Subj : Re: Portability of Amiga games to Linux
To   : Benny Pedersen
From : Rene Laederach
Date : Tue May 27 2003 13:17:48

Hi Benny!

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

I don't have that much room available, and frankly, I don't always see the
sense behind this.
 
BP> and 3 arcnet for z2 slot, and lastly a a2065, networking is fun with 
BP> miamidx

I got rid of my ArcNet cards some six years ago when I got my permanent
connection to the internet. Simple economics - the Cisco router that would
have had arcnet interfaces would have cost me some additional 1300 Swiss
Francs over ethernet. And Ethernet was somewhat faster even back then.

BP>  RL> we might have more games available
BP> 
BP> where ?

There are companies porting or writing Linux games. See
www.linuxgames.com or www.happypenguin.org. And of course
www.lokigames.com.

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

Sure, but times are moving on. Even I, pretty die-hard Amiga fanatic, have 
come
 to that conclusion.

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

It's not forcibly the price, if you look at the current PowerBooks and
PowerMacs. It's the problem that we need a viable and wide-spread software
platform. If we have this, we can possibly win back the hearts and have
a following like the Mac platform.

Also, today the City of Munich pretty much decided to switch all their
desktops and servers to Linux over a period of years. Looks like M$
got shafted.




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