amigabooks.org Content?

[DaveP]

How many more times.

Amigabooks.org currently has several books in
draft and in progress. Two books have graduated
to being considered for publication.

The content is not available to the general public
at the moment - we will be timing this with the launch
of AmigaOS4 for what should be obvious reasons.

[DaveP]

Ah. Good idea ;-)

[DaveP]

No. I had a good version running on OS3.9 but
the mosdev mailing list was stillborn when I
posted it - it seems.

If I get time, I might ressurect it and bring it up
to the latest M release level and throw it onto OS4
as a freebie port.

[DaveP]

Erm, yes, I've posted about this quite frequently in
the past and no one has taken me up on the offer
of taking it on - being too subtle I guess. I seemed to be the only one doing any actual work on it so I stopped.

Its slow, buggy ( early M codebase ), and needs a lot
of graft to get to something that I would be proud of.

It is sitting on the machine to the right of where I am typing at the moment which is sans one broken motherboard.

[DaveP]

Well if someone had reacted this positively a year ago then I might do something about it. For now it waits behind the work I do for AmigaOS4 ;-) Then it will get an update ( if people still want it ) for AmigaOS4 only.

It's based on an early-ish codebase ( without the machine up I just have my memory to go by ) - so
god knows what changes have to be made to the codebase now to get it to the latest version.

Amazing what you can do by not getting yourself tied up in knots porting widget sets ;-)

[DaveP]

Well the rumours probably came from my posting
about it in conversation on Amiga.org and ANN
over the last.... 18 months.

I'm probably not the only one to do it.

[DaveP]

@Downix

Wheres the project? What platforms are it for?

[DaveP]

@Downix

Well tune me in to the mailing list ( DaveP@amiga.org ) and I am expecting a replacement motherboard early next week so should be able to pull the source off as soon as I get up and running.

[DaveP]

@KenneyR

You are entitled to believe what the hell you like. This was part of mozdev which as you know folded into nothingness.

Just because you might be a twisted little lazy sod doesn't mean everyone else is.

It's not as if I haven't mentioned it over the last two years or anything!

[DaveP]

Firstly I have not looked at Amiga-news.de for
a LONG time.

Secondly I have a version of Gecko that works on AmigaOS3.9 which was compiled for AmigaOS3.5 a LONG time ago. Its slow, buggy and barely complete. I stopped when I realised the branch I was working on was obsolete by a significant amount and the mozdev mailing list had gone dead. This was shortly before I upsticks and went PC for a bit. At that point it was orphaned and not even checked back into CVS. I have mentioned this many times on threads and in ANN. If it had been FINISHED there might have been a news story about it. But it was not and frankly I have no interest in supporting a codebase that few would treat as the "free" software that it is.

I have seen how people slag off those that write anything and stop supporting it.

KennyR wrote:
@DaveP

This sarcasm wasn't aimed at you.

Rubbish.

 it just even adds more a ridiculous spin to the fact above for any person or group to claim that they'll port it to OS4.  Save your insults for someone who's more naîve. It usually works.

My understanding of the Mozilla on Amiga project is that it failed miserably, with no progress at all being made (apart from getting a mention of Amiga on mozilla.org). Are you saying you've suddenly got to it work?

LOL so basically you are saying that the sarcasm wasn't aimed at me - and then you say the job is too big for any one person to make progress on it

I think you are trying to distance yourself from your own statement which - to me - was clearly aimed at me who had "forgot".

I will help Downix and others as much as possible but you are a clear example of why I felt it wasn't worth the bother.

[DaveP]

@KenneyR

Riiiight so if the sarcasm wasn't directed at me
why did you post it here and not on Amiga-news.de?

I'm sure you can find some other excuse

"excuse" WTF are you talking about? Did you hire me to do this? I have put my reasons above, do
not try to oversimplify them.

Oh Im *soooo* sorry I didn't carry on working on it
to get it to the state where it was a viable branch.  :-o

You are a case in point as to why people get put
off.

[DaveP]

KenneyR

I think I have grossly misunderstood you then and misinterpreted your words. We have been talking at cross purposes.

My apologies. I hope you accept them.

I clearly need to take time out ;-)

[DaveP]

@KennyR

Totally accepted. It wasn't until your last post
I realised what you had meant.

[DaveP]

Well you have been proven right. Can you believe
that one guy on there has basically said I should
have made a video of it running! .... riiiiighttttt

They clearly haven't come here and looked at the truth of the matter!

This hopefully won't get further out of hand.  :-?

Wish I'd kept my gob shut about it now and just
offered the code to Downix if and when he publicised what he was doing.