Subj : Portability of Amiga games to Linux
To   : All
From : Rene Laederach
Date : Mon May 26 2003 13:47:56

Hi!

I've had a pretty hot debate with another ex-Amigoid lifeform yesterday 
evening
 about the portability of Amiga games to Linux, especially where we have the
source available somewhere, like Boulderdaesh - has anybody ever attempted 
it,
or is my idea just a pipe dream?

The rationale behind this is that AmigaOS4 will be something unix-like 
anyway,
and since so many people will be running Linux on some other platform (like
Intel, sparc or MIPS), we might have more games available, meanwhile giving
away an incentive to actually buy new Amiga hardware. Is it worth the 
advantage
 if we want our platform to survive, or is it just another stopgap measure,
even if we know the Amiga as we knew it on the 68k side is dead?

Regards,

Rene
                          


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