Amiga Development Kit Disks from Lane Cove Australia

Hello. I am new to these forums, but I wanted to join because I have something a little rare I believe.

My father, was an Amiga developer for Commodore. He got this development kit from them (Garry Mason of Lane Cove Sydney Australia), and it has been packed ever since.

I would love to rip them so I can back them up to a secure data source, but my 5.25" floppy drive he and his friend made is not working. My father said, that the drive was a project him and his friend were working on, to sell to commodore. Commodore were not interested in a 5.25" drive. However, a few months later, they launched there own onto the market (stole his idea basically).

I get 1.25 volts out of the DB-23 cable, and not 12 volts. I will have to figure this one out later. The drive however, was used on an Amiga 1000. I am trying on a 500.

Anyway, here is a photo of the dev kit from Commodore. The date on the kit, states 'December 1985'. I dont think the four, five and a quarter inch diskettes would have even retained there data up till now. Lets hope they do, and Natasha is a good quality company.



Please let me know if you have ever seen this kit before.



Thanks.

[Jope]

Could these be Sage IV disks?

Don't be surprised if the Amiga can't read them, it clearly says cross development on them, so they are most likely for a different brand of computer.

Originally Posted by Jope

Could these be Sage IV disks?

Don't be surprised if the Amiga can't read them, it clearly says cross development on them, so they are most likely for a different brand of computer.

I have no idea.

But I am certain they are for the Amiga

[RedskullDC]

Hi Haunted360

Originally Posted by Haunted360

My father, was an Amiga developer for Commodore. He got this development kit from them (Garry Mason of Lane Cove Sydney Australia), and it has been packed ever since.

I remember the old Commodore factory at 67 Mars rd, that's going back a few years now!

Chances are the disks are for a flavour of SunOS1.x (BSD4.1).
The original Amiga Macro Assembler manual (v1.1?) details the use of the cross assembler environment. You can probably find a link to the manual on here somewhere.

This page (in one of the comments):
http://www.pagetable.com/?p=34
says:
"Software on 5.25″ Disks :
- Lattice C cross libraries (v1.1 26 Dec 1985)
- Lattice C Cross Development Headers (v1.1 26 Dec 1985)
- Lattice C cross Compiler (v1.1 26 Dec 1985)
- Cross Assembler (v1.1 26 Dec 1985)
- Assembler Cross Development Headers (v1.1 26 Dec 1985)
- A letter from David Street (Manager of Technical Support and Software Development) to the Developers.
- I have to read the cross dev manual to see on which systems the 5.25″ disks are made to run, but it’s possibly for sun…"

http://www.pagetable.com/?p=193
have some rather interesting info on early "Tripos"/"AmigaDOS" which you may find interesting as well.

Cheers,
Red

P.S. I still live in Lane Cove... ironically right next door to the "SAS institute" (of Lattice/SAS compiler fame).

Originally Posted by RedskullDC

"Software on 5.25″ Disks :
- Lattice C cross libraries (v1.1 26 Dec 1985)
- Lattice C Cross Development Headers (v1.1 26 Dec 1985)
- Lattice C cross Compiler (v1.1 26 Dec 1985)
- Cross Assembler (v1.1 26 Dec 1985)
- Assembler Cross Development Headers (v1.1 26 Dec 1985)
- A letter from David Street (Manager of Technical Support and Software Development) to the Developers.

I got all of those. Even the papers...

Thank you

[Minuous]

>My father said, that the drive was a project him and his friend were working on, to sell to commodore. Commodore were not interested in a 5.25" drive. However, a few months later, they launched there own onto the market (stole his idea basically).

Really, you think the idea never occurred to them independently!? I seem to recall reading at the time of the launch of the Amiga 1000 that there would be 5.25" drives available from Commodore. In fact the Lorraine prototype used a 5.25" drive. So it's not like the idea never occurred to them.

>I dont think the four, five and a quarter inch diskettes would have even retained there data up till now.

Most likely the data is still recoverable. I have recently dumped digital data from 1970s cassettes.

[mark_k]

Another possibility is that the disks might for for PC/MS-DOS.

Commodore did produce a cross development system which used the MS-DOS Lattice C compiler. I have a set of those disks which I think I dumped a few years ago. If they're not already available I could upload the files somewhere.

If I remember correctly, the labels on my disks were different to those on yours, printed with a dot-matrix printer. I'll try to find them tomorrow and take some pics.

[mark_k]

Edit: I've uploaded an archive of four of the five disks to The Zone if anyone is interested!

I found one set of four cross development disks. As far as I can remember, these were probably sold/supplied by Commodore-Amiga as Amiga C V1.0. I bought them from a US eBay seller a few year ago. The attached picture shows the disks. I might not have backed up/imaged them yet, or at least couldn't find the backups.

I have another set of five 360KB 5.25" disks, for the Amiga V 1.0 cross development system, which I bought from a German eBay seller several years ago. I don't have a pic of those disks, but they are Commodore branded in Commodore paper envelopes. Each disk has the Commodore factory label, over which is a larger label with dot-matrix-printed text.

The labels read as follows:

        AMIGA V 1.0
     LATTICE 'C' CROSS
         COMPILER

(C)1985 COMMODORE-AMIGA INC
  ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN
---
        AMIGA V 1.0
     LATTICE 'C' CROSS
    DEVELOPMENT HEADERS

(C)1985 COMMODORE-AMIGA INC
  ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN
---
        AMIGA V 1.0
     LATTICE 'C' CROSS
         LIBRARIES

(C)1985 COMMODORE-AMIGA INC
  ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN
---
        AMIGA V 1.0
      CROSS ASSEMBLER

(C)1985 COMMODORE-AMIGA INC
  ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN
---
        AMIGA V 1.0
      ASSEMBLER CROSS
    DEVELOPMENT HEADERS

(C)1985 COMMODORE-AMIGA INC
  ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN