• written by Christian Vogelgsang chris@vogelgsang.org
• under the GNU Public License V2

amitools is a collection of (currently python 2.x only) tools that I've written to work with Amiga OS binaries and files on Mac OS X. But they should work on all other platforms supporting Pythons, too.

I focus with my tools on classic Amiga setups, i.e. a 680x0 based system with Amiga OS 1.x - 3.x running on it. However, this is an open project, so you can provide other Amiga support, too.

The tools are mostly developer-oriented, so a background in Amiga programming will be very helpful.

• Python 2.7.x
• pip

• lhafile - FS Edition: required to use .lha file scanner

First make sure to have the Python package installer pip:

On macOS you have multiple ways of installing pip:

sudo easy_install pip

On macOS using MacPorts package manager (Tool is called pip-2.7 here):

sudo port install py27-pip

With the Homebrew package manager (pip is included in the python package):

brew install python

On Linux Ubuntu use the provided packages python-pip

sudo apt-get install python-pip

• (I use the mingw gcc compiler here to build the extension)
• On Windows with MSYS2 (use x86_64 version if possible):
  • Install with exe installer
  • Initial update is done with: (Open shell first)

pacman -Sy
pacman --needed -S bash pacman msys2-runtime

• Now close shell and re-open a new dev shell (MinGW-w64 Win64 Shell)

pacman -Su
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-python2-pip mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc git make

pip install amitools

Note:

• on Linux/macOS use sudo to install
• requires a host C compiler to compile the extension.

• Clone the Git repo: amitools@git
• Ensure to have Cython installed:

sudo pip install cython

• You have multiple variants to install the tools with Python's setuptools:
• Global Install is available for all users of your system and needs root privileges

sudo python setup.py install

• User Install is available for your user only but does not require special privileges

python setup.py install --user

• Developer Setup only links this code into your installation and allows you to change/develop the code and test it immediately. (I prefer user install here)

python setup.py develop --user

• Run In Place allows you to run the binaries directly from the bin directory without any installation. You need make only to build the native library of vamos:

python setup.py build_ext -i

or simply

make

• vamos V)irtual AM)iga OS

  vamos allows you to run command line (CLI) Amiga programs on your host Mac or PC. vamos is an API level Amiga OS Emulator that replaces exec and dos calls with its own implementation and maps all file access to your local file system.

• xdftool

  Create and modify ADF or HDF disk image files.

• xdfscan

  Scan directory trees for ADF or HDF disk image files and verify the contents.

• rdbtool

  Create or modify disk images with Rigid Disk Block (RDB)

• romtool

  A tool to inspect, dissect, and build Amiga Kickstart ROM images to be used with emulators, run with soft kickers or burned into flash ROMs.

• hunktool

  The hunktool uses amitools' hunk library to load a hunk-based amiga binary. Currently, its main purpose is to display the contents of the files in various formats.

  You can load hunk-based binaries, libraries, and object files. Even overlayed binary files are supporte.

• typetool

  This little tool is a companion for vamos. It allows you to dump and get further information on the API C structure of AmigaOS used in vamos.

• fdtool

  This tool reads the fd (function description) files Commodore supplied for all of their libraries and dumps their contents in different formats including a code structure used in vamos.

  You can query functions and find their jump table offset.

• Hunk library amitools.binfmt.hunk

  This library allows to read Amiga OS loadSeg()able binaries and represent them in a python structure. You could query all items found there, retrieve the code, data, and bss segments and even relocate them to target addresses

• ELF library amitools.binfmt.elf

  This library allows to read a subset of the ELF format mainly used in AROS m68k.

• .fd File Parser amitools.fd

  Parse function descriptions shipped by Commodore to describe the Amiga APIs

• OFS and FFS File System Tools amitools.fs

  Create or modify Amiga's OFS and FFS file system structures

• File Scanners amitools.scan

  I've written some scanners that walk through file trees and retrieve the file data for further processing. I support file trees on the file system, in lha archives or in adf/hdf disk images