Learn to program Amiga applications and games in #AmigaE

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I'd love to start programming on the Amiga but I've not touched C in years (I'd be essentially learning from scratch) plus I've never used OO languages.

Thanks to Cammy's contagious enthusiasm I've started looking at AmigaE, but the PortablE compiler on the latest AROS/Icaros seems to be broken so even this hasn't got me very far.

The last real programming (excluding bash/perl) I did was on the Amiga/ST in assembly language some 15+ years ago.  I also dabbled with Microchip PIC assembly a few years back - but a recent attempt at picking this back up has demonstrated how little I remember and how frustrating it is to 'start over'.  

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I'm not sure people were necessarily boasting (more discussing?) but Cammy makes a very good point ... we have some great talented people as part of the community but very few people willing to invest time to develop on the platform.

I know what it's like though - I commute 1.5 hours each way to a 9-5 job, so out of the house ~11 hours a day.  The little time I do have I hit issues (like PortablE not working under Icaros) and the little time I have is wasted.

Such is life

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Thanks SamuraiCrow - I'll give it a ago.  I wasn't criticising AROS though, merely using it as an example of how it's difficult to do anything useful when I have such little free time.

AROS + PortablE on the eeePC seem like a good commuting solution though

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Slightly off topic (but perhaps no more off topic than some of the above)...

How useful is Python under AmigaOS?  Does it 'just work'?  

Python seems to be available for both OS3.x and 4.x and is truly cross platform.   This would probably motivate me more as I could use this under (and develop under) Linux in addition to OS3/4/AROS..

I don't wish to distract from the 'E' discussions, but any development is good development ... right?