become an os 4 betatester?

[AGSzabo]

cross compile and send the outputs to someone to test them? no, i want to do the tests by myself, i want to be a betatester. what about porting firefox?

[CLS2086]

FireFox : no java = no port ...
Maybe KHTML for MorphOS.
You can also do cross compilation with MorphOS and OS4Emu !

[drHirudo]

nicholas wrote:
Hello DrHirudo, long time no see.

Huh?!?!!!

[AGSzabo]

B00tDisk wrote:

There are no "amigaones" any longer, and nothing on the horizon to replace them.  Look elsewhere for a hobby.

and what is this: http://www.eyetech.co.uk/search.php?SearchStr=&SearchCat=AMA1

its amigaones for sale!

[doctorq]

Try ordering one, and see how long you will have to wait to get it :-)

[weirdami]

@B00tDisk

Rude.

[AGSzabo]

amiga os 4 and a fitting hardware is the future.

[Tomas]

B00tDisk wrote:

AGSzabo wrote:
hi,

to whom shall i write that i wish to become a betatester for os 4 hardware and software? i expect to get my amigaone or such for free this way. even if i cannot become a betatester i would like to know how to contact the developers.

There are no "amigaones" any longer, and nothing on the horizon to replace them.  Look elsewhere for a hobby.

You forgot to mention that there are infact some hardware announced. Who knows if it will be released though...

[Tomas]

AGSzabo wrote:

B00tDisk wrote:

There are no "amigaones" any longer, and nothing on the horizon to replace them.  Look elsewhere for a hobby.

and what is this: http://www.eyetech.co.uk/search.php?SearchStr=&SearchCat=AMA1

its amigaones for sale!

Sadly i think the info there is outdated.. Though one can always try  ;-)
The only hardware announced is the the amy05 from troika and the powervixxen from ack.. http://troikang.com/

[AGSzabo]

wont the powervixxen be something expansion for a 1200 and not a stand alone board?

http://safir.amigaos.se/article_ack_eng.html

[Matt_H]

Read the article more carefully:

"Accessories that will replace the A1200-motherboard for 'stand alone' functionality."

[AGSzabo]

ok, its a good board and cheap relatively.

[Matt_H]

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it. Adam has said more recently that the price will go up to $375 because the graphics are now onboard, but I think it's worth it since it eliminates the need to track down a MiniPCI graphics card.

[Tomas]

wont the powervixxen be something expansion for a 1200 and not a stand alone board?

I can be used as a expansion board or it can be used as a standalone machine. I believe the main difference is that you get access to the amiga custom chipset when hooking it up to a a1200.

[tomazkid]

CLS2086 wrote:
FireFox : no java = no port ...
!

What's java got to do with Firefox?  :-?

Java can be used as plugin for FF though.

[irishmike]

Just FYI:  I would also like to see FireFox ported to Amiga and actually researched undertaking the process of doing it myself (as Firefox is open source) so I downloaded the code and began looking into it.   While I don't think it would be impossible, It is more effort than I myself want to put into because IIRC you would have to rewrite the graphics routines for the OS because Amiga does not use X-Windows.  I hate the idea of having to find a way to run X ontop of the AmigaOS (like openoffice for Mac has to do).

It is a monster undertaking.  Then of course, once someone decides to do this, they will have to support the offshoot - again I am not prepared for that kind of undertaking.

But It could be done if someone has their heart in it.