Magic Engine 1.0 on its way, AmigaOS 4 port considered

[Kaminari]

David Michel at magicengine.com:

"We have frozen the development of v0.9x of Magic Engine, we are now working only on the new v1.0. [...] This version will use OpenGL, and starting from v1.0 the Mac version will be an OS X native application. An Amiga port (OS 4) of Magic Engine may be possible too, we are thinking to that at the moment. If we do this port, we will start to work on it after the release of v1.0. Thank you to all the Amiga users who sent us e-mails to support us!"

[Orgin]

Cool

/Björn

[trgse]

YAAHH MacOS X native!!!

[Kaminari]

Cry of joy, or moan of despair? :-D

[Rodney]

I hope that either,

1) They develop it, and there servers are overwhelemed with downloads
OR
2) They dont develop it

I could see hundreds of people sending an email to this guy (group of people) just to get the application supported under OS4 with no intention of useing it themselfs. Im not saying everyone did it, but i'd be some people did.

If i remember correctly. A company who owns some type of word processor had a poll to weather they should port it to a certain platform. They had several options, one of those options was "port it to my platform because i think it would be damn cool, but im not going to use it"...

I think that sums it up. People sometimes dont nesseccarily want an application, but can see that by having it on their platform, will be good for it. But what they dont realise is, if no ones uses it and the developer looses hundreds maybe thousands of dollars developing an application, then its likly they'll never come back!!!

Now i think this is a different situation because its opensource, but there are similar implications. Such as time and effort into a program. That is, if time and effort is put in, and nothing can be made of that, then its likly that more time and effort will not be put forward to other applications....

I just hope people didnt rush out and plede for a port with not intention of using it!!!

[Kaminari]

Good point, Rodney.

But Magic Engine is shareware, not open source. If people want it, they'll have to pay for it (or make clear they're willing to). I'm not used to pay for something that I don't intend to use ;-)