Hi again, been working on Excalibur.

As you can see there are some improvement.
The scaled icons now support alpha channel transparency and max icon size can be set by the user, I have also fixed lots things, I intend to make new release on the new year.

Christmas gift to Amiga community

I released Excalibur 0.9.8, you will not find a lot has changed, its the same program as before, bug fixing was the primary motivation for this release, but there are few new things, background color, fount color settings, new preferences application, new vertical scroll bar.

There are number of idea that go on in my head, I'm not going to tell you all of my ideas are until they are done, transparency is not on top that list, there are a few functional things that need to be done before that.

If your hoping Excalibur is going to be a AmiStart clone then your mistaken, Excalibur is first of all inspired by my ideas, its not a port, and its not a replica.

What you might expect in a future version is expanded toolbar functionality and maybe plug ins, for example remove memory meter and clock and turn it in to a plug-ins, so they can be replaced by others.

A tiny progress rapport on Excalibur

I worked one to two hours yesterday, the mockup of the new prefs is now functional, whit some minor issues, there are some stuff that was missing in the GUI, like truck long files names, there were some settings that where not saved or I’m having problems whit because I don’t know if it ever worked because of the project has been resting on my hard drive for so long whit out being worked on.

The next thing I will do is try to group the different settings so you have a better idea about what etch option does.

I’m thinking about adding some new options for visual effects for the scrollbar, maybe you like to change the color, or you don’t like light effect.

And there is the ASL requestor that keeps crashing on me, I have used some old code I have not checked too closely, this should be fixed whit ease.

I have not done anything whit the installer script it works, I know some of you don’t like bash scripts, I have no clue about the installer script format, so if someone like to write better installer script I’m happy to take it.

Picture galleries in Facebook an annoying thing or some thing useful.

I was thinking it be nice to put some pictures on face book, pleasant time with friends and family,  not every one are so happy about that, I don't understand this, they joined Facebook to tell every one about every thing did they not, so way do they have problems whit a few pictures?

If you can't share pictures on FB then Facebook is useless for picture galleries.

Does people have the same problem whit things that is written about them too? Or is just about it being a pictures?

Please comment what do you think?

The new Shell for AmigaOS

I see a lots of negative comment about not having the new Shell, and the old one not having a scroll bar. for AmigaOS, this comments I have hard time understanding, because it so easy to install KingCON and it work so well, KingCON gives you scroll bar, it gives you file selector if you TAB and you get lots of results.

I will try to describe how to install KingCON on your AmigaOS4 computer.

1. Put KingCon-Mountlist in devs:

2. Put KongCON-Handler in SYS:L/

3. Check that you have this line in S:User-Startup

4. On your shell icon, change the tool type from CON: to KCON:
and then you save.

Interesting Amiga projects from others.

For total AAA (Anonymous Amiga Alcoholic) there is a emulation project to run AmigaOS on Android mobile phones.

Link to: droidpuae.blogspot.com

There is also the blog about ReadionHD drivers from Hanz, working is being done to support full 3d acceleration.

Link to: Hanz blog

You should also check out DvPlayer and WarpView, DvPlayer is excellent DVD player, and can many video formats, it has nice GUI, WarpView is 3D accelerated picture view, its also a excellent software package, costs a some cash but its worth the investment.

Link to: dvplayer

If you into audio mixing you should check out Audio Evolution 4, its a multi platform application, runs on MacOS, AmigaOS and Windows.

Link to: audio-evolution

You should also check out Hollywood, its software package designed to make simple presentations (like powerpoint) to programs you can run, the project files can be compiled as executable so they can be run many opening systems, whit out any software being installed before.

Link to: hollywood

I just named a few there are many more interesting projects being worked on I'm going to post some more about this an other time.

I hope you enjoy the blog.

Excalibur facelift

I have worked to solve some bugs and problems whit Excalibur.
First of all there is a new scroll bar in the menus, the Ugly gadtools one removed, it was only crashing because of a tiny bug we found after I started replacing it.

The old Setup program is so ugly, I'm working on replacing it, whit a Reaction one.