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AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition SDK now available
The AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition SDK is now available for download from Hyperion’s web site.
AmigaOS Documentation Wiki and Amiga DevCon 2015
The AmigaOS Documentation Wiki (http://wiki.amigaos.net) is moving to a brand new server. The new server is quicker and also enables important upgrades to the underlying software driving the wiki.
Multicore and Amiga: Present and Future
Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) is on the wishlist of AmigaOS users for quite some time now, and while progress has been made, we’re still not there yet.
To explain the progress, let us first look at the concept, and then point to where we are in the whole.
AmiWest 2014 Programming Jam
We are extremely pleased to be able to host the 3rd incarnation of the AmiWest Programming Seminar. This is a unique event in the AmiVerse, to bring together Amiga developers, programmers and users to learn from each other and create apps.
I was Wrong
I was wrong.
Some people have a tough time admitting they were wrong. In this case at least, I am really quite happy about it.
I was the lucky guy who got to finish the HD Audio sound driver for the AmigaOne X1000. That was a long enough story in itself and is covered as an earlier blog entry.
Breaking the Memory Barrier
Overview
AmigaOS is a 32 bit OS. There is little we can change about it. The size of an address pointer is intrinsically entangled into the API, and getting rid of this legacy is, for the most part, a matter of replacing all of the API with a new one. Every time a programmer writes something like “sizeof(struct Message)”, the 32 bit nature is fused into his code.
Official AmigaOS Documentation Wiki
The official AmigaOS Documentation Wiki has been online for more than a couple of years now and has had many changes since its humble beginning.
FUSE and NTFS for AmigaOS
FUSE is short for Filesystem in Userspace. FUSE was created to enable non-privileged users to run file systems outside of the kernel which is a big deal for Unix-like operating systems.
