What is Amiga All About?
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Features of the Amiga Digital Environment
- "Write Once- Run Everywhere" -- This statement has been the
mantra for
tired and weary developers. The new Amiga is being designed to make good
on this promise and present developers with unprecedented options and
flexibility.
- Scalability - Because the new Amiga DE is less than 5
megabytes, Amiga is
scalable, and can fit on a cell phone and scale up to multi-processor
servers. All content created for Amiga is 100% binary compatible. This
means that developers are able to create content and applications and deal
with the markets they want to target.
- Content
Creation Through Software Development -- For the
developer, the
new Amiga is 100% binary compatible across all platforms supported. This
means that an application can truly be written one time and can operate in
hosted environments (running on top of or through another OS) such as
Windows, Windows NT, Linux, Windows CE, Palm, Epoc, OS/9, iTron, QNX,
VXWorks, and others. This fact alone has the potential to redefine the
development of computer games. Amiga can also operate the entire system
with native versions of the DE for PPC, x.86, StrongARM, ARM, Hitachi SH,
NEC 85x, M*Core, Mips, and others.
- Amiga developers are
able to use Java, C, C++, or Amiga VP
Assembler
in
creating their applications. This flexibility is already gaining new
market acceptance as over 15,000 Amiga Software Development Kits
(right) have been sold, and with the
new additions of 3D, Sound, and User Experience API's it is sure to gain
even more ground as the developers platform of choice.
Next: Benefits to Hardware OEMs
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