Would you support a new Unified Opensource RTG standart?

[Golem!dk]

What's wrong with P96?

Is anyone but OS4 developers able to create new drivers for it?


Oh btw... do you have any qualified developer lined up? and what exactly do you mean with support?

[Golem!dk]

No attempt as far as I know has been made to have CGX4 opened up. I don´t know who one would contact for that.

I thought this was covered in the other thread, besides it is still in development in case you missed it.

[Golem!dk]

Well... my vote was no since I really don't understand where this is coming from and why you think this deserves any support whatsoever. But do feel free to point me to any other similar project that actually amounted to anything. And by similar I mean anything involving the same amount of actual work by qualified developers.

[Golem!dk]

Just top put things in perspective - imagine if AHI was closed up like P96 and CGX, and what that would mean.

Not much if you consider who wrote the existing drivers.

[Golem!dk]

But it's AHIs open nature who enabled other developers besides Martin to do so.

That isn't the impression I got.

[Golem!dk]

That's the way we would like it to be for the rtg systems too.

I'm well aware of what is available, but the thing is... look again at who actually wrote the existing drives, somehow I think they would have gotten access even if it was closed source.

[Golem!dk]

@golem: once again, what ahi drivers you immediately require that are missing?

The ones I mentioned obviously.

and i think we seriously have to stop thinking of amiga software on profit basis. it is a hobby, so it is either open source or nothing. the consumer base is too small to generate income. not so hardware wise since it cant be done in the kitchen. i dont know exactly if this is sad , but it is the truth.

Good thing we have AROS.

[Golem!dk]

Those are the drivers from the main m68k ahi archive.

Yes, I see most of those predate AHI being released under the (L)GPL, which was kinda the point I was trying to make