Hi, all!

It seems faith is bringing me to MorphOS.. Just brushed my good old A500 out of its dust a few weeks back, and now i found this lot!

I _like_ the idea of a no-noise, no-nonsense, no-intel ;) hardware platform with a neat os running on top of it..

The question is: how mature is this all?

I'm currently running OS X (because it just works!), Gentoo Linux (emulated under OS X) and Windows, of course (because i have to).

Have a lean-and-mean 'virtual machine' project that makes all the above come to one - using Lua scripting (www.lua.org), SDL (www.libsdl.org) and the like. Allows you to code once, run ...in many places. By just scripting.

The question is, how much interest would the MorphOS community have to becoming the fourth (or the first! 8) platform supported by that.. I'd need some help, i don't want to do the libraries i'm using from scratch. It's more like a glue project, really.

if you have any of the above mentioned oses available, gluax can be found at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/luacheia
(gluax-devel / releases)

Latest package should be 2.17.

Cheers, -ak

that is the most odd thing in the world i was juat looking at the lua scripting language last night and lua 5.0 would be a nice thing to see for morphos.....i believe we already have SDL......or at least amiga does.....doesn't it?......anyways i don't have a lot of free time but let me read up a little on lua and mabey i could help you with the port
-chris

While I, personally, will likely stick to ARexx for RAD type projects; I am 100% for anything that brings more applications to this platform. Be it lau, perl, ruby, KSH, or lisp, I am for any and all development platforms to be ported to MorphOS. I may not develop in some of those languages, but I am certainly willing to use applications developed in them.

Why? Because, chances are if you like language X, then someone else does too.

>that is the most odd thing in the world i was juat looking at the lua scripting language
>last night and lua 5.0 would be a nice thing to see for morphos.....i believe we already
>have SDL......or at least amiga does.....doesn't it?......anyways i don't have a lot of
>free time but let me read up a little on lua and mabey i could help you with the port

What exactly do you want to port here? Lua itself works pretty much fine on MorphOS.

does it? ok then never mind....(keep in mind i am very very new ot morphos)