Amiga

I can’t deny my interest has steadily increased in Hyperion Entertainment’s further refinements and updates to AmigaOS 3.2 so recently I decided to place an order with an official retailer. There are many other fine web retailers, some of which

It’s high time we built something, right? Well let’s build something that is certainly for the Amiga, but doesn’t include hundreds of lines of code… Here is some code which we’ll describe later. For fun see if you can guess

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

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

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

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,

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?

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

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

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