Project Ceylon: Keeping the Architecture, Rebuilding the Assumptions
Project Ceylon keeps the architectural ideas that made the Amiga compelling while rebuilding the assumptions underneath them for modern hardware.
Project Ceylon keeps the architectural ideas that made the Amiga compelling while rebuilding the assumptions underneath them for modern hardware.
The retrospective is caught up. From here forward, Project Ceylon becomes a real-time record of the work, wrong turns, breakthroughs, and whatever happens next.
Having thirty-year-old source code available doesn't mean the job is to transcribe it. Here's how I actually use historical material as research instead of a shortcut.
NewTek released the Video Toaster's source publicly years ago. That's where the real research thread started — not the Amiga's OS, but the thing that made the Amiga…