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The AmigaOS development blog contains articles written by the core AmigaOS 3.2 for 68k developers and friends. 

Our goal is to encourage and support your first steps into the fascinating realm of developing for the classic Amiga operating system.  No matter if you just want to write a small tool, a little game or a a full-blown application - starting development can provide frustrating experiences, especially on a retro operating system. 

We'd like to remedy this by providing a series of articles, covering installation of development tools, programming examples, debugging war stories and other helpful tips. 

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  1. mbergmann_shMarch 16, 2022 at 12:21 AM

    Thanks for those tutorials on how to set up SAS/C and VBCC. I'm fiddeling with DICE in order to get it working with NDK_3.2R4 ATM. Problem is how to create the DLibs for 3.2 - but this should be solvable. I'll send a description as soon as I got dice up and running with DK 3.2R4.

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    1. MarcusMarch 16, 2022 at 4:08 AM

      Adding other compilers like DICE will be very appreciated!

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    2. KamelitoMarch 19, 2022 at 1:36 PM

      At least one screen capture is in german, english would be nicer.

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