MUI test program compiled on emulated A4000PPC running AmigaOS 4.1 FE

[MarcusF]

Went and bought AmigaOS 4.1 FE Classic the other day and I just got one of the MUIClass test programs compiled on an emulated A4000PPC running AmigaOS 4.1 FE Classic

Some day I'll get a proper Amiga NG machine but for now this will let me play around.

I did none of the hard work with this, I grabbed the pre-created IDE package by ALB as well as the MUIClass source, copied into the virtual machine and after a couple of OOM errors while compiling the entire MUIClass package, it worked!

[miker1264]

Good work.

Are those general MUI sources? Where can we get the sample spices?

Also which compiler package from ALB are you using?

Is it only for compiling MUI or can it be used to compile applications for OS4 itself ?

I'm curious because I also have an emulated A4000 running Amiga OS4 FE.

[MarcusF]

Hey miker,

http://fpcamigawiki.alb42.de/index.php?title=Installation_OS4 <-- Overall instructions and links
https://www.freepascal.org/down/powerpc/amigaos-canada.html <-- Binary package, grab the bottom LHA file
https://github.com/alb42/MUIClass <-- MUIClass, add the src to your project
http://fpcamigawiki.alb42.de/index.php?title=Tutorial:Window <-- Intuition tutorial/example if you prefer that

With the binary package the default target is OS4

[miker1264]

Ah. I see now.

It's based on MUI objects for Free Pascal.

That's a milestone achievement to get Free Pascal working on Amiga OS4.1 FE.

Thanks for the links.

[MarcusF]

I'm just a user, all kudos to the people who worked on the implementation

[magorium]

The ppc version of free pascal originates from the morphos version which, in itself is a pet project of chain-q/charlie. Charlie added initial support for OS4 several years ago and ALB42/marcus added on top of that.

It is a real shame that there isn't an official maintainer (anymore), see first paragraph. Though current maintainers do try to keep it in line (just not in official capacity).

The MUIClasses units in itself are a real nice piece of work from ALB42's hand. It makes developing a MUI GUI a breeze (in comparison to doing it manually).