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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Alternative Operating Systems => Topic started by: GreggBz on April 05, 2005, 10:19:04 PM
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Hi
Sorry if this has been previously discussed or coverd.
I figure, lots of other topics get beatean like a dead horse here at Amiga.org, and I'm so busy, I don't have time for serious research.
If I get an AmigaONE, it will stricltly be to develop with.
I'm a failry good C++ programmer, even though my most recent project (http://users.adelphia.net/~brzozowskig/index.html) is strictly VB.NET. I like Blitz Basic also, But an updated version appears not to exist.
I want to port this little, yet incomplete gem to OS4. What kind of API's are available for OS4? OpenGL dare I say? Is there anyone here who can share some experinece with development in OS4? Are there any interesting projects going on? Just thought this would be something fun to disscuss.
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When you develop for AOS 4 you get a command-line-based development environment based on GCC 3.4 and the appropriate binutils. If you're not familiar with GCC then I'd only use it for C++; for plain C i'd use VBCC instead. Fortunately GCC is easier to install and configure on AOS 4 then on AOS 3.
As for programs currently being written see http://amigaopenoffice.org/ (http://amigaopenoffice.org/) to get involved with porting OpenOffice.org to Amiga.
OpenGL is coming soon and Warp3d is currently downloadable by registered AOS 4 users. Basic is currently not available as an OS4 native language unless you'd like to port SDLBasic.
If you want to program games on the Amiga I'd recommend you get familiar with the SDL (http://www.libsdl.org) APIs and forget about DirectX in a real hurry. DirectX isn't portable to anything other than Windows.
Another option for programming is Hollywood (http://www.airsoftsoftwair.com/) whose multimedia oriented scripting language compiles natively to machine language on AOS 3 (680x0), AOS 4 (PPC), MorphOS (PPC) and WarpUP (PPC on AOS 3).
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You can try to ask on
http://www.utilitybase.com
and
http://amigadev.amigaworld.net or www.amigaworld.net itself
SDK OS4 is growing and more compiler is being ported by third party.