[Rant] Former 'killer' Amiga applications | ANN.lu |
Posted on 15-Apr-2001 00:44 GMT by Christian Kemp | 34 comments View flat View list |
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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Comment 1 | dennis | | 14-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT |
Comment 2 | Johno | | 14-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT |
Comment 3 | Darrin | | 14-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT |
Comment 4 | twice-a-day | | 14-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT |
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Former 'killer' Amiga applications : Comment 5 of 34 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Kelly Samel on 14-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT | Well, it would be great to see the great Amiga apps updated and ported to
AmiOne. Unfortunately some of the developers/companies are no longer around
or are busy with different things these days. Developers could make
clones of the popular programs though. Most of the older software could
do with a rewrite by now anyway so producing completely new versions of
some of the Amiga apps would be a great idea and not much more work than
porting old source. I would love to see a new version of Brilliance for
instance. Many companies are reluctant to release their stuff as open source
because they can't do any quality control on anything released and they
do not benefit from it. Liscencing to developers is a different story...
It's going to be cool to see all the best software back on Amiga again! |
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