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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: Andre.Siegel on November 12, 2013, 07:13:09 PM
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(http://www.power2people.org/images/odyssey_logo_large.png)
The aim of the Odyssey Bounty Project is to license a current version of the full-featured Odyssey Web Browser and share it under an open source license so it can be fully ported to AmigaOS and AROS. While the author of the Odyssey Web Browser has previously shared parts of his work entirely for free, which already improved the browser choices on these two platforms by a great deal, these existing ports of Odyssey use an outdated version of the Webkit browser engine and lack key functionality such as the capability to play HTML5 video.
For more information about the Odyssey Web Browser and the project itself, please visit:
http://www.power2people.org
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A great opportunity for the OS4 and AROS platforms to finally get a modern, truly native, high quality web browser!
Every OS4 and AROS user should really contribute with as much as they can to this bounty!
Don't miss this opportunity!
:)
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iCab is better than the Odyssey http://www.icab.de/
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iCab is better than the Odyssey http://www.icab.de/
I seriously doubt that! While both seem to use webkit as their engine, nothing beats Odyssey when it comes to "Amiga nativeness", and I also think it wins in feature count, but I didn't bother looking at "iCab" more than briefly.
But by all means, go ahead and use iCab on OS4...
;)
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BTW. and iCab is faster, OWB MorphOS on CPU without Altivec is very slow.
For example iCab_4.9_OSX_PPC_app.zip (http://hotfile.com/dl/254866728/31a9d79/iCab_4.9_OSX_PPC_app.zip.html) only 3.1 MB
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iCab is Mac-only (unless something's changed very, very recently). It's completely irrelevant to this discussion.
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$25 from me. Come on folks, let's all give what we can afford.
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So, we have a MorphOS developer announcing a project to port needed software to OS4 and AROS.
Are you guys still going to insist that we are the fractious ones?
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I thought Cab was for the old Atari 16-Bit machines?
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This is great news for AROS! and OS4 I suppose, but their users should just buy the port of firefox.
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Is Hyperion and ACUBE going to donate?
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Why no bounty for an OS3.9 version?
At the very least the thread title should be changed to make it clear it is only for OS4.
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Minuous
Obviously a classic 68k port is impossible!
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Why no bounty for an OS3.9 version?
At the very least the thread title should be changed to make it clear it is only for OS4.
If the funding goal is reached, Odyssey will be open source so anybody can port it to any operating system they like. There will be no limitation regarding what platform you are allowed to port the software to.
If somebody is brave enough to attempt a port, they are welcome to do so. There already exists a port of Oxygen Web Browser for AROS 68k, which is based on an older version of Fabien's Odyssey Web Browser.
You can read more about it here on Amiga.org:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=63326
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>Obviously a classic 68k port is impossible!
I don't see any reason why that would be the case, there are plenty of other browsers for 68k so I don't know why it would be "impossible" to do as you claim.
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By impossilbe I suppose he meant pointless. i am sure it could be ported given time, but there is no way a classic amiga could run this modern broweser at any speed to make it useable
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By impossilbe I suppose he meant pointless. i am sure it could be ported given time, but there is no way a classic amiga could run this modern broweser at any speed to make it useable
Is it that poorly written then? in which case why is it so important to port it? In any case it may still be useful for use under eg. WinUAE which is faster than any classic Amiga.
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:bump: 39% :)