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Port Mozilla, Collect $3696

Posted by timothy on from the but-to-amiga dept.

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."

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  1. Modern Amiga compatible solutions by Mike+Bouma · · Score: 4, Informative

    There seems to be some confusion with regard to which OSes/solutions this effort is directed at. Currently there are 4 main 68k Amiga compatible solutions DiscreetFX would like to see supported. For two first one listed below PPC native versions would be preferable:

    1) AmigaOS4

    This is the official new AmigaOS developed for classic Amigas upgraded with PPC accelerators and new AmigaOne computers which are being sold with G3 and G4 processors.

    Some of the latest but still unfinished screenshots of AmigaOS4:
    http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?sto ryid=560
    AmigaOne motherboards can already be bought in combination with Linux at the following dealers (AmigaOS4 will be delivered for free as soon as it is finished): http://www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone/dealers.php

    With MOL MacOS X can also already be used with this system (as well as with the Peg below):

    http://www.anythingamiga.com/XEPics/x2.jpg.html

    2) MorphOS

    Its ABOX environment is a re-implementation of version 3.1 of the Amiga operating system. The re-implemted Exec kernel is hosted on top of a Quark microkernel. The OS is fast and responsive and currently runs with G3 Pegasos motherboards. Interested people will have to wait for the Pegasos II, which is planned for release in September. An interesting review can be found at OSNews:
    http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3589

    3) AROS

    An open source project intended as a multi-platform re-implementation of version 3.1 of the Amiga operating system. Most of the development takes place on x86 computers. Much of the source code was used for MorphOS. http://www.aros.org/

    4) UAE, Amithlon and other 68 AmigaOS emulators

    AmigaOS XL: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=604
    Amiga Forever: http://cloanto.com/amiga/forever/

  2. Re:thought it might be a interesting project... by Lumpy · · Score: 3, Informative

    mozilla isnt even running lag free on my dual P3 with 512mb ram omg omg this is so over the top :DD

    wow what did you do wrong?

    My old P-II SMP box runs Moz damn fast... pretty much lag free.

    But then I have a SCSI U160 12 disk Raid array on that box.. but no processor setup on this planet even a 8 processor P-4 90ghz box with "Future-seeum(TM) technology" can affect load speed off of a rotating magnetic storage device... my Hard drives are simply 10 times faster than anything you have.

    I'd look at your low end IDE drives and bus. you either need to set something using hdparam in linux or your hardware has some real problems.

    dont blame software load time on your processors, blame it on the real bottlenecks in your system.

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