Subj : RE: Portability of Amiga
To   : RENE LAEDERACH
From : DENNIS SMITH
Date : Sun Jun 01 2003 16:57:52

 > 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?

 I down/led  Boulderdaesh to AIAB WinUAE. It wouldn't install with
the NGInstaller. Script problem probably. What else. =:o Someday,
I'll try one of the older installers.

 > 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?

 I have heard the Frieden's talking about it too much on 'A1ge devs'
list. Hans doesn't like my AOL. Fine, I don't like him using Mozilla
on A1. No one says how they set that up.:-\

 I can't answer any these questions, Rene. They're all kind of stepped
 to the future. I'll wait to OS4 shows up before making any judgment.
 :)

 Dennis

 > Regards,
 > 
 > Rene
       


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