Articles

After much debating as to which version of the AmigaOne to get I finally decided on a Micro A1-C, persuaded by actually being able to hold a uA1-C motherboard at the Big Bash in October- so small yet so nice! I ordered my board from Stellar Dreams shortly after the show and it arrived swiftly with OS4 and RAM. I also purchased a small case from Micro Direct which also arrived soon after ordering. 

A look at the board... 

1 - si680ide
=========
There seems to be some confusion about how to use a si680 board. Here are a few hints :

- make sure that in UBoot menu, under the PCI features item, interrupts are set at 9, 10, 11, 7 and all trigger methods are LEVEL (and not EDGE)

- make sure you use a kernel version >= 51.15

It's been a long time coming but finally OS4 has arrived (albeit in pre-release form). Not only do we have a new OS but we also have new hardware in the guise of the AmigaOne. But those nice guys over at Hyperion haven't forgotten about us "classic" users who have invested a lot of money in the PPC accelerator cards and so OS4 is also coming to the classic Amiga!

If you have an old C program from years ago, it is possible to re-write it for the AmigaOne and AmigaOS 4. Most of my experience is with SAS 6.5x and Storm C (which is based on GCC). Follow some of the tips below to get your software converted:

1. Header files

a) Clibs, Pragmas, Proto files

These header files contain mainly headers for the AmigaOS Shared Libraries etc. In some source code, you may get Clib and Pragma headers 
e.g.

Kickstart files on disk.

On a Classic Amiga, we had a ROM which contained the basic libraries: Exec, Dos, Intuition... The ROM made it possible to boot on a disk where no system is installed - Booting without Startup-Sequence, allowing you to use a basic Shell to do "first aid" on your system. 

- AmigaOS 4.0, one small step for computing, one giant leap for Amiga users.