@328gts
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My pleasure.

I hope you can make it to the show next year. Would be nice to have more Canadians on the show floor.

I just posted a blog entry at http://blog.hyperion-entertainment.biz which includes a summary of the AmigaOS status presentation I did.

You might want to check it out.

I finally installed my copy (purchased from AmigaKit) at the AmiWest show on my AmigaOne 500 system.

Worked first try without any issues. Plugged in a joypad and it worked first try without any issues. Sound and everything.

The game is also fun even though I rather suck at it.

Kudos to the authors for a great gaming experience all around!

@Hans
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Thank you for that. I do appreciate it.

@all
I'm an Engineer by trade and I don't tolerate ignorance as well as a dedicated PR guy would. So I might get a bit prickly at times. I've learned that is just a part of my INTJ-like personality.

What does anger me is that it is NEVER enough for some people. For example, www.amigaos.net, dev blog, doc wiki, support forum, update server, amiwest programming courses, delivering PR announcements, brokering deals, placating developers, handling internal politics, dealing with rogue beta testers, fixing OS bugs, working legal matters, etc.

If Hyperion wants to hire a PR guy then that is their decision to make.

I'm not a PR guy and I never will be. What I will try to do is communicate important events as best I can. I don't like rumors much so I might reply to them once in a while.

I also need to keep the support forum focused on support and not filled with noise so some topics will continue to get locked and off-topic stuff removed. That keeps our beta testers focused on the real issues and we don't have to wade through junk like this posting day in and day out searching for customer bug reports. The end result is a better, higher quality OS.

That said, I wouldn't mind some constructive and informed criticism. I do not want it in the form of a forum posting which I may or may not ever read. So use email for that please.

@salass00
I don't think most people understand software yet they seem to have no problem providing advice to us on how to develop it.

My entire point for sponsoring the NTFS project from the very beginning was to improve the OS as we find integration issues. The other major point was to help prove in the file system vector port API. The fact we also got a nice FUSE layer and NTFS implementation out of the deal was merely a happy side effect for me.

@Rigo
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That's my plan. I was going to do a dev blog entry.

@mr2
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Yes it is. The entire point of the "First Contact" label was to notify customers that this was a "beta" system which means not all drivers are done and the OS (version 4.2) is not done either.

@samo79
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Oh? Perhaps you know something Hans-Joerg and I don't know?

@Antique
Yes, the netbook project is officially cancelled.

For the record, it was not cancelled until a few week ago. They just couldn't work with the supplier to get a reasonable price point. It is a real shame considering it already booted AmigaOS so we lost that time/effort investment.

@Antique
Yeppers. It is already on my Workbench menu...

@328gts
No offense but It is pretty easy to sit back and say where the money could be spent when it is not your money.

There is also a chicken and egg problem here when it comes to Amiga hardware. Developers need to know there is a steady supply of new h/w and tech.

@mike
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They are available to a closed group of programmers at the moment. If you would like to be a part of that group then please contact me via email.

I think the polite and adult thing to do would be to email the authors directly to discuss things.

Calling people out in public like that is really rude IMHO.

Great stuff!

I do like frequent software releases as well. Better to get some field experience IMHO.

Maybe you should start using AmiUpdate for distribution...

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I think this kind of information should be on the AmigaOS Documentation Wiki including your "porting guide".

Note the Kicklayout is considered an OS controlled file much like the Startup-Sequence and thus will overwritten by updates.

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I really don't recommend using the "-lauto" feature. Instead, consider always explicitly controlling the resources you need in your programs.

Take a look at AmiWest Lesson 2: Fundamentals where there is some guidance and help to simplify this task.

You don't need to keep track of both the Interface and the Library base pointer because every Interface contains a pointer back to the Library base pointer.

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Glad you liked it. I really just answered off the top of my head as honestly as I could.

Please feel free to contact me directly for any clarifications. I don't want anybody walking away saying "I think he meant this..." If in doubt, ask me. http://solie.ca/contact/contact.php

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Keep an eye on the blog...

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That will be fixed in the next SDK by the way.

I've started working on that already in my spare time but it will be a while.