@drHirudo

Without spending a lot of time to go through all the internal rrelease notes for each module in the OS, I couldn't even begin to imagine how many components have been updated since the last public release of OS 4.0, but there are many many bug fixes and enhancements in this latest version. Certainly far too many to list here.

Simon

@orgin

This is a great initiative. Now is an ideal time to start gathering ideas, and perhaps start working with people to organise various efforts.

Having a resource such as this may come in very handy as it may well ease the workload of some of the developers working on various parts of Amiga OS.

With your open licence towards OS integration, I can see all that is needed is to get the ideas and discussions rolling. There are a lot of talented programmers out there already working on things like datatypes etc which the OS could benefit from in a big way.

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@AmigaBlitter

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You'll be pleased to know there's some pretty cool stuff on the horizon then :)

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@orgin

OK, so can we just recap for the benefit of this thread?

What is the direction and purpose of this initiative?

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@TSK

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Well this one of the reasons why AmiUpdate came about, to try and get things into one central place even though the actual files can be hosted anywhere.

Unfortunately, the maintainers of those MUI classes have not taken the system onboard, which is a shame. I started adding the MUI classes myself, but I soon got fed up with trawling the internet looking for new versions of stuff, as you can imagine.

ho hum

Simon

I don't want to rain on anyones parade here, but a lot of what has been discussed here is already undergoing development from within the OS4 team.

It might be better to wait until after the promised update to confirm features to add to your list.

Simon

@leicesterfan

I have moved this thread to the more appropriate "Amiga Emulation" forum, hopefully someone can help.

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@magic

Yes, strangely enough I was just going to post saying the same thing. It's been down for a while now, 4 or five hours possibly.

I can't resolve anything from amigaworld.net or any subdomains thereof.

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@Mikey_C

No PayPal for me, so you can cross me off that one

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@Swoop

Erm....well, as you suggest, it is a bit early for all of these type of questions. A lot depends on the availability of the various pieces that will be required. It really depends on me getting CodeBench into a stable state to be used, it would be nice to be able to use an updated SDK, but that is not a requirement, the current SDK will do fine.

As for installation files, everything will be supplied either in the SDK (all the underlying programs needed are in there) or by CodeBench itself.

So no, there should be no need to go trawling around the internet looking for stuff.

All you need is an OS4 capable machine, a bit of time, and a willingness to learn.

Please, no-one ask what the subjects will be, that really hasn't even been discussed yet, but even a long day is not going to be enough time to tutor a newbie in the art of C and Intuition programming. It's highly likely the event will cover the basics of C, and how to use some of the more common systems, like DOS for file I/O etc.

The hardest part of learning a language (any language) is the syntax. If you've never done C before, trying to force feed you with a new language, and a host of Amiga API's will only confuse you.

Perhaps, if this event is successfull, we could arganise another to cover more advanced topics dealing with windows and buttons etc, but personally speaking I think (depending on the ratio of newbies) it might be better to use the day to introduce those to the C language, and all it's caveats.

Perhaps, once we get a bit nearer the time, a show of hands might give us an idea of the level we need to aim at...

Simon

@emeck

CodeBench is plugin driven. The screen grab shows the source to the plugin that drives the environment for the AmigaOS4 SDK.

This is currently the only plugin in developement, but writing plugins for other languages shouldn't be too hard.

C/C++ is supported by the current SDK plugin, PERL, Python, Arexx etc should follow at some time in the future, although these may well be part of a commercial release.

The plan is to give away a version (somewhat limited, but not sure to what extent yet) with the SDK, and make a commercial version to purchase which will give you all the current, and maybe future plugins too.

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@Hans

Nothing planned for that for the initial release

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@Mikey_C

Just so that people can see what they havent got, I have grabbed a pretty recent screenie :)

http://www.amiupdate.net/codebench3.jpg

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@Raziel

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Oh come on,we have to have some surprises :)

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@Jack

Just a note here, it's not generally a good idea to force character sets on people, they may have their own setting they want to use. Make the default their locale settings, with the option to change.

Simon

@Rudei

It booted fine when swapping out the DC-DC converter board. Luckily we had a small ATX power supply right next door, so that proved it nicely. It's up to Colin what direction he takes now, but DC-DC boards have been problematic in the past with uA1 boards. The Morex boards have turned out to be the most reliable.

Simon

@AJS

I said I would turn up, and I did.

And I don't need you darkening my character anymore than it already is, thank you! :)

Simon

PS> It was the power supply

@Rudei

I know it's tempting, but can we keep this thread on topic? You can discuss that rather nice phone case elsewhere....

Simon

@soni_nice1

Very impressive, don't try this at home kids :)

Simon

@tfrieden

You little tease! :)

Simon