I'll invastigate if ghostscript can be supported.

Can you point to where I can download it? Also if this is a command line tool, please give me examples how to invoke it.

It's gs850 and it used to be part of the Icaros distibution; I've cut down the files and included it as a zip.

You need to set up some assigns:

assign ghostscript: <path to ghostscript folder>
assign gs850data: ghostscript:lib
assign gs850resource: ghostscript:resource
assign gs850fonts: ghostscript:fonts

The simplest implementation is just to start the ghostscript shell by launching ghostscript:gs

Thanks for considering this,
Nigel.

P.S. There is a verison of Ghostscript 10 on arosarchives, but its for 1.0 rather than 1.1.

@ ntromans

Ghostscript ‘gs850’ is also installed on AROS One 32Bit, but it is an old version. Ghostscript available on Aros Archive is much more recent, v10 for x86_64 (ABI_WIP)

In any case, since the source code is available, perhaps someone could compile Ghostscript for 64Bit. I am attaching some links where you can find the various versions.

https://github.co...s/releases

http://www.whoosh...

Agreed 8.50 is very old but still works, and as mentioned verison 10 in the archives is for ABI1.0 so will not work on the 64 bit distribution we are using; I think it was principally built for compiling to 68k to support the FinalWriter release on the A1200GS.

Cheers,
Nigel.

More tests...

I tried the Hollywood compiler; unforunately both from the GUI and command line it locks up the system in a similar manner to Ghostscript (no error message).

The other two tests are for a couple of programs I've written for work. Neither is currently released; Simple_Whiteboard_MUI is an electonic whiteboard program that's currently missing too many features to distribute (although I'm having to use the Windows compile of it as work as the electronic whiteboard proram we used to have has not been installed on our new Windows 11 machines, so its currently the only way to use our smartboards...) Crossboard_Live is an educational game, teams compete to answer multiple choice questions to work their way across the playing board. This one is compelete but I need get on and write instructions for it Anyway, the errors...

Simple_Whiteboard_MUI - crashes on startup with the attached error.

Crossboard_Live - starts, you can elect the number of questions but when the reuester comes up to select them, in navigating to a folder you cannot pull the scroll bar down to view all of its contents. You can move down using the cursor keys, but then you can't select a further folder either by th enter key or double-clicking on it.

I've included the Hollywood app versions of both programs if that will be of any help.

Cheers,
Nigel.

P.S. another test, just tried my View_Pubscreen program - crashes on startup with a Hollywoodplayer error rather than system, saying 'XML declarations are not balanced', so I'm guessing the emulation has an issue with the MUIRoyale plugin when trying to create the GUI.

Another Hollywood test; this program tries to open a USB serial device. Unfortunately it crashes on startuo - please see attached. I imagine not in current scope but I though I'd posy it up in case it's of any use.

Cheers,
Nigel.

You're right to run the tests; we haven't done it for many other applications anyway. It's a beta version of the emulator.

@ntromans

For the 3 applications, I added them to invastigation list.

For the application accessing USB serial.device - applications touching hardware are essentially out of scope of emulator, because support for them needs to added almost one by one. If this application is critical for you when using AROS then I might find space to look into it. Please let me know if this is critical for you.

PS. If the serial.device application is a simple one, I can help you rewrite it to C. Actually it's possible that if that application is simple, if you paste it's Hollywood code into some coding-oriented ChatGPTs it might translate it C in form of something that almost work and something that we could use as a base.

Many thanks for looking into these

For the serial device one, believe it or not I'm using an old laptop running AROS to control our central heating; the serial connection is used to communicate with the system's control box, so pretty specific to myself, but generally being able to communicate via serial is very useful for control applications (robotics, communicating with microcontrollers etc.) Could a command line tool be wriiten to pass communications to and from a chosen serial device? That way any application (shell, Hollwood, Python...) could make use of it. Of cuurse on the Amiga we had the ser: device but I've neve rhad any luck using that on AROS.

Cheers,
Nigrel.

Tested other Hollywood applications that do not work, for example ‘slideshow’ does not start when run from Emuv0, no error and no Guru.
It seems that ‘slideshow’ like ‘iconeditor’ look for the necessary libraries in the system in use, ignoring the Emiv0 path:

https://arosarchi...showhw.lha

https://arosarchi...6-aros.tgz