Porting Games To Amiga os4/4.1 platforms

[gazgod]

@[d]Starke[/d] [d]AmigaRises[/d] Gebrochen
I fail to see what the point of this thread is, yes it would be great to get more games ported to OS4/Morphos/AROS but how is one or more threads going to convince developers outside the community to develop for these platforms?

Are you looking for advise on what you should port? Are you a programmer?

The only way to encourage developers outside the community is to make the Amiga platforms viable and popular again, As to how to do this I haven't got a clue short of a a genie with 3 wishes

Gaz

[gazgod]

@giannis_va

I think you need to calm down and understand who the poster is, for 18 months under various names he's been evangelising how we the community should agree with him about how to save the amiga, his ideas include donating money to A.inc (personally i wouldn't give them the steam off my wee), spaming any company to get them to develop for what is commercially a dead platform, littering bus stop train stations supermarkets and anywhere where people gather with flying stating the amigas imminent return. He also stated if the community doesn't agree with him they should sell their gear and leave!!!

In all that time he still hasn't been able to fix his A1000's side car :- http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=27592
and
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=38624

We are talking about a classic case of the difference between his aspirations and abilities.

He has been banned twice for verbal attacks and breaking the posting guidelines.

So please do not advocate punches in the nose until you know the facts.

EDIT: well you shouldn't advocate violence under any circumstances.

Gaz

[gazgod]

@Gebrochen

Getting back to your original post and why its such a POS:-

Ok then, YES I would be interested in new software, BUT what software are you proposing? There are many different users here and one thing you can guarantee is that they all have different interests whilst been under the common umbrella of Amiga enthusiasts. Myself I am an OS junkie and enjoy playing with OS's on a myriad of architectures and platforms.

ITS what software that's important, you can produce the greatest game, or paint package or midi sequencer or whatever and only a portion of the user base would be interested.

So saying yes to your original post whilst a no brainer is telling you, us, or any developer f**k all.

If you really want to gauge interest you need to poll one or more Amiga groups to see what the interest is in any particular area. AND then poll it to get specific interests in that area. You need to determine what is requires, what is superfluous, and what is a nice to have. Its called market research! Or you can develop what you require and hope others will be interested too.

Also you can guarantee that no one knows the size of the Amiga user base, there are many lone users that do not belong to this or any other web group or user group and just do there own thing.

So either think about the question you ask or expect to get a response like you got in this thread, or just STFU and go away. Personally I don't care which.

Yes it is a waste of time to open such a general thread, I hope some of the above points have made you realise why!!

And please no more ports of open source software that can be run on more easily on more powerful systems that are available much cheaper platforms. I haven't ordered a SAM to run software that my Linux boxen can run much faster.

Why should Wayne delete this thread just because you don't like the responses, I've found it very entertaining.  :lol:

Gaz

[gazgod]

@Kin-Hell
Well if I've brightened up your day then my work here is done

*Gaz drags his cape around himself and vanishes back in to the night*  :lol:  :lol:  :lol: