Subj : Portability of Amiga games to Linux
To   : Rene Laederach
From : Benny Pedersen
Date : Tue May 27 2003 02:55:48

Hello Rene!

26 May 03 13:47, Rene Laederach wrote to All:

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

maybe amiga.com dreams 2 ? :)

but sure the games are fun, even on a old a500, i still have it working, just need to get a hold of a arcnet card so miami can do its work to my linux box, i have 4 arcnet cards for amiga 500, still working :)

and 3 arcnet for z2 slot, and lastly a a2065, networking is fun with miamidx  

 RL> The rationale behind this is that AmigaOS4 will be something unix-like 
 RL> anyway, and since so many people will be running Linux on some other 
 RL> platform (like Intel, sparc or MIPS)

you forget a1

 RL> we might have more games available

where ?
 
 RL> meanwhile giving away an incentive to actually buy new Amiga hardware.

well if i have had the money, i will sure doit, but i field i have done a good job at keep the spirit of amiga programs alive, when the pay back time comes i still like the amiga for being the best computer ever maked, its best os and got more power out of 7 mhz cpu ever one can dream on

 RL> Is it worth the advantage if we want our platform to survive, or is it 
 RL> just another stopgap measure, even if we know the Amiga as we knew it on 
 RL> the 68k side is dead?

amiga lives, just not the current hardware and or plans for new hardware, as long as there exists cheapper intels there wont be amiga, but i would like to have Unix Amiga Emulator up in some time, just to see some cdroms working on the games therein

 Regards Benny

.... and it works :)

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