Here is the road map planed for 2021 for the rebuilded project "Amos Professional Unity" :
Now that Gunnar have released some precise informations concerning the SAGA Chipset, I am able to be more precise about what should be added to Amos Professional Unity concerning the SAGA chipset.
Here is the current roadmap with its completion state :
Step 1 | Rebuild a flexible Amos Professional version from the original. |
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1.1 | Rebuild Amos Professional source code Structure to fit requirements for new flexible files structures |
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1.2 | Makes the default Amos Professional uses AmosProUnityECS.library instead of AMOS.library |
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1.3 | Modify internal source code to use the new library name AmosProUnityECS.library |
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1.4 | Update configuration files for compiler, interpreter, editor to uses new AmosProUnity config files instead of the older ones. |
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After Step 1, Amos Professional Unity should run exactly like Amos Professional |
Step 2 | Push everything that was graphic dependant into the new AmosProUnityECS.library |
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2.1 |
Push all methods that requires graphic treatment, or that are dependant on the graphic chipset, directly inside the new AmosProUnityECS.library
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2.2 |
Update Amos Professional internal structures to handle datas for all hardware variants planed
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2.3 |
Reinject specific color palette methods (load/save/etc.) that were initially in the agaSupport.lib, directly inside the AmosProUnitySupport.lib as available for all platforms
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2.4 | Check that the Amos Professional Unity internal structure is adapted to changes |
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After Step 2, Amos Professional Unity should contains new working commands for color palette. Rainbows will be done later. |
Step 3 | Reimplement the AGA methods and support inside the AmosProUnityAGA.library |
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3.1 | Create AmosProAGA.library from AmosProECS.library Reimport all the changes applied into the previously called AmosProAGA.library, inside the new AmosProUnityAGA.library |
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3.2 | Add support for retro-compatibility with previous Amos Professional 2.0 |
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3.3 | Makes Amos Professional detect chipsets ECS/AGA and open the correct library AmosProUnityECS.library or AmosProUnityAGA.library depending on configuration |
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3.4 | Check that the Amos Professional Unity internal structure is adapted to changes for all the supported platforms and run on both ECS and AGA using the correct library |
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3.5 | Import previous AmosProAGA.lib methods inside the new AmosProUnity_Support.lib |
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After Step 3, Amos Professional Unity should be able to *specifically* run on both ECS and AGA configuration using the correct AmosProUnity*****.library |
Step 4 | Complete the AGA Support inside the AmosProUnityAGA.library |
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4.1 | Add support for AGA rainbows when AGA is available. As method should already accepts RGB24 inputs. Only the methods that render Rainbows will requires to be updated |
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4.2 | Add support for AGA Sprites |
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4.3 | Add support for Super Hires and Ultra Hires resolutions |
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After Step 4, AGA Chipset support will be considered as COMPLETED. And should works correctly |
Step 5 | Implement the SAGA Support and methods inside the Amos ProUnitySAGA.library |
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5.1 | Build the new AmosProUnitySAGA.library using the freshly created AmosProUnityAGA.library as template | ||||||
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5.2 | Update AGA Methods to use optimised Copper List 32 bits calls available in the SAGA chipset | ||||||
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5.3 |
Add support for Chunky Screen
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5.4 | Add support for Chunky Screen graphics | ||||||
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5.5 | Add support for Chunky Screen pack/unpack (compact.lib) | ||||||
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5.6 |
Add support for PIP Screen
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5.7 |
Add support for SAGA Sprites |
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5.8 |
Add support for SAGA 8 Channels Audio 8/16 bits. |
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5.9 |
Check that the Amos Professional Unity internal structure is adapted to changes for all the supported platforms and run on both ECS, AGA and SAGA using the correct library |
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After Step 5, Amos Professional Unity should be able to run *specifically* on the three support configurations ECS, AGA and SAGA using the correct AmosProUnity****.library |
Step 6 | Multi-Platform coding support |
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6.1 | Add methods to help developer to know (at run time), on which Amiga 68k compatible configuration the program run (ECS, AGA, SAGA) |
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6.2 | Create some source code samples, to show the use of multi-platform game development. |
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After step 6, Amos Professional Unity development will be considered as Completed. At this point, and depending on the amount of works required to reach this goal, I will release the project as Open Source MIT Licence, or as Closed Source using MIT Relicensing option. |
I hope you'll enjoy the development of Amos Professional Unity. And feel free to send me a message if you have an idea, a proposal, directly using the Contact form.
Latest update : 2020.02.16 18:01