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Hopefully it will work with MyIDE/SIDE - much depends on whether the core library is placed on a cartridge.

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The new GUI will be able to launch "legacy" applications and return to the desktop. It's a pretty essential feature. I should have listed that in the specifications. :)

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Polish doesn't come across very well in Google Translation, but TRS desktop is very impressive. So is Boss-X. The new GUI is not in any way in competition with these two products. It will, however, offer a complete API for programmers. The idea is that the application has a unified GUI "look and feel", and interacts with the user only via calls to the API. It has a full object heirarchy (like Contiki), widgets, fonts in various sizes, scrollable windows, etc, etc. All applications will have the same skeletal framework. The GUI is in machine code and is totally language independent. It can sit on a cartridge or go under the OS.

I wanted to write GUI applications for the Atari but I couldn't find anything which provided an API for programs. Diamond came close to what I wanted, but lacks several important components. Therefore I'm writing it myself. :)

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Thanks for the encouragement. There should be a demo with a dialogue box and some draggable icons in the next few weeks.

355

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Official announcement of the new GUI project for the A8:

http://www.atari8.co.uk

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http://www.atari8.co.uk/downloads/HDSC_32MB.jpg

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Here's a benchmark test using dual Compact Flash cards:

SpartaDOS X 4.43RC, dual 256MB, 80x Transcend Compact Flash cards, drive C: on disk 0, drive M: on disk 1.

Copying a 1,329K (1.29MB) file from partition C: to partition M: 49 seconds (26.58 KB/s).

Assuming SDX is using a ~30K copy buffer, that's about 44 burst reads/writes.

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MyIDE with SDX driver and KMK/IDEa (they fight for superiority).

XM301/SIO2SD conversion with built-in SIO2PC for moving data to and from PC and making HDD backups.

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JEALOUSY.VX now plays at 11.48 FPS:

PunBB bbcode test

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My KMK works now, so I needed a reason to use the MyIDE driver:

DOS writing: 59411.3628 B/sek
DOS reading: 71035.3252 B/sek
DOS average: 65223.344 B/sek

(Eight unrolled reads in the MyIDE driver's read loop, and four unrolled writes). :)

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dely napisał/a:

I think, that there are few users with MyIDE-equipped setup, but it's a shame to admit "I am using MyIDE, because i'm too lame for JŻ/KMK IDE" :)

No offence, this is only joke ;)

zaxon napisał/a:

Hmm, " i use myide becouse i can't buy  JZ/KMK/Ide"  is better...

LOL. Sure, it's understandable - largely because MyIDE needs a custom SIO driver and in the past we were obliged to replace the whole Operating System ROM just to make it work.

I have KMK/IDEa (not yet working) as well. Both have their pros and cons. MyIDE is tiny, but I wouldn't want to use it with anything other than the SDX driver. IDEa takes up a lot of desk space, but it does have the cart pass-thru, etc.

Of course, there's added pleasure in using MyIDE with drivers and FDISK I wrote myself. :)

...i test both platforms and all is good  on one ,bad on second and vice versa.

This is a typical scenario. Reliability is so dependant on the Atari timings. However, same is true of unmodded KMK/IDEa...

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JEALOUSY.VX at 10 fps:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R36TS0uZuEU

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This has been lying in a cupboard for 15 years since I wrote it in 1995. It was the first large app I'd ever written for the Atari. It's coded in Turbo Basic, but a 31K compiled version is also supplied.

http://www.atari8.co.uk/

There's no manual, but the program is pretty easy to use. I wanted to share it after all these years, having just discovered it again.

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I'm not sure how widely used the MyIDE interface is in Europe, but a MyIDE driver for SpartaDOS X is under development:

http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/16 … de-driver/

http://www.atari8.co.uk/

Updated driver/FDISK will be published on Sunday. The software offers:

- 512 bytes/sector
- 62KB/s DOS reads
- 58KB/s DOS writes
- up to 15 x 32MB partitions
- high compatibility with existing SDX applications
- support for S_VBXE driver (FDISK)

365

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Lotharek! Did you not receive email I sent you over a month ago regarding Stereo upgrade I ordered on 14/07/10? It has not been received.

