I recently downloaded from the official AmiKIT site the free version of AmiKIT. It’s great! I love it! I love the Amiga!
While testing the AmiKIT in an environment, that reminds me of the environment I had with the good old Amiga 4000, I got a spark to learn Amiga things again.
It would be nice finish my old classic 2D Ultima style RPG game. But where to find the needed documentation?
Below is a little video of my AmiKIT early adventure:
In the video an old C program to play MED music modules is compiled and tested. The C compiler that is used is VBCC.
Below is that program in full:
/* This program loads a module, and plays it. Uses medplayer.library, octaplayer.library and octamixplayer.library, if required. Could be used as a small simple replacement of OctaMEDPlayer. */ #include <stdio.h> #include <exec/types.h> #include <libraries/dos.h> #include <proto/exec.h> #include <proto/dos.h> /* These two must be included in this order. */ /* #include "proplayer.h" */ #include "proto/medplayer.h" #include "proplayer.h" int main(int argc,char *argv[]) { struct MMD0 *sng; struct Library *MEDPlayerBase = NULL; if(argc < 2) { printf("Usage: example2 <song>n"); return; } /* Assume 4-ch mode (medplayer.library) We use V7 to obtain RequiredPlayRoutine */ MEDPlayerBase = OpenLibrary("medplayer.library",0); if(!MEDPlayerBase) { printf("Can't open medplayer.library!n"); return; } printf("Loading...n"); sng = LoadModule(argv[1]); if(!sng) { printf("Load error."); goto exit; } GetPlayer(0); PlayModule(sng); printf("Press Ctrl-C to quit.n"); Wait(SIGBREAKF_CTRL_C); exit: FreePlayer(); UnLoadModule(sng); CloseLibrary(MEDPlayerBase); return 0; }
Time will tell if my RPG made on Amiga will be ever finished…