@ChrisH

i'll give it a try on my SAM as soon as i get home this evening. looking forward to learning a new language!

thanks for all of your work on our platform(s) of choice.

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@ChrisH
I must commend your focus on user friendliness. First RunInUAe and then a version of PortableE aimed at beginners.
Might even tempt me...
Thanks for your efforts!

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@DAX
In the past there have been a surprising number of beginners interested in PortablE. Sadly I was still working on making PortablE good enough for experienced AmigaE/AmigaOS programmers, so I couldn't do too much for them. But with that mostly done, I was able to look at making it more beginner friendly.

I've always wanted PortablE to be really simple to use, because *I* like simple things (why make it more complicated than it needs to be?). This release of PortablE now brings it close to the kind of programming language I always wanted! And beginners also like simple things, so it's not much of a stretch to try to accommodate beginners too.

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great news Chris & many thanks

I unfortunately can't have a look right now because I'm in the middle of selling my beloved Samflex to a friend to make room for the (hopefully soon) upcoming X1000....looking forward to using PortableE with the X1000

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that's REALLY interesting!

GOOD WORK!

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Sounds great, look forward to using it.

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A grateful gesture from Chris. Thanks dude.

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How long will it be where it will make gui apps?

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Keep up the great work!

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It works really well.. :)

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@Trekiej Quote:

How long will it be where it will make gui apps?

PortablE already makes GUI apps! I just haven't shown any examples of that YET

Actually, technically that's a lie, since I released beta versions of PictureAlbum, and that had a GUI... I just didn't explain that it was (mostly) written using PortablE's new modules.

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I have now posted two PortablE examples (more to come):
Example 1: ShootEmUp.e
Example 2: SimpleModPlayer.e

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Looks just what I need to get back into coding again.
(done nothing since my CBM64 days)

Cheers Chris

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Is there a PDF or Amigaguide version of the Portable E documentation?

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Here are two more PortablE examples (more to come):
Example 3: ToySpaceshipSprite1.e
Example 4: ToySpaceshipSprite2.e

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@scabit
PortablE comes with the documentation in AmigaGuide, HTML & plain text formats

No PDF version for the moment, because it was too much of a pain to maintain. Maybe in the future I can automatically generate a PDF.

P.S. The AmigaGuide version does not work properly in AROS, due to an old (and sadly unfixed) word-wrapping bug in AROS.

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I have now released an UPDATED preview of PortablE. You can download it from PortablE's homepage. The changes include:

1. Fixed MakeFractalBitmap() to handle red colours above $7F (such as RGB_RED & RGB_ORANGE).

2. Fixed the graphics module to not crash on MorphOS when you change screens.

3. Updated the installer for AmigaOS4, so that it (offers to) install the necessary GCC includes.

4. Minor changes to the documentation.

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I have now released an UPDATED preview of PortablE. You can download it from PortablE's homepage.

The only change is that PEGCC should no-longer fail with the error message "Failed to strip executable" on AmigaOS4 when you have the source code folder open in Filer, DOpus4, etc. (If a similar problem exists on other OSes, then this will fix it too.)

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I have uploaded a new PortablE preview. The most important change is that reading & writing of files now works using the 'std/cPath' module. (Thanks to "mrdarek" for reporting the problem!)

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