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Description: Minimal CIA resources and hardware simulator
Install: ciagent.lha
Size: 89kb 5
Version: 0.25
Date: 08 Apr 07
Author: Damien Stewart
Submitter: Damien Stewart
Email: hypexed/yahoo com au
Requirements: AmigaOne
Category: emulation/misc
License: Public domain
Distribute: yes
Min OS Version: 4.0
It is the time of AmigaOS4. A new world has beckoned upon us, bringing in new
hopes for the future, and old truths from the past. While in this new world,
things are to be gained, but also it demonstrates the things that have been
lost. Here the AmigaOne was born from the ashes of the old Amiga platform to
rekindle the dream, but out of that re-creation much of the original Amiga
hardware had been lost, to be replaced with more suitable hardware for the
modern climate. Whilst the software layer that is AmigaOS4 supports a basic
emulation of this hardware to bring us more compatibility with programs from the
old school, what remained lost was the CIA chips, and the OS resource that was
used to arbitrate access to these chips. So, that left some programs to just try
and get by which some could do well, and some others just couldn't cope being by
themselves this way and so would fall by the wayside. They remained there,
helpless, left in confusion from a world they didn't understand. Nor did it seem
to care...

Until now. To alleviate this situation, a special software taskforce was set up,
to ease these programs into the new millennium and give an inside view of what
they are doing. Therefore, you're mission; should you decide to accept it, is to
become a CIAgent. A simulated CIA Resource and CIA memory map will be installed
into the system, allowing you to view through the special spy monitor window,
any access to the CIA's through the usual OS resources or direct hardware
access. Here you will be able to monitor every move, but also interact with it
as well, by issuing a small set of special commands to control the process. It
is here that the large gap between the Amiga's and the AmigaOne is brought
closer, by building a bridge from the old to the new. Building on the
foundations of the Amiga heritage, set ages apart.


New features above the original release of CIAgent!

* Made a simple but functional icon.
* Special Workbench secret undercover agent mode. 
* Implemented as proper commodity.
* Added functionality of ALLHITS switch.
* Added "I" command to generate last interrupt added. 
* Added Ctrl-E break for executing I command.
* Enabled Ctrl-C quiting.

* More inside.

* This is a V0.25 interim release. It is a bugfix.
- Restored proper OS4 icons. Last release was built on OS3.9 which destroyed new
images.
- Found serious bug. Programs could exit without all hits being displayed
causing unrecoverable crash in program. Fixed.




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