@ mel_zoom:
I'm actually gonna give you a serious response on this thread, for once. Don't worry, I won't let it happen again. ;-)
Rather than just use it for retrogaming I am thinking of setting up my amiga and using it to learn a programming language. There is no reason why I cant use my PC for this or even the mac when it arrives but I thought it would be fun and perhaps even productive way to get back into using the amiga.
This is actually what I'm doing. I'm an experienced programmer and I've known C for years but never used it seriously, and just recently decided to update my skills with C++. Rather than doing it on the PC, I figured, what the hell, I'll try compiling stuff for my Amithlon system and UAE.
However, C and C++ can be very cryptic and hard to learn. I never used it much on my Amiga in the good ol' daze 'cause I was too busy and it was too dificult to figure out.
All that said, if you're gonna give it a try, I recommend this bit of software
AmiDevCPP. Of the Amiga compilers I've used so far it was the easiest to set up and get going with. That, however, is not to say that I didn't have issues with it. Nothings 100% easy. :-) If you're serious about this, give it a try. It, however, is a cross compiler, not a native one, so you have to compile it on the PC and then run the code on UAE or your Amiga.
So does this make me a "dork" too?
Be a dork! Dorks rule! If you only knew the POWER of the Dork-side!
;-)
Ed.
