AmiWest 2017 clarifications

[kamelito]

AmiWest 2017 is over and it was one crazy time!

There were the usual announcements and many things were said.

If you want clarifications on anything, please post your questions here and I'll do my best to answer and/or clarify things.

Just don't guess what I meant. Ask instead.

1) Hi Steve, You were on the Amiwest agenda -Next steps for AmigaOS-or something similar, why was it remove and what are the next steps?

2) Any update on the wiki front? like updating it further as there's still AmigaOS 2.x/3.x stuff or new tutorials from AmigaFuture?

Thanks Kamelito

[kamelito]

@Steve
1) Since the new Radeon driver (3.3) removed the 256MB limitations is there work ongoing on the Amiga Libraries to take advantage of all that memory and also to take advantage of the power of the GPU?

2) is there improvement done on the  code optimization targetting PPC?
Kamelito

[kamelito]

@Steve%&$#?@!
Is it possible to have something like fat binaries produced by the toolchain like what existed on the Next that target FPU and SPE  on one executable?
Kamelito

[kamelito]

Anything is possible. How about we get it working first.

I've no Fun tinkering with Windows, Linux and Mac, that is why I plan to buy a A1222 motherboard or full system depending on the final price.
So please hurry up
Kamelito

[kamelito]

@Steve
We know that AmigaOS is C with some assembly.
Is it C89 or C99 with some GCC extensions? Does it contain C++?
Regards
Kamelito

[kamelito]

As I understand it Hans wants an easy way to travel with an Amiga computer. I guess that way he can code while he travel. I see it as a very good news. I still have an 80's mindset and at my age I don't care at all what other people think of me.
Kamelito

[kamelito]

an easy way to travel with an amiga computer is to throw your a600 or a1200 in a suitcase. i used to do it a lot in the nineties, when carrying the computer around my school, video studio, to my girlfriends place or parents home. in this respect it was truly "portable" and certainly qualifies more as such than any however modded os4 system today.

 Did you read that it has battery? That he is using battery that are permitted onboard? That way he could use it's Amiga while flying for example...  Kamelito