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hardware OS4   hardware OS4 : AmiZilla Project almost @ $10,000
   posted by DiscreetFX on 16-Mar-2006 17:13:56 (5003 reads)
The AmiZilla contest is almost $10,000 US! Programmers and students are hard at work porting this application. To give them more incentive and to push the contest beyond $10K DiscreetFX will be giving away a free product to the donator that gets it over the $10,000 mark. The winner will be able to choose any DiscreetFX product they want for Amiga, Mac OS X or even TriCaster! Any DiscreetFX software product we offer will be available to the winner. The Amiga needs this browser to be successful and more mainstream. An OS without a robust modern browser is like a day without sunshine.

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Re: AmiZilla Project almost @ $10,000
Posted on 17-Mar-2006 15:59:08
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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!

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Re: AmiZilla Project almost @ $10,000
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I've just Paypal-ed $50 to the bounty.


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Re: AmiZilla Project almost @ $10,000
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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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Re: AmiZilla Project almost @ $10,000
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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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Re: AmiZilla Project almost @ $10,000
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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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Posted on 17-Mar-2006 20:29:05
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money doesn't code.


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Re: AmiZilla Project almost @ $10,000
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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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Re: AmiZilla Project almost @ $10,000
Posted on 17-Mar-2006 22:00:38
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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

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Re: AmiZilla Project almost @ $10,000
Posted on 17-Mar-2006 23:36:37
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@ 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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Re: AmiZilla Project almost @ $10,000
Posted on 18-Mar-2006 0:56:12
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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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Thanks for your support


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Posted on 18-Mar-2006 5:30:35
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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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Posted on 18-Mar-2006 6:02:18
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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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Posted on 18-Mar-2006 6:56:52
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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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Posted on 18-Mar-2006 11:27:18
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This is the latest report from Anton.


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Re: AmiZilla Project almost @ $10,000
Posted on 19-Mar-2006 15:50:04
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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

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Re: AmiZilla Project almost @ $10,000
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@DiscreetFX
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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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Posted on 19-Mar-2006 20:31:24
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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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