A-EON Technology Acquires Personal Paint

[Yasu]

Sign me up for a MorphOS version!

[Yasu]

Why the hell must some people turn every good thing that happens to this community into some sort of "proof" that something evil is in the works ...

Let's face it guys, Amiga will never get a comeback. At this rate we will never be a viable commercial platform again. DESPITE THAT some people are actually investing time and money, even though it's pretty damn likely they will never see that money again and could have spent that time more productively someplace else.

Amiga, in all flavours, have been redused to a hobby OS. Nothing more, nothing less. With that in mind it makes more sense that some people want to invest money into this project anyway. They do it for fun, they do it for love and not to make any serious money out of it.

SO BACK OFF! When something good happens to our small (but obviously enternally angry) camp we should celibrate, not attack at the smallest of details.

You don't like that Personal Paint has been removed from Aminet? HUH? If you so desperately want it, just google it or go to piratebay, wait for it to be available for free again or ... I don't know, BUY IT now when it's actually being developed again.

I swear, Trevor and the guys must be real masochists if they have to get this kind of beating every god damn time thye do anything good and still come back for seconds.

Sorry 'bout the rant. I just got pissed off.

[Yasu]

I'm gonna break the circle and ask:

What will it take to get a MorphOS native version? A pledge? A pre-order? I'm happy to do both

[Yasu]

@AmigaKit

Sure. But before that we kinda need to know what is financially viable to begin with. How much Euro would do?

[Yasu]

@Amigakit

Great! Go for it! Now, regarding my question ...

[Yasu]

@Amigakit

Ok, that much? I would imagine a cross compiling project between AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS to be a lot simpler than that? Or am I wrong?

[Yasu]

@Amigakit

Are we talking of a conversion of the current version from AmigaOS 4 to MorphOS, or are we talking about the roadmap to 7.5 that requires 180 potential buyers?

[Yasu]

@Amigakit

So 180 for future versions with cool, new features I take it? Sounds resonable

[Yasu]

@Amigakit

Well, it will be very hard to get 180 pledges on MorphZone since a lot of users don't hang around there. But since there are some 2500+ licenses sold and counting and probably 800-1000 active users (rough estimate), selling 180 copies seems feesable.

It also depends of course what the price will be, and how much updates costs. The cheaper, the more buyers obviously.

[Yasu]

Has anyone tried the 68k version of 7.3 with AmigaOS 4 or MorphOS? I would like to buy a copy if it works well

[Yasu]

I'm still hoping AmigaKit and A-Eon will prove they want to support all NG Amiga flavours by porting their products to MorphOS and AROS. We where told that 180 buyers was needed (which seems like a strange number since a recompile should be pretty simple) but then no step has been taken to see if there are 180 potential buyers.
Or at least tell us straight up that you are only interested in supporting classic Amigas and AmigaOS 4 if that is the case.

Either way is fine with me. You are running a business that fokus on these platforms so it makes sense. I just don't like this feeling of "we will tell people we support all flavours but in reality only support 68k and AOS 4". It feels ... dishonest.

[Yasu]

Strange. I know for a fact someone offered to port it. For free even. And was turned down.

I would buy a licence. And if you get Art Effect 4 for MorphOS I would buy that too. The other programs, we'll see

[Yasu]

I read it in an IRC conversation. I can't remember the guys handle. Hopefully someone who knows reads this thread.

You should add a pledge page somewhere where people can write their names and e-mail.

Also, have you considered to buy some last generation (semi-) friendly Amiga games and port them too? Those that are quirky but almost working on NG. It would be fun to have some original Amiga titles to play. Foundation and Genetic Species comes to mind

[Yasu]

Has anybody tried DoomAttack on a NG system?  :lol:

I just think it would be more fun to have some Amiga exclusive games, and not just ports of games from other platforms.

[Yasu]

Have you tried M.A.C.E.?  I believe that's Amiga-exclusive?  And pretty awesome, finally had a chance to play it at Amiga30 in Cali.    Of course, it's just one game...

True, and then we have the Cherry Darling originals. However, I was thinking about old software A-Eon and AmigaKit could buy and port to NG.