In an active AmigaWorld.net discussion thread, the notion of creating an Amiga community totally independent of commercial forces is expressed. Although the thread may be viewed as strictly retorical, it does raise the question about just how creative today's Amiga users are. In this week's AmigaWorld.net Sunday Poll, you are kindly obliged to answer whether or not you have ever made any software and/or hardware contributions to the Amiga platform at large.

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@Petah

I obviously can not vote for others, but submit this for your reference, since he will likely not be posting:

http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/amiga.html

Also Chris is a member here, so:

http://www.e3b.de/usb

And Jens:
http://www.jschoenfeld.de

Doubt Ron would post, so:
http://www.aht-international.com
Let's call that one AHT and related

All the above fall into 5+ category one way or another.

You can add Dennis Van Weeren (Minimig). He comes to irc, but I doubt he'll respond here on AW.

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@Petah

Nothing major, but more than 5 at least

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@Petah


Pehaps it would be a good idea in these dead times for
coders to post WORKING examples, say; how to use system
librarys and devices etc ( fully commented of course )

This would help novice programmers to get up to speed quickly.

Not bother with simple C stuff like "Hello World" because this
can be learned from any C book.


Pref OS3.xx with OS4 option ( because 99% people have OS3.xx
and OS4 is not alvailable to the masses yet)


Wol..

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@Petah
One more very soon...

Alex.

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@Petah

Well, yes, but your question leads to more questions.
By "contribute", do you mean anything, or only works that are contributed to the public domain?
Most of my work on the Amiga is free, but I have also developed a commercial app that will never be seen or heard by the community "at large". That involved embedding an A1000 (!) in a factory as an advanced machine controller. Only a few of the operators even knew it was an Amiga.
I have also developed some hardware that is free to MIDI users at large, on any platform. I did the development on the Amiga, but it's now out there "in the wild" where any Windows,Mac, Linux, Amiga, or Atari ST fan can use it.
Finally, the work I'm probably best known for I didn't write at all. I maintain CAMD.library, which was ported by Davy from AROS code written by Kjetil. So it's hard to even claim credit there.
I've been switching off between three "new" projects just this weekend, but unless I think it's useful to others, most will never leave my computer. I mean, how many others would want to set up automatic watering of their vegetable garden using OS4?
So I answer YES, but without any numbers. Depends on what you're asking for.

LyleHaze

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@Wol

I thinking something similar.

As someone who read the spectrum magazines of years ago I found it very easy to learn and understand code from following examples.

What would be ideal would be a compilation book of listings show you examples like creating a simple GUI based mp3 player using mpega.library, a simple paint program, a little app that could load a 3D object viewer that kind of thing.

Well this list is a good one to se who been active

http://www.os4depot.net/index.php?function=modules/sql/topuploaders

RWO

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@Petah

Not all of the Amiga users are in position to contribute something back to the platform they use. The majority of the Amiga users are simply that - users. They play games, wield with programs - old and new, draw some pictures or track some mod for own enjoyment, read some Amiga sites, and just enjoy the platform. The only contribution they ever made to the platform was when they bought their Amiga. They make impact for the platform only if they surf the web with their Amiga, on the website logs, which almost nobody reads anyway. But that doesn't mean that these users are irrelevant. In fact these users are the most important part of the community, since as I already said, they are the majority of the Amiga users, and only they can make any serious buy/use of new hardware/software released.

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@RWO

I'm on that list but I only made an icon. I'd like to do something a bit more useful.

@Petah

I've created the following:

tunenet-docky.lha - small docky for TuneNet

amipal-mi.lha - album covers in 32x32 and 64x64 sizes as drawer icons

mediarequestor.lha - handy window to assign using AllKeys to run different audio/graphics tools

vbamuigui.lha - simple GUI for VisualBoyAdvance emulator

Sure, none of these are compiled code, but they provide something for all Amiga users. Though I have started learning C, I'm no where close to producing anything useful, so find things like rxMUI serve a purpose.

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@Rob

yes so am I

http://www.os4depot.net/index.php?function=modules/sql/filesbyuploader&submitter=Rene%20W.%20Olsen

This list is a little misinformaing for doing ports of other 'alien' software is faster than creating your own software. But its more satafying doing your own, atlest I think so.

And you get the best fealing when you see or hear that other people use your code.

Take for example my Screen blankers that I modified to run under OS4. Some 6 months ago I was at a small party and I did see all the AmigeOne there was present was running mine blankers.. that made me fell really good :D

RWO

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http://os4depot.net/?function=modules/sql/filesbyuploader&submitter=Fredrik%20Wikstrom

A lot of them contain source codes as well.

@Petah

No, but strongly support those who do

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