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Port Mozilla, Collect $3696
An anonymous reader writes "The goal of the AmiZilla effort is to raise such an obscene/huge amount of money to give away to the first programmer/team that can port Mozilla to Amiga that Amiga programmers will be falling over themselves getting this application coded in record time.
The booty currently stands at $3696. Parties interested in making some extra cash to pay off student loans/go on a wild bender can find more infomation here."
Is $3676 an obscene amount of money now?
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Would Moz even be able to run on an 8 mhz Amiga 500.
You overclocked yours? 1337!
Of course it runs NetBSD. BTC: 1NT7QvbetmANwaMzhpVL6
That prize amount is pretty big, considering that it is larger than the total profits from selling Amiga computers for the past 10 years.
1. Make an x86 emulator.
2. Boot Windows....er... linux.
3. Install Moz.
Profit.
Heck I'd pay 3639$ to see Moz ported to my Gameboy Color [the Z80 one] that in itself would be a feat!
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
You mean, I can finally get *gulp* booty for programming?!
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
Working very hard on the soon to be released AmiZilla Mascot, she is very sexy
I'm almost temped to donate 10K to see just what sort of wild bender someone who finds a green lizard sexy would actually go on.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
$3676? Hmmm....
/. for insipring your creative genius to aforementioned experiments.
$40 to build a shocking Xbox controller.
$100 to buy a Dremel Powertool to explode Steve Miller Cds to infinity
$300 emergeny room visit to have a RN look at your electrical burns on your hands and to pull CD shards out of your ass.
$3236 To start litigation against
What do you call amigaos 4.0?
"vaporware"
first place:
/dev/null
> Port Mozilla,Collect $3696
second place:
go directly to
do not pass go
do not collect $3696
it's not about mimicking reality, it's about believability
both amiga programmers will be fighting hard to get the cash.
I used to use the GCC tools on the amiga (ADE - or whatever it turned into). But then that slowly went stagnant - and it was 10x faster to cross-compile stuff on the FreeBSD/Pentium166 than to wait for the A3000/'030.
When Amiga/PPC hardware started appearing, I was keen to do some portage of unix-ish type stuff - except the PPC dev toolchain was so woeful it made me want to cry.
sigh.
Cool, but useless.
The problem with this thing is that second place gets mo money.
Wow! I want to come in second place then!
SCNR.
If they don't want feature complete, here is my entry:
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
fprintf(stderr, "IMPLEMENT ME: start running mozilla on the amiga\n");
return 0;
}
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
I'll pay $17 for the first person to port Mozilla to the Commodore 64. Bonus of $3 if you don't require a double-notched floppy.
I ported the Amiga OS to run on the Dreamcast?
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
Don't you have to pass Go first?
"Smoking helps you lose weight - one lung at a time" -- A. E. Neumann
The 12-16 year old computer literate kids will be all over this
The 12-16 year old computer literate kids will be going "What the FUCK is an Amiga?"
"Information wants to be paid"
The two Amiga users left will have to split the money (and learn how to program), but $1800 or so is still quite a chunk of change. If this were 1985, they'd be able to buy a new Amiga with that kind of cash!
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
Eww, that furry cartoon holding the amiga beachball is kinda creeping me out.
_nfotxn
The computing world hasn't stood still since 1994 when Commodore went bust - so why do so many non/ex-Amiga owners think that the Amiga has also?
Most of our members have powerful Amiga setups ( http://www.swaug.org.uk/members.html ) enough power to run Mozilla. Myself I'm typing this on my Broadband enabled Amiga with 256Mb RAM and 330GB Hard disk. We "poor old" Amiga owners have USB 2.0, 3D Graphics cards, 5.1 Digital Sound cards, DVD-ROMs and CD-ReWriters. So as you can see the Amiga market isn't all that bad- we're not expecting to run Mozilla on 1Mb A500's!
SWAUG.org.uk
Older Geek: "Amiga". In Spanish, it means 'female friend', and...
Younger Geek: What the FUCK is a female friend?
Obliteracy: Words with explosions