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Forum: News 20 May 2017, 09:21
Replies: 442
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Posted By Olaf Barthel
I would choose, if the choice were even...

I would choose, if the choice were even available, to begin by learning how the Amiga is being used today, what makes it relevant, which need does it fill. The answers to these question may not be...
Forum: News 17 May 2017, 12:22
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
I am not really disappointed. It has been...

I am not really disappointed.

It has been almost exactly 30 years now since I began using the Amiga, and eventually writing software for it. The Amiga shaped my life, my choice of profession,...
Forum: News 17 May 2017, 12:13
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
In my opinion it's just hard, not next to...

In my opinion it's just hard, not next to impossible. Ten years ago the PowerPC platform was arguably a sound choice. Now ARM is challenging that, and the next few years will show how far it can make...
Forum: News 16 May 2017, 16:42
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
I only looks inevitable in retrospect. Which...

I only looks inevitable in retrospect. Which doesn't make the road traveled any better, of course. The steps taken after Commodore had collapsed, with the various ownership transitions of the assets,...
Forum: News 16 May 2017, 15:30
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
The developer tool chains (optimizing compiler,...

The developer tool chains (optimizing compiler, linker, binary format, etc.) for the ARM platform have improved drastically only over the last few years. The PPC tool chains, by comparison, were...
Forum: News 16 May 2017, 13:07
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
I disagree with the companies having more freedom...

I disagree with the companies having more freedom - the constraints include (again) available funds, the age of the operating system architecture and the workload which can be shared between the...
Forum: News 14 May 2017, 13:30
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
Speaking for myself: there I things which I chose...

Speaking for myself: there I things which I chose not to learn more about. Too much knowledge inevitably leads to worrying. So far, I believe that what I wrote here can be surmised by anyone who...
Forum: News 14 May 2017, 13:26
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
You make this sound like a bad thing ;) ...

You make this sound like a bad thing ;)

Seriously, this is in my opinion a side-effect of very few players remaining in this field who can to a certain degree control what products may be made and...
Forum: News 14 May 2017, 12:52
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
Please keep in mind that there is a good bit of...

Please keep in mind that there is a good bit of speculation on my part here. It is one of the possible scenarios which I believe had not been covered yet (and which is not too outlandish either).
...
Forum: News 13 May 2017, 10:05
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
I would like disagree with this somewhat hopeful...

I would like disagree with this somewhat hopeful negative course of outcome.

There is a worse outcome, which I expect might be more likely.

As far as I can tell, the current owners (which might...
Forum: News 06 May 2017, 15:22
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
Well, you got me. There hasn't been any real...

Well, you got me. There hasn't been any real money in this market for a little more than a decade. Still, I would not want to view the situation as quite so negative as might be otherwise be...
Forum: News 06 May 2017, 13:08
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
Some people are sufficiently stupid to try it...

Some people are sufficiently stupid to try it anyway: look at me! ;)
Forum: News 25 April 2017, 09:31
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
Last year I read the book "Expert C programming:...

Last year I read the book "Expert C programming: Deep C secrets' by Peter van der Linden, which goes into great detail how the language design and the compiler evolved in tandem. The compiler was...
Forum: News 22 April 2017, 09:34
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
At the time (1984-1986) the Green Hills 'C'...

At the time (1984-1986) the Green Hills 'C' compiler was apparently generating the most robust optimized code, and there was hardly any competition for it.

As far as I know the Manx and Lattice...
Forum: News 19 April 2017, 09:55
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
So, how will step #2 look like, once funding has...

So, how will step #2 look like, once funding has been secured and code has been licensed under the GPL?

I've been around for a while, and every time community efforts materialized to forge a path...
Forum: News 19 October 2016, 15:28
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
And here I was, naïvely hoping that just for...

And here I was, naïvely hoping that just for once, I could finally have nice things for a change ;)

That said, having gone through the hard knocks school of writing 'C' for the Amiga (started in...
Forum: News 19 October 2016, 12:22
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
Short question, long answer coming up. I'll give...

Short question, long answer coming up. I'll give some context first before finally answering your questions.

The source code of what was sold as AmigaOS 3.5 and 3.9 is not stored in a single...
Forum: News 19 October 2016, 10:57
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
I cannot quite picture this. For now AmigaOS 3.1...

I cannot quite picture this. For now AmigaOS 3.1 appears to be useful only in the context of virtualization, emulation and legacy hardware (modified or unmodified). As such the best possible outcome...
Forum: News 17 October 2016, 10:24
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
The Amiga operating system, 1985 onward, appears...

