Cronus and ProDAD to provide complete p.OS Development Environment
News Date : 28 March, 1997
News Source: Usenet
Tempe, Arizona (March 26, 1997) - Cronus, a software development and distribution company, and proDAD Software, creator of the p.OS operating system, announced today that they have reached an agreement to distribute a complete set of software tools and a developer version of p.OS that will allow developers to begin porting their software to the new p.OS operating system. The upcoming Geek Gadgets Version 2 CD-ROM (Amiga Developers Environment) from Cronus, due for release in April 1997, will contain a developers release of p.OS and all necessary tools for p.OS development.
Using these tools, it is possible to write programs that run on both p.OS and AmigaOS using the same binary file. A shared library that runs on both operating systems provides applications with all necessary ANSI C and POSIX support, while special startup code allows programs to determine at startup whether they are running on p.OS or AmigaOS and make the appropriate system calls. Using this technique, the development tools themselves run on either operating system with negligible overhead or increased binary size.
The p.OS developer release requires an m68020 (or higher) processor, a hard drive, and a minimum of 2 MB of RAM. Applications developed for this portable operating system are source code compatible with p.OS ports to other architectures such as the PowerPC. With a simple recompile, developers of p.OS applications can reach the entire installed base of p.OS users, regardless of the underlying hardware. By porting to p.OS now, developers will be able to take advantage of easy migration to future p.OS releases on other architectures and enjoy the benefits of hardware independence (and a brighter market).
Geek Gadgets and the Geek Gadgets logo are trademarks of Cronus. p.OS and the p.OS logo are trademarks of proDAD Software.
Cronus
1840 East Warner Road
Suite 105-265
Tempe, AZ 85284
USA
Phone: 602-491-0442
FAX: 602-491-0048
Email: info@ninemoons.com
WWW: http://www.ninemoons.com
ftp: ftp://ftp.ninemoons.com
Cronus was founded by Fred Fish, author of the famous "Fish Disks" for Amiga, the "Fish" series of CD-ROMs, the "Amiga Developers Environment", and other Amiga software products. Fred Fish has been involved in the distribution of software for the Amiga since 1985.
proDAD Software
Feldelestr. 24
D-78194 Immendingen
Germany
Phone: ++49-7462/91134
FAX: ++49-7462/7435
Email: adver@prodad.de
WWW: http://www.prodad.de
proDAD Software was founded 1990 and is the leading producer of video software for the Amiga. The p.OS project was started in 1995 to produce a portable operating system for proDAD Software and other innovative Amiga developers, while providing an easy migration path from AmigaOS and retaining all the expected features and advantages
