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Former Netscape Executive gives $4000 to AmiZilla
POds writes "Recently a Former Netscape Executive made a 2000 dollar donation to the Amizilla project, but for one reason or another, decided 2000 wasn't good enough and donated, yet another 2000 dollars. His only request is that he wants to see the amount get over $10,000 so is requesting others donate what they can. The Booty is now over $8400 and goes to the first developer(s) to port Mozilla to the Amiga platform."
8. Linux Coders we want you. Linux programmers are also welcome to try their hand @ porting Mozilla to Amiga. They are a talented group of coders and have given Microsoft a lot of grief. Nice Show!
Well, you just found your coderbase, AmiZilla. Anytime you offer money, bring up microsoft negatively, feed L-Users' egos, and reward them for doing what they're good at, you've got 80% of the L-Zealots behind you.
That's $400 per potentional user!
Mozilla team has nothing to do with this, it's a contest of porting Mozilla to Amiga, the developer who does it wins the money, check out this.
But I think I somehow agree with you, how cares really about porting Mozilla to Amiga while there are lots of useful Open Source projects that require more support?
The IT section color scheme sucks.
I'll give $10,000 to all those who refuse to port anything to the Amiga, just to let those poor souls who still care move on with their lives.
Please guys, this holiday season take some time out of your schedule and knock an Amiga user unconscious, then nurse them back to health. That won't accomplish much in the long term, I agree, but it will shut them up for a couple days.
because every couple of years I read something like this:, 00.html
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34922
the architecture of the original amiga was very innovative, more like a ps2 than a pc
I still get a kick from looking at some raytraces I did back in the old amiga days
I ran a benchmark on my quantum computer, now I can't find it anywhere!
Porting of MySQL to C64 begins, and an undisclosed donor has donated $5000 to the fist person to run Apache from a Tamagotchi
how long until
Why the hell not? It's his money, not yours. If you think there's enough demand for OO.o on C64 (or whatever), and you want it that bad, put up some money and see what happens. Criticizing what other people think is important enough to spend money on is pretty lame.
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Depends on what you think your time is worth I guess. For most programmers, $4000 for something that would probably take a few months at least of full time programming is an insult. For college students who could take a year doing it in their spare time, $4000 buys a whole lot of beer.
If anyone does this though, I suspect it'll be a hard-core Amiga zealot whose primary motivation is not the money.
its so nice to piss down on somone else and forget where your OS of choice were just few years back!
I got started on Commodore gear -- my parents bought a C64 when I was really young, and that what I cut my programmng teeth on.
I read Commodore Magazine for years, typing in the programs in the back and trying to figure out what they do.
I called my first BBSes at 1200 baud on that C64. And I was really jealous of everyone who had an Amiga or an Atari ST.
Hell, I was even excited when Gateway bought up all the rights to the Amiga name. This was, of course, back when a Gateway was still a premium machine. "At last! The Amiga is coming back! I can finally get one!"
But it's over. The Amiga has been gone for so long that there's nothing but a string of hucksters trying to trade on the name. The platform is dead. It's a shame -- I always wanted one -- but it's over.
The diversity in computing is gone. I work for a college, and there are kids in the CS department who don't believe me when I say that there used to be so many different platforms. It's sad, but it's true, and noble efforts like this AmiZilla bribery don't change it.
--saint
Yes, the Amiga is dead and buried. The story is a bit misleading.
"Port Mozilla to AmigaOS and similar/compatible OSes" would probably have been more accurate.
AmigaOS might get a chance to live on in version 4, on off the shelf 3rd party hardware, if the company that whimsically calls itself "Amiga Inc." would only give it a chance instead of actively doing all they can to kill it in its cradle. Then there's things like the API compatible MorphOS and the open source AROS.
And no, Lionel Ritchie and skinny ties have never been great.
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If the donator want's to sponsor porting mozilla over to the original NES, then, that's his right. If someone wants to code it, then that is their right as well.
No one's stoping you from sponsoring the main firebird's development.
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I hate your attitude, since when does population in terms of software use mean that a platform or a software is dead? Imagine this, is QBASIC dead? Sure, for developers right? But if some company out there is using it, which there are still many using it, and their business depends on it, and it does what it is suppose to do, why should they upgrade? Because people are saying it is dead? Let me ask you a question. Do you know how many QBasic apps are behind some business logic/functions out there? If I say more than 50,000. Will you be surprised? Do you know how many Amiga fans/users are out there? If there are 20,000 of them. That is still a very big user base. So long as they are happy with their OS and can do all that they desire, it is not dead. Whoopie, I use a P90mhz, 40mb, 2gig laptop. All my friends laugh at it and say it is ancient. I just smile, because it meets all my needs! So it's not ancient to me.
------ Curiosity killed the cat. {satisfaction brought it back | it didn't die ignorant | lack of it is killing mankind
"Correct me if I'm wrong (I probably am), but wouldn't a port from Amiga to ST be relatively easy? I know that for a while there they had a fair bit of software in common, but I confess that I don't know if it was due to similarities in architecture or similarities in capability."
The two platforms didn't have much in common other than the fact that they both shared Motorola 680x0 microprocessors and the optional Motorola math co-processors (rare in both platforms standard). Both platforms tended to have more custom chipsets and co-processors than say the Mac or x86 platforms of their era. Graphics, sound, MMU, Blitters, (the Ataris even had their own keyboard processor) etc. If you move up to the Atari Falcon, you had the Motorola 68030 and the Motorla DSP processor, but the Falcon is a rare bird of the ST platform, probably rarer than the Amiga 3000.
Then there's the fact that Atari's TOS operating system was essentially CP/M68K (GEMDOS) with a customized Digital Research GEM GUI sitting on top. Granted, early Linux was ported over to the ST/TT/Falcon platform so I guess there's that route...
"Right now, somewhere in this world, Scott Baio is plowing a woman he doesn't love," - Peter Griffin, *Family Guy*
What $10,000 could have done to advance some more meaningful Open Source project. What's next-- OpenOffice for C64?
First of all, it's Amiga not C64. I don't like Macs, but that doesn't mean I say "What next, an Apple II port?" when I see a Mac story.
Secondly, I don't know about bounties in particular, but bear in mind that platforms such as Windows have had a phenomenal amount spent on them in terms of general software development, compared to niche platforms. We're talking billions. Macs probably get a fair amount too. Linux gets plenty of both commercial and open source development.
Yet as soon as someone stumps up a few thousand to help fund a possible port of a browser (to a platform whose browsers lack all sorts of modern features), this is seemingly unfair?
Rightly or wrongly, the market is driven by those with money to spend. Most of the time, that means that Windows wins, and platforms like the Amiga lose out. This is one of those rare times when things don't go that way.
I once had a really bastardized Amiga 2000, with a total of 6 general purpose CPU's in it (of which two were not in use): A 68000 on the motherboard, a 68020 acellerator card, a PC card with an 8086 (let you run DOS apps in a window on your Amiga desktop) upgraded with a 286 accelerator card, the 6502 compatible CPU on the keyboard and a Z80 controlled SCSI controller...
Those were the days :-)