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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: skurk on December 17, 2006, 08:15:07 PM

Title: What Do You Need?
Post by: skurk on December 17, 2006, 08:15:07 PM
Demo coding is always fun, but can sometimes be monotonous.  To get some variety, I want a project to fiddle with a little now and then.  No promises about completion, but the goal is an open-source, free product for all classic Amigas.

The only question is: What should I make?  What do you miss on the miggy?

I've been thinking about writing a BitTorrent or DC++ client, but I don't know how many will need it.  Good alternatives probably already exist.

It must be a reasonable project, not porting Firefox or writing a kickstart replacement.

If you have any ideas, let me know :-)
Title: Re: What Do You Need?
Post by: Amigaz on December 17, 2006, 08:20:49 PM
 A nice bittorent client with a user friendly gui for classic Amiga's would be on the top of my wishlist  :-)

And decoders for .ape, .flac and .shn lossless audio files
Title: Re: What Do You Need?
Post by: AmigaMance on December 17, 2006, 08:22:52 PM
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I've been thinking about writing a BitTorrent or DC++ client, but I don't know how many will need it.

 Since you mention it, we have enough bitorrent clients but there are no DC++ clients for AOS/AOS4/MOS. So, making one is definitely a good idea. Or perhaps an EMule client for AOS.. We lack this one too.
Title: Re: What Do You Need?
Post by: Minuous on December 17, 2006, 10:30:48 PM
How about a decompiler?
Title: Re: What Do You Need?
Post by: lurkist on December 17, 2006, 11:51:02 PM
WMV player (or converter to mpg) for Classic

PPC (PUP) ANIM player

MakeCD drivers for Atapi/IDE DVD-RW (I don't think this is being developed any more, and it NEEDS this functionality)
Title: Re: What Do You Need?
Post by: AmigaMance on December 18, 2006, 04:59:47 AM
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WMV player (or converter to mpg) for Classic

 Iirc, Frogger can play WMV files, except of the latest WMV3 codec. But i don't think that classic Amigas are fast enough to play WMV3 files anyway.
 As for a converter, we just need an up-to-date FFMpeg compile.