Whilst AmigaShell has a lot of nice features, and in many respects it provides a reasonably capable “language” for scripting, sometimes it is nice to have something a little more advanced. From the Aminet site browse to the “util/shell” category
#9: A quick peek at the tool and system documentation
You may be curious about the tools documentation we copied to the “ToolsDoc” directory/folder. While in theory you should be able to use Workbench to open these, it works better from the AmigaShell. Try this for example. Use the “Browse
#8: Installing developer tools (3) – almost done
For development I always like to have a couple of different options for editing, so let’s continue our installation. Like the C compiler if you do not have the AmigaShell used previously open it and use “cd t:” to enter
#7: Installing developer tools (2) – C compiler
We will be using a C compiler called “vbcc” which is an amazingly flexible compiler running on multiple host systems and being able to build executable programs for multiple “target” systems. It does this by being broken into two sections,
#6: Installing developer tools (1)
So… we’ve set up an emulator, we didn’t pick a favourite host operating system to do so, we configured the emulator, we installed the Amiga operating system, and we managed to snag a “developer kit”. That’s all we need, right?
#5: Version 3.1? 3.9? 36? 39? 40? 45? What!?
In the last post we sprung the term “version 36” on you. Naughty! Windows users may know (if they’ve been using Windows for a while) how Windows 95 carried a version code of 4.0 while the NT line used the
#4: What’s an NDK when it’s at home?
Developers are used to the term SDK or more recently Framework when it comes to interfacing your code with outside code, whether that be the operating system or some third-part “widget” that does something for you, saving you time and
#3: Installing Amiga OS
On the first Amiga the entire OS consumed only around 1.1 MB of storage in two pieces. Kickstart and Workbench. Kickstart is the Amiga equivalent of a BIOS but it is so much more. A fair amount of the system
#2: A tale of two cities… or?
Two development environments? It would be all too easy to show off running via Amiga Forever and pre-built system images but I don’t want to follow this route for a number of reasons. Pre-built systems can easily be overwritten if
#1: Amiga… for always…
One machine I am excited to “re-learn” is the Commodore Amiga. I bought my first Amiga (the first computer I ever bought for myself) in December of 1989. I’d known about the Amiga for a while but I never expected