{"id":56,"date":"2012-05-29T06:33:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T03:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.a-eon.biz\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2012-05-29T06:33:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T03:33:56","slug":"exciting-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.a-eon.biz\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/29\/exciting-times\/","title":{"rendered":"eXciting times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Xena Warrior Princess<\/span> correction,\u00a0 AmigaOS Developer!<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the story of one developer’s quest for redemption of past sins as a Windows programmer by using his formidable coding skills to help the AmigaOS community!<\/p>\n

Lyle Hazlewood – Xena coder<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ahem, back to reality\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n

I’ve been playing around with “blinky” quite a lot recently. That does sound a little strange! It’s a small utility created by Lyle Hazelwood to show the AmigaONE X1000 communicating with its onboard Xena chip (aka the XMOS XS1-L2). Thanks to the expertise and hard work of Lyle, the AmigaOS now has its first native programming tools and xena.resource. <\/em>These allow the A1-X1000 to access and control the Xena chip from an AmigaOS command line without the need for an adapter board or JTAG cable. Thanks must also go to Segher Boessenkool whose code Lyle used to port the Xena tools to the AmigaOS. The Xena tools and resource have been included in a second interim update for registered \u201cFirst Contact\u201d customers and can be downloaded from the Hyperion Entertainment website.<\/p>\n

Following the release of his Xena utilities, Lyle has volunteered to create the first Xorro application and we are sending him one of the prototype Xorro boards to allow him to demonstrate his \u201csupernatural powers\u201d for the greater good.\u00a0 No pressure then Xena<\/span> Lyle!<\/p>\n

Visit Lyle\u2019s web page for more information: Link<\/a><\/p>\n

Classic Reflections<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>Following my previous blog I received several emails asking me for information about my \u201cClassic Reflections\u201d series of articles in the \u201cAmiga Future\u201d magazine. I\u2019ve been writing articles for \u201cAmiga Future\u201d for about 5 years now. The subjects have been many and varied and have included articles about:- WinUAE, AmiKit, Amiga Forever, iMica & Icaros Desktop together with special features like \u201cWhat is an Amiga?” and even the Android OS.<\/p>\n

However, it all began in 2007 when I had the fortune to meet Robert Williams and Mick Sutton of the SEAL Amiga users group. Back then Seal was an active and thriving Amiga users group with members from the South Essex and North London area.\u00a0 It also included Mac users (no accounting for taste ;-)) and produced \u201cTotal Amiga\u201d, a really excellent bi-monthly English language magazine which attempted cover all \u201cAmiga\u201d interests. Incidentally, I am indebted to Robert for installing Amithlon, the x86 AmigaOS port created by Bernie Meyer and Harald Frank, on a discarded Tiny PC I had lying around. Years earlier I had purchased Amithlon as part of the AmigaOS XL package from Haage & Partner but, apart from using it as a live CD, had never got around to installing it.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I managed to convince Robert, who was the editor, technical guru and driving force behind \u201cTotal Amiga\u201d to let me write a series of articles about the history of the Amiga computers released by Commodore and ESCOM. \u00a0The series, which was entitled \u201cAmiga Retrospective\u201d, was originally conceived as a review of the Amiga hardware but over time morphed into something quite different. I chronicled the Amiga\u2019s rise, fall and subsequent rebirth through next generation systems and numerous community initiatives. I presented the highs and lows in the Amiga\u2019s evolution and tried to cover all \u201cAmiga\u201d flavours in an objective and balanced manner. The first two parts of the series appeared in \u201cTotal Amiga\u201d but when the magazine clos\"\"<\/a>ed in early 2007 the series later transferred to \u201cAmiga Future\u201d and ran for another 3 years and 17 more episodes.<\/p>\n

While writing “Amiga Retrospective” I would have liked to have included more information about some of the individuals and companies that played an intricate part in the Amiga\u2019s story. The Editors at Amiga Future granted me my wish and the result is \u201cClassic Reflections\u201d, a new series of articles which asks the question “Whatever happened to?” I’ve already written five articles in the series which have covered the contributions made by \u201cGold Disk\u201d, \u201cElectronic Arts\u201d, \u201cSoftwood\u201d and \u201cGP Software\u201d. The next article, which appears in issue 97, covers “ASDG”, the company behind ADPro and MorphPlus who went on to transform the special effects industry. Please visit the “Amiga Future” website if you want any further details.<\/p>\n

Link: \u00a0Amiga Future website<\/a><\/p>\n

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Xena Warrior Princess correction,\u00a0 AmigaOS Developer! This is the story of one developer’s quest for redemption of past sins as a Windows programmer by using his formidable coding skills to help the AmigaOS community! Lyle Hazlewood – Xena coder Ahem, back to reality\u2026\u2026\u2026.. I’ve been playing around with “blinky” quite a lot recently. That does… Continue reading eXciting times<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-eon.biz\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-eon.biz\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-eon.biz\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-eon.biz\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-eon.biz\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-eon.biz\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-eon.biz\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-eon.biz\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-eon.biz\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}