Please PM me, since I can't be guaranteed to catch reply posted here.

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Cosi napisał/a:

Sure, I've figured it out. Just wanted to mention that TLW is not 100% user-proof (as no program is) :)

Indeed so! :)

pirx napisał/a:

Hey!

Please think about releasing the fileselector as a separately available package - we are here in a deep need for a decent and modern (SDX, MyDOS, etc.) FS.

It's something I would consider but it's pointeless duplicating the functionality of Sparta Commander for SDX. Perhaps a version which works with any DOS would be useful.

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I see no C source code there. What am I doing wrong?

...it's OK. I figured it out. Been wanting to look at this source code for a long time...

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Cosi napisał/a:

I've just found a bug (?) ;)
When you press Shift-Ctrl-N (new font) and - after the prompt - type e.g. "D1:*.*", you get a pretty mess on the screen.

Hardly a bug. You're loading any old file into the font buffer. :)

<SHIFT+CTRL+H> is the only command which lets you set the filemask for the disk menu and then press return. To get a file selector after you pressed <SHIFT+CTRL+N>, press <Tab>. Sadly whatever you already typed is ignored in that case.

In the next version I will do away with typing filenames altogether: file selector by default. It will be more consistent.

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Details here:

http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/15 … le-format/

SIO performance is much better using 512byte sectors. SIO2SD is the primary storage device for many of us, and performance is important. Write speeds at divisor 3 are disappointing also. I understand the limitations of code space, however. :)

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The Last Word for VBXE? 4.0 beta on my webpage is all we have at the moment. Wait a few months then we'll have a version of LW which uses internal display drivers: one of which will be for VBXE. I'm busy designing the driver structure.

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pajero napisał/a:

Max 256b per sector !!!
Firmware Sio2SD not supported ATR 32MB (512b).

I know. So I was wondering if there was any chance of a firmware update...

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The Last Word 3.2 is finally complete and can be downloaded here:

http://www.atari8.co.uk/

I decided to skip version 3.11 altogether because so much has changed since the second release candidate. The fact it's taken since last November to get from version 3.1 to version 3.2 is a testament to how many improvements have been made (as well as to how side-tracked I've been with other projects). It may not look too different, but believe me I've lost count of how many antedeluvian bugs I've fixed over the past few months.

I intend to put up PC-based plain text readme files at some point, but in the meantime all the changes since version 3.1 are described in the three files RC1.TXT, RC2.TXT and README.TXT on the disks (these text files are on disk 2 in the DOS 2.5 package; the SpartaDOS ATR has everything on one 360KB image). Printer drivers have changed subtly for those of you who missed that meeting, the keyboard's been significantly re-mapped, and a couple of new macro commands have been added. The most important improvements, though, have been to the reliability of the program, and I have David Whyte in particular to thank for putting this increasingly complex software through its paces in a practical working environment over the past couple of months.

Doubtless I'll get a "I hate to tell you this, but..." PM in a day or two, but I fully expect to do a minor revison update on this thing before it gets the golden seal. The fact is I was determined to get 3.2 released this weekend, particularly given how buggy last November's release turned out to be and that there are betas floating around all over the place. Any imperfections in the presentation and the manual can be put down to fatigue; it's a BIG job.

Anyway: enjoy it and let me know what you think. I get just as much enjoyment out of writing this program now as I did ten years ago and I have no shortage of ideas for new projects. All I need is a little encouragement sometimes.

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I've just tested Konrad's 32MB, (512 bytes per sector) ATR which he posted on the AA forum a while back with SIO2SD (firmware version 2.4), and the device doesn't recognize the file. Aspeqt and Atari800WinPlus have no trouble with it. Any chance of a firmware update to allow use of 32MB images with SIO2SD???

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Fantastic! It should be noted that performance of the RC_GR8 driver surpasses my expectations!