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I wish Amiga (also RiscOS), made a sort of Carbon API but for Amiga OS. Cleaned up to work with the new kernel, memory protection for Amiga/ pre-emptive multit

I wish Amiga (also RiscOS), made a sort of Carbon API but for Amiga OS. Cleaned up to work with the new kernel, memory protection for Amiga/ pre-emptive multitasking for RiscOS, source code code be ported relatively easily. Then the problem would be the "alternate OS problem", how to get money by writing apps for a new api, with a small user base? ( cough BeOS). ps. You're comments are always quite interesting and informative.

lproven 3y ago
> a sort of Carbon API but for Amiga OS. That's a great idea! I reckon you should write up that idea as a blog post and see if you can get the community to offer some proposals, and maybe get some AROS, MorphOS and Hyperion (AOS 4) folks to chip in. > ps. You're comments are always quite interesting and informative. Thank you very much! That's really good to hear. :-)
- sillywalk 3y ago
  Unfortunately, I don't have code, cash or technical knowledge. Also, the Amiga was cool, but like say an SGI workstation (or any Unix workstation really), or an AS/400 or Tandem Nonstop (my personal nerd favs) I don't know what I'd actually do except run some demos. So my blog post would go something like (this is supposed to be deadpan truth, not caustic sarcasm) : Hi, I've never owned an Amiga, or used one on a daily basis, but I play around with Amikit on my pi400 sometimes because it's interesting to me. Also, I played on my neighbour's Amiga around the time that Hot Shots came out. It had text-to-speech and a flight simulator (Falcon?) but we couldn't figure out how to take off. I think it would be cool to have a sort of Carbon API for Amiga cleaned up and modernized, so apps could be ported to a new kernel relatively easily. Sadly, I have zero money to donate to this cause. As well, I don't have the technical knowledge to document an API, and/or note its shortcomings and/or write a new one. So, lazy-webs lets do this! ps. I did write a mini-game called "Time Waster 2000" in Visual Basic 3 sometime during the 90s if that helps.
  - lproven 3y ago
    :-) I'd do it anyway. Stick it in some of the subreddits about Amiga stuff, see if you can get the idea some discussion.

lproven 3y ago

> a sort of Carbon API but for Amiga OS. That's a great idea! I reckon you should write up that idea as a blog post and see if you can get the community to offer some proposals, and maybe get some AROS, MorphOS and Hyperion (AOS 4) folks to chip in. > ps. You're comments are always quite interesting and informative. Thank you very much! That's really good to hear. :-)

sillywalk 3y ago
Unfortunately, I don't have code, cash or technical knowledge. Also, the Amiga was cool, but like say an SGI workstation (or any Unix workstation really), or an AS/400 or Tandem Nonstop (my personal nerd favs) I don't know what I'd actually do except run some demos. So my blog post would go something like (this is supposed to be deadpan truth, not caustic sarcasm) : Hi, I've never owned an Amiga, or used one on a daily basis, but I play around with Amikit on my pi400 sometimes because it's interesting to me. Also, I played on my neighbour's Amiga around the time that Hot Shots came out. It had text-to-speech and a flight simulator (Falcon?) but we couldn't figure out how to take off. I think it would be cool to have a sort of Carbon API for Amiga cleaned up and modernized, so apps could be ported to a new kernel relatively easily. Sadly, I have zero money to donate to this cause. As well, I don't have the technical knowledge to document an API, and/or note its shortcomings and/or write a new one. So, lazy-webs lets do this! ps. I did write a mini-game called "Time Waster 2000" in Visual Basic 3 sometime during the 90s if that helps.
- lproven 3y ago
  :-) I'd do it anyway. Stick it in some of the subreddits about Amiga stuff, see if you can get the idea some discussion.