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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Announcements and Press Releases => Topic started by: Pyromania on May 31, 2003, 08:41:11 PM
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http://www.discreetfx.com/AmiZilla.html
A new AmiZilla marketing campaign has been launched. Companies and websites that link to and promote the Dream of Netscape/Mozilla on Amiga get listed and promoted. Top Zilla Marketers are the ones that promoted AmiZilla first or come up with a very creative and interesting banner or animation for the project.
What is AmiZilla?
I think that long time Amiga user Twistin'Ghost summarizes the project best with the following press release he created.
"In need of that killer app, Amiga developer and resident platform fanatic Bill Panagouleas, of DiscreetFX, is banding together the community in a bid to lure programmers to port Mozilla to the Amiga platform. Donations are flowing in, an FAQ is in place, and a devoted Message Board are all a part of this 'homegrown' project. Panagouleas has put his money where his mouth is by donating $2000 out of his own pocket, in addition to funding the site itself.
"It's this very kind of grassroots community involvement that has helped to maintain the Amiga's status as a player in the Gen-IT realm," says Panagouleas, a former employee of Commodore Business Machines. "(Amiga users) have always been a tight-knit community that pulls together in times of need. Some very impressive development talent are already making inquiries and are showing great enthusiasm. I'm very excited."
The presence of Mozilla on the Amiga would provide additional voltage to Amiga Inc.'s upcoming launch of its new Amiga OS 4.0. It will also help users the Keep the Dream Alive by running a standards compliant mainstream browser on MorphOS, Amiga Forever, WinUAE, Amithlon, and Classic Amiga's running Amiga OS 3.9 ."
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If someone wants to help port mozilla, they need to get their development tools fired up and get to coding.
websites, press releases...ya all that is something besides coding. I know...I know...the idea is to find some real coders....good luck with that. Personally, I think it would be better to find it within yourself. If you got the time to be doing this other stuff, fire up a compiler and learn something, dagnabit!
it's not so bad, in fact its kind of fun.....I said I wouldn't put any resources into this project, but I've already ordered some hardware...LOL, I never learn......
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Im not a fan of mozilla but its better tnan anything else we have unless you can get ie5 from microsoft or an opera port. :-)
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I think they should forget Mozilla and port Mozilla Firebird.
Mozilla is to big. Amiga people dont need the email & other stuff that comes with it. I've dumped Opera for Mozilla Firebird. This is the best "free" browser I have ever used.
Its really fast, pop ups are gone, and it displays every page I throw at it correctly.
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Why not KHTML ? It would be much easier to port than mozilla
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I think they should forget Mozilla and port Mozilla Firebird.
Mozilla is to big. Amiga people dont need the email & other stuff that comes with it. I've dumped Opera for Mozilla Firebird. This is the best "free" browser I have ever used.
Its really fast, pop ups are gone, and it displays every page I throw at it correctly.
But by porting Mozilla, your going to get a cross platform environment thats going to allow applications written for mozilla to run on it. Such as Fire/Thunderbird. You can already download many applications for Mozilla, including games, a few jabba clients, IRC client etc... Many manythings are possible with mozilla.
Remember its a platform. So you get many many wonderful things. AmigaOS would benifit much more from mozilla as a whole then just firebird.
BTW when i say we should port mozilla, im talking 1.5 or 1.6 because then, firebird and thunderbird would have become the main browser and mail clients for Moz.
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@Rodney,
What the Amiga really needs right now is a modern
browser. I dont think it needs a new cross platform
enviroment. I'am not a programmer so I dont know
how difficult it would be to port Mozzila or Firebird.
I just want to be able to do my daily web surfing on
amigaOS.
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Austrian newspaper "Der Standard" reports about AmiZilla.
http://derstandard.at/?id=1312000
Booty @ $3656
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Im guessing that when it is ported, they port anything in the mozilla code base the phoenix uses... This would include the new toolkit (the XPFE successor), which will also be used by thunderbird and prolly many applications. The thing is, their going to be be porting a lot of mozilla, so why not just finish it off. Just the main parts that allow us to run other moz apps.
I tend to think whats better long term, and thats what i think. Plus :) i dont share your despiration to get a new browser, as i use firebird on windows :)...
But ill maintain, that, maybe if they could get firebird working first, and then concentrate on the rest of mozilla so that one can run the new mail client, the jabbaclients the games and everything else...
either way, its gota happen. Mozilla could end up toppling GNOME, KDE and Enlightenment... (eventually)