This chapter summarizes the few constraints concerning the use of Geek Gadgets.
It should also help you to estimate whether you will be able to use Geek Gadgets with no fuzz. This is, of course, largely depending on what you intend to do.
Any Amiga (ranging from A1000 up to A4000/40, including CD-32 & SX-1) or DraCo will run Geek Gadgets.
Installing Geek Gadgets requires approximately 40 Mb of disk space for a minimal install, and about 300 Mb for a full install. Not everyone will need everything in Geek Gadgets, but if you have sufficient diskspace you may want to consider installing as much of it as you can because many packages depend upon other packages and these dependencies are not currently recorded in any usable form. In addition 3 MB is required for the AmigaOS Native Developer Kit (see section 1.5 Amiga Developer CD), which you'll need to be able to compile AmigaOS specific programs. A future version of Geek Gadgets will use a package manager that makes it much easier to selectively "pick and choose" a custom selection of packages to install. See section 11 Future.
If you do not wish to install any or all of Geek Gadgets onto your hard drive, CD-ROM distributions are generally configured to allow everything to be run off the CD-ROM, with a LOCAL: assign to point to modifications, third party development files, etc. Depending upon your needs, and the speed of your CD-ROM drive, this may be a good compromise for you. However, serious use of Geek Gadgets won't work without a hard disk.
A minimum of 4 MB of free memory is needed in order to compile small/medium projects. More memory will be needed for large projects, such as recompiling GCC itself.
Gigamem is known to work with GCC so *maybe* less memory will work. But in this case, you'll need an MMU equipped Amiga (A3000,A4000/40, etc...).
VMM (Public Domain Virtual memory manager upto version 3.0, Shareware from 3.1 and up) is also known to work with GCC.
Geek Gadgets needs AmigaOS 2.04 or higher.
The AmigaOS Native Developer Kit (see section 1.5 Amiga Developer CD) is required to be able to compile AmigaOS specific programs.
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