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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: tokai on November 13, 2003, 12:06:29 AM
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MLdonkey is a multi-platform multi-networks peer-to-peer client. Originally, it was the first open-source client to access the eDonkey network. The protocol was 'reverse-engeneered' using an efficient protocol sniffer, Pandora.
Currently, with eDonkey , it supports several large networks, such as Overnet, Bittorrent, Gnutella (Bearshare, Limewire, etc), Gnutella2 (Shareaza), Fasttrack (Kazaa, Imesh, Grobster), Soulseek (beta), Direct-Connect (alpha), and Opennap (alpha).
The MorphOS release does not only come with the mlnet binary which was done by Sigbjørn Skjæret using his Objective-Caml port for MorphOS, it also features some extra stuff like zuul, an open-source PHP interface for MLdonkey, which was adjusted for use with Amiga browsers.
Download it from here! (http://www.christianrosentreter.com/releases/mldonkey.php)
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That really is *really great*.
WOW! :-o
R&B :-)
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WOW! That's a great piece of software for day-to-day use. Glad to see that the MorhOS software base is getting more and more complete every day! :-)
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luvvin' it Tokai!
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will this be made available for 68k Amigas?
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You will can use it on MorphOS for AmigaPPC that will be for free ;) but PPC card required, of course, MorphOS is a 100% PPC OS.
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@bbrv
I agree! Its amazing.. Morphos and Pegasos keeps on rockin' Congratulations to christian rosentreter and all the others that made it happen. There are now not many things you cant do with a Pegasos that you can do with a Windoze Box - its getting to the point where a Pegasos can do ANYTHING
:D
magnetic
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So when I can I use it to download leaked MOS betas?
/me runs away
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Awesome news!
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You will can use it on MorphOS for AmigaPPC that will be for free ;) but PPC card required, of course, MorphOS is a 100% PPC OS.
Does it have some MOS specific features that make a 68K port impossible? I presume its code is in C. Even the application doesn't seem to have excessive CPU requirements (we had a similar experience with Amster).
As for the PPC, not all the AMiGA users have a PPC card, not to speak for the latest MOS version available to public (outdated, and not usable for such software: 1h limit, imagine downloading something and drop the emulation speed to an A500). :-)
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@magnetic
Word? Excel? Windows Update? ;-)
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Cass wrote:
Does it have some MOS specific features that make a 68K port impossible? I presume its code is in C. Even the application doesn't seem to have excessive CPU requirements (we had a similar experience with Amster).
Well, apart from the coders being hardcore MOS fans ;-), it does eat serious CPU sometimes - up to 60% on a 600MHz G3. I'm not sure a real 68k CPU could run it. Maybe even an emulated one couldn't.
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Word? Excel? Windows Update?
Bochs.
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>Does it have some MOS specific features that make a 68K port impossible?
MLdonkey is in OCaml
MorphOS has the OCaml compiler.
Bye
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Well, apart from the coders being hardcore MOS fans , it does eat serious CPU sometimes - up to 60% on a 600MHz G3. I'm not sure a real 68k CPU could run it. Maybe even an emulated one couldn't.
Dont get me wrong, i'm impressed with MLdonkey. That is just what I have been waiting for acctually!!! But 60% CPU time?? How is that possible?
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ml donkey is allready beeing ported to wos and 68k, but as its said here it use alot of cpu!
anyway, when i see the name donkey i think of donkey kong ;_)
cheers
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cass:use amigift for now, but that also use excessive cpu powerand edonkey is still in the pipeline though it does work mighty fine.
cheers
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ple3003: how its possible? , its morphos! and its a bloatware tool (it even lags on pc/s so (with 4times higher cpus)
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ple3003 wrote:
Dont get me wrong, i'm impressed with MLdonkey. That is just what I have been waiting for acctually!!! But 60% CPU time?? How is that possible?
Only Linux makes it possible.
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Poster: amiga2000 Date: 2003/11/13 6:10:52
will this be made available for 68k Amigas?
AmiGift will be available soon for the 68K amiga.
Ciao
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Nice piece of software maybe you can get mozzila next. :-)
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And I should mention that 60% CPU is more than mplayer uses when playing a DVD-sized DivX.
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Now *that's* the type of thing joe average is interested in.
Excellent, excellent, excellent!
I'll go download it now and give it a go.
Cheers! :pint:
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great, now more people can download illegall stuff really slowly, amigift is much better
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Poster: AxE Date: 2003/11/13 22:20:15
great, now more people can download illegall stuff really slowly, amigift is much better
Remember AxE that like a gun, it isn't the istrument/app itself that it is illegal or that kills people but the use that you do with it.
Cheers
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mldonkey can be set to connect to the same servers as AmiGift. And bittorrent. And directconnect. And soulseek. And dozens of others.
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Remember AxE that like a gun, it isn't the istrument/app itself that it is illegal or that kills people but the use that you do with it.
You know that bit of reasoning would be even better, if you replaced 'gun' with 'machine gun' or maybe 'nuclear bomb'
Oh but wait-a-minute, those are illegal...
laws are different all over the world, but there is a quick and easy test...a butter knife is not illegal, because most people use a butter knife to spread butter (and before you troll me, AND OR peanut butter, and in some countries JAM and even a marshmellow type spread on holidays)...and it doesn't make the butter knife illegal simply because one wack job used a butter knife to commit a crime.
By the same token, machine guns in most all countries are almost always illegal because they are only used to kill people....oh sure, maybe 1% of the time, the use was simply historical display...aka like in a museum, or maybe just to teach gun design to an aspiring student...but it fails the test, of how its 'typically' used.
So take something like a hunting rifle, where I live, those are also legal...legal because 99% of people with a hunting rifle, use it to hunt, not to kill people.
Does MLDonkey fit the 'typical' use test.
You decide. BUT GET REAL.
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Everyone knows p2p is used for downloading pirated mp3 and movies, warez and porn. It has no legitimate use that http and ftp can't do a hell of a lot better. Can we move on and not try to salve our consciences?
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MP3 - that's what most people I know use this type of software for.
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Wilse wrote:
MP3 - that's what most people I know use this type of software for.
Mostly because the UK is still stuck in the stone age and people generally have 56k modems.
mp3 is the most popular use of p2p these days, but DivX is catching up fast, and if a new PC game iso(s) isn't on the servers then its not worth playing.
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you know, luckily in our society, there is way more money in legitimate business than there will ever be in crime. Name me one drug kingpin doing as well as Bill Gates. I'm not saying crime doesn't pay, I'm saying it doesn't pay enough.
Fact is, not only is pursuing the shady area of p2p kind of greasy and immoral, but it doesn't even make a lick of business sense in terms of getting profits.
It's unnecessary, but worse than unnecesary....it's profit killing.
The irony will be when morphos and OS4 run inside Mac On Linux...Thats all it will take...one person to port it to MOL, thinking now it runs on a peg, or now it runs on AmigaONE, forgettin the instant portability to the Mac using the same software, then there is no amiga market....everyone buys a low cost Mac and runs their Amiga software...now 'natively' on their mac.
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If you've ever tried MOL, you'll see why Genesi or Hyperion are hardly quaking in their boots about people using it to run OS4 or MOS on low cost Mac hardware (even if such a thing were possible, and it's not - not without a major rewrite of the emulation and the emulated openfirmware). Anyway, Pegasos is still cheaper than most Mac hardware of the same spec.