Updates and Installers

Posted by Hans de Ruiter

It has been several weeks since I posted an update on this project.  Right now hardware accelerated blitter is still a work in progress. In the meantime I have written an installer and AmiUpdate script for the driver. I personally dislike software that requires manual installation, and so took the time to write the necessary scripts for installation and updates. This was done now rather than later since I knew that it would take some time to write an installer (which is something that I had not done before), and it would have been very tempting to skip it if the driver were ready for release, and no installer was written. Along with the installer and update script, a "build-release" script has also been written. Thus, making a release now simply requires running a single script.

I am sure that readers are now wondering if they will see a release soon. Not yet. I do plan to release a public beta at some stage, but not before hardware accelerated blitter is working.

Comments (0) | 15 March 2009