Latest revision as of 15:20, 9 August 2022

Introduction

The Enhancer Software is a collection of utilities, commodities, classes, datatypes and libraries with the aim of enhancing the Amiga system software experience.

It is distibuted both as a digital download from AMIStore App Store and Updater tool. It is also available as a boxed CD.

Releases

Version 2.1 released on 17th October 2021 for OS4 platform, replacing the previous Version 2.0.

It was succeeded by Version 2.2 of the Enhancer Software when released on 9th August 2022.

Editions

There are two editions of the Enhancer Software:

Core Edition: this is a free of charge release featuring only the gadget classes, AmiSphereServer, Updater tool and SDK for developers.

Release 2: this is the full commercial edition featuring all files

Installation

Please read these important notes before installing the Enhancer Software on your hard disk drive.

To install the Enhancer Software to your system, please double click the Install_Enhancer_Software icon as shown below:

The End-User Licence Agreement will be displayed which needs to be reviewed. If you agree to the terms, then click the Agree button to continue to the main Installation of the software.

The Installation will then ask you if you wish to backup any files that could be overwritten by the Enhancer Software Installation process. It is recommended that you select Yes. If you do this, once you press Proceed button, you will then be asked the location to store on your hard disk where the files will be backed up to.

There are two icon drawer sets available to install for selected Utilities and Commodities. The standard blue icon set mimics the default look of OS4.1 drawers. Alternatively the black icon set introduces the new icon style that the Enhancer Software uses. The installation process will prompt you to choose the icon set you want to use.

The components of the Enhancer Software sections are installed in this order:

1. Datatypes:

   AK-8SVX Datatype
   AK-BMP Datatype
   AK-GIF Datatype
   AK-ILBM Datatype
   AK-JFIF Datatype
   AK-PNG Datatype
   AK-TIFF Datatype       
   Info Datatype
   LogFile Datatype
   MPEGA Datatype 
   MOD Datatype
   SimpleHTML Datatype
   Sound Datatype
   WAV Datatype

2. Gadgets and Classes:

   Anim Gadget Class
   Clock Gadget Class
   DateSheet Gadget Class 
   InfoData Gadget Class     
   InfoWindow Class
   ListViewer Gadget Class  
   MediaDeck Gadget Class   
   OptionButton Gadget Class
   PieChart Gadget Class 
   ProgressBar Gadget Class
   Select Gadget Class 
   SliderBar Gadget Class
   Shared Image Class
   Tabbed Gadget Class
   Thumblist Gadget Class    
   TickBox Gadget Class
   Time Gadget Class
   ToolBar Gadget Class

3. System:

   AmiSphereServer
   Format 
   NotificationServer
   Updater

4. Utilities:

   AmiDVD
   AmiPDF
   Archiver
   Calendar
   CANDI and CANDI Preferences ¹  
   Clock  
   InfoWindow    
   MultiEdit ¹
   MultiViewer ¹
   PartitionWizard
   TuneNet
   X-Dock

5. Commodities:

   ClipViewer ¹
   Exchanger ¹ 
   InfoWB ¹
   TimeGuard ¹

6. Libraries

   Codesets
   Datatypes
   Expat
   EXIF    
   Geocode
   LZMA      
   OpenGL ES 2.0
   VA
   Warp2D
   Warp3D Nova
   Zip
   Z

7. Kickstart:

   Diskcache Library
   RadeonHD v3
   RadeonRX v1
   SmartFileSystem 2

8. CLI Commands and Tools:

   AddDatatypes
   Assign
   Copy   
   Dir    
   List    
   MakeDir
   RequestChooser
   SystemReboot
   Version

9. Preferences

   Datatypes Preferences
   Notifications Preferences
   Sound Preferences
   Time Preferences

10. Devices and Handlers

    A1222 Sound Driver
    A1222 Ethernet Driver
    HDAudio Sound Driver
    OxygenHD Sound Driver
    PTP USB Driver    
    SSH2-Handler
    USBADM8511 Ethernet Driver
    X5000 Ethernet Driver

¹ Some components from the Enhancer Software will install the image data they require for their User Interface in the Prefs/Presets drawer of your system partition. it is recommended not to change this, however, some more experienced users may want to install this data in an alternative location on their hard disks. If this is the case, you can change the default location from Presets to another bespoke location on your hard disk drive.

	Gadgets and Classes The majority of content in the Enhancer Software requires the gadgets and classes that are supplied and will not operate correctly without these being installed.
	Documentation By default, all documentation for the components of the Enhancer Software are stored in the Documentation drawer of your system partition. There are options to install the documentation to an alternative location of your choice.
	Software Development Kit (SDK) If you are a developer and have the SDK installed on your system, then any components with SDK files available can be optionally installed.
	Catalog Language Files A lot of the Enhancer Software components have support for various languages. These Catalog files can be optionally installed wherever available.

For both the SDK and Catalog language files, there is an option to skip the prompt and let the installer automatically remember your choices. The first time the SDK or Catalog Language files prompt appears, a requester window will ask if you wish to apply the installation choice to every supported component in the Enhancer Software. Click the Apply To All button to do this. Alternatively if you wish to continue to receive prompts, then click the Always Prompt button.

At the end of the installation, a message will report how many installed components need a "soft" or "hard" reboot of your system. The installed components that require a "soft" reboot either start from the WBStartUp or require an assign in your system's s/user-startup file. The components that require a "hard" reboot may need adding to the system's Kickstart/Kicklayout file and are activated during the initialisation of the Kickstart.

Register and download updates

In between Enhancer Software releases, individual updated files are available to download through the Updater tool. In order to access these files, users will need to open an AmiSphere account and register the Enhancer Software product key code against this AmiSphere account.

AmiSphere account registration

Enhancer Software product registration