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Are you sure it was a QNX demo or the Amiga DE SDK based on TAO intent OS? I still have the Amiga SDK manual for that OS and probably the DVD is hidden somewhere around my house. I actually liked that OS.

Either download the BitTorrent version and claim "fair use" clause as a defense, optionally writing a check to the PO box of the publishing company for the retail price of the book to cover any legal problems (well I paid you $X and you cashed the check, so basically I bought the book, but in eBook format.) or another thing to do is check out rare book stores, usually book stores that deal in rare copies of the book.

But it can backfire. The Amiga Guru book was written in German and then English and someone scanned the book and made it an eBook on BitTorrent and made the author mad because it was a self-published book. So the original Amiga Guru book covered the AmigaOS 2.1 version and the new version would cover 3.1 and 4.0, but he got so mad he didn't publish the new book because of the piracy of the old book.

A pity because the Amiga Guru Book really helped developers by documenting the Amiga GUI and coding standards to follow to write commercial quality programs for the Amiga. It is a book that Amiga, Inc should have published themselves, hint hint to Amiga,Inc. publish a book like that to help promote the new Amiga systems and AmigaOS.

Now the Amiga Guru Book author claims he will only give a copy of the new Guru book to people who send him a copy of a rare Commodore 64 ROM Kernel book in German. Quid pro quo, help him find copies of another rare book and he will gladly give you a copy of his rare book.

By the way I'm looking for "101 BASIC Computer Games" and the sequel "More 101 BASIC Computer Games" but every place I check is sold out and it is out of print. In the early 1980's and late 1970's it wrote BASIC programs in the old version of BASIC that every 8 bit computer shared and had the source code to Eliza and Hunt the Wumps and some Zork clone written in BASIC called The Adventure or something. It isn't even in eBook format, a pity, as we lost an important piece of computer history. It even had typos and grammar and spelling errors in it when it was published. I think they typed up the whole thing on a typewriter or an early Word processor that lacked even spell check.

I learned BASIC on an Apple and then moved to the C16 then to a C128 with C64 embedded. I really enjoyed BASIC on the Commodore platform. I loved POKE and PEEK. The with my Super Snapshot card I could get into a pretty good machine language decompiler. From there I could create programs in the $c000 range, store them to a floppy, and sys them. I loved monitoring the raster ($d018 or somewhere close) and changing it's color when it's at various positions to create screenshots better than what the C64 normally allowed.

I never have got as deep with the x86 platform.

The thing I've found with most emulators is that this trickery just doesn't work right. A lot of it depended on the set Mhz rate of the hardware.

I find it odd as many fanboys of the C64 as there are, why not embed one onto a USB dongle. The other end with a RS232C cord?
    Something like this http://www.vesalia.de/e_c64dtv%5B5732%5D.htm?slc=us ported for us programmer types.
   

I still remember some of the opcodes from memory... I started out on an Ohio Scientific Challenger 4p, doing hand assembly. The $12 apple shouln't be hard, considering a C64 with a bunch of games on ROM can be stuffed into a joystick.

To most people, any of the files they used on computers before their first "IBM Compatible" is probably lost forever already. Think of how many files are "frozen" on 5.25" floppy disk for the Commodore 64 alone!

That dosen't have to be the case though, you can retrieve files from disks of hundreds of different 80's era computers on a modern PC using a Catweasel card. http://www.vesalia.de/e_catweaselmk4.htm

With the catweasel, a standard 5.25" PC floppy disk drive (hello, ebay), and a 3.5" PC floppy disk drive there's hardly a floppy disk you won't be able to retrieve your petrified files from.

Finding a program that can do anything with those files is another subject entirely.

Someone on the linked forum made a joke about Amiga drivers for the voodoo boards...
They're even still being sold!
http://www.vesalia.de/e_mediator.htm

http://www.vesalia.de/

The company making the new Amiga hardware is Eyetech Group, Ltd.

The company making the new Amiga Operating System is Hyperion Entertainment

And an example of one of the dozen or so online stores that currently sell the new Amiga Hardware coupled with the new Amiga operating system as well as Classic Amiga Hardware and Software is Vesalia Online --- Thats right! You can already buy it!!!!

Why not look into the Pegasos II?
Select PEGASOS II KONFIGURATOR, and read on from there. I didn't use THAT destination URL as it was way too lengthy.

I, myself, have an AmigaOne but if you want cheaper h/ware -- the Pegaoso II is a goer!
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hehe you begged for this ;D let me present you to the c=one