During the Bromo Art Walk in Baltimore on May 18, 2023, I drew the character for the custom chip Denise on an emulated Amiga 1200 in the 24-bit Amiga painting software True Brilliance, which was released in 1993. My display was mirrored onto a monitor so others could see the art production. There was a lot of stopping and showing the 30 year old copyright date on the About window for True Brilliance that I cut out of the video. Next time, I’ll use the Stencil feature more so I’m not overwriting my ink lines so much.

Credits

Music

• “Chee Zee Beach” by Kevin MacLeod
  • https://incompetech.com
  • CC-BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

I just finished posting all my photos from VCF East 2023. Go check them out on my Pixelfed!

Introducing the BSD Socket Extension for AMOS Professional, the newest and easiest way to get your AMOS BASIC programs onto the Internet. Available now on Aminet and on the Hackerbun code repository.

This code finalizes the 25 year old project I started in 1998 to write a networking library for AMOS Professional. If you want to watch from the beginning, check out this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4GNHJfYOUU&list=PLX_wfJQZe5SVK1D17NJpbmjyXI6dByOKl&pp=gAQB

Thanks to Piotr, Tyrel (@tyrel@social.tyrel.dev)!

References

Download

• Aminet (http://aminet.net/package/dev/amos/BSDSocket-Extension)
  • Download the latest version from Aminet
• Hackerbun (https://code.hackerbun.dev/TheIndustriousRabbit/amos-pro-bsdsocket-extension)
  • or download releases from Hackerbun!

API & Examples

• BSD Socket Extension API (https://code.hackerbun.dev/TheIndustriousRabbit/amos-pro-bsdsocket-extension/src/branch/main/API.md)
• Example Code (https://code.hackerbun.dev/TheIndustriousRabbit/amos-pro-bsdsocket-extension/src/branch/main/examples)

Extension Users

• AQUABYSS by Aged Code (https://agedcode.com/agedcode/en/games/aquabyss)

Credits

Music

• “Industrious Ferret” by Kevin MacLeod
  • https://incompetech.com
  • CC-BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

Sound effects

• Fabric flaps by PelicanPolice
  • https://freesound.org/people/PelicanPolice/sounds/580967/
  • CC 0 (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
• Poof of Smoke by Planman
  • https://freesound.org/people/Planman/sounds/208111/
  • CC 0 (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

Topaz walks through what it takes to write a network client in M68K assembler on the Commodore Amiga, using development tools that run right on the Amiga itself!

Thanks to Tyrel (@tyrel@social.tyrel.dev), Colin!

References

Code

• Code on Hackerbun Gitea (https://code.hackerbun.dev/TheIndustriousRabbit/amiga-bsdsocket-coding/src/branch/main/client_in_asm)
  • Includes the code in both assembler and C

Tools

• AsmPro 1.18 (http://aminet.net/package/dev/asm/AsmPro1.18src)
  • Install this first
• AsmPro 1.19 Update (http://aminet.net/package/dev/asm/ASMPro1.19)
  • Then install this update
• fd2pragma (http://aminet.net/package/dev/misc/fd2pragma)
  • You might get fd2pragma from other developer tools. This one is likely better than those other ones.

68000 Assembler

• Asm-Editor (https://asm-editor.specy.app/)
  • Web-based 68000 assembler
• 68k.hax.com (http://68k.hax.com/)
  • A non-https site with 68k instruction information, so you can browse it on your Amiga
• m68k-instructions-documentation (https://github.com/prb28/m68k-instructions-documentation)
  • All 68000 instructions as well as info on Amiga custom chip registers

BSD Socket Library

• FD file for bsdsocket.library (https://github.com/cnvogelg/amitools/blob/master/amitools/data/fd/bsdsocket_lib.fd)
  • You can also find this in the AmiTCP SDK

Credits

Music

• “Industrious Ferret”, “Pop Goes the Weasel”, “Itty Bitty 8-Bit” by Kevin MacLeod
  • https://incompetech.com
  • CC-BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
• “Last Chance” by Nihilore
  • https://nihilore.com
  • CC-BY-NC 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)

I took a break from some Amiga assembler programming to draw this piece. I had seen a picture from an advertisement of a knight attacking an Amiga 500, so I redrew it featuring Topaz, and gave Topaz a good reason to want to attack the Amiga. Enjoy!

Topaz Rabbit walks through building a simple bsdsocket.library based server for the Commodore Amiga using the C programming language. You’ll learn about development environment setup, waiting for socket connections & other signals, and reading and printing client data to the console.

References

Code

• Server code on Hackerbun Gitea (https://code.hackerbun.dev/TheIndustriousRabbit/amiga-bsdsocket-coding/src/branch/main/server_in_c)
  • Grab the code and follow along!

Documentation

• AROS bsdsocket.library notes (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Aros/Developer/Docs/Libraries/BSDsocket#Usage)
  • Covers a lot of the Amiga-specific basics
• NetBSD socket programming (https://wiki.netbsd.org/examples/socket_programming/)
  • Guide to using sockets on a BSD-based system
• Amiga bsdsocket.library autodocs (https://wiki.amigaos.net/amiga/autodocs/bsdsocket.doc.txt)
  • Amiga function names and usage details
• SO_REUSEADDR example (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24194961/how-do-i-use-setsockoptso-reuseaddr)
  • Note that you don’t get SO_REUSEPORT or SO_LINGER on the Amiga!

Setup

• AmiTCP 4.3 SDK (http://aminet.net/package/comm/tcp/AmiTCP-SDK-4.3)
  • You’ll need this (or an equivalent) to compile this code
• Setting up the SDK (https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=1294161)
  • Forum post showing SAS/C and AmiTCP SDK setup

Credits

Music

• “Industrious Ferret” by Kevin MacLeod
  • https://incompetech.com
  • CC-BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)