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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Donar
    Posts: 142 from 2003/12/27
    From: Germany
    I have no Peg at the moment (but this should change) so i can not try it out myself (but i'm curious :-D ). Has anybody had luck getting Ambient to compile? With/without any improvements? Did you need any addons?

    By the way any News of MUI 4 or the 1.5 Kernel? Maybe a release Date?
  • »30.01.05 - 11:00
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  • opi
  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    opi
    Posts: 100 from 2003/3/9
    From: Lodz, Poland
    Quote:

    Has anybody had luck getting Ambient to compile?

    I doubt. Some parts that Ambient 1.5 depends on ain't released. Only internal developers can try to compile it.
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  • »31.01.05 - 10:02
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  • Caterpillar
    Caterpillar
    psd
    Posts: 35 from 2004/3/21
    I don't doubt that, i think anybody can TRY to compile it. ;-)
    As mentioned in the readme, there is a chance to compile it while uncommenting some/most new features in config.h.
    So the question is still: has anyone spent some time to check this out (and does it work)?
  • »31.01.05 - 10:20
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
    Paladin of the Pegasos
    SoundSquare
    Posts: 1213 from 2004/12/1
    From: Paris, France
    why don't you just wait ? ;-)

    instead of wasting time compiling something that cannot be compiled without hours and hours of work.
  • »31.01.05 - 13:04
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  • Caterpillar
    Caterpillar
    psd
    Posts: 35 from 2004/3/21
    well, i am waiting, but if someone needs to kill some time, this could be the right way... ;)
  • »31.01.05 - 13:50
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
    Paladin of the Pegasos
    Acill
    Posts: 1923 from 2003/10/19
    From: Port Hueneme, Ca.
    Quote:


    SoundSquare wrote:
    why don't you just wait ? ;-)

    instead of wasting time compiling something that cannot be compiled without hours and hours of work.


    Its easy to see why he wouldnt want to wait. Most of us have been so hyped up by the talks for the last year and more of the new stuff in "1.5" that somethig like the release of the Ambient code is very tempting to see if you can get it to work. I am not a great coder and looking at it showed me that its not something I would want to try. Its a lot of code.
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  • »31.01.05 - 13:52
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Donar
    Posts: 142 from 2003/12/27
    From: Germany
    Wait for what to happen?

    If we could get Ambient to work with only little effort it should be worth the time invested.
    And only this was my question. Most of the MOS users wait since April 2004 for a "soon to happen" magical 1.5 release, this strategy did not work out, did it? Maybe doing something is sometimes better than sitting around and waiting for the next wonderfull things coming to you?
  • »31.01.05 - 19:20
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  • MorphOS Developer
    itix
    Posts: 1520 from 2003/2/24
    From: Finland
    Using Ambient 1.40 without MorphOS 1.5 is next to impossible. It uses features which are not available in MorphOS 1.4 and to compile source code you need newer system headers.
    1 + 1 = 3 with very large values of 1
  • »31.01.05 - 20:34
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  • Cocoon
    Cocoon
    AMiGR
    Posts: 51 from 2003/9/10
    From: Nottingham
    Well, I managed to butcher it enough to compile with old headers but... It still won't fully build, it actually needs newer linked and shared libs of everything... Which is something I'm not about to get into... It's a waste of time to try to practically destroy some code just to see it running with most features (including 1.2x ones) disabled! :-)
    Alkis Tsapanidis
  • »01.02.05 - 10:43
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
    Paladin of the Pegasos
    SoundSquare
    Posts: 1213 from 2004/12/1
    From: Paris, France
    I did it !!! and it's amazing !!

    3D icons, fully 3D rendered desktop (60 IPS (Icons Per Second) on my voodoo3), incredible 3DMUI file manager, TCP/IP stack for gigabit connections, Radeon and Nvidia drivers, TinyGL2 (fully directx9 compatible), integrated 32bt 96khz paula.device enabled, Firewire and USB2 stack, X Server for X11 applications, and ... and...

    and boots in 5 seconds !

    mm... huuuu??? who woke me up ???? b a s t a r d s !
  • »01.02.05 - 14:03
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Donar
    Posts: 142 from 2003/12/27
    From: Germany
    @AMiGR

    That's not what i wanted to hear. ;-)

    Ok seems i do not have to bother with this myself. So i can now do the thing SoundSquare suggested...wait :-D
  • »01.02.05 - 21:52
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