AmiZilla Welcomes Others To Browse For Cash

[Pyromania]

 Over the last several months since I started the AmiZilla Project I have heard a growing whisper to allow the funds to also be available to the programmers of  IBrowse, Voyager & AWeb. Most, like myself wish for a Mozilla or Firebird port to Amiga OS/MorphOS but a growing few do continue to express their love of the Amiga Browsers, which is understandable.  So today unless the current donators to the AmiZilla Project mind I am extending the AmiZilla Initiative to also include IBrowse, Voyager & AWeb.

What this means is if the coders of these browsers update their programs to a functional comparable feature set of Mozilla 1.5 or FireBird they will win the AmiZilla contest and get the money. The programming teams will have to study the rich and extensive feature set of Mozilla or Firebird and update their browsers to something similar. Keep in mind that this is a  contest so only the winner that crosses the finish line first wins. I respect and commend the Amiga browser developers for all of their hard work over the years and hope this puts them on equal footing for a chance to win the over $4100 that has already been collected for AmiZilla. The requirements will stay the same as far as making it available for Amiga, MorphOS, AROS, Amiga Forever, WinUAE Etc.

 Keep in mind teams have already been working hard part time to port Mozilla so keep the funds coming in to motivate these teams to bring this project to completion so that other new projects can be started like updating the Video Toaster Flyer source code.  The new players in this contest (IBrowse, Voyager & AWeb) will also want incentive to update and extend their applications. The money already collected is a good start but may not be enough to get the teams to spend as much time on the AmiZilla Project as they normally would with a much large pot of funds to win.

Current Booty: $4159.40

Mailinglist now has over 220 members and over 330 messages, most are about programming and porting Mozilla.

AmiZilla website has gotten over 2 million hits since appearing on the famous unix geek website slashdot.

AmiZilla continues to gather positive press for the Amiga and MorphOS by being covered on mainstream websites like CNET's news.com, mozillazine.org and many others.

http://news.com.com/2009-1088-984352.html

http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3262

http://www.toolinux.com/lininfo/news/news/news20030608003711.htm


 
Keep in mind that the AmiZilla Project needs you to be successful. The booty is now over $4150, which is a impressive amount of money for an Amiga project. If only one programmer was working on the port this would be a nice reward. However several programmers are working together. Once the money is split among coders the booty is not big enough. Please contribute if you can, every dollar helps motivate programmers to make the AmiZilla Project a success. After the release of AmiZilla more projects are being developed like Hot CoCo (JVM) and F Gordon (Flash). The development and launch of these add-ons to AmiZilla depend on the success of that project. Paypal donations can be sent in via this weblink.

www.amizilla.org

Best regards

Bill Panagouleas





About AmiZilla

The goal of the AmiZilla effort is to raise such an obscene/huge amount of money to give away to the first programmer/team that can port Mozilla to Amiga/Compatible systems that programmers will be falling over themselves getting this application coded in record time. Project now welcomes the programming teams of IBrowse, Voyager and AWeb to join the contest.

About DiscreetFX

DiscreetFX has been creating software products for the Amiga, video editing & computer generated graphics (CGI) industry since 1995. The Amiga computer defined and created the video editing, computer graphics market with its birth in 1985. DiscreetFX creates Real-time transitions and effects seen on over 100 television programs including Blind Date, 5th Wheel, Shipmates and more! You can also see DiscreetFX software used on the following networks HBO, Showtime, Discovery Channel, PBS, Fox and more!

[AmigaMac]

What the developers (for IBrowse, AWeb and Voyager) should do is port over Apple's WebCore and JavaScript Core (from Safari) for their own usage.  Might as well take advantage of free R&D.  At least this way, a push with standard rendering engines will (eventually) force the IE 'specific' web masters to think twice before deployment of their wrath.

[lempkee]

well lets hope its not AWEB that gets developed further , i really HATE the gui on it and its rather annoying to use.

Voyager is morphos only (now , i regged it and i havent seen the updates for 68k which is on morphos)

Ibrowse is the only contender left it seems , but then how's that possible if its an commercial app? and afaik he promised ibrowse 3 to be ppc didnt he?.

anyway i never expected amizilla to be out as fast as it was said on the mailing list + in aga etc , and i hope my money is still valid


cheers

[Calen]

While i'd like to see Firebird on the Amiga, some money towards IB is no bad thing.

[greenboy]

If:

(1) Open Source browsers were the Amizilla target - not mixing it in with commercial Amiga-derived browsers that should fend for themselves as commercial entities. And since the start I've wondered if something KHTML wasn't just as likely or more likely than Mozilla or Firebird to be succesfully ported -

(2) there was some evidence that ports would support modern Amigalike efforts without trying to satisfy non-PPC Amiga use, which just isn't realistic, it's a hindrance -

(3) the name Amizilla got dumped (since Mozilla would not be the target then) and the Boing emphasis too {since then, a couple target platforms would not be officially BOING ; }, and a suitably PROFESSIONAL more "neutral" icon and logotype were adopted that could represent all -

(4) there was evidence that some effort was working hard and able to go forward in a decent timeframe, focused on coding and not just planning, and able to show at least some evidence of knowledgable project management and timelined progress. I'd prefer to actually see all the talent working on the same effort, and digging the spirit of "cooperatition" -

Then:

I would not be hesitant on behalf of Phoenix and Genesi to pledge to double the booty and provide maling lists, forums, filespace, website and website assistance like the others we are preparing for various projects and OSes (such as odc.pegasosppc.com/ - linux.pegasosppc.com - gladiateur.pegasosppc.com - etc), and get this effort offical IBM Partner status when completed, including use of all logos and listings (yes, as we said earlier we are not stopping at the Ready For IBM Techology level - we are going for more significant levels of partnership and status).

Specific applications can gain from this and it would really please me to see a browser port effort succeed and be awarded this status : }

That is DOUBLE THE BOOTY - yes, DOUBLE - in case that fact seemed buried in the sea of conditional text ; }
 
 
<--greenboy---<<<<
coordinator & facilitator-at-large
Phoenix Developer Consortium

edit: perhaps I am a little off in describing a PPC-only target when AROS is included in the target platforms along with MorphOS and AmigaOS4 ;  } ...The point being that supporting underendowed 68K Amigas directly does not matter to me personally, but if the team or teams want to shoot for that, fine - as long as it doen't get in the way ;  }