User:Jeremy Kajikawa-Sutherland

Jeremy Kajikawa-Sutherland or AbH Belxjander Draconis Serechai,

Both of these names refer to the same person, Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, Married and living in Matsudo City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

This is my 2nd marriage to a wonderful woman who is also the proud mother of my first son.

My first marriage is where I gained the Kajikawa part of my name ended badly

Anyway... thats enough about my personal history...

the Amiga systems I have owned started with my first computer... an A500+,

I had collected several floppy disks and setup my own custom Workbench prior to the purchase (I know it wasn't exactly legal but I did purchase when I was able to do so)

With my first Amiga A500+ I learned about computer programming using C and Paul Overaa's book "Mastering Amiga C".

My next Amiga computer was an A1200 I also purchased locally in Christchurch New Zealand (against my parents wishes but I had the programming bug pretty deep by that stage)

The A1200 did not last long (the chipset finally failed for some obscure reason)

The next machine I purchased was an Amiga A600, this machine actually remained functional despite the keyboard connector failing (I ended up using this machine for approximately 5-7 months entirely from the mouse... which was an interesting exercise in itself...)

After some time I had saved enough for my next machine... so I upgraded again to a very capable Amiga A3000 Desktop (I actually got lucky with the SCSI and Buster chips already being upgraded for this unit!)

I rebuilt my custom Workbench and Development environment on this machine and continued to delve into the recesses of what it was capable of.

I had the A3000 for quite a number of years including a custom tower conversion,

 and it remained functional during the time of my next purchase as well...

My next machine after the A3000 Desktop was to acquire an Amiga A4000 Desktop,

 I ended up with not one, but two of these machines, with an A3620 and A3640 CPU cards.

This was also about the time Dave Haynie released information about his own Gemini project... and I was learning how to use programmable electronics...

My Software projects were mainly experimental or support tools as part of someone elses vision during all of this time.

the only "tool" that I was able to completely write during this timeframe on my own was for a package called "QuickstartPro" by T.J.Roughton,

 I also helped design and write the main program in sections as well.

I was later informed that the "Jumpstart" tool that I had written as part of that package was later re-written.

I was quite proud of the fact I had written the entire tool without any use of the compiler with a total count of *3* issues when it was first compiled. I certainly felt vindicated at that time.

Later from this T.J.R. and myself parted ways and his return into my life was one of the major factors into my first marriage failing.

After becoming semi-independent I was contacted online by a sponsor for an additional project... to try and functionally introduce an SMP arrangement into AmigaOS *without* editing the Exec kerneling directly.

During this project I was also looking at how different loaders behaved and conceived the "polymorph" project. (this is about the time "wine" started as a project as well)

the "Symmetry" project faltered mainly due to physical damage to the prototype installed on the test machine.

 functional testing had let me write only so far as to get partial SMP operations working (one process per CPU installed from the main exec list without destroying the OS in the process... calls into exec.library generally halted SMP operations)  this required a very precise accounting of what processor was looking where and had several remaining issues that were only in the initial stages of being solved at the time.

After the prototype failed, the sponsor decided to terminate the project.

 I did get to keep the sources until the A4000 they were on had an HDD failure which was annoyingly coincidental with making a disk image of the drive.

After this I worked on my own with my "Polymorph" idea and managed to get Windows 3.x program files loaded and some partial MS-DOS functionality built into a custom assembly written 486DX Emulation.

some of the functionality in that Emulation managed to work very quickly however the majority of functionality ran the 486 at equal to half the speed of the 040 it was running on.

At the time of the HDD failure, I then built a Linux system and became more fully involved with a small source based distribution called "SourceMage Gnu/Linux",

as of 2010 I have returned to the Amiga OS and in 2012 I have also managed to buy my first new "Amiga" in approximately 10 or 11 years.

I quoted the term "Amiga" in that last statement as not everyone will agree with my usage there. I use the term how I feel it is appropriate in that statement.