"Gorky 17" for MOS

[iamaboringperson]

Why?

I want Gorky 17, not for Linux, not for AmigaOS 4, but for MorphOS.  I am curious as to why I can't have it running on my MorphOS machine?

I want that game!

I love RPG and strategy type games!

(This is not a troll. I am not trying to troll, or start a flame war here, I am posting only because I am curious as to why this wont be on my favorite platform)

[iamaboringperson]

It is two systems and some will develope for one of them only. Accept it! If it is a MUI-program it will probably run on both systems but what if a program uses ReAction? Or what about the newer versions of Warp3D (Nova)? Maybe MOS won't be compatible with it and therefore some programs won't run on it.

It's actually quite easy to write a game once, and compile it for two platforms.

What you've written are only excuses.

[iamaboringperson]

u are so wrong on that one, A LISCENSE COST MONEY! and when morphos and pegasos came around amiga suddenly had to get 2 liscenses for each game/tool..

It's hard to say! We don't know what's in the contract yet!
:-)

What I mean by that is how dissimillar do the two platforms have to be before it actually does require a second licence.

There is also the issue of the extra possible sales making up for the cost of the liscence!

[iamaboringperson]

Steady wrote:
@iamaboringperson:

The fact is that they ARE two different platforms. AmigaOS 4 is AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS is MorphOS. They both have different APIs and require two different versions. If they did not, you would not now be complaining about not having a MorphOS version of Gorky 17.
The common API between them is AmigaOS 3.1. Otherwise they are different and will become more so as time goes on (unless a specific effort is made otherwise).

Yes they are different. There is probably greater difference than the what is found in the varying distributions of Linux.

I suppose that what I'm trying to get at here is that good businessmen are supposed to be good at weaseling their way around contracts ;-) they're supposed to at least try to bend the agreement in their favor! ;-) ;-) *nudge* *nudge*

Ah forget it... I'm losing my argument here...

[iamaboringperson]

1. It seems you are flaming hyperion and claiming that it might be a free liscense.

No.

2. You keep ignoring the fact that EPIC allready liscensed the mac version and hyperion liscensed the linux + os4

Read my last post. ;-)

3. somewhat i dont think you fully understand what happened when there was a new api introduced.

It depends on the API. The specifics of the implementations might be different, however both OS's are very similar.
It could be argued(heck, I'd try it for a bit of extra cash! that they are as simillar as BSD and Linux. If a developer has the licence to port their software to Linux, couldn't it be argued that they could port it to x86 BSD under the same licence? It's just a thought.

1. i dont know what the liscense cost ,but i am in the software dev biz and i know they dont come free + i know aos and morphos is 2 api's (dont know if porting 1 version to WOS only would make it as on liscense) as morphos is wos compatible) but its rather unlikely that we will see more WOS stuff comming for os4..,

I think it will be interesting to see the differences in software options on both platforms in the future. But only time will tell.

2. have you talked to epic about this grudge?, maybe they have a plan to liscense a morphos version? or maybe not as they are busy with games as "divine divinity and northland" atm..

If I didn't have other projects that I'm working on (and that I should be getting on with right now, if you know what I mean I'd consider taking it up myself.

3. as i said about making extra money with releasing it for morphos aswell, did it ever occur to you that if they had to release 2x liscenses then they would have to sell twice as many or something simmilar to make money at all?

Yes! Two machines, roughly twice the sales! (okay,  that's just a theory)

4. we are going in loops here, if you had read the damn posts from hyperion about this earlier on then we wouldnt have been stagnated just over this single question AGAIN!..
Last hope for gorky17 is that epic release an morphos version..

I posted here due to the fact that peoples posts were being removed under the news item. That included my post, which, IMHO was on topic.

[iamaboringperson]

Oh BTW, I'm not overly passionate about this issue, and certainly don't intend to flame anybody over this game.
It is their decision, I couldn't imagine Genesi porting one of their special programs to AmigaOS4 anytime soon! ;-)

I think I'll respect their choice.

(I was only asking 'why', not asking for a fight)

:-)