OK - I wouldn't be surprised if Apollo would give an area on their discord. They have a thread for #ApolloBoot (which I don't think is an official internal project? Maybe? May be Not?🤷) and so them maybe adding a thread for #Fred80 would be a nice, convenient place too? It feels like a #Fred80 thread on the Apollo Discord would be seen by EVERYONE with an Apollo accelerator (and those considering an Apollo accelerator/board)
And yes, I would think that Cut & Paste would be very valuable, vs typing with my old eyes. 😁
I do also have a few suggestions - but I probably should try to find a manual... CRTL-S and CTRL-R are probably already documented somewhere which I didn't see yet. :)
Hey Todd congrats on getting the v4 that sounds awesome!
About the screensaver you can drop a fred80.cfg next to the FRED-80 binary to override defaults. So create that file next to the fred80.m68k file.
Set ss_timeout (in seconds) to change it, or set it very high to effectively disable it.
# fred80.cfg ss_timeout = 30
Let me know if that works for you!
If you look at https://fred80.dev/examples.html there are a bunch of examples you can copy paste into fred80. Ive not tried copying and pasting from the website into fred80 on my v4 before though!
Thanks!
I used to do a LOT of programming back in the day... back in the 80's and 90's -- but really nothing since Amiga went away. I mainly used compiled languages - HiSoft Basic back in the day, as well as PowerBASIC & PowerBASIC Console Compiler (PBCC) for PC Applications (PowerBASIC is a very VERY fast complier, with very good compact code output)
Anyway - I'm going to take some time to get up to speed.. so we will see. I'm thinking of a strategy game, but would probably want and 800x600 screen, or a 1024x768 screenmode... so maybe having more flexibility on the SAGA screenmodes might be a feature.
It would be nice if all those example carts could be in a single download file, a zip or lha or something. It'd be good to learn by seeing what has already been done with Fred80, and so if there was a way to bundle up a directory of Carts (rather than manually cutting-and-pasting and putting them on a MicroSD card one at a time. So, I'd find it useful if we could send source code, or even if the Fred80 download would include a bunch of example carts, rather than having to cut-and-paste or type each one in manually.
That would be a useful thing I think.