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Hey peepz, long time no see, but I had a really good excuse :)
On 26th of May my lovely daughter was born and for that matter I was fully devoted to her and my wife :)
I'm really happy that everything worked out just fine, and that a new girly Amigan was born.

Anywayz... this weekend I found some time between her sleeps to tinker my lovely A4000 and my newly acquired Indivision AGA mk2 (for A4000/CD32).
Many have already made some reviews and troubleshoots via the known forums but here I will present my own POV.

So, this is what the package includes

Nearly a year after 1.1 was released, I found the time to fix some of the v1.1 bugs. Some of them appeared because of recent AROS changes and bug fixes. There are no new features in this release.

Bug fixes:

Thank you dear Queen Elizabeth II that Your Majesty has birthday, just like us, puny humans do. Even if it is not on this day yet we got a day off to celebrate in New Zealand too. (Well, logic is not a strong point of human society.)

So, I decided to celebrate Her Majesty's birthday by doing some coding.

The update is a little bit short and not too interesting, just a couple more instructions implemented:

Currently I am working on implementing the JVM interface from OpenJDK. This work is done in parallell with GNU Classpath. I.e. I will try to use OpenJDK's JVM interface in JAmiga's GNU Classpath implementation. Basically I have refactored the classpath specific code from the JAmiga binary into its own library, gnuclasspath.library (an upcoming library will of course be openjdk.library). This will then in turn get access to the JAmiga VM's exported JVM interface, in the same way OpenJDK would do it.

Gideon Zweijtzer and Rutger Bevaart have announced they are working to develop a new 68040 and PPC CPU card for the Amiga 3000(T) and Amiga 4000(T) computers.   The board will be named “Ultimate PPC”.  They already have a development board built!

Gideon Zweijtzer and Rutger Bevaart have announced they are working to develop a new 68040 and PPC CPU card for the Amiga 3000(T) and Amiga 4000(T) computers.   The board will be named “Ultimate PPC”.  They already have a development board built!

Indivision MK2 A4000/CD32

Indivision AGA Mk2 A4000/CD32

Flicker Fixer for Amiga 4000 and CD32

Indivision MK2 A4000/CD32

Indivision AGA Mk2 A4000/CD32

Flicker Fixer for Amiga 4000 and CD32

This weekend my friend Svenn Ove, been on visit, he has been working on some new logos for Excalibur.

Just for breaking the silence after a long time, I want to tell you, that I did not loose interest in AROS or uae. It's just "some" missing spare time ;). Nevertheless quite some stuff happened behind the curtain (and will stay there, until it is done).

I created a VMWare image with Ubuntu 10.04.3 to use for building OpenJDK 8.
With a clean Ubuntu install, including latest updates, I followed this guide: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/raw-file/tip/README
1. Installed mercurial
apt-get install mercurial