AmiZilla again, sorry

[mikeymike]

I couldn't believe when reading the related Slashdot article, the "requirement" for AmiZilla to run on a 68030.  What plain of reality is whoever wrote the AmiZilla FAQ on?

I've written to them about it.  How stupid will this make the Amiga community look   :-?

I think the FAQ should at the very least say PPC =>200MHz, or to be more realistic, 600MHz.

And guys, please don't talk about that you'd prefer developer time to be spent on another piece of software instead, we've been through that before :-)

[mikeymike]

@ KennyR

If it was you I was arguing with before about it, I didn't realise you were talking about its mention in the FAQ, I thought you were saying that's what would be generally expected.

Scary, either way.

[mikeymike]

@ bloodline

So, no CPU optimisations whatsoever then? :-)

I think the phrase I'm looking for is "and the cow jumped over the moon" :-)

[mikeymike]

Considering that OS4 isn't going to be ported to m68k at all, and [I think, not sure, could be wrong] MorphOS only runs on PPC as well, what's the point in writing Mozilla for m68k?

There is a technical reason for it not to work on a 68030.  Infact, quite a few.  First off, Firebird really is very slow on a 166MHz x86 box, let alone Mozilla.  Secondly, it costs significantly in developer time to port to another architecture.

[mikeymike]

@ Pyromania

Updated for me "yet again"?  :-)

680x0?  Now it looks like it's supposed to work with any m68k CPU... but of course the problem is now you've recieved donations based on the terms you set up, you can hardly change a major item like removing m68k completely.

I think the pot would have to reach at least $20k (probably more) to actually entice some developers to do the work.  Why?  You're asking a near-impossible task.  Compileable on HOW MANY operating systems/platforms?  Think of it from an outsider-developer's point of view - this looks like a mammoth task multiplied by 10 due to those platform requirements, especially when they don't know what those platforms are.

Admittedly any press attention is good attention, but it can backfire if no-one takes on the project.

Can I ask what happens to the donated money if no-one takes up the challenge?  No, I am not accusing anyone of corruption with this question, I am just interested.

[mikeymike]

Plus think, that it will run on a very less bloated OS than Windows...

What, like Linux for example?  It's been a while since I ran Mozilla on Linux, but I guess it is probably still slower on Linux than Windows :-)

Mozilla 1.3 runs great on my

I guess "great" is a very subjective term, because I don't think any recent version runs great on my parents' P3-550/256MB NT4 box, and that is a well-set-up machine!  To get Mozilla to run "great" on my PC, I run it entirely from a 256MB ramdisk!  Then it starts as quickly as IE does any time.