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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: Pyromania on June 11, 2003, 02:08:59 PM
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The Amizilla site has been updated.
- New! AmiZilla Mascot by Eric Schwartz now online
- New! AmiZilla Guidelines
- And much more
http://www.discreetfx.com/AmiZilla.html
Update: The Amizilla project has been Slashdotted (http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=67217&cid=0&pid=0&startat=&threshold=1&mode=flat&commentsort=0&op=Change) ...
New! AmiZilla Mascot by Eric Schwartz now online. Thank you Eric for all the hard work and effort you put into designing her.
NEW! AmiZilla FAQ Update
NEW! Hot CoCo briefly announced. This project will kick off after AmiZilla is a success. Info about it is in the AmiZilla FAQ.
New! AmiZilla Guidelines, thank you Targhan for coming up with most of the AmiZilla guidelines.
New! Amiga Arena interview now on the AmiZilla website for easy reading.
New! AmiZilla Mailing List has over 119 members and over 120 messages. Messages are not about basket weaving they are about coding. Keep in mind this mailing list is less than 3 weeks old.
Booty now @ $3696.
Keep in mind that the AmiZilla Project needs you to be successful. The booty is almost @ $4000 which is a nice amount of money. If only one programmer was working on the port this would be a nice reward. However several programmers are working together. Once money is split among coders the booty is not big enough. Please contribute if you can, every dollar helps motivate programmers to make the AmiZilla Project a success.
About AmiZilla
The goal of the AmiZilla effort is to raise such an obscene/huge amount of money to give away to the first programmer/team that can port Mozilla to Amiga/Compatible systems that programmers will be falling over themselves getting this application coded in record time.
About DiscreetFX
DiscreetFX has been creating software products for the Amiga, video editing & computer generated graphics (CGI) industry since 1995. The Amiga computer defined and created the video editing, computer graphics market with its birth in 1985. DiscreetFX creates Real-time transitions and effects seen on over 100 television programs including Blind Date, 5th Wheel, Shipmates and more! You can also see DiscreetFX software used on the following networks HBO, Showtime, Discovery Channel, PBS, Fox and more!
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wow she is hot :-D
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_VERY_ cool :-D
We don't have Mozilla yet, but at least we have the coolest mascot :-P
Maybe this will make slashdot?
Oh.. reminds me.. I still have a contribution to make.
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Just submitted it to slashdot. We'll see if this one gets rejected as well :)
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If they do accept, we can only hope that DiscreetFX's servers can survive the /. effect :-o :-)
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If they do accept, we can only hope that DiscreetFX's servers can survive the /. effect
Me too, but Bill Panagouleas earlier requested people to post the Amizilla-story to slashdot as well, but it seems all submissions got rejected before.. let's see what a sexy mascot can do about that :-P
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A reptile with breasts? Riiiiiiiiiiiiite ;-). E Schwartz is a genetic manipulation genius it seem :-D.
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http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3262
Mozillazine covers the AmiZilla Project again bless thier heart but many of the old Amiga owners that reply to the thread don't know about any Amiga past an 68030 40Mhz one. They have no idea about 060/PPC based Amiga's, the AmigaOne, MorphOS or Amiga Forever/WinUAE. Could someone enlighten them please?
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Hmm.. am I the only one who finds these hyper-sexualised animal/woman crossovers a tad disturbing? ;-)
The AmiZilla one looks like someone from V without the fake skin. She'll be eating rats next!
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@ Pyromania
It's been /.ed :-D
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OK, a swift and dirty poll.
How many comments to appear on that thread on /. in 24 hours?
I'll go for 300
-john
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@cluke:
Nope yr not the only one :-).
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the worst thing you can do is have ever changing specs....thats pulling the rug out from under people as they go along.
But, these specs must change.
You will split the money by percentage of how much work is done?...well think about that, lets say a 3 person team... I think I did at least 50% of the work, but someone else also feels they did 50% of the work, maybe the third person on the team feels they only did 28.43% of the work...it's entirely subjective with no way to know the answer, maybe someone put in 80 hours but they are incompetent and barely helped, another person 40 hours of invaluable work.
The team has to set up how they will do the payouts amongst themselves...why did you involve yourself in this complication?
You have set your self up as referees for internal team politics....you could have left it simple, now you have a very complex judgement call to make, and in business, these types of problems always occur when you leave yourself wide open for them.
Now....another thing....no bugs, lmao.
Must use gcc...must target morphOS.
Hey, I'm not a pro-amiga fanatic, but I will only
target one platform. It's a huge project just to do that. I have no plans to use gcc.
In short, I knew from the beginning there was no point in trying for this 'prize' and my belief this prize will never be payed out, because the specs make it a million dollar job, and you are paying only 4,000.
A talented coder can make more than that easily doing something else.
I am working on, well now I must say, a project that is similar to this one. I am working on porting Mozilla to OS 3.9. But just for fun, no money involved, and if I only get it 99% done, but there is even one bug remaining by the time I am tired of this hobby project, then I will never release it to the community.
hehehehe, just kidding, I will release it bugs and all, once I get to that point, still plodding along in my spare time.
see yas
MarkTime
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p.s. I really am using gcc.
but I would have gone nuts if 3 weeks into a project, I was suddenly forced to switch compilers.
again, going back to why I told myself from day one, never try for the prize.....not in this community.
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@odin,
A reptile with breasts? Riiiiiiiiiiiiite
I could happen...? :)
Zoltan
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[they] don't know about any Amiga past an 68030 40Mhz one. They have no idea about 060/PPC based Amiga's, the AmigaOne, MorphOS or Amiga Forever/WinUAE.
@Pyromania,
Yeah, I find a lot of the Slashdotters are like that, outside of obscure ScFi and Linux references, the group IQ generally seems to dive qucikly. Then again, maybe we're the strange ones :)
Zoltan
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Has anyone actually started coding, or the preparations for coding (IE pulling together a dev. team, checking out the sources etc.)?
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All is set.
Ok... let's start then !
A look forward me.
:-D