CRT unit is a pain in the ass to port, with maintaining the compatibility, since the design of it expects a PC-alike textmode console with fixed resolution, with PC-style non-messaging/non-buffered keyboard I/O, which is _NOT_ the case on Amiga/MorphOS. Also the character set is different. To provide a better solution, i'm planning to implement an unit, which opens it's own window, and complettely emulates a PC-style console window in it. With this way, a complettely TP/DOS compatible CRT unit can be done on MorphOS. But this is a low-priority job, since the CRT unit is now a legacy unit.

To do CRT-like tricks on MOS console, better use the ABox API. (Soon to be completted. )

Im very, very thrilled over what you are saying right now.

I was actually planning to code an ansieditor so that would help alot. The only thing I miss in morphos is actually this, and perhaps a good pcansi-textmode telnet client that support z-modem (for bbs'ing).

Keep up the good work MR!

Some progress again:

https://morph.zone/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=745

PegasosPPC "RULEZ" Medal to Chain-Q!

R&B

Great!
How come we don't see any news at the fpcwikipage?

By the way, how about using the video unit for 'textmode' :) ?

Few more things working again:

CGFX working (software-rendering 3D engine running in hi/truecolor, with selectable resolution, written in 99% pascal, only the most time-critical part is in PPC assembly):

http://scenergy.dfmk.hu/amiga/images/pegasos/Pega2-3Dengine.jpg
http://scenergy.dfmk.hu/amiga/images/pegasos/Pega2-3Dengine2.jpg
http://scenergy.dfmk.hu/amiga/images/pegasos/Pega2-3Dengine3.jpg

AHI working:

http://scenergy.dfmk.hu/amiga/images/pegasos/Pega2-ISSfirst.jpg

(This is a port of my MOD/XM module player. Yes i know the screenshot says WAV writer, but just believe me, it's AHI... Download it from here and see: http://scenergy.dfmk.hu/amiga/temp/issahi , but beware, it's _NOT_ fail safe. It can play XM's and MOD's, if you've luck. )

Sources, and a new updated FPC package will be uploaded soon. FPC wiki page will be updated soon. And more to come soon. And yes i know i'm the laziest bastard on Earth.

great job. and for the record your not the lazyest bastard on earth....i am but your welcome ot takre the crown from me as i dont have the motivation to defend it

Chain-Q: the changes you're making, are they also going to work with a classic Amiga?

You are "the man" Chain-Q!

Now we just need AltiVec too!

R&B

TheMagicM: I'm trying to keep classic Amiga in mind, but since MOS and classic Amiga SDK is complettely different due to copyright issues, it's a bit hard. Also since the internals of RTL changed a lot between 1.0.x and 1.9.x, and because 1.9.x compiler doesn't yet have a 68k version, it's a bit hard to keep everything in mind. But since i cleaned up as much asm code as possible, reusing the current RTL as classic Amiga RTL (or maybe even as classic AmigaPPC RTL) will be a lot easier if this ever happens.

bbrv: basic support for Altivec is in the compiler already, so as soon as MOS supports it, it will be possible to use Altivec in FPC programs.

I've the proof! MOS was written in Pascal!
Check out: http://jp.planas.free.fr/

@Chain-Q

LOL, do you will port to MOS to MorphOS?

Show some public report as news in MorphZone? ;)

seriously... how is it going with freepascal for morphos? how "done" is it?
This is a must! I have a huge interest in this.

OK like you've never posted before reading the other topics of the day!

I read the subject Pixel32, so im updated on the FPC situation. Chain-Q you rule man!

More news needed!

Current situation:
Free Pascal Compiler version 1.9.5 [2004/11/16] for powerpc
Copyright (c) 1993-2004 by Florian Klaempfl
Target OS: MorphOS

... so recent CVS version builds & working

Some news:
- "make cycle" process, so building the compiler from scratch working again on MorphOS (thanks to continous effort by Florian Klaempfl and Peter Vreman)
- conversion between Unix-like paths used by the compiler & tools and Amiga-like paths fixed/cleaned up/accelerated
- support cross-compiling just like other platforms
- environment variable-handling fixed in DOS unit
- many more... and many more still to come

Currently:
- cleaning up Intuition/Graphics/CGFX/AHI and releated units to be ready to be released.
- cleaning up and commenting examples

After the happenings today/yesterday i'm pretty sure it doesn't worth the effort, but i had no better things to do...

We hope you read our answer. Thank you.

R&B

@Chain-Q

I'm pretty sure it does worth the effort.

@Chain-Q:

It is definitly worth the effort! MorphOS will live on, and with Pascal as a programming language - even people like me (Who knows to little C - just some Objective C, I grew up with Turbo Pascal ) can contribute with larger applications.

As soon as we can do a buildgen for MuiBuilder, some serious application development will start from my side.

My best
//Tim

@ Chain-Q

Please don't stop your development. This is a very important application, and your work is highly appreciated by lots of people. Don't forget that! Keep it up!

Some people wanted news, so here are news:

Good:
- hardware, inputevent, and graphics units got into the CVS... intuition comes next. Most units are heavily based on work of Nils Sjoholm (author of classic Amiga RTL). Hehe, now here is the proof, FK and PV did the compiler, NS did the RTL, i'm doing noting, just causing the delays!

Bad:
- Another MOS-releated problem appeared in the compiler, which will make delays... (Wasn't me...)

@Chain-Q

Thanks a lot for your effort!