The Amiga operating system, 1985 onward, appears to have been built using a specific set of compilers (one for the BCPL language in which parts of dos.library and the shell commands are written, one...
Forum: News 17 October 2016, 09:24
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
You should do native development if the platform...

You should do native development if the platform allows for it.

When native development became possible for AmigaOS, it completely changed the operating system development culture at Commodore....
Forum: News 17 October 2016, 08:15
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
I has been possible since 1998 for the Amiga V40...

I has been possible since 1998 for the Amiga V40 operating system (Kickstart and Workbench) to compile itself on an Amiga.

After the build has finished, you can literally copy the disk images to...
Forum: News 16 October 2016, 13:54
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
This is likely to take a lot of work to...

This is likely to take a lot of work to compensate for the loss of (for lack of a better word) "metadata" which the individual module history tags represent. I expect that this would likely to impact...
Forum: News 16 October 2016, 10:48
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
Now that you mention it, I remember seeing this...

Now that you mention it, I remember seeing this pop up on Hacker News.

I suppose that the authors found it a bit easier to keep the project running on existing hardware, as compared to the Amigas...
Forum: News 16 October 2016, 10:37
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
Thank you, that is a bit buried within the...

Thank you, that is a bit buried within the author's repository...

From how this looks, it appears to be a POSIX environment within which the shell commands, and git, will run. Something not unlike...
Forum: News 15 October 2016, 13:53
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
As far as I know it is possible to access a Git...

As far as I know it is possible to access a Git repository via subversion, as well as access a subversion repository via Git. However, if one were to use GitHub or GitLab, you are not free to choose...
Forum: News 14 October 2016, 20:23
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
No, it's worse than it. If only it could be...

No, it's worse than it. If only it could be handled by submodules.

Imagine it like this: for each file on your Workbench partition there's a Git submodule which contains all the source code for...
Forum: News 14 October 2016, 19:36
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
Been there, done that. I'm no stranger to Git and...

Been there, done that. I'm no stranger to Git and certainly not to GitHub.

The problem is that as a tool you still have Git underneath that, and AmigaOS is a very strange beast which makes a very,...
Forum: News 14 October 2016, 19:21
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
I doubt that you could properly fund this...

I doubt that you could properly fund this development work by using social media. Hey, how many crowdfunded projects do you know which promised and delivered within 1-2 years of their intended target...
Forum: News 14 October 2016, 18:40
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
Hum. I do don't reject the idea that process has...

Hum. I do don't reject the idea that process has improved over the past 22+ years. AmigaOS 3.5 and beyond were created using CVS and lateron SVN (why not Git? AmigaOS source code layout is very...
Forum: News 14 October 2016, 18:20
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
The most I can do right now is try and bookmark...

The most I can do right now is try and bookmark your posting. You are aware that you are basically asking for intuition.library to be modified? That's going to take guts.

Just about every RTG...
Forum: News 14 October 2016, 18:15
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
Gosh, you're right! Now that you mention it, I...

Gosh, you're right! Now that you mention it, I remember where I saw those rainbows over and over again. Could be that Commodore's casework designer got hung up on the idea and never let go of it.
...
Forum: News 14 October 2016, 11:33
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
Harsh words. I do not see this issue in...

Harsh words.

I do not see this issue in terms of of "smarts", it's just that developing a product such as AmigaOS, with Kickstart (ROM) and Workbench (disks), for the 68k platform, on the existing...
Forum: News 13 October 2016, 21:16
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
If there was any contact between the two parties,...

If there was any contact between the two parties, I was not privy to the conversation.

I am not employed by Hyperion. My part in this strange Amiga "business" is strictly as a paid consultant, who...
Forum: News 13 October 2016, 21:09
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
Let's say that there may be an opportunity not to...

Let's say that there may be an opportunity not to just remove and add to what goes into a Kickstart ROM, or a Workbench disk, but to actually modify and extend those components which have not been...
Forum: News 13 October 2016, 18:39
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
The Boing! ball used to be a trademark of Amiga,...

The Boing! ball used to be a trademark of Amiga, Inc. (Los Gatos).

Commodore replaced it with the rainbow-coloured checkmark image, which likely was intended to hint at the capabilities of the...
Forum: News 13 October 2016, 18:30
Replies: 442
Views: 66,176
Posted By Olaf Barthel
No, it's the original Boing! ball, as produced by...

No, it's the original Boing! ball, as produced by the 1986 demo (that's the date stamp of the demo code; I believe the original demo predates Commodore's acquisition of the Los Gatos Amiga, Inc., so...
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