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Offline PPCRulez

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Re: $2000 to the first person who ports Mozilla to Amiga OS
« Reply #44 from previous page: May 21, 2003, 04:36:54 PM »
I know I'll probably get flamed for this, but a 68k port seems kind of pointless. Since OS4 and MOS is PPC-based, go for a PPC port. Porting a huge project like this for a dead cpu (68k) is not time well spent IMHO.

Not only would Mozilla benefit from the PPC cpu, it would also encourage and motivate people to buy an A1 or a PegasOS.
 

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Re: $2000 to the first person who ports Mozilla to Amiga OS
« Reply #45 on: May 21, 2003, 05:19:14 PM »
I want Mozilla!!!!!

Both 66k or PPC version is welcome.....

AMIZILLA NOW!
 

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Re: $2000 to the first person who ports Mozilla to Amiga OS
« Reply #46 on: May 21, 2003, 05:56:58 PM »
@PPCRulez

Wordz of Wizdom

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Mozilla would be way too slow even on the fastest 060 on planet. I doubt it will run on decent speeds even on classic ppc's due to context switching.
 

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Re: $2000 to the first person who ports Mozilla to Amiga OS
« Reply #47 on: May 21, 2003, 06:39:41 PM »
Then why does it run ok on crappy old Mac's running OS 9 or older?
 

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Re: $2000 to the first person who ports Mozilla to Amiga OS
« Reply #48 on: May 21, 2003, 07:30:29 PM »
your crappy old mac is g3@400mhz+ vs 060 and/or flawed bliz/cyb ppc
 

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Re: $2000 to the first person who ports Mozilla to Amiga OS
« Reply #49 on: May 21, 2003, 08:26:03 PM »
Ok, but I used to use Netscape Commmuncator 4.7 on my Amiga 4000/040 with  the Mac emulator Emplant Lite.

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Re: $2000 to the first person who ports Mozilla to Amiga OS
« Reply #50 on: May 22, 2003, 12:23:08 AM »
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I see. As someone who has had it running on an x-server and sort of working badly on reaction I guess you include me in that.


Whoa....  I think something got taken out of context here (or I mistyped it.)  Anyhow, my apologies for the confusion.  Actually, I'm not including you in that statement, at all.  I wasn't trying to include the people who have examined the Moz source and said "Holy crap!  This might compile, yet is such a cluster-f--- and can't easily be seperated out in any reasonable time, and would take many weeks to mould into anything close to a useable browsing experience on Amiga."

I was aiming for the people who have stated that it would be a weekend job, or they had it running but couldn't be arsed with posting a shred of source or executable anywhere.  I was aiming for the non-existant projects like the AMozilla and AMozillaX that never posted a thing other than fake websites.  And, I was hinting that this is a HUGE FREAKIN' PROJECT that (amazingly enough) we probably won't soon see results from, despite people (trolls) saying how easy it is and it's a weekend project.

I wasn't at all hinting that developers are slow, incompetent, incomplete, or money-grubbing.  

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Point is, if anyone does this now trolls ( like you - but I gave you the reaction you wanted so I guess Im feeding you ) are going to say "they only did it for the money" which runs against certainly my upbringing.


No, I wouldn't....  In fact, I suspect, that the $2300 and some raised so far wouldn't average out to US minimum wage for the number of hours required to generate something useful....

Maybe I've grown a bit cynical over the years, but I rather enjoy when other's blatent lies are called out, and the fact of the matter is, if porting Moz *IS* that easy, someone will do it.  $2300 is good pay for a weekend job.  Not so good for a several month job.  I suspect the later estimate is more appropriate here.

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See hell freeze over before those you just insulted "put up".


You have a nice day, too.   :-o
 

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Re: $2000 to the first person who ports Mozilla to Amiga OS
« Reply #51 on: May 22, 2003, 12:42:52 AM »
According to the Mozilla folks (irc.mozilla.org #mozilla), it doesn't matter whether they port 1.4, Firebird, or Thunderbird (mail-only client). Once the port is done it's done. :-D
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Re: $2000 to the first person who ports Mozilla to Amiga OS
« Reply #52 on: May 22, 2003, 12:49:07 AM »
Lindows seems to have done so: Lindows
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Re: $2000 to the first person who ports Mozilla to Amiga OS
« Reply #53 on: May 22, 2003, 07:13:59 AM »
Bootie is now @ $ 2850

Also, Thanks to Robin Cloutman for setting up

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amizilla/join

So the work of porting this app can be shared.