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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: JamesR on May 22, 2003, 12:56:20 AM
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The DiscreetFX reward for porting Mozilla to Amiga is now at nearly $2800 ($2793 currently). Do you want Mozilla/Netscape on Amiga OS 4 or Pegasos? If so, go donate (http://www.discreetfx.com/AmiZilla.html)!
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Sounds a bit too much duplcate ... But it's for a good cause :-P
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What will happen with the donated money if no Mozilla port is made?
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>What will happen with the donated money if no Mozilla port is made?
They'll invest it in Amway products. :-D :-D :-D
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>What will happen with the donated money if no >Mozilla port is made?
They will go on summer vacation :-D
Maybe they shoud consider to redirect this
donation for improvement and of IBrowse!!! :-)
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That is up to all the people that donated it, but as it grows and grows everyday. I suspect that a programmer will meet the challenge. I have already gotten several e-mails from excited programmers. about it.
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if i was a programmer, i would for sure go for this...
Btw is mozillafirebird/phoenix acceptable? Light version of mozilla which is way quicker than regular mozilla....
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Yes these would be fine, we only want the browser ported and FireBird would fit the bill.
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I have to admit that in concept this is an excellent idea.
From the site:
"Keep in mind programmers this effort should work on @ least Amiga OS 3.9, WinUAE, Amithlon, MorphOS, AROS, Amiga OS 4.0, etc. so everyone can benefit from the effort."
However, I do not think that it will be practical to get it working on all these variations of AmigaOS (or compatible - whatever).
3.9 and 4.0 for example - I'm not sure how you would manage this - would you maintain a 68k version and two ppc versions? I could perhaps see gettin one version to run on 4.0 and MorphOS - but even that would be an interesting trick.
Lets not forget the Amiga500 users that will want to run it on 512k of fast. ;-)
My suggestion? Drop all classic ports for now and focus on 4.0 - it would be nice to have a full-featured web browser available with the new OS. I would probably also drop the requirement for Flash as well as it is not a standard.
How would the money be doled out? All at once, once the project was "finished" - or is "bug-free"?
I would suggest laying out a list of goals to meet, perhaps with a suggested timeline, and then paying out as the project meets the goals.
To be honest, I'd be just as happy to see Ibrowse getting brought up to standards, and it probably would be easier to get a complete version done (but I'm not sure).
Perhaps someone should let the folks at Opera know about this as well - its a nice browser as well, and they at one point had interest in an Amiga version.
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Bootie is now @ $ 2850
AmiNTT you have some nice ideas. Getting ahold of Opera is one of them. Your list of goals for the project is another. You might want to join the AmiZilla mailing list. I would like to see this browser running on all Amiga's using 3.9 and 040/060/PPC/AROS/WinUAE/Amithlon and even MorphOS if possible though.
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 in an offical mailing list.
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Personally I give $1000 each time a coder finishes 10 drivers for the A1...
Who's interested ?
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An OS 3.x port would not be useful on 68k machines, only in emulation, right? I think the focus should definately be on OS 4.0 and MorphOS.. would it be worth maintaining a separate OS 3.x version as well? Amithlon is not the way forward, though a lot of people will use it.. It's a tough decision to make. I'm going to sit on the fence here.
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@AmiNTT:
The best way to make it compatible with all these configurations is to shoot for the lowest common denominator. If it runs on 3.9 and is system friendly, it will run on all those other OS versions too.
Once it has got to this stage, tuning it for individual setups will be relatively simple.
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Sweet!
More Ami news on my ticker this morning :-D
$2,000+ Offered to First Person to Port Mozilla to Amiga OS (http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3199) (mozillaZine)
Wish I had the mad programming skillz required to help out on the project.
-zudo
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I think the focus should definately be on OS 4.0 and MorphOS..
So you don'tr think AROS is worth supporting then? Even though AROS is 3.1 compatible, and thus a port to AROS would make porting to AmigaOS 3.1/4.0 and MorphOS very simple!
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Bloodline,
Thats a good point. Would the reverse also be simple (ie. porting from OS 4.0/Morphos to AROS)?
I've recently installed Aros on top of linux (that was really simple) and will have a go at developing some stuff soon... Nothing on the same scale as a mozilla port tho.
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i'll second what cluke said. make it system/API friendly and target 3.9 . that way it'll "just" recompile for other sister OSes
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Have you considered konquor embedded it is more miggy sized then the huge mozzy. The source is about 1.6 meg zipped insted of the 40 meg of mozzy also KHTML is the base of OS Xs new browser.
note $2000+ is getting my programming fingers iching :-)