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       AmigaOS 4.1: Introduction to the Software Development Kit v54.16,
       part 1
        
       Author : doener
       Score  : 68 points
       Date   : 2022-10-11 13:53 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | KeyBoardG wrote:
       | So you can now compile C on an Amiga OS 4.1. TBH, I didn't know
       | you couldn't do this before. Most of the Amiga community that I
       | have seen run the 3.X branch on 68k classic machines.
        
         | coldacid wrote:
         | You could do it before. Each version of the 4.0 and 4.1 SDKs
         | came with gcc, but a very very old version (the 4.x series, I
         | believe, ironically enough). What's here is a more recent gcc,
         | as well as VBCC out of box.
        
         | flohofwoe wrote:
         | I would guess that it was possible, just maybe without up to
         | date official headers for new AmigaOS 4.1 features.
        
       | kstrauser wrote:
       | I was a huge Amiga fan for many years, and well past its best-by
       | date. I'd love to at least play with AmigaOS 4 to see what it's
       | like, but wish it ran on hardware you can find at Central
       | Computers (or on, say, an ARM Mac).
        
         | snvzz wrote:
         | It's unfortunately not open source. Not AmigaOS 4 or even
         | AmigaOS 1.
         | 
         | I find it really hard to support these companies who are
         | keeping these repositories of historical importance under lock
         | and key.
         | 
         | ... while bickering about who owns AmigaOS[0].
         | 
         | 0. https://sites.google.com/site/amigadocuments/
        
           | joshmarinacci wrote:
           | Why is it like this? There is no commercial value to the
           | software and any patents have expired. If I owned Amiga I'd
           | release all the source and make money licensing the trademark
           | for T-shirt's. At least it's be more productive than
           | lawsuits.
        
           | KerrAvon wrote:
           | The astonishing thing is how counterproductive it is. The
           | long term health of any minority OS community necessitates
           | open source of some form. There's a wealth of open
           | alternatives for people to pick from.
        
         | sillywalk wrote:
         | You can run it (emulated) on at least on Windows[ _], with
         | Amikit FlowerPot. <https://www.amikit.amiga.sk/
         | 
         | You also, need to buy (legit) roms from amigaforever, and a
         | copy of Amigaos4. Cost <$100 CAD.
         | 
         | [_] You need to run Amigaforever on windows at least once to
         | generate the Cyberstorm PPC ROM for AmigaOS4, but it may work
         | on FS-UAE on macos/linux afterwards.
        
         | KeyBoardG wrote:
         | Win-UAE, or FS-UAE is a very accurate emualtor.
         | 
         | If you pick up Amiga-Forever from Cloanto, it is repackaged
         | with a new UI, official ROMS (Cloanto owns the Trademark), and
         | a bunch of pre-configured machines.
         | 
         | Amiga OS 3.X and 4.X are different beasts, and both continue to
         | get updates.
        
         | vidarh wrote:
         | In addition to UAE to run real AmigaOS, there's AROS, which
         | will run on PC hardware or hosted under Linux and a number of
         | other OS's (AROS "boots" to the Workbench on my Linux laptop in
         | a couple of seconds)
        
           | actionfromafar wrote:
           | AROS also runs on Amiga 680x0 clones such as the Vampire.
        
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