Comment by GwanTheSwans on 28/02/2025 at 22:03 UTC*

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View submission: I need SDK for AmigaOS 3

The classic ones are fairly easily found, only problem is you need to know they were called "Developer CDs" not "SDKs" at the time (and that the numbering of the Developer CDs was not the same as the AmigaOS versions they covered!)

You don't really need anything newer than their headers to develop for AmigaOS 3.x compatibly in general terms as every modern 3.whatever fork is still basically a "3.1++" (and can thus avoid any problematic Hyperion stuff)

• https://archive.org/details/amiga-developer-cd-v1_1[1] - covers up to AmigaOS 3.1

1: https://archive.org/details/amiga-developer-cd-v1_1

• https://archive.org/details/amigadevelopercdv2.1[2] - Technically for the semi-lost Haage & Partner era Amiga OS 3.5, but largely relevant.

2: https://archive.org/details/amigadevelopercdv2.1

Note Amiga OS versioning is currently mess as there's this weird ongoing hostile split between the actual owner of Amiga rights (Cloanto or technically their sister company) and belligerent licensee developer of some modernised versions (Hyperion), but all the 3.whatever versions are basically compatible, can just grab the above cdrom images.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOS_version_history

• AmigaOS 3.0 - Commodore

• AmigaOS 3.1 - Last real Commodore, Escom era.

• AmigaOS 3.5 - Haage & Partner devs. Lost branch dead end in source terms, binaries still exist.

• AmigaOS 3.9 - Haage & Partner devs. Lost branch dead end in source terms, binaries still exist.

• AmigaOS 4 - Hyperion. 4 is basically now a 32-bit-PPC-only dead-end (not that Power/PPC in general dead - but modern stuff is all ppc64le not old 1990s/2000s Amiga/Mac ppc32be)

• AmigaOS 3.X - Cloanto (capital X 10? like MacOSX), mildly updated 3.1 with fixes for modern big harddrives and such. What Amiga Forever uses, also available for physical machines to update them without dragging in Hyperion stuff.

• AmigaOS 3.1.4 - Hyperion. More updated, some ports of 4 features and new dev

• AmigaOS 3.2 - Hyperion. More updated, some ports of 4 features and new dev

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Comment by Daedalus2097 at 28/02/2025 at 23:05 UTC

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It's worth adding that 3.1.4 and 3.2 are based on the core components of 3.9, so it's less that 3.9 is dead, more superseded by the latest developments.