When the kitty hit 5K I was amazed. Now that's it's past 10k I'm floored. Your doing the community a great service!

Bill "tekmage" Borsari

I've just Paypal-ed $50 to the bounty.

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@Yabba
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it is impossible to get Mozilla to run on a 68k equiped Amiga

Get your knife and fork ready...

Seriously, though Mozilla will probably struggle on a real 68k, there are a lot of people out there emulating a 68k Amiga, using WinUAE or Amithlon. It should run fine on these.

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@amipal


That's right amipal, if the programmers only get Mozilla or FireFox to work on 68K Amiga's via WinUAE that does qualify to win the booty. Of course there will also be a native OS4, AROS and MorphOS version.

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Just tried to see what shipping and handling was for me... $4 it says on the second page.
Does it change according to which country you are from eventually?

Anyway I did a small donation some time ago (6 months atleast) and only 13 contributed after that.
We really need __all__ people that would like Firefox for the Amiga to donate just a few bucks if that bounty is going to be much bigger.

I have a very hard time explaining friends (that doesnt know much about the AMiga community) why we cant raise more money.
ATM. it's the bounty contains less money than what the fans of my fav. football team can raise at 2 home matches. And these money goes to something less important, which is cool TIFO's for when the players enters the arena. ( www.brondbytifo.dk )

I know it like comparing apples to oranges but still think it's a little embarrasing we cant do better than this. With $50K in the bounty from the start I believe we would have had mozilla by now, or have been pretty close...

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I still think we need to get the interest of some kind of IT Guru with millions on his bank account that donates some money once in a while to input 50000 euro to get some 40 hour work week action on this project.

Or maybe some kind of fund that has a goal to promote open source projects.

Both Firefox and OpenOffice are spare time maintainable projects but to port the whole thing from scratch in spare time is not really doable.

I have no idea if there are any *base* things missing to MorphOS, OS 3.9 and OS 4.0 that Firefox depends on but if so; why not implement/port that first.

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Seriously, do you expect this to run on anything else than a 100+ MB PPC amiga???

Yes, kinda my thoughts as well.

Believe this "support" effort is great, just prefer to support Smithys web software project.
Should be a lighter product in the end.

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The first page doesn't show any shipping, but it does on the confirmation page.

Check the screen grab below.

http://ca.geocities.com/vjeffery9262@rogers.com/paypal.jpg

@ busytech

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http://www.discreetfx.com/AmiZilla.html

Oh, I should have known it would be on Discreetfx's site.

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There is a paypal button to make a donation. I tried again, and this time the shipping charge was $4 !!!!!

What is with that? What is being sent?

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@busytech

We will investigate this and get it fixed, whatever you send in goes 100% to AmiZilla, no shipping charges. We even pay the paypal charge so all of your donation goes to the project.

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@DiscreetFX

Thanks for your support

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Thanks for the kind words tomazkid, as the Windows XP on Intel Mac Contest

http://onmac.net/

proves once you get a bounty to a certain level programmers do get involved and come up with a solution so they can win the money. Tens of thousands of people including journalists and tech savy advanced users said that booting XP on Intel Macs was impossible but once the contest reached over $13,000 two guys wanted that money and made it happen. We feel that once AmiZilla gets to this donation level motivations will also accelerate. The current booty is already well over what a average family in the Philippines makes in a year. The Amiga really needs this project, more than any other.

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Interesting wrote:

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just prefer to support Smithys web software project

Did not that project fizzle out? I seem to remember something here recently.

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So, it's great to contribute to efforts like this, but perhaps someone can give us a summary of where things stand with the AmiZilla effort?

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@Wegster

This is the latest report from Anton.

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Fellow Amiga users we have a winner, Bill (tekmage) Borsari. Bill got the booty just over $10,000 with his large donation so will be able to get any software product from DiscreetFX and it will be shipped for free. Matthijs Jansen donated just seconds after Bill so will are also extending the same offer to him. Congrats guys and thanks everyone for helping the AmiZilla Contest and motivating the programmers.
Donations to AmiZilla now stand @ $10,204.27.

http://www.amizilla.net

Best regards

DiscreetFX Team

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Fellow Amiga users we have a winner, Bill (tekmage) Borsari. Bill got the booty just over $10,000 with his large donation so will be able to get any software product from DiscreetFX and it will be shipped for free. Matthijs Jansen donated just seconds after Bill so will are also extending the same offer to him. Congrats guys and thanks everyone for helping the AmiZilla Contest and motivating the programmers.

Congratulations Bill and Matthijs!
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Donations to AmiZilla now stand @ $10,204.27.

That's a mighty fine amount! Come on AW members, if you haven't donated yet, now is the time - even the smallest amounts will help shore this up.

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@ DiscreetFX

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@busytech We will investigate this and get it fixed, whatever you send in goes 100% to AmiZilla, no shipping charges.

Thank you, this was making me suspicious.

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We even pay the paypal charge so all of your donation goes to the project.

Very nice!

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