| [Rant] Former 'killer' Amiga applications | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 15-Apr-2001 00:44 GMT by Christian Kemp | 34 comments
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RedPencil writes:
"Only 5 years ago there were all sorts of high-class applications for AmigaOS. Now it seems, all the work and techniques in these applications is just sitting in these software companies archives."
The odds are that development work on these programs will never be restarted, so it seems a total waste for the source code to be just sitting there. The software companies won't make any money out of it any more.
I know this idea has been banded around before but nothing has come of it, it'd be cool if we lobbied these companies to release their source code to the Amiga community, where perhaps some developers can start to improve and continue work on these great programs.
I am talking about things like Wordworth, SAS/C, Imagine, Cinema 4D, Maxon C++, Final Writer.... all the great programs that made the Amiga great as a serious computer. If AmigaOS 4.0 and above is to survive we need applications - and there are tonnes of them sitting around gathering dust... if only we could persuade some software companies to release them then it would give AmigaOS 4 (and AROS and MorphOS) and really good flying start!
What does everyone else think?
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| Posted by Zonkk on 15-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 3 (Darrin):
Dave Braben might have given up on releasing the source code for Elite, but he is
going to release the source for Frontier and First Encounters.
He has set up a special web site for this purpose at:
http://www.eliteclub.co.uk/
To quote:
"The Elite Club is a project which aims to bring new life to the Elite series of games, particularly Frontier and First Encounters - in advance of the
release of Elite 4. Despite it being many years since their release, there is still a great deal of interest in them, confirmed by the number of mails we
at Frontier Developments received following the original Elite Club announcement. The idea is to allow people to freely download the games as
shareware, and also allow people to access the source code and legitimately update the games - bringing them up to date with current technology.
We also hope that the creators of some of the Elite/Frontier tribute games will join the Club, as this will provide a support network for developers, and
also allow these games to be set in the Elite universe."
So I think that when the code is eventually released, there might be some smart enthusiatic
Amiga coders who would take up the challenge of porting it to take advantage of
the slighter better hardware that has come around in the last few years since Frontier was
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