Subj : Re: Portability of Amiga games to Linux To : Rene Laederach From : Benny Pedersen Date : Thu May 29 2003 14:02:26 Hello Rene! 27 May 03 13:17, Rene Laederach wrote to Benny Pedersen: RL> I don't have that much room available, and frankly, I don't always RL> see the sense behind this. tetris fans do see the sense :) BP>> and 3 arcnet for z2 slot, and lastly a a2065, networking is fun with BP>> miamidx RL> I got rid of my ArcNet cards some six years ago when I got my permanent RL> connection to the internet. i know you are a hunter, but this seems to me you hunt your self here :) RL> Simple economics - the Cisco router that would have had arcnet interfaces RL> would have cost me some additional 1300 Swiss Francs over ethernet. And RL> Ethernet was somewhat faster even back then. i did not know cisco made arcnet at all, but money will make anything :) RL>>> we might have more games available BP>> where ? RL> There are companies porting or writing Linux games. See RL> www.linuxgames.com or www.happypenguin.org. And of course RL> www.lokigames.com. i did know the last one, but not the other 2 of them, i follow them now, mostly so i can see if thay change to a1, its kind of nokia and java :) my cellphone have java in it, and mms, pure fun :) i remembar the game "rocky" from c64 and amiga, now its back in my cellphone BP>> well if i have had the money, i will sure doit, but i field i have BP>> done a good job at keep the spirit of amiga programs alive, when the BP>> pay back time comes i still like the amiga for being the best BP>> computer ever maked, its best os and got more power out of 7 mhz cpu BP>> ever one can dream on RL> Sure, but times are moving on. Even I, pretty die-hard Amiga fanatic, RL> have come to that conclusion. yep, it maked a1 :) troble is what will it cost in store, and how many will bay it ? a simple linux computer can do all the same in hardware software by installing UAE :) BP>> amiga lives, just not the current hardware and or plans for new BP>> hardware, as long as there exists cheapper intels there wont be BP>> amiga, but i would like to have Unix Amiga Emulator up in some time, BP>> just to see some cdroms working on the games therein RL> It's not forcibly the price, if you look at the current PowerBooks RL> and PowerMacs. It's the problem that we need a viable and wide-spread RL> software platform. If we have this, we can possibly win back the hearts RL> and have a following like the Mac platform. i wonder if amigaos 4 would run on mac os x in someway, the hardware requirements is there, but software ? RL> Also, today the City of Munich pretty much decided to switch all RL> their desktops and servers to Linux over a period of years. Looks like M$ RL> got shafted. on the road to cheaper software and more stable its not bad, hopefully M$ take notes :) Regards Benny .... and it works :) --- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/2.4.20-13.8 (i686)) * Origin: ftp://junc.org/ binkd 0.9.5 xpoint@junc.org (2:237/53) .