REVIEW: Amiga Developer CD V1.1

by: Pauli Porkka

CD Titles: Amiga Developer CD Review by Markus Illenseer
Finally it is here! The absolute must for Amiga Programmers. Since Rom Kernel Reference Manuals are almost impossible to come up with one just didn't have legal way to obtain all the official developer's support material. Now you have it. You can find the actual contents in CD Titles section of Amiga CD ROM Pages (look the top part of this page).

Basically everything else except the compilers itself are included. Ofcourse nothing really matches the real Rom Kernel Manuals, but as they say in the CD 'We are working on it'. So I guess new editions of RKMs will be available sooner or later, hopefully sooner.

CD features really nice Amigaguide documentations for accessing different parts of the CD. You can forexample find new 64bit device command specifications (allowing bigger than 4Gb hard drives), Specifications what not to do if you want your program to work in forthcoming PowerPC Amigas, autodocs for the OS (very much needed indeed) and CD32 development kit to name just a few.

This may not fill up the dreams of beginner programmer since you can't really start programming with just this CD but it provides information you desperately need while developing applications for Amiga. For seasoned programmer this is really a must unless you already know all this which I doubt. While they were at it they might have also include some of those de-facto standard PD development documentations and tools which are available in Aminet. This CD alone gives very limited view to a development in Amiga.

I really hope we see new releases of this CD as the OS progresses and Amiga Tech/Viscorp really start getting things going somewhere. Nonetheless this CD contains vital information for ANY programmer, GET IT.

Published By: Stefan Ossowskis Schatztruhe


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