WinUAE Help 3.1.1
Starting the 28th year of this project, some further updates to our official WinUAE Help file can now be downloaded at the usual location! Happy new year everyone, especially to Peter, our long-time collaborator.
Amiga Forever!
Very pleased to be able to let you all know that Amiga Forever 11 has been released by our good friends at Cloanto! The new editions feature high-fidelity virtual printers, handheld device support, and hundreds of other improvements. Proud to have contributed a very, very tiny part to this long-lasting project. Go check it out and send some love to Italy!
Introducing PatchRadar 1.0
Staying up to date on the latest changes in your favorite games and software can be a tedious process. Today, we invite you to download PatchRadar, a mobile application available for both Android and iOS platforms, designed to keep you informed about the latest updates for your games and software.
This is just the start of this journey, and your feedback is most welcome and invaluable to us as we continue to enhance the app’s features and performance.
Key Features of PatchRadar:
- On-Device Notifications: Stay informed with alerts about new patches and updates for your subscribed games and applications, ensuring you’re always up-to-date.
- Extensive Database: PatchRadar monitors a wide range of software and games, providing comprehensive coverage to cater to diverse user interests.
- User-Friendly Interface: Designed with simplicity in mind, PatchRadar offers an intuitive interface that allows you to manage your subscriptions effortlessly.
- Customizable Preferences: Tailor your notification settings to receive updates only for the software and games you care about, minimizing unnecessary alerts.
- Game Reviews & Pricing Data: Get information on game reviews and price changes to help you make informed decisions.
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WinUAE Help 3.0.9
Updated WinUAE 5.3 and some minor error corrections. Download here. Also, the online version has been updated.
Flutter, DevDrive and Windows Defender
Like many SDKs, Dart/Flutter consist of hundreds of thousands of files. This easily becomes a performance problem on Windows, especially with AV solutions like Windows Defender, and results on slow code completion, analysis and generally sluggish performance of tools, e.g. in Visual Studio Code.
One solution to this problem is to disable the AV solution or just exclude the directories containing the SDKs. We will skip the explanation why this is generally a bad idea, but there is an alternative solution, namely Windows 11’s new Dev Drives, basically a VHDX using ReFs. Windows Defender does use a different mode of scanning files for all DevDrives, so this is a neat solution.
We just need to move all the Flutter/Dart SDK files to the newly created DevDrive (e.g. D:\Flutter), but that still does not yield the expected results. This is because the analyzer and public cache are still by default stored in the user’s home directories.
Moving these to the DevDrive significantly speeds up the analyzer, compilation, and all other tasks. These Environment Variables can be used to specify the new location of the folders:
| ANALYZER_STATE_LOCATION_OVERRIDE | D:\.dart-Server |
| PUB_CACHE | D:\.pub-cache |
| GRADLE_USER_HOME | D:\.gradle |
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WinUAE Help 3.0.8
Refreshed for the new WinUAE 5.1, this version also contains some size improvements. Go grab it at the usual place.
Amiga Forever
Our friends from Cloanto have released Amiga and C64 Forever 10, and of course, the official WinUAE Help we curate for years is included in the package, I am proud to say. If you are a retro computing fan, you simply have to check this out and support their work.
F(x)tec Pro1-X
If you are a keyboard afficionado, you may have heard about the F(x)tec Pro1 and Pro1-X phones with integrated keyboards. Together with some peers of the LineageOS team, I have ported LineageOS over to the Pro1-X. It is still early stages, but eventually, LineageOS will be available as a shipping option for the phone!
Head over to my XDA thread, Github or the LineageOS Gerrit review if you would like to check out progress and/or help out.
LineageOS 20
Some more good news for the end of 2022: LineageOS 20 has just been released. And I have had a hand at it, as the main maintainer for:
Sadly, of course, the Sony devices will not be updated beyond Lineage 18.1, but still! You may now enjoy a whole slew of improvements if you own a OnePlus 5/5T: better GPS locking, improved audio quality, faster UI performance just to name a few.
We poured a lot of hard work and blood, sweat and tears into this, so please do enjoy. This is also a great opportunity to thank all the people who donated equipment for this effort, please have a look at the hall of fame!
There are some exciting things coming up, so keep watching… and have a happy new year everyone!
WinUAE Help 3.0.5
As a little end of the year present, the help file has received another round of updates to comply with the latest WinUAE. As ever, thanks to Peter Hutchison. Go grab the file here.