Opera for Amiga project

[AmiDelf]

For you, for me! AmigaWorld starts Opera for Amiga project 10.01.2004

More details will follow soon, but as for now, we have made a mockup on how Opera would be like on AmigaOS:

www.amigaworld.org/OperaforAmiga.jpg

And here is the webpage:
www.amigaworld.org/Opera.html

More info will follow. We hope that this project will interest lots of people.

Regards,
Michal, www.amigaworld.org
Edited by Argo: Linked URLs

[Wolfe]

Looks nice.

Sure would be nice if you would just make a direct link.  Instead of the copy-paste.

JPG

 ;-)

[Tomas]

You are joking right? Opera for amiga? Did opera inc give green light for a port for the amiga??

I have my doubts, but if true... damn awesome  :-)

[Amiga1200PPC]

Is Opera any good?
Last time I used it on PC crap, it crashed like crazy and was even worse than the Amiga browsers.

[fx]

it's faaaaast, and for me it has always been very stable, and it renders pages better than all amiga browser I have ever tried so I would say yes, it's good

but I still would prefer a port of Mozilla Firebird.

[Effy]

I also use only Opera on pc with its build in mailprogram. No more Outlook and almost never Internet Explorer for me !! Would love to see this on Amiga running !!!

[Argo]

Wasn't this tried before? Why will this project succeed when the other didn't?
I use Opera and have for quite some time. I'd just like to know more. Guess I'll have to wait..

[Kronos]

Oh no, don't the fools ever learn .......

Opera is a commercial title, and as such it is closed source.

They have alleady burned themselves on the Amiga once, and don't
expect them to change their minds for a 4digit number of potential users
(and thats allready optimistic).

What are you planning ? Bombarding them with with emails and petitions ?
Yeah thats gonna help them.



Help them come to the conclusion that the Amiga-community is a bunch
of lunatics, to be avoided at any cost.  :-x


Want Opera on Amiga (and related)?

Sell atleast 100000 new machines, or be prepared to spend a 7-digit amount
of $, and they might be prepared to talk to you  :-o

[quiesce]

Last time I used Opera (over two years ago) it locked up on me frequently when I loaded a page with 'dodgy' html. Now I just use internet explorer 6 because its fast, and stable (for a microsoft product), and because I don't own an Amiga anymore. Incidently Mozilla (and of course Netscape) were WAY TOO SLOW on this computer.

[amigamad]

Is Opera any good? Last time I used it on PC crap, it crashed like crazy and was even worse than the Amiga browsers.

Must be your pc very stable here could leave all amiga browsers standing i would love to see this browser ported but without permission i doubt its possible. :-)

[tormedhammaren]

The "Project Magic - Opera for Amiga" was turned down in 1998 when it almost was complete. Read this article:
Project Magic ends

Here is the project logo:



--- edit
www.operasoftware.com in Project Magic's glory days:
Opera Software (wayback)

[lempkee]

hahaha yet another pipedream.....ohwell...

time will tell..

[HopperJF]

AmiZilla?  :-o

[AmiDelf]

This project main goal is to show Opera that there is needs for Opera for AmigaOS4 indeed. More on the project will follow later.

I will demonstrate AmigaOS4 for Opera, if allowed by Hyperion and more. They are located in Oslo, in my hometown, so easy task. But first we will gather e-mails from Amiga people wanting Opera.

So, 10th of March, I will arrange a meeting with Opera and demonstrate AmigaOS4 for them, to promote Amiga and its community.

All of this news will be posted on the project webpage and on:

www.amigaworld.org and www.amiga.org

Have a great Christmas people

Regards,
Michal, www.amigaworld.org

[greenboy]

Opera is a great browser. Not perfect but it's one of the winners. People who think otherwise should maybe check out the current version ; }

But Opera the company isn't the puny thang it was a bunch of years ago. They aren't just going to hand over the codebase to some community and hope something gets done. They've already seen where that leads.

So it comes down to PAYING Opera to port to a platform. QNX did that a few years ago, when it looked cheaper and strategically smarter than spending man-years bringing their own browser up to current standards - or getting Mozilla working well.

Genesi has looked into Opera too. It's been discussed with Opera, and the cost is not trivial. It's not an amount of money a company in the Amiga community will willingly part with if it means only putting it on a few thousand machines - at best! - and not even owning the IP.

It begins to make sense if the amount of machines is a lot higher because of bulk sales into other markets entirely (or if several companies can come to terms with splitting the cost and having it ported to a commonly agreed set of standards and APIs).