[News] New AmigaOS 4.0 ROM Kernal Reference Manuals in the works! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 24-Apr-2002 16:18 GMT by P Ericson | 86 comments View flat View list |
In a recent interview with Hyperion Software, we're told that Olaf "Olsen" Barthel is working on new ROM Kernal Reference Manuals for AmigaOS 4.0! [The "RKRM" books are the official and prime development documentation/tutorial for AmigaOS developers] As some readers of Amiga Network News may already know, Mr Barthel has previously compiled the Amiga Developer's CD.
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Posted by Anonymous on 25-Apr-2002 12:54 GMT | In reply to Comment 8 (Amigan Software): > Excellent idea, this is something that has been needed for a very long time.
> Since a considerable amount has changed since OS2.04. These RKRMs will be
> useful not only for OS4.x developers, but also for 3.x developers. Will these
> new RKRMs be published in hardcopy (eg. books), softcopy (eg. ADCD) or a
> mixture of the two? Will we see a new version of every RKRM (eg. User
> Interface Style Guide, Hardware Manual, etc.) or just the Libraries & Devices
> volumes?
Nothing has been decided yet. It appears that the original publisher still
has some stake in the RKMs. Whether this is true and which consequences this
may have still needs to be determined. I'm all for a hardcopy version. There
are many things you cannot do quite as conveniently with electronic
documentation (the same can be said about printed documentation, too).
> But please ignore the suggestion to change the autodoc format into whatever
> Microfilth uses, the current Amiga autodoc format is fine. Re. the request
> for AmigaGuide format autodocs, I'm fairly sure there are already AmigaGuide
> versions of the autodocs on ADCD2.1.
A better autodoc format wouldn't be such a bad idea. It's hard enough to
compile the text from the autodocs and get the cross-references right. We
don't have the source code to the tools this is done with, so a better
solution for knitting the autodocs into a more manageable format would
be called for.
> Please can you include a decent ReAction tutorial Olaf? :-)
Ick. I didn't really want to go into technical writing any more ;) |
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