Any plans to increased the AmigaNG software?

[kamelito]

@AmigaKit/Trevor,

Since it's difficult to develop new software that are commercially attractive at least to new users wouldn't it be simpler and faster to buy well known Amiga software source code to port them ? (they could be improved in a 2nd phase).
Any plan regarding this?
It has been proven to be possible for example regarding Dopus Magellan II.

Regards
Kamelito

[kamelito]

Excellent!

[kamelito]

One of the essential things identified is porting back the changes on the AmigaOS 4 version to the AmigaOS 3 version. Paying developers is very expensive in terms of the number of potential sales in the Amiga market at this point of time. So maximising the user base is essential for these projects to be commercial sound and at least break-even.

Since WinUAE and FS/UAE are supporting PPC classic I'm sure you've seen an increase of sales for Amiga 4.x for classic OS. I would imagine that if Amiga OS 4.x features were porting back to the Classic OS, then you'll sell even more. It would be nice to have another team dedicated to the development of Amiga OS for 68k.

Kamelito

[kamelito]

@AmigaKit

ADPro
ArtEffect
SAS/C kind of IDE but with modern features
Imploder/Powerpacker
ImageMaster
GFABasic like basic
Monkey (successor of Blitzbasic see Monkey-x.com)
Scala
Photogenics
AudioMonster
ImageFX

Being English you should try English software companies first like Hisoft, and while being at AmiWest you should make appointments with formers US Amiga developers houses.

In general Aegis/ASDG/EA applications software.

Since Jim Drew is back to the C64/Amiga scene even if classic, it would be nice to have some sort of Amicygnix but for Apple PowerPC software, maybe not Cocoa stuff but Classic/Carbon is doable.

Kamelito

[kamelito]

I'm wondering what are the programs that the so called Classic users wants.
Kamelito

[kamelito]

isn't NetSurf-m68k a modern browser for classics?
http://aminet.net/package/comm/www/NetSurf-m68k

Kamelito

[kamelito]

The ideal solution to me would be an Amiga NG 100% compatible with the Classic. (no I don't want an *UAE*)
If I launch ASM-ONE it will work and if I poke to HW registers it will perform like the classic does. So a collaboration between A-EON and Mike from FPGAArcade to build an add-on card using Mike technology to make that possible

Kamelito

[kamelito]

Itix
". Writing new software must be made easier and that is task to OS developers."

That is not the first time I read that from you, so we're waiting for your tools to speed up development under Morphos or AmigaOS

Kamelito

[kamelito]

Unfortunately the OS devs seem not very interested in it. One solution would be to have modern class libraries that hide the differences. That would also make it easier for outsiders to start programming. I am a pascal fan so Free Pascal would be first choice for me there . I hope I can do more in the near future there (besides optimizing Aros Vision and adding online documentations for it). The only problem is that the newest version of Free Pascal is not available for all platforms.

If you're a Pascal fan could you theses program compile under Amiga to we could translate Z80 source code to 68k?

http://files.programmersheaven.com/ASM/68000/z80conv/

Kamelito