Port Mozilla, Collect $3696 358
An anonymous reader writes "The goal of the AmiZilla effort is to raise such an obscene/huge amount of money to give away to the first programmer/team that can port Mozilla to Amiga that Amiga programmers will be falling over themselves getting this application coded in record time.
The booty currently stands at $3696. Parties interested in making some extra cash to pay off student loans/go on a wild bender can find more infomation here."
Re:$3696 / 160 =~ $23/hr for one month (Score:2, Informative)
Its from the same people that run planet source code [planet-source-code.com]
I cant see any requirement for GPL though.
Re:23$ an hour is HUGE (Score:2, Informative)
- Visited http://www.tc-p.com/careers/index.cfm
- Checked all the companies at http://www.pghgeeks.org/pghtech.html
- Checked with the folks you did your internship with, they may not be hiring, but may know somebody who is. If you didn't do computer work during the summer, getting a job will be a little harder.
And that's if you want to stay local. Good Luck!
Re:Righto (Score:2, Informative)
No, just a graphics card supported by either the Picasso96 or CynerGraphX APIs. Such cards can display 24bit screens quite easily. I myself run my Amiga4000T in 800x600x24bit. 1024x768 starts to get too small things for my poor eyes to cope with... I also have an Amiga3000 with a Voodoo3 card and also an ATI Radeon that I am helping develop drivers for, currently at beta level and about to go out for public beta testing. The system ROM has nothing to do with it, the software does. As I remember, your Retina card probably wasn't supported by either Picasso96 or CyberGraphX, came with some p-roprietary API that wasn't as system-friendly as the new ones are.
Modern Amiga compatible solutions (Score:5, Informative)
1) AmigaOS4
This is the official new AmigaOS developed for classic Amigas upgraded with PPC accelerators and new AmigaOne computers which are being sold with G3 and G4 processors.
Some of the latest but still unfinished screenshots of AmigaOS4:
http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?st
AmigaOne motherboards can already be bought in combination with Linux at the following dealers (AmigaOS4 will be delivered for free as soon as it is finished): http://www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone/dealers.php [eyetech.co.uk]
With MOL MacOS X can also already be used with this system (as well as with the Peg below):
http://www.anythingamiga.com/XEPics/x2.jpg.html [anythingamiga.com]
2) MorphOS
Its ABOX environment is a re-implementation of version 3.1 of the Amiga operating system. The re-implemted Exec kernel is hosted on top of a Quark microkernel. The OS is fast and responsive and currently runs with G3 Pegasos motherboards. Interested people will have to wait for the Pegasos II, which is planned for release in September. An interesting review can be found at OSNews:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3589 [osnews.com]
3) AROS
An open source project intended as a multi-platform re-implementation of version 3.1 of the Amiga operating system. Most of the development takes place on x86 computers. Much of the source code was used for MorphOS. http://www.aros.org/ [aros.org]
4) UAE, Amithlon and other 68 AmigaOS emulators
AmigaOS XL: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=604 [osnews.com]
Amiga Forever: http://cloanto.com/amiga/forever/ [cloanto.com]
Re:Righto (Score:3, Informative)
Most of the graphics cards require at least OS 3.0. I'd guess that most (both? ;-) ) remaining Amiga users are at least using that version.
As for JPEG decoding, that's a trivial exercise: just use the excellent datatypes system and load any image format as if it were native. There are plenty JPEG datatypes (PPC, 68060, no math copro, etc.) that will handle the decoding for you.
Like you I was and still am a big fan of the Amiga. It was a clean, elegant, responsive, *pleasant* system, and I miss it dearly. No doubt some people here on /. will rant about it being obsolete, but there has never been a finer OS.
Re:thought it might be a interesting project... (Score:4, Informative)
wow what did you do wrong?
My old P-II SMP box runs Moz damn fast... pretty much lag free.
But then I have a SCSI U160 12 disk Raid array on that box.. but no processor setup on this planet even a 8 processor P-4 90ghz box with "Future-seeum(TM) technology" can affect load speed off of a rotating magnetic storage device... my Hard drives are simply 10 times faster than anything you have.
I'd look at your low end IDE drives and bus. you either need to set something using hdparam in linux or your hardware has some real problems.
dont blame software load time on your processors, blame it on the real bottlenecks in your system.
Re:Amiga Owners (Score:1, Informative)
Re:So your analogy is pure crap? (Score:2, Informative)
Duh. The original post about the 8MHz amiga is correct...'cause you can't run jack shit on the 'new amiga'. Hah.
He may be wrong to mention the AmigaOne, but the original post was still wrong. First of all, no one cares about 8MHz A500s since the OS and software runs quite happily on Amigas with CPUs up to a 66MHz 68060. Secondly, it could utilise PPC accelerators that Amigas can have (up to a 233MHz 604). Thirdly, MorphOS [morphos.net] (an Amiga compatible OS, which is also a valid target for this prize) runs on the Pegasos [pegasos-uk.com] which comes with a 600MHz G3. Lastly, one could point out Amithlon which runs AmigaOS on a PC at speeds far greater than any 68060 Amiga.
The first of these would probably still be slow for Mozilla, but the rest should run it fine I would have thought.