[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 Amigan Software on 01-May-2002 03:48 GMT | In reply to Comment 32 ([JC]): >> But please ignore the suggestion to change the autodoc format into whatever
>> Microfilth uses, the current Amiga autodoc format is fine.
>You're a typical short-sighted Amiga wanker who needs to die.
Huh? I make a polite suggestion to Mr Barthel and get flamed by a lamer <sigh>
>I have developed for quite a few years on AmigaOS (in 68k assembler), and yes, AmigaGuide was good in it's day, but something better for modern systems is needed. Have you ever even used MSDN ? 0r CHTML based SDK references ? No ? Then shut up.
AmigaGuide is still as good as it ever was of course. In fact I have used Visual C++ with the MSDN docs, to do commercial software. And the MSDN docs are not much good, I would prefer the Amiga-style formatting. I put it to you that obviously YOU have not done much programming or you would know what you are talking about.
>AmigaGuide does not have embedded pictures. It does not have a good search function. It does not have support for web/file links. There are many things it does not have that modern formats like CHTML and PDF do.
Well it doesn't have background music and parallax scrolling either does it!! These sorts of things are not useful for technical documentation. Sorry if it's not pretty enough for you :-) Quite frankly I would not want to load up an entire browser just to quickly check something. And you need to more clearly define "modern". AmigaGuide is fairly modern, it has been updated in minor ways since it was released. And of course, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I would have preferred to email this directly to "CJ", to save you all the bother of reading it, but he's too cowardly to include his email address. |
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