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Re: Introduction and questions
- To: "Anthony Veale'" <veale@casa.Colorado.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Introduction and questions
- From: Miles Duke <duke@erdas.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 16:20:10 -0500
- References: <199701172043.NAA11531@mensae.Colorado.EDU>
Anthony Veale' writes:
> Hello,
>
> But programming is my intention. I am an Amiga 4000 user at home and
> I've played the version 5 port of the X11 version. Since it has some
Oh, wow. I haven't revved up my 3000 for about a year now.
> I'd like to work on either porting the
> X11 interface or creating an Amiga interface.
I have the source code for a port of AConq 5.3 (xconq for the amiga).
It was most written by another person, but I made some changes, bug
fixes, and dragged the code up to the XConq 5.5 level of code (5.5.1,
I believe I didn't apply the 5.5.3 patches). I got the code up to the
about a playable "beta" level, but never released it. I wanted to GPL
it, and even though I had e-mail permission to release the source, I
wanted written verification from the original author (perhaps I was
overcautious, here, but copyright is a powerful thing).
In any case, the engine is reasonable, and supplied a very primitive
zoom-in/zoom-out feature, which I had seen in the early versions of
xconq 7. It breaks your heart to see what happens to the 16x16 icons
when they get squished though ;)
> Unfortunately, this is all at a "National Guard"
> level of effort. I.e. one weekend a month.
Yes, that happened to me, only I lost the ambition to release it to
the world, partly because the only compiler I had was a fairly old
version of DICE, and I had no debugger. I did some experiments with
gcc, but they didn't really produce as good code as DICE. Anyway, if
the harddrive on my Amiga is still functional, I could tar up the
sources in their current state, if you are interested.
Tell me. Is the Amiga still a living platform? I know that the
people who acquired it said they had plans to make it more than just a
toaster driver, but I don't know what ever became of that.