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B Origins

The Geek Gadgets project is the successor of a similar project called Amiga Developers Environment (ADE). As you can see from its name, the ADE has been started from a number of people in the Amiga community coordinated by Fred Fish.

About one year after its birth several people realized that it would be desirable to expand the project to other operating systems and hardware platforms as well. This move has begun and already gained to new platforms, BeOS and p.OS.

Of course, the original name, although quite handy and already well known, conflicted with the desired portability and cross platform approach.

So here we go, this is Geek Gadgets!

B.1 GG origin

[Under construction]

B.2 ADE origin

[Details under construction]

The ADE project mainly evolved from a previous port of GCC for the AmigaOS.

It has been coordinated via two mailing lists, which are considered obsolete now. See section 1.1.3 Previous Mailing Lists.

Although this port is still available, its usage is discouraged. See section 5.4 Previous Port.

It has been done by the following people:

Gcc
2.2.2 / 2.3.3 - Markus Wild
2.4.5 - Philippe Brand, Lars Hecking, Fred Fish
2.5.0 and up - Philippe Brand, Fred Fish, Leonard Norrgard
Ixemul.library
Creation upto 39.x - Markus Wild
40.1 upto 40.4 - Rafael Luebbert
40.5 upto 41.x - Fred Fish, Leonard Norrgard, Hans Verkuil
42.0 and up - Hans Verkuil
Libnix
Matthias Fleischer, Gunther Nikl
Installer script
Creation upto 2.7.0 - Jochen Wiedmann
2.7.2 - Steffen Opel

Also, much testing, suggestions and debate have been provided by (not necessarily in that order):


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