Today, I’m going to show you how to create your very first MUI app on this next-gen Amiga system. We’re going to keep things very simple. Just a window with a hello message. Yes, its basic, but it’s also the first step toward building sleek and functional GUIs on Amiga computers using MUI. Lets get […]
This video was supposed to be a “getting started with MUI” tutorial. Instead, it’s going to be more of a rant. I’m going to call out what sucks. Call people to higher standards. Set realistic expectations for Amiga programming beginners. And finally, I’ll lay out the simple solution to what triggered this rant… The Backstory […]
I’m going to show you 4 different ways to convert between big-endian, little endian, and vice versa, starting with the slowest because it’s also the easiest to understand. I’m also going to reveal a gotcha that can really trip you up. And, I’ll show you the best-practise for making endianness handling code work on all […]
I’m going to upset some people with this, but if you’re going to learn how to build native AmigaOS GUIs, then learn MUI. Forget about the other GUI systems. Yes, I just said that even though ReAction is AmigaOS 4’s official GUI toolkit. And that’s for one very good reason. Actually, there are multiple reasons, […]
So, you’ve set up a cross-compiler, and have built some Amiga software. Now you need a fast and efficient way to copy them to an Amiga for testing. USB flash drives are tedious and slow. We’re developers and sometimes need to test multiple versions an hour. If you’re some kind of wizard, then you could set […]
In the previous video I showed you how to set up an Amiga cross-compiler on your machine. The next step to setup a good code editor or Integrated Development Environment (IDE). My preferred editor and IDE is currently VS Code, and I’m going to show you how to set it up for cross-compiling to AmigaOS. […]
I had a few people ask me to explain endianness in computing, because they found it confusing- They knew that some processors are little-endian, while others are big-endian, but couldn’t get their heads around what that means, and how to deal with it. So, I’m going to explain what endianness is, why you probably own’t need […]
Amiga was “the computer for the creative mind…” We used to create awesome stuff on the Amiga, from music to graphics and beyond. It was used in TV and movie production, and even in the NASA space program.Commodore, We Have a Problem…It’s still possible to be creative with the Amiga today, but things have been […]
The video above shows you how to get a cross-compiler for AmigaOS 4 up and running on your machine quickly. Here’s a short summary of how it’s done… Setup Docker Containers First, download and install Docker (https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/). They have installation instructions for multiple platforms, so find yours and follow it. Next, we need a Docker […]
ERROR Some users reported having a crash on startup with the new ZitaFTP Server released last week. It was caused by a thread that was missing AmiSSL initialization. AmiSSL requires special initialization for every thread that uses it, and this was missing on one thread. This has now been fixed, so a quick-fix version has […]
