Tag Archives: Amiga
First steps towards beta test :D
Posted by Costel Mincea
on January 31, 2017
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The universe is expanding!
Posted by Costel Mincea
on November 23, 2016
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AmigaOS Documentation Wiki and Amiga DevCon 2015
Posted by Steven Solie
on May 22, 2015
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The AmigaOS Documentation Wiki (http://wiki.amigaos.net) is moving to a brand new server. The new server is quicker and also enables important upgrades to the underlying software driving the wiki.
It always takes a few days for the DNS propagation to complete so the URL may not work in your region yet. In the mean time, you can use http://78.47.81.180/wiki to access the wiki. You can monitor on the DNS propagation progress using services like DNS Checker.
Amiga DevCon 2015
Moving and upgrading the AmigaOS Documentation Wiki is just one small step towards Amiga DevCon 2015 which is taking place in Sacramento, California, USA on October 15 and 16 before the AmiWest 2015 show. With the release of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition there is a need for an updated AmigaOS SDK. The SDK includes some important AmigaOS API improvements and these will be covered at the DevCon and more.
Don’t worry if you can’t make the Amiga DevCon in person. All the presentation materials will be available on the AmigaOS Documentation Wiki in the Tutorials section.
Steven Solie
AmigaOS Development Team Lead
Official AmigaOS Documentation Wiki
Posted by Steven Solie
on May 14, 2014
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The official AmigaOS Documentation Wiki has been online for more than a couple of years now and has had many changes since its humble beginning.
In addition to brand new developer material, the wiki contains all of the previous AmigaOS developer documentation merged and edited including the RKRMs, AmigaDOS Manual, AmigaMail articles, AutoDoc style guide and Amiga User Interface Style Guide. Various tutorials have also been contributed by many authors to help developers.
Users have not been left out! You will find manuals for ARexx, AmigaDOS and Workbench to help you out. There is also room for 3rd party software manuals like Bars & Pipes Professional.
Registries have also been consolidated and merged with all available material such as the IFF Form and Chunk Registry and the Amiga Hardware Manufacturer ID Registry.
Important standards such as IFF, SANA-II (with wireless extensions), NSD and RDB are located in another section.
Although a wiki format is very useful for maintenance, it can be rather chaotic compared to a properly edited printed book. Users are invited to use the Book creator tool and produce either own customized books as a PDF copy or have them professional bound and printed by PediaPress.
The AmigaOS Documentation Wiki is not just open for editing by anyone. A select group of editors have been invited to contribute. Not everyone is an editor and a full list of authors that have contributed material to the wiki can be found in the credits. If you have something to contribute to the wiki please do contact the AmigaOS Development Team and volunteer.
Please note that the wiki’s root has been changed from http://wiki.amigaos.net to http://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki in order to conform to MediaWiki installation guidelines. Please update any external links to specific articles accordingly. Direct references to http://wiki.amigaos.net alone will continue to work without change.
AmiWest 2013 AmigaOS Team
Posted by Steven Solie
on October 24, 2013
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AmiWest 2013 is now over and it was a heck of a lot of fun. We managed to grab a team photo this time.
From left to right in the front row sitting down we have Ken Wilde and Lyle Hazelwood. Next row back we have Bill Borsari, Flip LaFramboise, Trevor Dickinson and Tony Wyatt. In the back row we have Matthew Leaman, Val Marti, Paul Sadlik, Steven Solie and Alex Carmona.
A special thanks to Mike Brantley for taking the photo. Mike also took a lot more photos at the AmiWest 2013 show.
I think the big smiles on those faces says it all really.
I also took some time to update the AmiWest 2013 crowd on the current status of the Amiga Operating System which I will now summarize here:
- The netbook project initially announced at AmiWest 2011 has been cancelled. Below is an excerpt from an email to me from Ben Hermans dated October 10, 2013 on this matter.
Despite best efforts by Hyperion and A-EON we were unable to get acceptable and stable conditions and terms from the Chinese supplier (price point, paying terms, required upfront, etc.)…
The project was therefore cancelled in favour of a more future proof solution.
- A-EON Technology announces the Cyrus Plus Beta Test Programme. Follow the link for all the details and how to apply.
- Gallium3D Update
- Software rendering completed
- Working on the WinSys part of the implementation
- Challenges encountered along the way:
- Must be re-entrant, thread safe and multicore capable
- Must run on a bare minimum system
- Efficient
- Possible to load non-Mesa and non-Gallium drivers
- X-Kernel Update
- Task scheduler rewritten in C
- Removed reliance on data structures (e.g. ExecBase task lists and ThisTask pointer)
- Moving scheduler to run on auxiliary cores
- All cores schedule tasks independently
- Load balancing between cores
- AmigaOS 4.2
- Depends on Gallium3D release
- May or may not depend on multicore support
- AmigaOS 4.1 Update 7
- Will be needed for Cyrus Plus product release
- Consolidates all previous updates
- AmigaOS 4.1 Update 6
- New SDK released
- At least 58 updates released via AmiUpdate (bug fixes)
- Sam platform speed ups from ACube Systems
- New debugging support with stack tracing API
- FUSE and NTFS-3G
- Not a Hyperion project
- Utilizes new file system vector port API
- Special thanks to Leif Salomonsson for Filesysbox (FUSE) layer source code
- New development team members since AmiWest 2012
- Frank Menzel
- Thomas Claus
- Fredrik Wikstrom
- Tobias Seiler
We also had a chance to have a team meeting on Friday night in one of the hotel rooms while at the show. We had the usual Airing of Grievances and a lengthy discussion on where we are going and how to get there. At one point we were interrupted by an outsider who likened the gathering to a secret Masons meeting.
If you would like to come to AmiWest 2014 and join in the fun then keep October 24, 25 and 26 open. There is also a programming seminar planned for October 23 and 24. See you there!
An SDK Update (finally)
Posted by Steven Solie
on October 12, 2013
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It has been a long time coming but we finally got around to releasing an updated Software Development Kit (SDK) for the Amiga Operating System. You can download it from Hyperion’s server.
This SDK includes all the usual includes and autodocs you need to use all the latest released AmigaOS features. The AmigaOS Documentation Wiki contains all the higher level information you need and will continue to be updated to help explain everything. The wiki also has a new Frequently Asked Questions section where we will post the most common problems and solutions.
This SDK is also a tad incomplete because I ran out of time to prepare it before AmiWest 2013. Therefore, there will be another SDK update or two sometime after the AmiWest show which will include even more.
We will also try harder to provide an updated SDK much more regularly from now on. Thanks to AmiUpdate we now have a way to deliver all sorts of SDK updates as needed with minimal effort.
Support for the SDK is available from the official AmigaOS support forum. You may also want to give OS4Coding a try if you get stuck on something.
Have fun!