new os3.x software ?

[Tumbleweed]

The main reason I ask is out of curiousity towards how much money there is in this portion of the amiga pie ? Not that I expect anythone to get rich from it, but, for example are bounties for os3.x/68k software/features/etc. feasible? Bounties arent the be all/end all solution, but they have done some good for the other amiga systems.

Bounties IMO are a good idea, but how successfull they will be depends on the number of active OS3.x/M68k developers there are with sufficient time to do the coding. There are lots of OS3.x users but not many active developers.

My tuppence worth.

Weed

[Tumbleweed]

It would be an excellent idea to have OS3.x bounties. I am 100% with this.
Anyway, as a sidenote, MorphOS, AROS and OS4 users could benefit from this too, as all of them have some sort of OS3.x emulation enviroment

From the number of posts on this topic its clear that there is a decent amount of support for bounties. Which in principal I agree with. However what would be top of the list for new OS 3.X software?

For me its a CSS capable web browser. A bounty to encourage the contued development of say Neturf or Origyn for O3.X would gain my backing .I 've laready contributed to the development of Neturf directly to Artur via PayPal.

Weed

[Tumbleweed]

A MUI Netsurf version with ability to use AGA may be interesting. I have a nice A1200 with 060 and 128MB and lack of CSS sucks. I don't have much problems watching dithered images or no images at all but I want that the layout is not completely messed up. The problem is that even with an optimized version It won't be very fast... mobile phones are now faster than our dear miggies. Of course, perhaps some asm optimized versions of libraries (xml2, expat) may be done but that could take a lot of effort and perhaps little gains. Maybe MorphOS OWB is a better choice than Netsurf but I suspect it requires quite a lot of ram more.

How complicated would it be to code a MUI front end for NetSurf?

Not being a coder I haven't the foggiest idea but would it be a realistic goal? Person best palced to answer is probably Artur, who's done the heavy lifting porting Netsurf to M68K or maybe Bernd_AFA who's also been involved could give an idea of what's involved.

Weed

[Tumbleweed]

The problem with Netsurf is that the current Amiga port is really bloated, it requires 128Mb of ram and may work with 64MB. The original, still being developed RiscOS version only requires 16MB. So either RiscOS is much better than AmigaOS, or the port simply sucks.
Bottomline, I would choose another browser to work on. I have said it sometime ago, there is an excellent candidate that will work with 68000 and a few MB of fastmem. It is opensource, and is working with CSS. It has a small group of developers coding on it.
It is called HighWire, and is an Atari application.


http://highwire.atari-users.net/

What's needed to run this on an Amiga?

Weed

[Tumbleweed]

Starting from scratch, a native basic working port of NetSurf should take a matter of weeks.  
Chris

So if a bounty were to be raised for a MUI version of NetSurf it wouldn't take too long for someone to produce some results?

If that's so then I'd be up for contributing to a bounty for a MUI version of NetSurf.

Weed