Feature release
Amiga Imager v0.99.8.2
Amiga Imager 0.99.8.2 repairs the Cancel button and “Check for Updates…”, both of which did not work in 0.99.8.1, and describes an unfinished image by what it actually occupies rather than its nominal size.
Bugfix release - macOS 14+, Apple Silicon and Intel. Build: 260805.
Cancel really cancels
0.99.8.1 added a Cancel button that did not work: it said it was stopping, and the build carried on to the end. The engine runs on a background task that was never told about the cancellation. It now stops within a second or two, at a safe point rather than mid-write.
A cancel arriving in the last moments of a build also used to disable the button for the rest of the session. Fixed as well.
The unfinished image is described honestly
When a build stops early, Amiga Imager asks whether to keep the half-written image – and it used to quote the image’s nominal size. Disk images are sparse, so a build cancelled after four seconds announced itself as 8 GB while actually using 11 MB. It now reports what the file really occupies.
“Check for Updates…” works
The menu item was permanently greyed out in 0.99.8.1, so the only way to get an update was to wait for the daily background check. It is enabled again.
The old update notice ran alongside the new updater as well, so a new version could announce itself twice, in two different styles. Only the built-in updater remains.
Also
- PiStorm images are labelled as PiStorm internally, rather than as an emulator build. Nothing reads that label today, but it was wrong.
- Bundles amipkg 0.7.9.
All four visible fixes were found by evil4admin, who tests every release on real hardware.