I whole-heartedly believe it does need urgent assistance. If I knew more on the programming side, I'd offer my own help. But, I do have two-cents to donate.
"Worth" is a subjective term. What is the "worth" of porting OpenOffice to OS4? Well, in the eyes of Amiga compatriots everywhere, those who keep an eye on Amiga, and the world over, a successful modern software port like this could quite possibly break the AmigaOS "ice."
We've been promised Opera and Mozilla, and there's others which I cannot immediately recall nor cite. In any event, modern massive software ports to Amiga have been mostly pipe dreams and vaporware. That tends to chill the environment more.
Sure, we've had games like Doom, Quake, Myst, and others come to us, each release whetting the drying palate of the Amiga dye-hard. But in the end the excitement dies over porting such old kit. But could something modern, something a little more universal, something which brings Amiga closer to the world make people take notice? Do many people now run OS4? Would more be interested, even if just to see?
Every frustrated developer which gives up on Amiga software because it's not worth it is yet another nail in the coffin. I fear we may be running out of room for nails.
