Products | Corporate | News | Support | Amiga World

Amiga Developer Notes - Fall 2000

By Gary Peake, Director - Developer Relations and Support

With the release of the Linux SDK upgrade and the Windows hosted version of the SDK already announced Amiga is moving to implement some of the NDA areas of the developer website.
Much good has come from the open@amiga.com mailing list and this developer list will be continued as a part of our developer support system. We will also institute the internal support mailing lists for developers who have signed an NDA with us. If you have not yet signed an NDA with Amiga Inc. and are planning to develop for the AmigaDE, then please email gary@amiga.com now.

Beginning in January of 2001, our support structure will change slightly. We will continue FREE support for all developers who wish to help each other through FAQ's, mailing lists, message boards, and IRC. We also have developer support telephone lines at 425-396-5640.

We will also have three paid support areas: Trailblazers, Pathfinders and Premier Partners. More information on these support levels and what comes with them will be released as we get closer to the end of the year. d'Amiga owners already qualify for free Trailblazer support!! If you have not bought a developer system yet, this is an excellent choice.

We have set up an IRC channel at irc.amiga.com, which will become live during the month of November for our first online developer chat. This will be for all AmigaDE developers. Watch for Amiga Inc. press releases and our website for times and dates of this event.

Some Important Points

To date, Amiga Inc. has not released any decision on what bus architecture, CPU, or any other hardware choices will be made for our hardware reference designs.

There have been references to what some consider a mistake being made when AmigaDE is called a "Run Time" system. AmigaDE is a Real Time OS. We are also designing it to be a RUN TIME system for applications. This is NOT an error and has been discussed several times now on the Open Amiga Developer List. If you are interested in facts, not rumors, you should get on this list.

Free support for our open source freeware and shareware developers is NOT going away. We will be ADDING fee-based support and will be increasing the levels of support offered in the fee based tiers, but will continue to offer free shareware and freeware support. Nothing is being taken away.

http://www.amigadev.net

© 1996 - 2000 Amiga Inc. | webmaster@amiga.com