Looking for some advice on creating a new application.

[slaapliedje]

So I was going to start learning C, and I'd like to write an application for Workbench. I have the idea of what I'm going to do, I just would like to know which of the frameworks I should use.

1) Intuition, which is good as it'd work on any Amiga, regardless for the most part of which version of the OS it's running. Well of course assuming I go with lowest common denominator calls.

2) Reaction, I think is only default with 3.2, 3.5 and 3.9?

3) MUI, which by now most people probably have installed as a lot of things depend upon it. Plus it's now open source, which is nice.

Not sure of any others. But I'd also like to be able to keep it as easy as possible to release a port of the same program for the Atari ST (GEM/AES). I'm sure the UI portions would have to be completely different for the hooks, but the core functions should be portable.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

P.S. Any pointers to documentation for developing on the Amiga would be awesome too. I did find this page, as a great start; http://www.pjhutchison.org/tutorial/amiga_c.html

[Samurai_Crow]

Originally Posted by slaapliedje

3) MUI, which by now most people probably have installed as a lot of things depend upon it. Plus it's now open source, which is nice.

Where did you read that MUI is open-source? Aros had to re-create Zune from scratch because MUI was not open-source and I didn't see a single mention on the ArosExec forum about MUI source code being suddenly obtainable.

[Minuous]

Option #2.

[slaapliedje]

Originally Posted by Samurai_Crow

Where did you read that MUI is open-source? Aros had to re-create Zune from scratch because MUI was not open-source and I didn't see a single mention on the ArosExec forum about MUI source code being suddenly obtainable.

https://github.com/amiga-mui/muidev/...MUI-5.0-2020R3
Source code download looks to be there for me.

Pretty sure the source opened a few years ago with the release of MUI 5.x branch. As it was forever stuck on 3.x

Edit: Well shit, I could have sworn I'd read they'd made it open source a few years back. The 'source code' is literally a png and a readme. Okay, I'll just ignore that one.

For Reaction, I figured I needed to wait until I get my grubby little hands on 3.2 (already ordered).