It's really been an Amiga week, hasn't it? As such, it seems only fitting to close this week off with some seriously epic news from the Amiga community. As most of you will know, Hyperion and Amiga, Inc. have been embroiled in a tough legal battle over the distribution and development rights of the AmigaOS, and all its associated trademarks. The epic news is that this situation is now completely and utterly resolved.
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I've written a PowerPoint viewer that does not work that bad ;-)
Else, to all that understand nothing about anything else than x86 : this is not the topic and such a topic is really an invader in all discussions.
There would be many problems porting and having a x86 port and it's the same thing for ARM on which we can the same kind of fanstasms.
Which problems ? The port itself, the SDK to update, programs to compile for this target, no drivers available on the most heterogeneous pool of machines, ...
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LLVM would kick Java and C# for execution speed and works with C for backward compatibility unlike the other two.
Also, kill the app store idea, we've already got http://www.aminet.org/ and http://os4depot.net/ for our freeware and demo ware apps.
One of the main advantages of AmigaOS over MacOSX and Windows is that it is an open system that anybody can develop software for. No proprietary programming languages yet.
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2006-02-06
Excellent news indeed. I agree that an x86 port would be fantastic, as would an integrated app store (iPhone style).
Aside from having a popular hardware platform, to get Amigos OS back off the ground we need developers. Amiga OS still uses C as it's primary development language. Fast as C is, there's a dwindling number of coders that have any idea about how to write it. Not to mention that developing a sophisticated app using managed languages like C# is much much faster. IMHO, Amigo needs a development environment and language that is contemporary. Using C# or Java as a first class citizen in the Amiga SDK would make life a lot easier for potential devs.