New AmiZilla Website

[Trev]

The site looks nice, Bill. jorkany did have some good points, but I'm registering an "ouch!" in sympathy. ;-)

I'd still love to see FireFox on the Amiga, but I'm reminded of running Internet Explorer on my old iPaq. I finally broke down and bought an 802.11b SDIO card to browse over my local wireless network. And what do you know, Apple releases the iPhone/iPod Touch a few months later. I haven't touched the iPaq since. While I think FireFox will eventually make it, just as WebKit has, I worry that the user experience will be anything but stellar.

EDIT:

I agree with Piru re: the rules. There's some pretty crazy stuff in there. It's hard enough to get a few hundreds lines of code shared between the Amiga variants, let alone a project the size of Mozilla.

Trev

[Trev]

Yes, it's doubtful you'll have a full-featured Firefox running in 2 megs (or less) or RAM.

[Trev]

@hooligan

WinUAE as a dev environment.

Actually, providing a WinUAE base configuration as a condition for the bounty makes sense for classic development, as it's accessible to almost everyone. It should be possible to put together a pre-built image and build system, a la AmiKit, that prompts for the Workbench 3.1 disk images during installation.

AROS is open but constantly changing, so it would be difficult to define a baseline.

I'm exagerating, but I think the Amiga OS 4 community is something like this: 0.01% - developers with OS4; 0.01% - developers without OS4; 99.98% - prospective users (some of which probably don't even use their PowerPC hardware). Would be developers do not have access to hardware.

MorphOS, at least, is viable in the sense that developers have ready access to hardware.

All that said, Amiga OS 4 should probably be off the table as a target platform until hardware becomes available.