Unofficial CyberGraphX v4 bug fixes

[Iggy]

No, lousy work. Really, guys. There is no reason to applaud. There's a reason to be mad about it. It's another sad example how the "community" (or absence thereof) threads its developers (or ex-developers).

It would have been just so easy: Simply ask the author (Frank?) about the bug, ask him kindly to fix it, or provide ideas what to do about it, or for permission to fix it. Nothing is easier than that!

Consider you've created a painting or a building (as an architect) and somebody else comes along and repaints the eyes or puts another roof on top. That's simply not how you treat people that invested quite some time and had a hard job completing the building or painting in first place. You just damn ask them, that's the absolute minimum I would expect.

As an architect, you are even protected by law from third-party modifications on your creation, I believe it's not asking for too much to show the same level of respect to software architects.

If the answer of the architect would be "go, p*ss off!", you can still react on that, but in most cases, it was not when I tried (with exceptions, of course). And, on the plus side, it keeps such developers motivated to invest time in their work.  

Stuff like that - pirating other's people's work and messing with it in the way they may or may not have intended - is not going to help! Actually, it may seem to help on a short time scale, but it will motivate nobody to invest some time into their old projects. Bug reports, on the other hand, or hints for improvement, may! Yes, it takes longer, but yes, it may be worth at least giving it a try.  

I'm not even commenting on the correctness of the patch. I don't know. It's not my work, and not my bug. But the form of communication, and the way that some people even applaud on this is just something that makes *me* mad.

Folks, if you want to be part of a serious community, act professional!

I doubt Frank Mariak would have much interest in repairing something he wrote that long ago.
Besides, even if he still has an Amiga, he already has his hands full developing for MorphOS.

[Iggy]

@Cosmos

I can assure you categorically that A-EON has not abandoned Warp3D for Classic.

Frank Mariak has not abandoned CybergraphX.

Maybe you should not presume speak for Frank.
You have a much closer relationship with A-eon, so I suppose you might be familiar with their plans.

My friend Kronos, on the other hand, might have a better idea of what one of the best MorphOS developers might or might not do as he works within that group.

[Iggy]

QUOTE=Cosmos;792663]...  true Amiga fans don't want PCI, Radeon, Agp, PCIe and PowerPC...

PowerPC is PC in disguise, we don't want that crap... Open a PPC datasheet : all is wrong and non-sense into this CPU...[/QUOTE]

I AM a true Amiga fan.
Don't presume to talk for ME.
I WANT PPC (and maybe even X86, X86-64), PCI (and PCI-e), and I have Radeon and AGP.

I used to admire your hardware projects, but YOU and your opinions have seriously offended me.
And you come off sounding like a fool who is living in the past.

Also the library you want fixed was created in part by Frank Mariak, a advocate of the move to PPCs , a great MorphOS developer, and one of the best 3rd party developers for the Amiga during its twilight days.

Apparently you think you know better tha Frank AND a large part of the remaining community that wants to move forward.