows 2 had them. ASL.library was more than welcome when it arrived along with release 2.0 of Amiga OS in my opinion, giving us standard file and font requesters, although not all programmers chose to use this for various reasons. |
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24 August 2016, 09:35 | #1002 |
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The ST does have a standard file requester, and lots of replacements.
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Isn`t reqtools.library the quasi standard for requester since early '90 on OS <=3.1? At least here it is. ASL wasn`t really good to use. Later (OS 3.5?) it got an update as far as I know but how good compared to ReqTools?
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You could be right, I did a quick search and a bit of reading and it indicated ASL was the standard introduced with system 2.0 for standard file and font requesters, but you could be right, I forgot about reqtools.library
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I don't see what's wrong with ASL, but then again I have a three button mouse.
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Is there a patch for 2.04 kick so it could get at least pcmcia support or even ide? I know it can probably be soft kicked but I'm thinking about something that wouldn't eat 512kb.
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Run romsplit on 37.350 and use loadmodule to get the relevant modules into memory. Might work. Then again why not just upgrade to 37.350 or even 40.63..
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Yes, the main difference between 2.04 and 2.05 is the IDE and PCMCIA support, so just upgrading to 2.05 should be what he wants. |
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Ok, I was all set up with extracted modules to try this when I realized it's not 2.04 rom I have but early 2.05 37.299. So it mounted CF through PCMCIA without interventions.
Any idea how HD would behave with this rom? Would it just not be bootable but accessible or to be both I would need to load some(scsi.device) module before from floppy? Last edited by Cobe; 25 August 2016 at 19:28. |
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Somehow I never had a problem with it. There was always some way to select a file in Amiga programs. But then we're talking about late 80's early 90's.
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Yup. All that is needed is scsi.device and 5 sec to load it from floppy.
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I'm actually finding it challenging to find out what was the first file requester commonly used on the Amiga, if it was ARP, or Reqtools, or something else. I know ARP was designed to work under versions of Kickstart/Workbench earlier than 2. In fact, it seems a lot of Amiga history appears to be lost, which is why I'm working on gathering as much information as I can to put up on my own web site (which at this point, does not exist). |
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I think it was either arp or req.library (not same as reqtools.library).
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Yeah, from what I've found so far it appears to have been arp.library, but I don't know for sure.
There is a lot of conflicting, and often wrong information out there on the internet about the Amiga. |
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Are midi interfaces on Amiga 500 running at full speed.
I always wondered how MIDI interfaces for the serial port worked on the Amiga 500 speedwise.
The MIDI port normally uses a speed of 31.500 baud. AFAIK the maximum speed of the Amiga 500's serial port is 19.200 baud. Is the MIDI connection (for example to a syntheziser) slowed down to 19.200 baud when you are using a serial MIDI interface on the Amiga 500 or is the interface kind of speeding up the transmission to 31.500 baud (although I wouldn't know how that should work)? |
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No, it is not slowed down, the Amiga supports the 31.500bps non-standard speed over the serial port, and MIDI software selects that bit rate.
I'm guessing MIDI software didn't use serial.device for much more than port setup and resource allocation. |
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Speaking of this line of questions, I tried getting ScummVM to run through USB to MIDI at one point, but didn't have much luck. Anyone else get this working? (Spider/Mediator/Poseidon).
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@Jope
Thanks :-). |
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