Downlevel

It's starting to look as if I need to downgrade the OS on the Amiga Emulator. It comes with 3.1, the last "almost official" release while the Amiga was still under Commodore control. The unfortunate thing about that is that the documentation for the library calls and functions were never officially published. Though I was an official developer at the time of C='s demise, I was not deeply enough into coding in C to make much direct use of system libraries. Consequently, I never obtained the draft documentation that would have explained points at which the new versions of library code differed from those in version 2.1.

The problem with doing a downlevel of the OS is that I'd need a readable set of 2.1 diskettes. There's a slight chance that I have those, but because the Amiga's floppy disk format requires a dual speed drive I can't read those diskettes in a PC compatible machine. And, as I've mentioned before, I have reason to believe that the floppy drive in the real physical Amiga here has failed. Catch-22 that.

More steamy weather, with air quality alerts because of no wind to clear stuff away. Large tiger swallowtail butterflies are flying even at night. We spotted one trying to crash through the dining room window to get to the light inside. And here it is August already. Where has the summer gone? Mostly eaten by work, alas.

I need to take some time off, for sure. From the look of the calendar though, It's not likely to happen until after Labor Day.