Thomas Richter stands down, current programs in utero

[Kent]

Thomas Richter writes: "as you might or might not know, my Amiga died a couple of month ago and I decided to quit any support concering my Amiga software products. This starts somewhere at DiskSafe and ends in the MuLib package. Hence, if someone's interested in continuing the development of all or some of my Amiga software packages, there need to be a new maintainer for them. Conditions are that the software remains maintained and freely available under licence conditions similar to the one I had. I would *not* agree to make all this GPL or LGPL."

"Your skills should include either C (ANSI-C) programming for the one half of the projects, and advanced Motorola 68K assembly programming for the other half of the projects.

You'd further need to provide an Amiga (obviously), a C compiler, preferably the SAS/C as this is what all the projects are based on, and a Motorola Assembler, preferably the DevPac as I've been using a lot its macro capabilities. The PhxAss is not sufficient for most assembly based projects here.

Most of my "early works" (though not the MuLib package) are documented in german, it might help if you understand a little bit.

Sources are completely backup'd and available as I've always been rather paranoic about this issue, and for good reasons, as it turned out.

Please sent applications to my regular email address at:

thor@math.tu-berlin.de

"Thor" will continue with excellent freeware programs, but on a
different platform. See www.math.tu-berlin.de/~thor/atari++ for
a starter, and more to come in future.

So long guys, and Good Bye!

Greetings,
        Thomas"

[KennyR]

Considering the sheer amount of work Thor put into some of his stuff (VincEd has a 600k guide alone), I doubt very much anyone can step in and take over his projects.

There goes another one of our best. :-(

[Kaminari]

Farewell, Thor. Your dedication to the Amiga will be painfully missed :cry:

[Darth_X]

Your skills should include either C (ANSI-C) programming for the one half of the projects, and advanced Motorola 68K assembly programming for the other half of the projects.

Wow.. those are big shoes to fill. There are not that many people with those kinds of skillz around anymore.


With skillz like that Thomas would definately be an asset to MorphOS application development.

[xeron]

Surely enough of us here have enough spare bits (an accelerator here, an A1200 there) that we can donate a system to the guy? As a "thankyou" for all his hard work?

I mean, i came into a free A1200 the other day. I've since sold it, but they are out there....

[nOw2]

This is quite an old message from comp.sys.amiga.programmer, and it should be pointed out that new developers for the packages have already been found.

The size of some programs, the large amount of 68k in some others, and the general size of Thomas' entire collect mean that it could be a while before competent updates are released.

[System]

With skillz like that Thomas would definately be an asset to MorphOS application development.

ROFL!!!   :-P    :-o    :-D    :-?    :-D

I think he's probably worth more than that.

[System]

Sad news indeed

and to think ... hes doing something with ataris now

[AmiGR]

Would  you mind to explain that bit and use some facts?

[KennyR]

With skillz like that Thomas would definately be an asset to MorphOS application development.

I don't think Thor has ever been interested in MOS. Come to think of it, I don't know if he's ever been interested in OS4 either. Considering the amount of fud and stupidity either camp having been displaying over the past couple of years, I can't say I blame him either.

[theTAO]

I'm confused...AFAIK, Thomas was deeply involved in OS4.0 development for a time.  I assume he was in charge of the shell and the console, but also heard he was reverse-engineering a PPC version of Arexx and developing the new printing system.  Whatever the case, he'll be sorely missed.

But Atari programming???  At least AmigaOS has a chance of going somewhere...  Or maybe that's the point?  For a skilled programmer like himself, Amiga coding isn't strictly a "hobbyist" thing anymore.  Or maybe he just *really* likes 68K processors? :-/

Todd

[Darth_X]

See www.math.tu-berlin.de/~thor/atari++

This link doesn't work, does anyone have a link to this that does work?

[lempkee]

another one bites the dust

oh well, lets hope something good happens soon...

[Darth_X]

This is quite an old message from comp.sys.amiga.programmer, and it should be pointed out that new developers for the packages have already been found.

I would like to know why this stuff gets posted so late, you would think some to be more on the ball and posting this stuff sooner?

:-D

[Darth_X]

@Mountain_Myst

I think he's probably worth more than that.

In what way?

Anyways, Genesi seem to be paying the people that work for them, unlike some companies which are in breach of contract battles

 :-D