Porting Opera or Firefox to the Amiga

[mailman]

@Tomas

You can run Sputnik on Amiga.

[Piru]

@mailman

IMHO that thread doesn't show any more promise than previous attempts such as http://amizilla.sourceforge.net/

[Varthall]

Piru wrote:
@mailman

IMHO that thread doesn't show any more promise than previous attempts such as http://amizilla.sourceforge.net/

At least the author does report from time to time the project status, althought generally only on the italian Iksnet forum. He's also AFAIK an OS4 betatester, so any problems derived from OS4 are easier to solve.

Varthall

[Sir_Lucas]

Sputnik runs on Amiga 4000 and A1200. I use it almost every day.

[jj]

on morphos though not AOS im guessing somehow

[Tomas]

avant might be a good alternative though it is built off of IE. but better, don't know if it is open source though, and it is still being developed and updated.

Impossible even if it is open source, considering that it is completely dependent on IE. Avant is afaik just IE with another frontend and some extra addons.

[Tomas]

Sir_Lucas wrote:
Sputnik runs on Amiga 4000 and A1200. I use it almost every day.

Amiga running MorphOS i guess? I was talking about AmigaOS though..
The thread starter talked about AmigaOS running under emulaton on a PC.

But anyways... with that reasoning you already have Firefox running on Amigas, since it runs under linux  :-P

[zyphoid]

Sir_Lucas wrote:
Sputnik runs on Amiga 4000 and A1200. I use it almost every day.

Ok i've never heard of this and i pride myself on such events! last i heard it was morphOs pic&everything! not amigaOS.  show me and tell me how to get it! ;-)

[mrad]

Opera isn't open source anyway, so it cannot just be "ported".

Ah, but Opera *Mini* is a Java app.  A reasonably complete Java Virtual Machine could do it.  I know Tao did a lot of work on this, but I am not aware of anything being released that could run on Classic Amiga, or for that matter, at all.

Java never caught on as a super-duper web scripting language (it was supplanted by server-side code driving AJAX, a library kit that papers over all the brain damage in MS IE), but it does seem to be successful for cross-platform apps (it papers over the brain damage in Win32).  It sure would be nice to run a java-based Palm-pilot suite or Quicken clone (called Moneydance) on AmigaOS.

[Sir_Lucas]

Yeah, you are right. I run Sputnik on my Amigas using MorphOS.

It's simple, get yourself MorphOS PowerUP which is for free and download Sputnik  ;-)

[koaftder]

It would be easier to port an x86 VM to amiga os and run firefox under linux in said VM than port firefox to amiga os.

[mpiva]

Sir_Lucas wrote:
Yeah, you are right. I run Sputnik on my Amigas using MorphOS.

It's simple, get yourself MorphOS PowerUP which is for free and download Sputnik  ;-)

  Somehow I don't think that will work on the thread starter's Dell AmiKit setup.   Please try to keep your replies ON TOPIC!  :roll:

[Starrunner]

Thanks guys for the infos.  I don't mind using AWeb 3.5 now that I know it's limits.  If I ever get my 1200 on a network connection, it will be the browser.

As an aside, I noted in AmiKit that when you go through the menus options under Internet there is an option that says WinSide.  It shows both IE and Firefox as options but doesn't allow me to do anything with them.  Is there something I am missing on this?

[clockmstr]

All Amiga browsers are rubbish, some are a little less rubbish then others but rubbish they are.

Unfortunately browsing on an Amiga is not even viable.

[clockmstr]

motorollin wrote:
People have been saying for years that "Mozilla|Navigator|Firefox will never be ported to AmigaOS because it's a lot of work and would take too long". But if somebody had started it back then it would probably be finished by now :roll:

--
moto

Yeah but Mozilla|Navigator|Firefox V1.0 isn't much use now anymore either ;-)

[zyphoid]

@ CLOCKMSTR

clockmstr wrote:
All Amiga browsers are rubbish, some are a little less rubbish then others but rubbish they are.

Unfortunately browsing on an Amiga is not even viable.

You are obvioiusly a genious in this area so do us all a favour and WRITE A BETTER BROWSER!!