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[SamuraiCrow]

Should we contact Chris Hodges for permission to implement the AMCAF extension commands for these next-generation Amoses?  I think we should (at least when Mattathias can support extensions).  Maybe he would help us out if he's interested.

[Gianluigi Davassi]

Hi i'm Muzero the autor of Alvyn.

It's passed some times but i'm still developing Alvyn with aim to release a new version of the project for more platform (windows included) and many more features included!!! Tell me about AMCAF extension, i'll be happy for any help

i'm going to release also a new version of the site, take a loot at prototipe: http://alvyn.sourceforge.net/nuovo/index.html

If interested send me your old amos programs, i'll be happy to make work these with alvyn :-D

Muzero

icq: 16366316
email: muzeroNOSPAM@email.it
msn: gigy@freemail.it

[SamuraiCrow]

We've spoken before.  I helped out with the array-handling routines last year.  It's good to see you haven't given up, Muzero.  I like the new webpage.

The AMCAF extension is freeware and you can download it from the Aminet.  It includes a lot of particle effects, HAM mode support routines (should be useful for adding high-color support to Alvyn), some disk-handling support, chunky-to-planar routines (which should be translated as a memory-blit by Alvyn), fixed-point 3d coordinate manipulators, advanced blitter handling, and much more.

I think it would be difficult to find applications that could not benefit from AMCAF support.  The problem is that it may not be easy to convert all of the Amiga features exercised in AMCAF extension to get them to work in Alvyn without extensive bitplane-emulation, etc.

[Gianluigi Davassi]

Hi SamurayCrow, i remember you
Your array-routines are still into the main code, i liked these  

I see AMCAF extension are a good thing, very interesting. The problem is that at this time Alvyn do not process the all AMOS code yet and AMCAF extension have to be completely rewritten and emulated.  But i'll think about it.

See ya, Muzero

[Tarzin]

Is alvyn still developped?

If found the old web page http://alvyn.sourceforge.net/index.html
Seems to be interesting.

[SamuraiCrow]

I don't think Alvyn is still developed.  It has a tragic flaw: It requires all of the Amos sources fed into it to be open-source because it doesn't support compiling.  It only supports JIT bytecode compiling and doesn't store the results of the compilation.  It's written in C++ if you're interested in resurrecting it.

Mattathias could soon use some help though.  We're close to having the parser generator done and I'm going to be working on the language parser.  In the next couple of weeks/months we should be able to start adding extensions to the language.  The only downside is that the optimizer is Low-Level Virtual Machine which only works on non-Amigas at this point.  See documentation on http://www.llvm.org/ for the machine language that all extensions will be written in (or compiled to).

[Tarzin]

I don't think Alvyn is still developed.  It has a tragic flaw: It requires all of the Amos sources fed into it to be open-source because it doesn't support compiling.  It only supports JIT bytecode compiling and doesn't store the results of the compilation.

Ok, thanks for informations

It's written in C++ if you're interested in resurrecting it.

Glups, C or C++ is something totally unknown for me.

Mattathias could soon use some help though.

Great news. I'll follow development and release.
Thanks for your work!