Archive : : The AmiZilla contest is almost $10,000 US!
Posted By: discreetfx. on 2006/3/17 20:15:40
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, MorphOS, Mac OS X or even TriCaster! Any DiscreetFX software product we offer will be available to the winner. The Amiga/MorphOS needs this browser to be successful and more mainstream. An OS without a robust modern browser is like a day without sunshine. AmiZilla website is here.

http://www.amizilla.net

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DiscreetFX Team
 
  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    $10,000 is a lot of money. The job is a huge one though. I hope it can be done and if so soon. The wuestion at hand is once done how hard will it be to keep it up to date with future releases of Firefox or Mozilla?
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Although its an amazing accomlishment to get this fund this high it could be double and still nobody would do it. It requires too much time/manpower and we as a community do not have these resources..

    As stated before IMHO the best hope we have is the KHTML project underway atm..

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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    There is a shipping cost $4 - when donating to MorphZone bounties this shipping cost was nonexistant. Any reason for this?
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Magnetic, you sound like a real naysayer there. $10,000 is a lot of money and it could lure in skilled developers. Please don't come back and say "humbug, skilled developers make so much more that that" because a lot of great programming achievements have been done by programmers making less than that. Look at Napster, Sean Fanning made that, did he get $10,000 to do so? I don't think so! The original Firefox team didn't get big bucks either. And Amizilla is not technically impossible either I bet. There is always someone who says "oh that is technically impossible." This was said about UAE for example.

    I think KHTML project is great, so is this. It is not a zero-sum game. Let's be positive about it and hope some skilled developer needs the $10,000.
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    <sigh> I wish I could be positive about it. Just talk to key amiga/mos developers and ask them how doable it is. You would need a serious team of people and that team i'm afraid would be next to impossible to assemble for a variety of reasons.

    False hopes and dreams have been the bane of the Amiga community. We need to be realistic about things, not having pipe dreams. Sure there is a remote remote chance someone may do this, but it would be a miracle imho.

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  • »2006/3/19 21:46
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  • Butterfly
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    magnetic wrote:

    > I wish I could be positive about it. Just talk to key amiga/mos developers and ask them how doable it is. You would need a serious team of people and that team i'm afraid would be next to impossible to assemble for a variety of reasons.

    Well maybe you should talk to the actual AmiZilla Team rather than to random devs, who have no idea about the project! I haven't had any time free, to get an exe compiling, so even I don't know what problems we're about to face with creating an exe- so how could devs outside AmiZilla have any idea on what's doable! There is very little documentation on how Mozilla's code is structured- you have to just read through the code, and work it out- I doubt the devs you've talked to have spent hours and hours doing that...

    I haven't done an update in a while- mainly because I've had no time free the last few months, and also, because we've been busy getting Captain Moo Moo's students up to scratch, so a lot of work and research, but nothing really concrete!

    But because of the research we now have a reasonable idea of how everything is structured, and what needs doing. So far the NSPR is basically complete- a lot of work was done on that by Jeff Shepherd before I joined.

    What needs to be done, is XPCOM, as it needs platform specific code done in assembler- I have some assem experience, so with a little help it shouldn't be too hard. The other major hurdle is the GUI- more work will need to be done on GTK-MUI, or a MUI layer for XUL (the Moz GUI system) created to get a GUI up. But what we'll do first, is to compile it with the X11 GUI option, and use the Xami X-Server, and see if that works. If it works, It will be slow, but good to test the system!

    -Ants

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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    Thanx for updating us Ant, your doing a great job. Good job guys, your Ad Sense clicks on the AmiZilla site brought in over $40 for AmiZilla! Keep it up and tell your friends. The more that you click on the AmiZilla sponsors @ the top the more that goes into the AmiZilla booty for the hard working programmers.

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  • »2006/3/21 13:30
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