Guillaume "Yomgui" Roguez has released a first version of Helios, a Firewire stack for MorphOS. You can download the achive at the Aminet website. The archive also includes SDK files for third-party developers who are interested to create applications that utilize the Helios library.

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The Helios archive includes the following files:

• README : manual
• Libs/helios.library : this is the heart of Helios.
• FWInspect : a MUI graphical interface to inspect local 1394 bus.
• SDK/* : All files needed to develop applications using Helios.

Installation and usage instructions:

1. If you like Helios and are sure that you would like to install it, just copy the file libs/helios.library to LIBS:. ‏ Then, copy FWInspect to C: (or any another place).

2. Launch FWInspect, it's a MUI application.

• All recognized working local devices are shown in the top list.
• Id: is the local node identifier.
• Label: is the concatenation of all textual strings found in the node ROM.
• Type: is node type (AVC/SBP2 are recognized).

• You can open read/write windows using the buttons in the top right corner.
• You can select a device, enter an address and/or a value, click on Read or Write buttons.

• You can cause a busreset event using the Reset Bus button.
  

Known issues and limitations:

- Isochrone mode not supported.

- Asynchrone mode limitations:
* Ping request not supported.
* Lock request/response not supported.

- No bus management yet (to support the isochrone mode).

- FWInspect shows only the first PCI OHCI1394 bridge found on the host.

- Functions Helios_EnableBus() / Helios_DisableBus() works but may cause system crashes when helios.library is flushed and then reloaded.