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@evil4dmin evil4dmin released this 13 Aug 21:57

Makes it installable. 0.1 shipped no icons at all, so there was nothing to
double-click — while the ReadMe and the guide both told you to double-click
Install. And the Shell fallback, Installer Install, fails on AmigaOS 3.2,
where the Installer lives in SYS:System and isn't on the command path.

Several people reported this and assumed their Installer was at fault. It
wasn't — both were my mistakes. Thank you for saying so.

What's fixed

  • Real Workbench icons: the drawer, the program, and Install — whose
    default tool is spelled out, so double-clicking actually reaches the
    Installer.
  • The documented commands are correct, and the manual copy route is given
    equal weight, since it needs no Installer at all and so can't break.
  • The installer copes with being run from the drawer you unpacked it into.
    That's what accepting the defaults does, and it used to fail halfway through
    with "object in use".
  • A worked example in the guide, start to finish — and a plain statement of
    what belongs in the icon's tool types versus the configuration file, which
    is the thing people found most confusing.

Nothing changed in the program itself. If 0.1 is already running, you don't
need this — though the icon is nicer.

Installing

Unpack and double-click the Install icon. From a Shell, name the Installer
in full:

SYS:System/Installer Install

Or skip it — it's one program. Copy ami2ha.020 (or ami2ha.000 on a 68000)
wherever you like and read ami2ha.guide.

Requirements are unchanged: AmigaOS 3.0+, a TCP/IP stack offering
bsdsocket.library, and MUI 3.8+ for the dashboard.

Tested on a PiStorm A600 running a fresh AmigaImager image, installed the way
a stranger would rather than by pushing files in over the wire — which is how
all of the above got found.