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Thursday, October 18, has been added to the AmiWest 2012 schedule. Thursday and Friday will be occupied by a new feature relating to Amiga software products and development. Our AmiWest planners (volunteers all) are chatting on IRC to determine content and structure for the new days.

Hyperion developer team lead Steven Solie and his team will instruct at the first ever AmigaOS Programming Seminar in conjunction with AmiWest 2012, October 18-19, 2012. More info on the seminar is located here . This page contains a link to sign up for the event and gives more complete information about it.

The goal of the event, broadly speaking, is to enable Amiga users to become Amiga developers. This is needed for several reasons:

1) Although many people are contributing AmigaOS software at os4depot.net, many more are needed to write, test and debug new apps that take advantage of the unique capabilities of AmigaOS. A few of these capabilities that are visible to the user are:

a) The ability to easily define any number of screens with different color depths and sizes, only limited by available RAM, and drag these windows up and down as desired.

b) True multi-tasking that allows the user access to multiple windows on the same desktop, enabling the user and developer to use program windows simultaneously and see results concurrently. One use of this ability is editing websites in much less time using generic, multi-purpose tools.

2) Starting a conversation between developers that will continue after the event is completed. This conversation among creative people can lead to dynamically powerfu synergies that are as yet unforeseen.

3) You will be able to spend 2 days with major Amiga software develop ers, including Steve Solie, with access to their concepts and abilities.

These reasons alone are enough to motivate me to attend. And I'm sure that you will have your own reasons. A prerequisite to attend is having a grasp of the "C" programming language; so I'm learning "C" to be able to be in attendance. My tutorial of choice is located online here .

There are 12 spots left. So consider coming a day early to AmiWest and joining those of us who have already signed up for this ground-breaking event. Visit the link here to sign up.

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