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I am not absolutely sure about this, but I was following closely the development of the Amiga from its release to the public in the form of the 1000. The impression I got from some of the first software available for the Amiga is that some of it was developed on a Sun Workstation and ported to the Amiga. There used to be this "read" command in the early Amiga developers kits that would download files from a foreign host. I think I also once saw traces of a cross-compiler for the Amiga for a sun computer. I have personally worked extensively with multi-platform development for DEC Vax, Sun Unix, and IBM Mainframe environments. The point is that you don't use any "tricks" of any of the platforms and no "non-standard" code. Of course with graphics this is hard because there is VGA vs. Intuition programming which must be quite different. But of course windows or os/2 programming are probably somewhat closer to Amiga's intuition. If you use C and good macros that can be catered to the specific machines with the appropriate header files, then cross porting can be made somewhat simpler. Brad