There are various sources to get support and additional informations related to Geek Gadgets.
Primary source for support are the Geek Gadgets mailing lists, dedicated to discuss and coordinate various aspects of the Geek Gadgets project.
Another dedicated place is the Geek Gadgets homepage, which should present most statically available informations related to Geek Gadgets.
Sometimes Geek Gadgets related issues are discussed too in Usenet Newsgroups covering specific programming topics.
Almost all packages are coming with their own documentation. This is, of course, the primary place for informations concerning specific packages, although there might be some additional stuff related to Geek Gadgets. See section 7.2 Package topics.
If you intend to develop software for the AmigaOS, you can't allow to miss the Amiga Developer CD.
Cronus maintains a number of mailing lists for people to discuss Geek Gadgets related topics and get timely information about the Geek Gadgets. These lists are managed by the Majordomo mail server. Majordomo responds to commands that appear in the body of messages that you send it, and sends back replies to you via email, containing either the requested information or status results for commands you have asked it to run on your behalf.
For example, send email to Majordomo@ninemoons.com with the body of the message containing "help", to get a "help message" from the Majordomo server.
To see what "lists" are available, send an email containing "lists" in the body of the message.
This is a sample output from sending the Majordomo server a 'help' command. Note that it is eventually out of date at this point.
>>>> help This is the "Majordomo" mailing list manager, version 1.94.1. In the description below items contained in []'s are optional. When providing the item, do not include the []'s around it. Items in angle brackets, such as <address>, are meta-symbols that should be replaced by appropriate text without the angle brackets. It understands the following commands: subscribe <list> [<address>] Subscribe yourself (or <address> if specified) to the named <list>. unsubscribe <list> [<address>] Unsubscribe yourself (or <address> if specified) from the named <list>. "unsubscribe *" will remove you (or <address>) from all lists. This _may not_ work if you have subscribed using multiple addresses. get <list> <filename> Get a file related to <list>. index <list> Return an index of files you can "get" for <list>. which [<address>] Find out which lists you (or <address> if specified) are on. who <list> Find out who is on the named <list>. info <list> Retrieve the general introductory information for the named <list>. intro <list> Retrieve the introductory message sent to new users. Non-subscribers may not be able to retrieve this. lists Show the lists served by this Majordomo server. help Retrieve this message. end Stop processing commands (useful if your mailer adds a signature). Commands should be sent in the body of an email message to Majordomo@ninemoons.com. Multiple commands can be processed provided each occurs on a separate line. Commands in the "Subject:" line are NOT processed. If you have any questions or problems, please contact Majordomo-Owner@ninemoons.com.
This is a sample output from sending the Majordomo server a 'lists' command. Note that it is probably out of date at this point.
>>>> lists Majordomo@ninemoons.com serves the following lists: adg-a4000t A4000T specific discussion adg-dbase discussion on research & data structure adg-misc Amiga Documentation Group, general discussion areport Amiga Report distribution list (moderated) exp2260 Discussions about the upcoming Explorer2260 game. gg Geek Gadgets - general discussion list gg-announce Important Geek Gadgets announcements (moderated) gg-cvslog CVS log messages for Geek Gadgets gg-gcc Discussions about GNU C compiler port gg-ixemul Discussions about Unix Emulation library issues gg-java Discussions about Geek Gadgets Java support gg-pos pOS Geek Gadgets topics (registered pOS developers only) gg-projects Discussions about ongoing Geek Gadgets projects gg-x Discussions about Geek Gadgets X Windows port mm Discussions about the Maim & Mangle strategy game. picasso Picasso II Graphics Board Mailing List pos closed list for registered pOS developers Use the 'info <list>' command to get more information about a specific list.
There have been two other mailing lists (amiga-gcc-info and amiga-gcc-port, both hosted at nic.funet.fi) dedicated to the Amiga gcc port long before the Geek Gadgets project has been started. See section B.2 ADE origin.
Around late 1995/early 1996, many of the subscribers of this mailing lists migrated to the Geek Gadgets mailing lists. Although they are still running and may be retained for later revival, there has been no traffic at all for month' now. Therefore they are considered obsolete. Please use the Geek Gadgets mailing lists only (see section 1.1 Mailing Lists).
The Geek Gadgets master website is located at http://www.ninemoons.com/GG/. You'll find a HTML version of this documentation there as well as some additional informations and services.
If you are living in europe you might want to try one of the european mirrors for convenience, see section 5 Mirror Sites.
There are some Usenet Newsgroups, where Geek Gadgets related issues are discussed too sometimes.
This group is the primary source for AmigaOS related programming informations.
This group is the primary source for BeOS related programming informations.
The Newsgroup hierarchy gnu.* is dedicated to discussions of various aspects of the GNU project. Since many of the packages currently included with Geek Gadgets are ports of GNU packages you may find valuable informations there. See section A GNU and the FSF.
Many of the Geek Gadgets packages have documentation in "texinfo" format, which can be automatically processed to produce AmigaGuide, GNU Info, Postscript and HTML format documents. These are normally installed in GG:[guide/info/ps]. The links below are targetting this files, you may reach them from here whith a proper installation of Geek Gadgets in place.
The Amiga Developer CD is, to the date of this writing, the only remaining, yet pretty complete official source for any informations and material from the AmigaOS copyright owner.
You may obtain it from you local dealer.
Among various other tools and informations it contains the Native Developer Kit (NDK).
Parts of the CD content are available elsewhere:
You can obtain the includes and some developer tools from any Fish CD and some other CD's as well.
The AmigaOS includes are available in directory cdrom/bbs/cbm on ftp://ftp.dfv.rwth-aachen.de.
The latest package is nduk-v40.lha. It includes includes (asm and C), fd-files and a few developer tools (Atom, Alink, ...).
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