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Internet News : Introducing The AmigaOS Documentation Wiki
Posted by Elwood on 2012/5/14 0:37:34 (1754 reads) News by the same author
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The AmigaOS Documentation Wiki is now available.

This new wiki is meant to fill a gap which we have been struggling with since the launch of the AmigaOS 4.0 project: proper user and developer documentation.

This new wiki is meant to fill a gap which we have been struggling with since the launch of the AmigaOS 4.0 project: proper user and developer documentation.

This wiki is using the most up to date, original AmigaOS documentation we could obtain permission to use as a baseline. It is true some of the information is rather dated and/or obsolete. But a majority of the information still applies to AmigaOS 4.0 and beyond. In my opinion, it is better to start with something rather than be staring at a mostly blank wiki.

We are also seeking to reestablish AmigaOS related standards and registries. The official SANA-II standard can now be found here. The IFF FORM and chunk registry is now here. The classic Amiga Manufacturer ID registry is here. Special thanks to Neil Cafferkey for the SANA-II wireless extension and James Jacobs for taking care of the registries all these years.

Editing rights to the wiki are currently limited to registered users only. We are looking for volunteers from the Amiga community to help out. If you would like to contribute in any way, please contact us using the contact form on the AmigaOS web site. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Steven Solie
AmigaOS Development Team Lead

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cha05e90
Published: 2012/5/14 16:54  Updated: 2012/5/14 16:54
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Joined: 03/10/2009
From: Germany
Comments: 651
 Re: Introducing The AmigaOS Documentation Wiki
Ecellent! Very nice to see that there's even a "User Documentation" section. Hopefully it will grow (beneath the current incarnations of the now outdated developer docs)...

Thanks to all involved so far!
nubechecorre
Published: 2012/5/15 18:59  Updated: 2012/5/15 18:59
Just can't stay away
Joined: 11/24/2006
From: Sanremo
Comments: 1949
 Re: Introducing The AmigaOS Documentation Wiki
THANK YOU HYPERION!!!! Documentation is the key of development!!!
ChrisH
Published: 2012/5/15 22:56  Updated: 2012/5/15 22:57
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Joined: 05/19/2007
From: England
Comments: 3583
 Re: Introducing The AmigaOS Documentation Wiki
I've already found this Wiki to be very helpful - using it made it easy to (1) fix a long-standing menu bug in RunInUAE, and (2) enhance my menus. And the enhanced menus then spured all sorts of further improvements & changes to RunInUAE...

I also found it helpful for looking-up icon modification handling, and realised there was a potential bug in a little utility used by RunInUAE's installer.

From what I've seen so far, the Wiki's documentation is a real pleasure to read. It's great to not have to just rely on the Amiga's AutoDocs, for which I often have to puzzle-over/guess exactly how something is supposed to be used. And RunInUAE is already much better off for it
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