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Title: Ambient has been released under the GPL
Post by: T_Bone on January 22, 2005, 08:47:53 AM

The announcement is here
http://zapek.com/software/ambient/

Download here
http://zapek.com/software/ambient/l.php?file=ambient-140.tar.gz

I never expected this!

Title: Re: Ambient has been released under the GPL
Post by: bloodline on January 22, 2005, 11:18:42 AM

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T_Bone wrote:
The announcement is here
http://zapek.com/software/ambient/

Download here
http://zapek.com/software/ambient/l.php?file=ambient-140.tar.gz

I never expected this!

Hmmm... I smell AROS port :-D

Title: Re: Ambient has been released under the GPL
Post by: KennyR on January 22, 2005, 12:49:27 PM

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Bloodline wrote:
mmm... I smell AROS port :-D

Ambient was generally seen as by far the weakest part of MorphOS. Whoever ports it to AROS better be ready to work on it a lot.

Title: Re: Ambient has been released under the GPL
Post by: Karlos on January 22, 2005, 12:55:37 PM

Pity the WarpOS / PowerUP emulation didn't go GPL...

I have to admit, I found the recent events regarding MorphOS pretty depressing. I rather liked the idea that a 'rival' amiga OS was being actively developed. I think that in reality, both 'camps' benefitted from this rivalry (not the outright FUD and flamefest nonsense, I mean at the technical development level). Competition pushes development like nothing else.

Title: Re: Ambient has been released under the GPL
Post by: KennyR on January 22, 2005, 01:04:50 PM

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Karlos wrote:
Pity the WarpOS / PowerUP emulation didn't go GPL...

There's nothing magical about the WOS/PUP emulation, it's a wrapper, with some simple tricks for register handling, AFAIR. OS4 can't do such tricks because of its lib stub system and other limitations. If OS4 is ever to do the nice stuff MOS does, it'll need some really convoluted solutions.

Title: Re: Ambient has been released under the GPL
Post by: Kronos on January 22, 2005, 01:18:08 PM

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KennyR wrote:

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Bloodline wrote:
mmm... I smell AROS port :-D

Ambient was generally seen as by far the weakest part of MorphOS. Whoever ports it to AROS better be ready to work on it a lot.

Read the change-logs between 1.29 and 1.40  :-o

It is still mising a few things, but there is obvious progress.

And even 1.29 offers much more than wanderer atm, so an AROS-port wouldn't be that bad of an idea. But only if they can get Zune up to par with MUI(4.0).

Title: Re: Ambient has been released under the GPL
Post by: TheMagicM on January 22, 2005, 02:59:46 PM

just in case litigation... I've saved the source to my hd.. lol.  
this could be a good thing!  

Title: Re: Ambient has been released under the GPL
Post by: T_Bone on January 22, 2005, 03:03:31 PM

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TheMagicM wrote:
just in case litigation... I've saved the source to my hd.. lol.  
this could be a good thing!  

 :roflmao:

I was thinking the same thing when I saved it!

Title: Re: Ambient has been released under the GPL
Post by: TheMagicM on January 22, 2005, 03:04:48 PM

hehehee....  I"m actually going to sit down and look through it.. should be some good reading :)

Title: Re: Ambient has been released under the GPL
Post by: T_Bone on January 22, 2005, 03:20:52 PM

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bloodline wrote:

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T_Bone wrote:
The announcement is here
http://zapek.com/software/ambient/

Download here
http://zapek.com/software/ambient/l.php?file=ambient-140.tar.gz

I never expected this!

Hmmm... I smell AROS port :-D

I love the smell of Aros ports in the morning... Smells like... Victory.
(or is that your sock? :-P )

Title: Re: Ambient has been released under the GPL
Post by: Holley on January 22, 2005, 04:52:07 PM

This is the kinda stuff I was thinking of when people wondered about parts of MOS coming over to the dard side ... hope someone can pick it up and run with it!

Wonder if anyone will compile it for use on an A1 ?!

Thanks to David Gerber for releasing the work ...