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I am Swedish, and I'm fine with reading an English book, and I think the majority of programmers here in Scandinavia would be too. I vote for a low priority on the Swedish translation.

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@yoodoo2

I would certainly buy the book, as I've already said in another threads, IMHO suggest you get the approval and agreement of Hyperion_Entertainment to make it officially sanctioned though.

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ajs wrote: @yoodoo2 Hi Richard, sounds like a good idea for publishing have you thought of using these? http://www.lulu.com/uk/ just a thought,might save on shipping costs due to them having various locations around the world,and I think its a print per order, so no stocks for you to hold?

Can I second the recommendation I just ordered and received my reprinted ImageFX4.5 manual printed my lulu this week and I am very happy with the quality and would love to see more Amiga manuals and book reprinted that way.

The print quality is very readable considering the original manual was scanned in and cleaned up and the price of about £32 and delivery time of just a few day for a print on demand book seems about right to me.

I would also recommend purchasing the ImageFX4.5 manual to any OS4 or other users how have recently purchased ImageFX4.5 studio without a full printed manual as I am enjoying reading if and finding out new things about software I have been using for the last year with only the online help for reference.

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@Dwyloc

There will be a "proper" print run (although a small one) to start with which will bring the price to within the £12-£15 range. Lulu might be an option for single orders after the first run has sold out or perhaps for people living outside the UK if shipping is too high.

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@yoodoo2

If you have room for another book I would suggest a book about porting, from kernal level differences to GUI and show step by step get a full program ported to Amiga.

Also an Amiga OS 4 Games programming book, starting from simple 2D graphics to platform game in SDL.

Games books will be very popular I think.

what is the progress ? I see not much activity on the forum. I hope all is well.

here are 2 self publishing sites :

http://pothi.com/pothi/

http://www.lulu.com/

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@asymetrix

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I hope all is well

All is fine. People are working. The main members' forum that everyone can see is not the only forum on the site...

Of course - if you want to write some chapters for us, everything would happen just that bit quicker

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@yoodoo2

I would like to help - I dont have an OS4 machine.

My A1200 has failed output

I have OS3 on Winuae, so I could do user guide etc. I dont know how much I can help as any images I do will be of OS3 and not OS4.

If you have any suggestions let me know.

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GUIs...

I would like to see some summary page about available GUIs for AmigaOS4.
- What is available for a programmer and where & how to get it.
- What is being developed/ported and by who.
- What is wanted next/most to be ported.

Surely that kind of list/table might be nice also on the book.

Is someone alreany working on the porting/implementation of Qt for AOS4?

It is possible that I might end up using Qt @ my next job ... if that happens I want Qt also on my favourite hobby platform.

UPDATE: FYI old material for reference etc... http://amiga-manuals.npage.de/index.html

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How about another advanced topic suggestion -
methods of working around "fork" when porting to OS4?
vfork
other things if vfork isn't going to work

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@yoodoo2

Is this useful-needed project still planned?

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Bump, resurrection phase 2 any pulse?

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No. The focus is now on updating material in the AmigaOS Documentation Wiki.

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@Trixie

it seems that at Amiwest 2012 all camps wanted to work together, at least Aros and OS4, so why not add to the wiki how to write portable applications for Classic, Morphos, AmigaOS 4 and AROS, coding conventions, tools...So one developer could wrote a program once, compile once and run on all those flavors even if this mean not using advanced features available here and there. Even that could be determined at run time and used when available.

That would be great.
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