Maintenance release
On a Classic Amiga with a network card, the network now comes up by itself. Until this release the Roadshow interface file was written to a drawer Roadshow never reads – connecting by hand from the dock worked, everything else did not. Plus: drag and drop between Disk Browser panes again, and the CPU-gated packages install on UAE images.
Maintenance release - macOS 14+, Apple Silicon and Intel. Build: 260817.
Build a Classic image with a network card and Roadshow, and the interface
configuration was written to DEVS:Internet/Interfaces/Ethernet. That is
where AmiTCP and Genesis keep their settings; Roadshow reads
DEVS:NetInterfaces and SYS:Storage/NetInterfaces and nowhere
else. So the drawer every Roadshow instruction tells you to look in was empty, and
Roadshow's own startup – which simply adds every interface it finds there –
found nothing.
It was not entirely inert: the Online icon in the dock named the file by its full path, and that works. Which is exactly why this went unnoticed for so long – connecting by hand worked, so networking "worked". What never worked was having the machine come up on the network on its own, or any Roadshow-native tool finding the interface.
Both halves are fixed. The interface is written to
DEVS:NetInterfaces/Ethernet, and the image now raises it a few seconds
after boot – detached and delayed, so a machine with no cable plugged in still
boots normally and simply comes up without a network. The Online icon still works for
connecting by hand, and Settings → Classic → Network turns
the automatic bring-up off if you prefer the click.
A314 builds were never affected – that path always wrote the correct drawer.
Dropping files from one pane into the other was being refused while drops from the Finder still worked: after a macOS update, the drag payload's custom type had to be declared in the app itself before the system would accept it. Declared now, and shift-click range selection no longer collapses back to a single row while you are extending it.
RiVA, mpega.library and ScummVM were skipped on UAE and Amiberry images by a rule meant for the MiSTer profile, whose emulated Amiga is a 68000. They install on the UAE family now, with the library variant matched to the emulated CPU. And a chosen 68040 is respected instead of being raised to a 68060.
amipkg update on the Amiga lands on the copy the build made.Thanks to Jan (evil4dmin), who built a fresh Classic image, went looking for the interface file where the Roadshow documentation says it lives, and reported the empty drawer.