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= Getting Ready =

Be sure to have the AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition SDK installed and ready to go. See [[AmiWest Setup]] for complete details on how to get ready.

= Syllabus =

We are aiming to cover the following topics:

* ExecSG past/present/future

* A-EON's Enhancer Software Core walkthrough

* The AmigaOS Daily Driver

* A1222 Graphics Driver

* ExecSG DMA Engine

* Personal Projects. You are encouraged to bring your own personal projects to the DevCon where we, as a group, may be able to help you out.

The DevCon will also be tailored to the group. If something is not interesting we can skip it and move on to something that is interesting. Class participation and feedback during the DevCon is mandatory - repeat, mandatory.

= Schedule =

We will start at 09:30 each day so please be there for 09:00. We'll have a lunch break around noon. There is no scheduled end time.

== October 23 (Wednesday) ==

* Introducing the ExecSG Team - Steven Solie
* A-EON's Enhancer Software Core Walkthrough - Steven Solie
* The new "struct" text editor - Mark Ritter

[https://youtu.be/tPspY7cyPj4 Video of the first hour, October 23]

{| class="wikitable"
| 0:00:00 - 0:10:55 || Introductions and DevCon overview
|-
| 0:10:55 - 1:02:04 || Steven Solie, ExecSG Team Lead, presents a brief history of ExecSG, discusses the steering committee overseeing ExecSG as well as the current development team and outlines some of the many components that make up ExecSG.  
|-
|}

[https://youtu.be/5OFG2EK2a2Y Video of the second hour, October 23]

{| class="wikitable"
| 0:00:00 - 0:15:45 || ExecSG audience question and answer
|-
| 0:15:45 - 0:26:00 || Discussion of ExecSG and hardware models
|-
| 0:26:00 - 0:49:00 || Roadmap & Product Backlog for ExecSG
|-
| 0:49:00 - 1:02:50 || ExecSG audience question and answer
|-
|}

[https://youtu.be/Fh2cTu0WQ3U Video of the third hour, October 23]

{| class="wikitable"
| 00:00 - 54:17 || Mark Ritter, developer of "struct" text editor, gives an update on the current state of the project, discusses some of the challenges he has encountered during development and takes questions from the audience.
|-
|}

[https://youtu.be/70xbiigwobs Video of the fourth hour, October 23]

{| class="wikitable"
| 00:00 - 03:40 || Overview of the DMA engine
|-
| 03:40 - 09:04 || DMA engine API
|-
| 09:04 - 10:35 || DMA engine backlog
|-
| 10:35 - 16:14 || Audience question and answer
|-
| 16:14 - 34:42 || Demo of testing software and audience question and answer
|-
|}

== October 24 (Thursday) ==

* Building a graphics driver for the A1222 - Tony Wyatt
* The Amiga Development Manifesto - Steven Solie
* Introducing the fsldma.resource - Steven Solie

[https://youtu.be/VOcYfpW0lRM Video of the first hour, October 24]

[https://youtu.be/H-NjoexEjpA Video of the second hour, October 24]

[https://youtu.be/1ZrILJEmSic Video of the third hour, October 24]

== October 25 (Friday) ==

AmiWest Classic Day