Amiga conspiracies and drama...

[clusteruk]

Where are those children, send them up the chimney, come on have you cleaned it yet.

[clusteruk]

What's much needed now is dev.tools that makes programming for AROS easy and good documentation.  If AROS scares away devs as soon as they get it running then that's AROS biggest problem now.

That is where IMICA Ganymede IDE will come in. This will be a very important step in Aros development, but it will also change things, this product is a professional tool for Amiga flavours starting with Aros development to give new developers what they are used too in a Visual Studio kind of way. Syntax Highlighting, Intellisense, true debugging tools break, step, continue and a visual window layout tool as well.

I hope this will be on show in Bletchley.

We will see how developers feel about paying for development tools for Aros, the same costing model as professional tools like Cubic IDE, Hollywood etc.

If Aros wants professional quality tools then there will be a cost involved. You will be able to try this system before you buy it too.

@Trevordick

My poor kids and those medical experiments for money to fund Aros, it really is not on ;-)

@all

In all seriousness however, if you think there is money to be made in Aros right now, think again. None of us make money, however, our aim is to try and make the Amiga market generally more succesful and maybe later make a reasonable profit for our efforts. Remember I have on my site instructions on how to build an IMICA and so it is almost an Open Source hardware project with a we build it for you offer.

Steve

[clusteruk]

@haywirepc

Do I have to go through this with you every time on every thread?
Honestly, you're such a kill-joy Steven.

Can I make a small suggestion.

I know you are committed to this, that is evident, but perhaps just hold off the discussions except by email until you are ready to ship. Once you ship it will be evident that all is happening as you said.

I wish you all the best with this project as you can be a customer of my development system and maybe push other new developers into my user base when we ship IMICA Ganymede IDE.

[clusteruk]

I think that clusterUK is on the right path.  The necessary pieces are:
Doing all the same things to get C64 software running seamlessly on the same machine would take it to another level yet.

Interestingly, the Catweasel driver for Aros that I sponsored from Ian Gledhill can now read C64 5.25" disk if you have a 5.25" pc drive. Plus it will read Macintosh floppy disk if you have a 3.5" drive.

The only problem is that Catweasel is quite expensive but for those that can afford it is great.