Software we want ported to Amiga

[Karlos]

Re Dev C++

There is the AmiDevCPP cross compiler ;-)

[Karlos]

I don't want to burst anybody's bubble here, but great as firefox is from the end user experience, it's horribly resource hungry and crawls on machines with far more horsepower than any genuine 68K amiga has available.

The same is true of open office and a lot of other things on the list. When the Open Source guys start projects like this, they are typically aiming at mainstream systems, not decades old machines that have a tiny fraction of the horsepower available.

There's nothing directly stopping anybody from porting these apps - they might have to design and implement entire layers of library code first to provide some of the foundations required, but it could be done. However, when the end result is an application that runs slower than running windows 95 in PCx, who is going to bother?

[Karlos]

To see what I mean, find an old pentium 60, with an ISA graphics card (if possible, you don't want to have your results all skewed by having genuine CPU -> PCI performance that no existing 68K amiga PCI solution offers), build a linux or OpenBSD distribution for it (the lighter weight the better) and then see about building Firefox or openoffice (any version) on that.

You'll then get an idea of what a top-end 68060 with RTG would be like...

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There's nothing wrong, of course, in porting said open source packages to OS4 / MorphOS. Classic PPC users might well find them sluggish though.

[Karlos]

sicky wrote:
@Karlos

it's horribly resource hungry and crawls on machines with far more horsepower than any genuine 68K amiga has available

Who said anything about 68k machines, I assumed he was wanting to run these apps on PPC OS4 or maybe MorphOS?

Where did he say that? Have a look at each of the wishlist poster's signatures. Any OS4 or MOS machines there?